A source of confusion among many first time visitors to the US state of Utah are the bars.
A frosted glass curtain hides a portion of the bar at Brio Tuscan Grille at Fashion Place Mall.
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Utah has some of the most draconian laws regulating the sale of alcohol.
They also stay closed on Sundays and holidays.
Aside from hotels and airlines, liquor shops cant sell bottles smaller than 200 milliliters.
And then, there is this Zion curtain.
The curtains date back to the 1960s, when they were first erected in the states membership-only drinking clubs.
Until 2009, there were no public bars in Utah.
The Zion curtain at Vuda Bar, in Utah’s Salt Lake Valley.
The law was relaxed only those establishments that opened after January 2010 were required to have the curtains.
Now Brad Wilson, Utahs House majority leader, has launched another attack on the curtains.
But Utah Governor Gary Herbert said, not so fast.
This is about public health and public safety.
Supporters of the barriers insist that there is no evidence that the curtainare not working.
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