While chatting with my dad yesterday, he said he vaguely remembered a JD shortage 25-30 years ago. He guessed that, sometime between 1976-1979, VA ABC stores, at least locally, had few if any bottles on the shelf and store personnel were saying that the future availability was uncertain. He couldn't remember a specific explanation. Obviously, whatever the issue was got resolved, to say the least.
Anybody know of/remember such a phenomenon? Was there ever a time in the last 50 years that JD was in peril somehow?