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The Landmark Lounge That Cannot Stand Here: A Boundary Negative

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The class requires a university. The landmark lounge of the baseline — the Linebacker class, the student-corridor bar whose trade is a campus — exists where tens of thousands of students live within walking distance of the bar rail. No university stands in Walkerton, and none stands in Lincoln Township; the town's largest school is a consolidated high school, John Glenn, opened in 1968. There is therefore no student corridor, no game-day bar economy, and no landmark lounge in this town, and the absence is structural, not a failure of the record: the directory and permit record reached contains exactly one full-license public room and one fraternal club room, both carried in this section, and neither draws on a student trade that does not exist. The county's student-corridor rooms stand twenty miles north, around Notre Dame and the South Bend campuses, and they are South Bend's to print. This article is the negative, printed at its true size: small, because the ground is small.

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Source: The Landmark Lounge That Cannot Stand Here: A Boundary Negative, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/bars-nightclubs/landmark-lounge-that-cannot-stand-here-a-boundary-negative/