Sunday, January 24, 2010

Where did it go?


Have you ever heard of the Terre Haute Brewing Company? Me either. I just happened to look close at a building the other day as I was driving down poplar to work. The building next door to moggers is the old brewing building. Now it is all boarded up and I don't think anything else is in there. Why wouldn't we want to work hard to keep the brewers of Champagne velevet in business. The beer industry brought a lot of livelyhood to Terre Haute. Along with the money it brought it also brought a lot of coruption to the city giving in the nicknames of the original "sin city" and the "Paris of Indiana". We got those names because the beer was helping to fund sporting houses and saloons without closing hours. As a city we don't need that corruption, but why did we just stop brewing such a well known beer at the time?

I feel like we should restore that building and make it into a museum of what it use to be. We can leave out the fact that it did use to help fund our lovely red light district and just educate people on the brewing of the beer. This is an important building in the history of this town and we need not let it go to ruins.

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