WHEN I WAS A KID

When I was a kid, most of the world shut down on Sundays.  No department stores were open.  No hardware stores were open.  No bars were open.  No non-essential business was open.

This was done because Sunday was the Lord's day.  That was back when this was a Christian country.
These businesses weren't always closed by choice, either.  There were laws, called Blue Laws, which forbid many activities on Sunday.  I think these laws were changed in this area in the late 1950's or early 1960's.  In some parts of the country they still exist.

^o^