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The laws dictating whether minors may sit in bars vary by state, according to AlcoholPolicyMD. For example, according to the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, people under 17 are only permitted to sit in a venue that serves alcohol when accompanied by a guardian. here
According to The New York Times, minors may sit at bars in New York state if accompanied by an adult. In the state of Connecticut, children under the age of 18 are not permitted to loiter in places that sell alcohol, according to statute. Minors over the age of 18 are allowed to sit in bars only if they are an employee or accompanied by an adult. [links]
Q. I’m curious about the building at 225-227 East 49th Street, near Third Avenue. It has various images inscribed over the door, along with a year, 1926. Can you provide some of its history? [links]
According to the Turtle Bay Association, the four-story Tudor-style house was built in 1926 for Efrem Zimbalist, the violinist; his wife, the Metropolitan Opera soprano Alma Gluck; and her daughter, the novelist Marcia Davenport. The image of a violin and a singing angel are carved over the door.
Mr. Phillips, 78, a virtuoso who christened his Indiana house Tubaranch, has helped elevate the popularity and the status of the rotund tuba. TubaChristmas performs around the country and recruits tubists locally Mr. Phillips’s foundation helped arrange eight tuba concerts in New York State alone last December, and more than 220 nationwide. here
F.Y.I. has seen this elsewhere, for example in some Times Square restaurants. Families who have to wait for a table are shunted to the bar area, the only place with available seats. Whether parents want to perch their young child on a bar stool is their decision.
Q. I’m a little late with this question, but I was wondering what had happened to TubaChristmas, an annual holiday concert in New York with hundreds of tubas? I haven’t read anything about it in years. more
A. Yes. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Law does not prohibit a child’s sitting at a bar as long as the child is accompanied by an adult, said Bill Crowley, a spokesman for the New York State Liquor Authority. And, added Paul Browne, a Police Department spokesman, “as long as he’s served nothing stronger than a Shirley Temple.”
When it comes to the advertising of alcohol there's a whole list of do's and don'ts in the Ohio Revised Code. [links]
4301:1-1-44 Advertising.(4) No advertisement shall represent, portray, or make any reference to Santa Claus.
4301.69 Underage persons offenses concerning.(A) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no person shall sell beer or intoxicating liquor to an underage person, shall buy beer or intoxicating liquor for an underage person, or shall furnish it to an underage person, unless given by a physician in the regular line of the physician's practice or given for established religious purposes or unless the underage person is supervised by a parent, spouse who is not an underage person, or legal guardian.here
One involves drinking with your child in a bar the other involves Santa Claus.
Whether this is a good idea or not is up to each parent. more
Alcohol laws and rules are enforced by the Ohio Department of Commerce, Liquor Control.
For SF go to sfclubs dot com, they have a special section for the under 21 crowd. here
The drinking age is 21 in the US. Unless you are a well-known celebraty (intentionally misspelled) who wears no underwear expect that you will not be served alcohol in a bar in the US.
The same trip we went into a bar at the Roger Smith Hotel, and they would let her sit at a table, but not at the counter.
If it's a trendy high profile place they won;t get in (since they want only big spenders and don;t want to risk their lic unless you appear in People). If it's a restaurant/bar they can get in - but cannot sit at the bar. more
Will the only concerts they see be in stadiums, or can they get into some clubs and not others?