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The restaurant succession, a century long and broken in the middle

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Two named premises stand a century apart, and this article carries the succession as far as the reached record allows — which is to the edge of the directory gap, and no further. The first premise: Annis Bros, restaurant and confectionery, 1916–17, the village's first restaurant listing. The middle of the century is the gap: between the 1916–17 bench and the modern listings no Polk edition for Lakeville was reached in any pass, and the succession inside those decades — what ate in the Rensberger store's building, what succeeded Annis — stands in the Lakeville Standard's run, named here as the settler. One building's course is carried by the town's own plan narrative at its strength: the building built in 1865, long Rensberger's general store, stood in the plan's day as the Hilltop restaurant — a store-to-restaurant conversion on Michigan Street, printed as the plan prints it. The diner's opening date and the full succession remain the residue, with the Standard run and the intervening Polk editions as settlers. No anniversary is counted, because no opening year is proved to count from.

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Source: The restaurant succession, a century long and broken in the middle, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/food/restaurant-succession-a-century-long-and-broken-in-the/