The search under the subject's own names and synonyms — and the pre-first-hit span

SEARCH TERMS: SWINGERS CLUB · COUPLES' SOCIAL CLUB · MEMBERS-ONLY SEX CLUB · PRIVATE SOCIAL CLUB

Each class above was run under the subject's own names and its synonyms: "swingers club," "swingers' club," "couples' social club," "members-only sex club," "private social club," and the category terms "lifestyle club" and "sexual encounter establishment" where the ordinance record uses them. The result, class by class: the searchable Tribune record returns no item naming a swingers club, couples' social club or private social club in Granger, in Mishawaka, or anywhere in St. Joseph County — the open-index hits under those terms are out-of-county items (other states' zoning fights, other cities' clubs) and general legal explainers, none of them a Michiana club. The reported case law returns, for Indiana, exactly one appellate case touching a swingers social club at all, and it is an Indianapolis case (printed at boundary size in art-70-7 below) — no reported Indiana or federal case names a club on this ground, and no reported case names a club in South Bend or Mishawaka. The directory record returns no club on the ground under any synonym. The print and broadcast record returns no club, party circuit or advertised gathering on the ground under any synonym. The pre-first-hit span is therefore the whole span: from the first class in the record to November 2026, no club, organisation or advertised party circuit surfaces in any of the four classes before any first documented tenancy — because there is no first documented tenancy on this ground at all. Nothing in this section dates a first hit, because the record holds none to date.