Mishawaka Food, Drink, Hotels and Nightlife History

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Mishawaka Food, Drink, Hotels and Nightlife History

Where the city ate, drank, stayed, shopped and went out.

Food & Nightlife

§ 89Mishawaka Food History: What Mishawaka eats, and what it madeMishawaka's table was set by an iron village, not a county seat, and the record of it has a different shape from its neighbor's. South Bend's food industry began as flour and stayed retail; Mishawaka's began as flour…12 entry pages § 90Mishawaka Wineries and Distilleries: Wagner's Still, Kamm & Schellinger, and the Craft EraMishawaka's drink industry begins earlier than its brewery's famous name, and it begins with both halves of this section at once: the city's commissioned history records John Wagner operating a brewery and a distillery…15 entry pages § 84Mishawaka Bars and Nightclubs: Mishawaka after darkMishawaka's drink argument is as old as the town: in 1834, the year of the first iron furnace, the town organized a temperance society and took offense at a saloon opened just outside its limits, and in 1836 a newcomer…11 entry pages § 88Mishawaka Hotels and MotelsMishawaka's lodging begins with the town itself: a tavern was standing on the Vistula Road within a year of the first plat, and a hotel followed in 1834 that the commissioned city history calls the best on the road…13 entry pages § 87Mishawaka Malls and Shopping Centers: The Grape Road Corridor and the Remaking of the Region's ShoppingOf all the facts the two-city region lives with, the plainest is a boundary fact: the region's mall stands in Mishawaka. University Park Mall opened in March 1979 on ground at Grape Road and State Road 23 that this city…14 entry pages

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