The map of November 2026: what the record leaves standing

2026

The closing lines: This section's survivors are few enough to name, each at the one line the house rule allows the present. The Midway Tavern, 810 West Fourth Street (1924) — operating, the blues room, in the founding family's hands. The BK Club, 721 South West Street (1927) — operating, its bar and bolling alleys running. The Wooden Shoe, 822 West Sixth Street — operating, in the current directory record, the West End's Belgian-named bar. Roxie's Manhattan, West Seventh Street — operating, in the current listings. The Phoenix Bar & Grill, 101 Lincolnway West (2002) — operating, the downtown music room and the Death March's terminus. The rest of the 2004 roster — Ruby's, Jerry's Pub, Squad's 2nd Precinct, Sunny's Korean Garden Patio, My Friend's Place, the Wander Inn — stands at the size the record gives it: the roster and the march, their later courses unrecovered. A hundred and ninety-two years after the town fought over Nichols's saloon outside its limits, Mishawaka's documented drinking map is what it has been since repeal: a handful of family rooms on the west end's streets, one members' bar, one downtown stage — and the argument, as the Death March's founder put it, about whether anyone still cares. The march's 2026 turnout, five hundred strong, is the record's answer.

Sources:

1. The present-state verifications of November 2026 as carried in the entries above: the Midway's own house record and Tribune listings; the BK Club's own site; the current directory listings for the Wooden Shoe and Roxie's Manhattan; the Tribune's Phoenix feature of 2 November 2026. No menus, prices or reviews were taken from any current source, by the house rule.