Alabama Town Votes To Allow Alcohol Sales

    (AP File Photo)
    (AP File Photo)

    A small town in Alabama that has outlawed alcohol since it’s founding has now voted to allow businesses to sell booze.

    FOX News Radio’s Eben Brown reports:

    Hollywood, Alabama: population 1,000… has been a dry town since the 1800’s.

    (Duke)�”It’s the Bible belt in this part of the country.”

    But Mayor Frank “Buster” Duke was worried with the TVA shuttering local power plants, they’re out tax revenue…

    (Duke)�”About�$2,000�a month. And in a little town like this, you know we depend on that tax.”

    So the old town voted in alcohol, hoping it brings in a gas station selling beer…

    (Duke)�”That will�bring sales tax and gas tax into the�city, so we can repair our streets.”

    Maybe restaurants, but…

    (Duke)�”No bars, no joints, anything like that.”

    And if the booze brings the bucks, they’ll be happy.

    (Duke)�”Have one on me!”

    Eben Brown, FOX News Radio.