South Bend Food, Drink, Hotels and Nightlife History

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South Bend Food, Drink, Hotels and Nightlife History

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

Food & Nightlife

§ 92South Bend Food History: What the City Eats, and What It MadeSouth Bend's table was set by the peoples who came to work in its factories, and the record of it is a record of their institutions: the Polish west side's sausage houses and parish halls, the Italian bakery and the…19 entry pages § 93South Bend Wineries and Distilleries: Brewers, Distillers and VintnersSouth Bend has made drink for most of its life, but it made the three drinks very unevenly. Beer it made at scale: an immigrant brewer's ground on the northwest side, bought in 1865, grew through one family, one…14 entry pages § 87South Bend Bars and Nightclubs: The City After DarkSouth Bend has poured in public since before it was a city: the county's first courthouse business was done around Alexis Coquillard's trading post, the Michigan Road's taverns watered the wagon trade from 1831, and…19 entry pages § 91South Bend Hotels and MotelsSouth Bend has lodged its travelers since before it was a city, and the lodging record runs in a single line from a licensed tavern stand on the Michigan Road to a twenty-three-story casino tower on Prairie Avenue. The…24 entry pages § 90South Bend Malls and Shopping Centers: The Street, the Mall and the Power CenterSouth Bend's shopping moved house four times. It began on one street: for the first half of the twentieth century the region's retail stood shoulder to shoulder on Michigan Street downtown, in two great department…12 entry pages

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Source: South Bend Food, Drink, Hotels and Nightlife History, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/south-bend/topics/food-drink-nightlife/

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