What is "liquor stores"

Usage examples of "liquor stores".

The MO was identical in all four cases: liquor stores catering to upper-crust negroes were hit at night, half an hour before closing, when the cash registers were full.

I extended my shoplifting range and hit markets and liquor stores way north and way west.

Towns with at least five hundred voters are allowed to have liquor stores.

Around the liquor stores and in the grocery parking lots, men sat in cars talking.

Blood banks, liquor stores selling half pints and short dogs exclusively, fifty-cent-a-night flophouses and derelict missions.

We took Vermont to Slauson, then headed east, passing storefront churches and hair-straightening parlors, vacant lots and liquor stores with no names--only neon signs blinking L-I-Q-U-O-R at one in the afternoon.

After all Roscoe Rules outdid himself when he scrounged fifteen bottles of booze from the liquor stores of Wilshire Division in a single night.

We got less than $200 out of that one, as I recall -- about the same as we'd picked up from three hits on the gas station -- and on the way out of town I remember thinking that maybe I could do something a little better in this life than robbing gas stations and liquor stores.

It was Sunday, and the liquor stores were closed because of some 300 year old law, so the beer supply was dangerously low.

All the pawnshops and liquor stores had accordion grilles across their plate glass windows.

The buildings, bars, movie theaters, liquor stores, transient hotels, and tenements had a hangdog look, as if they expected to be ordered off by a policeman.

We check out the bars and liquor stores and haul out the bad jigaboos.

Without Pop's help, we'd be sitting here without any tools, and we'd either have to borrow money on the street at leg-breaking vig, or hold up a half-dozen liquor stores.