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South Bend ordinance and market record, read, against the banked pointer in Farms & Crops lk-frm-fair-market
The market the banked file carries at pointer size has a first phase with exact dates, and dating it settles the lineage question the pointer left open: the curb market and the present market are one institution by succession of sites, with a documented break in the middle. The curb phase: on 26 June 1911 Councilman Buechner introduced Ordinance No. 1600, establishing a public market on East Colfax Avenue; the council passed the measure again as Ordinance No. 1601 on 5 July 1911, and the rulebook form, Ordinance No. 1618, passed 27 November 1911. The market covered the north side of East Colfax between Michigan and Sycamore and the open space under the Colfax Avenue bridge; the Board of Public Safety ran it and appointed a Market Master; market days were Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, from daylight until noon; the curb was marked into stalls eight feet wide, one to a person, firm or company. The phase ended by order: on 14 December 1923 the board voted the Colfax Avenue bridge market discontinued after 1 January 1924, on account of the obstruction of traffic — twelve and a half years after the first vote. The institution's course then runs as banked: larger quarters twice in the 1920s, the second move to South Fellows Street in one carrier's order, and the present Northside Boulevard site in late 1928. The fire conflict stands whole, as banked: the Indiana Magazine of History account prints a 1970 fire and a new building in 1972; market tradition dates the fire to September 1971 and the present building's opening to 14 December 1972. No unbroken-lineage claim is printed: the 1924 discontinuance is a break the record itself documents, and the present market's 1911 origin is its institutional tradition, printed as such. Lakeville's own market test is the companion negative: no public market, market house or curb market of Lakeville's own stands in any carrier reached — the town sold its produce at South Bend's market and its fair booth, and kept no market of its own.