Let me initial that down at the bottom.
You can still get honest 90-proof sour mash in a black label, only not from the Jack Daniels distillery. I never forgave them for watering their black label from 90 to 86 proof, and Green Label from 86 down to 80 -- they might as well have changed the label colors to lavender and pink, as far as I was concerned.
I was leaving a football game one time in 1966 when I heard a fender-bender out at the entrance to the parking lot. I looked over that way, and I saw that one of the cars involved was a yellow GTO. As I looked, I saw a liquor bottle come sailing out the window of the Goat, end over end, arcing high through the air and landing in a grassy ditch. I wandered over, halfway expecting someone to beat me to it, and found myself in possession of a mostly-full fifth of Jack Daniels Green Label. I took it back with me to my dorm, where some of my dorm mates were playing pool, and we proceeded to have ourselves a pool game and a half. Since this was in Louisiana, there was no problem about passing a bottle around. The rule in that state is, if you are tall enough to reach the bar, you're old enough to drink. And nobody woofs at a man walking down the street with a drink in his hand.
as I recall in the 70s, the Student Union at LSU had a tap.
As a boy in Jackson MS, we would drive over to PJ's Last Chance right across the old river bridge from Vicksburg and buy all sorts of liquor...at 15
went to NOLA without parents for a football game tween Jackson Prep (me) and Riverside or Sam Barthe....and nobody in the Quarter carded.....nobody.....my junior year
I live about an hour or so from Lynchburg.....very pretty town. Little Richard has retired to a farm there....that seems odd.