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Standing cautions of the record
The other South Bend: Researchers of this city keep meeting its namesake: the Libraries history in this record found federal and listing records for a "South Bend Carnegie" library that belong to South Bend, Washington — a lumber town on Willapa Bay whose Carnegie building is documented while this city's Carnegie claim dissolves on inspection. Any fame harvest for South Bend, Indiana that does not check the state will bank Washington's records; this record's legs have now hit the trap three times, and it is printed here as a standing caution.
The name travels both ways: The same confusion runs in reverse through this whole section. The world's most famous "South Bend" grounds include a campus that is not in the city (the Dome, the Basilica, the Grotto, the stadium), a proving ground in the county's west (the tree sign), and a Hall of Fame whose institution is now Georgia's (the St. Joseph Street building). Against those stand the places the world gets right without knowing it: a movie theatre on Michigan Street where the Rockne film premiered, a bank corner two blocks south, a mill channel with Olympic Trials water, and a ballpark the fans of a whole classification voted the best in America. That is the fame map of South Bend as the evidence draws it — generous, mostly accurate about the glory, and careless about the lines. The lines are printed in this record; the glory, where the documents carry it, is printed too.
Sources
- The Libraries history in this record — the South Bend, Washington Carnegie records and the same-name trap.
- The entries of this section, each on its own sources.