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Bars & Nightclubs
Food & Drink told this ground's drink story as a restaurant story, because that is what the record holds: the CDP's bars are bars inside restaurants, and its one brewery is a craft brewery of 2011. But the checklist's bar leg asks after older and louder forms — the saloon, the licensing war, the music room, the disco, the strip club — and none of those classes had been tested. They are tested here. On this ground the tests come back negative, and the negatives are printed with their searches; at the county line, every one of the classes exists, documented, and is told at boundary size so the reader can see exactly what this ground does not have.
The saloon era as a trade, tested: the keepers owned the brewery — in South Bend
1852–1972 · BOUNDARY: THE COUNTY TRADE AT FULL SIZE; THE HOME GROUND'S NEGATIVE STANDS
The trade, tested as a trade: a saloon era is not a row of bars but a system — named houses, keepers, and the breweries that supplied them, bound together in the tied-house trade in which a brewery owned or financed the saloon…
The corridor rooms and the licensing war: the Backer, and the two Corby's
1962–PRESENT · BOUNDARY: THE STUDENT CORRIDOR AT FULL SIZE; THIS GROUND'S ROOMS TESTED
The landmark lounge, and the war: the student corridor that serves Notre Dame runs along South Bend Avenue and Eddy Street south of the line, and its landmark lounge is documented to the year and the loan: the Linebacker Lounge…
The music rooms as music rooms: the Seahorse, Vegetable Buddies, and Bare Hands tested
1971–PRESENT · BOUNDARY: THE COUNTY'S MUSIC ROOMS; THE HOME GROUND'S BREWERY AS A MUSIC ROOM, TESTED
The named-owner club exists — across the line: the checklist asks for the music room as a music room, and for the blues-room or named-owner-club equivalent. The county's named-owner club is South Bend's, and it is a documented…
The disco and big-room era, tested: the word "nightclub" is not missing by accident
1970s–1990s, TESTED NOVEMBER 2026 · TESTED NEGATIVE ON THIS GROUND; THE ERA AT THE BOUNDARY
Tested negative, searches shown: the word "nightclub" occurs nowhere in this build, and the audit ordered the absence tested rather than assumed. The tests were run in November 2026 across the era's own shelves: the city and…
The adult strip as a civic record: South Bend bought its strip clubs out; Granger never had one
2004–2007 · BOUNDARY: THE COUNTY'S BUYOUT RECORD, DOCUMENTED; THE HOME GROUND NEGATIVE
The checklist's last class, tested as a civic record: the adult bar belongs in a bar leg not as titillation but as government — licences granted and fought over, ordinances amended, and, in this county's documented case, a city…