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Just past the bar area is an authentic 1920's room, with crowded tables, a stage, and some of the best live music in the Midwest!
The Midway Tavern's  ability to attract big-city talent - names like Rod Piazza (voted "Best Band of the Year" 3-of-4 years), Pine Top Perkins, Barrelhouse Chuck, and scores of Others - may be the fact it draws large enthusiastic crowds.  MARTHA (photos-top left) came to Indiana from Koewacht, Holland in 1920 with her mother, her father - a shoemaker - and five siblings, and married Cyriel Antheunis from Belgium in 1922. He worked at the BALL BAND plant in Mishawaka and Martha worked at WILSON shirt factory until they purchased the MIDWAY in 1924.

Cyriel was a good customer of the MIDWAY, and one day he came in and the owner was mad, claiming he wanted to sell it. Cyriel said he would be interested, but that he had to talk to Martha, who said, "if he wanted to give it a go, they could do it!" For $8,000, ...