Lynch's Midtown Tavern Bar & Grill has been on this spot for over sixty years, just two miles south of Darwin Run University. Of course, we weren't always Lynch's.
Originally using a shack used for bootlegging, Pete Dunbahr saved his money and built a bar in anticipation of the inevitable repeal of prohibition. Being too ambitious, the bar sat for two years gathering dust and rats until broke and penniless, Dunbahr sold the building to reinvest his money into bootlegging three weeks before the repeal finally occurred.
A candy store through 1962, the site was famous for its rock candy, and rocks through the window. Run by and named for a man nicknamed Reds, whose hair was auburn at best, only children were unaware of the evil going on within.
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