I felt like I was being punished for not being a church goer. It was an odd experience.
Which of course had unintended consequences. We drank. Fraternities turned into de-facto bars. We would pool our money on a Thursday and make the 35 minute drive to the liquor store. We'd typically spend $1500-$2000 on booze and truck it back to campus. The idea was the buy the booze we'd need for the weekend. We'd typically be completely out by sometime on Friday.
At that point some drunk college kid would decide to drive 22 miles to buy more booze. My university had multiple drunk driving fatalities every year because of this.
It's better now (restaurants can serve booze finally), but I'll never understand why that law existed in the first place.
That's exactly it, but it's a little odd the stores were open to tell you to come back in an hour.
As far as I know, the law has been repealed. Before I moved away I saw them implement Sunday beer and wine sales (still no sunday liquor sales) and do not remember having difficulty buying the previously restricted items on Sunday.
It was weird entering a Wal-Mart (or other large store) and seeing a large section of items roped off.