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The west side's halls: the Dyngus circuit

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1956 — the circuit still runs

Member halls, public festival: The west side's Polish halls are member clubs, and their full record belongs to the Private Clubs section; their place in the drinking map is Dyngus Day, the Polish Easter Monday the Events section tells whole. The circuit's anchors, as the Events record names them: the West Side Democratic Club, manning its post on the festival's circuit since 1956; the Crumstown Conservation Club; and the M.R. Falcons, whose Nest #4 on Keller Street took the 2026 celebration when renovations displaced it. On Dyngus Day the halls open to the whole city — politicians work the circuit room to room — and the west side's public taverns, Joe's and the Simeri's room below, pour for the same crowds on the same streets. The Breezers Club at 1202 Dunham (1926, members only, Sundays) is pointed to in Joe's entry; the halls' own histories stand in the Private Clubs section, and Dyngus Day itself in Events.

Sources:

  1. Events section of this history — the Dyngus Day circuit: the West Side Democratic Club since 1956, the Crumstown Conservation Club, and the M.R.

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Source: The west side's halls: the Dyngus circuit, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/south-bend/bars-nightclubs/west-side-s-halls-the-dyngus-circuit-at-pointer/