The record since, in full

2019 —

Silence, again: After August 2019 the Champagne Club returns to the condition in which it had spent its first eight years: present in business listings, absent from the news. The listings continued to carry the club at its Nuttman Avenue address with Friday and Saturday evening hours, and the reviews those listings aggregate run into 2022; no later council action, court case, or news story about the club appears in the record reached. That is the whole modern file. For the decades before 2011 the file is thinner still: no swingers club, social organization, or advertised party circuit in Fort Wayne or Allen County surfaces in the searchable newspaper, court, or directory record before the unnamed tenancy at the Hallmark Inn — not because the scene can be proved absent, but because a private scene that never collided with government, a landlord, or a prosecutor is exactly the kind that leaves no record. What Fort Wayne can document about its swingers is, in the end, two collisions and a club that survived one of them; the rest is not history yet, because nobody wrote it down.

Sources:

1. Business listings for The Champagne Club (chamberofcommerce.com, Cylex, Restaurantji, Flokii) — continued Nuttman Avenue listing, weekend hours, and aggregated review dates running to February 2022.
2. Newspaper, court, and directory searches for any earlier Fort Wayne or Allen County club returned no documented instance.