Baptist teatotalers, eh?
Well, maybe out in the country where you live...
But over yonder on that college campus (NSU), it is a completely different story.
Even back in the late 70s and early 80s, the campus was “supposed to” be dry...
Yeah, right.
I was an amateur photogapher back in the day - this was back when photographs were taken with film and had to be processed using specialized chemicals in a light tight room. I earned most of my day to day spending money taking photos for other college kids, as I was cheaper than the only professional photographer in town.
It was cheaper for me to buy largish quantities of powdered chemicals and then mix them myself. But to do that, I needed plenty of light tight, heavy, dark amber bottles to store the chemicals in after mixing.
Dark amber liquor bottles were perfect for the job.
I lived in a “dry” dorm on a ”dry” campus.
Nonetheless, I never experienced any shortage of liquor bottles suitable for the job. And I never had to use the same bottle twice.
Students would put their trash outside their door before they went to bed at night, and the cleaning lady would collect the trash every morning.
So I would just go around early Monday morning before the cleaning lady arrived, and pick suitable bottles off the top of other students trash cans.
I never had to dig to get them - there were always plenty right there on top, easy to get to and clean as could be.
There would be so many of them on Monday mornings that I had pick of the litter. And there were so many of them that I seldom even had to go to another floor of the dorm to gather up enough for all my chemicals (my dorm - Rapides - had four floors).
Teatotalers in Natchitoches?
Out in the country, maybe.
On that college campus?