What year did drinking age go from 18 to 21 in the US?!
What year did drinking age go from 18 to 21 in the US?
Answers:
The state you lived in determined the age.
In the early 60's in ID you could go in a beer bar at 19 but 21 for liquor bars. Then in 72 they let anyone 19 drink in any bar. I quit my second job then! Later on pressures raised the age to 21 and it has stayed there. '84 sounds like a good date.
1974
1974 is when they lowered from 21 to 18!
US raised the drinking age to 21 in 1984 to curb drunk driving.
1934: Original ABC Act stated that the legal age for purchase, possession or consumption of any alcoholic beverage was 21 years of age.
1974: Legal Drinking Age (LDA) for beer lowered from 21 to 18. LDA for wine and liquor remained at 21 years old.
1981: LDA for beer remains at 18 for on-premises consumption and is raised to 19 for off-premises consumption.
1983: LDA is raised to 19 years old for all sales of beer.
1985: Persons born on or after July 1, 1966 will be able to purchase beer, wine and liquor on and after their 21st birthday. Persons born before July 1, 1966 will retain the privilege to purchase, possess and consume beer.
1987: LDA raised to 21 for all alcoholic beverages
january 1st 1980...fact!
early 80's
sometime in the early 80's