Fort Wayne Food, Drink, Hotels and Nightlife History

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Fort Wayne Food, Drink, Hotels and Nightlife History

Where the city ate, drank, stayed, shopped and went out.

C. L. Centlivre Brewery (French Brewery) on Spy Run Avenue, from the March 1885 Sanborn map. Public domain · source file

Fort Wayne Food History: Classic Restaurants and Local FavoritesFood · What Fort Wayne eats, and where it learned toFort Wayne's table was set by immigrants and kept by families. A Greek wiener stand of 1914 is, by the national press's own 2026 accounting, the longest-running hot dog stand in America. A Macedonian family has run it…15 entry pages

Fort Wayne Wineries and Distilleries: What the City Made to DrinkWineries & Distilleries · What Fort Wayne made to drinkFort Wayne's drinking life is told in the Bars section, and its dry years are policed in the Crime section. This section holds the third part of the story: the making. It is a short and lopsided record. Fort Wayne…10 entry pages

Fort Wayne Bars and Nightclubs: A History of the City After DarkBars & Nightclubs · Fort Wayne after darkFort Wayne has been a drinking town since the year it was platted: its first taverns were licensed in 1824, in the same season as its first courts, and the courts met in them. This section holds the documented record of…13 entry pages

Fort Wayne Hotels and Motels: From the First Taverns to the Grand HotelsHotels & Motels · Where Fort Wayne has slept its guestsFort Wayne has been putting up strangers since before it was a town. The first two businesses licensed here, in August 1824, were taverns, and a tavern then meant beds as well as whiskey: the traveler's night was the…16 entry pages

Fort Wayne Malls and Shopping Centers: Glenbrook, Southtown and MoreMalls & Shopping Centers · From the first plazas to the lifestyle centersFort Wayne learned to shop in a new shape three times. The first shape was the plaza: in the middle 1950s, within about three years, the city got its first two big open-air centers, one on the south side and one on the…12 entry pages

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Source: Fort Wayne Food, Drink, Hotels and Nightlife History, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/fort-wayne/topics/food-drink-nightlife/

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