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The Adult-Bar Test, Run as a Civic Record

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The test, run explicitly: has any adult bar — a strip club, a sexually oriented business with a liquor license — ever stood on Walkerton ground, and has the town ever bought one out, zoned one out, or written one into its code? Three records were run. First, the permit record: the Indiana ATC's local-board schedules reached for 2018–2023 carry exactly three Walkerton-address permits — a restaurant permit (Firehouse Tap), a fraternal-club permit (Legion Post 189), and a beer-retailer permit on postal-ring ground (Whispering Pines) — and no permit of any adult character for any Walkerton premises at any date in the record reached. Second, the directory record: no adult venue appears in any directory listing reached for the town. Third, the town's own law: no adult-entertainment or sexually-oriented-business chapter was found in the Walkerton Code of Ordinances at search strength — the negative is printed at exactly that strength, and neighboring towns' chapters found in the same search (Winamac's, Huntington's, Chesterton's) are those towns' law, not this one's, and are not attributed to Walkerton.

No buyout stands in the record because there was never, in the record reached, anything to buy out: no municipal purchase, no amortization ordinance, no contested adult opening appears for this ground. The civic record of the adult-bar question in Walkerton is a searched negative on all three legs — permit, directory, code — with its settler named: a premises-type query of the ATC's full permit database and the town council minutes read whole would close the test at full strength.

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Source: The Adult-Bar Test, Run as a Civic Record, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/bars-nightclubs/adult-bar-test-run-as-a-civic-record/