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The Indiana Bar That Wet The Whistles Of Both Mark Twain And Al Capone By Erica Martinez Oct. 18, 2025 11:00 pm EST

I once had lunch at a West Hollywood sushi bar a couple of seats away from Tori Spelling. My husband once had dinner at a table next to Alex Rodriguez and Cameron Diaz. But, a long time ago, someone in Lafayette, Indiana got home from the bar one night and announced to their housemate, "Dude, I just saw Mark Twain at the bar." And years after that, someone left the same bar and told everyone they knew the next day, "Bruh, I think I had a drink next to Al Capone last night." These two fictional people in these hypothetical situations had both been to The Knickerbocker Saloon, an historic bar that really did serve these two cultural icons.

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