The writers of the Right Bull blog are coming live from beautiful Lafayette ,Indiana all week for a conference and while in town i decided to look at some of the local drinking establishments.
Rural areas and college towns don;t have specific zoning laws that outlaw bars and types of buildings providing a survival basis for these establishments that one would not find in cookie-cutter big corporate chain suburban America. The Ben Hur tavern on fourth street is a case in point as I blog from here right now. This bar is such a unique building sitting on corner intersection that thankfully has been preserved not yet turned into some Walgreen's or dukin Donuts. 
It seems this town has not been corrupted by the corporate chain. This bar is a dive and is fucking cool even more unique than the Itasca Inn where I tend bar two night s a week behind tree Guys Pizzeria. The Ben Hur tavern is one of these bars that looks like maybe your great grandfather might of stopped in and cracked open a can when the technology of beer distribution in personal disposable cans came about. 
I love many of the bars in this town and keeping a place small and the migrant abusers away have paved the way for a great path for this area. i went into this place and ordered a brewskie from one of the most unfriendly and freaking looking bartenders around resembling a western. this is the type of treatment a stranger should come to expect from a place like tis and is preciously why i love these places upon a visit.
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