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269 dated events in 1970s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 269 dated mentions
1970s
- 1970Islam in Fort Wayne: the Islamic Center and Masjid Al-Quds
The institutions: Organized Muslim life in Fort Wayne dates, in the community's own scholarly account, to 1970, when the Islamic Center of Fort Wayne was founded…
Fort Wayne
- 1970Don Ayres Honda: a Honda store from Honda's first American year
The founding: Don Ayres founded his Honda store in Fort Wayne in 1970 — the date the house gives for itself, and a date with a significance beyond the family.
Fort Wayne
- 1970The modern composition: the censuses of 2000, 2010 and 2020, and the Hispanic series
The Bureau's historical compilation gives the first counts from the 1970 census's samples: 1,267 residents of Hispanic origin on the 15-percent sample (the 5-percent sample read 1,744 — the two samples are printed here as the Bureau printed them, a sample spread, not a conflict of counts).
South Bend
- 1970Craig Counsell: Born Here, Formed at Notre Dame, Twice a Game 7 Hero
Craig John Counsell was born August 21, 1970, in South Bend, the only child of John Counsell — captain of Notre Dame's 1964 baseball team and a former minor-league outfielder — and Jan Counsell.
South Bend
- 1970The designation record: the Register, the landmarks, the districts
St. Joseph County's National Register record opens in 1970, when the Van Osdel courthouse of 1853–55 — the courthouse the city had picked up, turned around and moved rather than demolish in the winter of 1895–96…
South Bend
- 1970Jimmy Brogan: formed on South Quad
At Notre Dame — class of 1970, then graduate study he jokes the university ended after six years — a member of the original An Tostal festival committee, he proposed an impersonation contest and was made its emcee.
South Bend
- 1970The downtown unmade: renewal, the Hole, and the mall that stayed on paper
The Downtown South Bend 2045 Plan, the city's own adopted history of its center, dates the renewal era from 1970, when the Redevelopment Commission called for removal of blighted buildings across downtown.
South Bend
- 1970The five-story front, 1970
The last building on the old ground: On the southwest edge of downtown, in the urban-renewal years that were clearing blocks around it, St. Joseph Hospital opened a new five-story wing in 1970, with what the commissioned history calls an attractive façade and an east-facing main entrance.
Mishawaka
- 1970The New Prairie Town Crier: a directory title, 1970–19??
The directory's third New Carlisle title is a name keyed to the town's second identity: the New Prairie Town Crier , carried from 1970 to an unknown end in the 1900s, LCCN SN87056632 (OCLC 16826656).
New Carlisle
- 1970–1975Parseghian's close — Texas, Alabama, and the resignation, 1970–1975
The 1970 team finished No. 2 in the final polls. 1973: Eleven games, eleven wins.
Notre Dame
- 1970–2000The growth decades
Measured at the township line, the place grew eightfold in thirty years; measured at the CDP line, it arrived already large: Harris Township counted 2,860 people in 1970 and would count 24,397 in 2020…
Granger
- 1970–2020Housing: the units series the comparative table carries
CPH-2-16, Table 5 gives the town 681 housing units in 1970, 802 in 1980, and 808 in 1990 — the stock grew by a fifth across the two decades in which the population grew by less than three percent, which is the arithmetic of shrinking households, the same shift the 2020 profile shows completed: 747 households in 817…
Walkerton
- 1970–2024The counts: 107 in 1970, and the growth the modern censuses show
The 1970 count, read first-hand in the census volume's own tables: the Seventeenth Census's Indiana volume, in both its race-by-sex table for places and its age table, counts Mishawaka city at 35,517 people, of whom 35,312 were white and 107 were Negro — 57 male and 50 female , three-tenths of one percent of the city.
Mishawaka
- 1970–2026The judges — Gull, Davis and Surbeck; Lee and Brady in the federal court
William C. Lee, born here 2 February 1938 and a North Side High School graduate of 1955, was named United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana at thirty-one, serving March 1970 to May 1973…
Fort Wayne
- 1970–todayThe modern police chiefs
Marciniak's career, as the resolution recites it, is the department's own ideal of the service: appointed a patrol officer on 16 July 1970, he served in every rank of the department on the way to its command.
South Bend
- 1970–todayThe apartment era: 1970 downtown, and the riverfront return
The first apartment building in the record stands on a mansion's lot: two blocks east of the renewed downtown core, the Mix Mansion — the Dodge president's house — was razed in 1968 to make way for the 114-unit 500 Lincoln Way East Apartments, which opened in 1970 for low-income seniors.
Mishawaka
- 1971The merger that never happened
Fifty years of maybe: Fort Wayne and Allen County have shared a building since 1971 and a second building, Citizens Square, since 2011 — and have never merged a single department into a single government.
Fort Wayne
- 1971The Bowmar Brain: the first American pocket calculator
In the autumn of 1971 Bowmar shipped the 901B, the "Bowmar Brain": a four-function calculator with an eight-digit red LED display, measuring about 5.2 by 3.0 by 1.5 inches, priced at $240, built around a single Texas Instruments calculator chip…
Fort Wayne
- 1971Jim Ash and Tim Ash — the brokerage general agency
He founded Ash Brokerage in Fort Wayne in 1971 — a Broker World award notice of December 2023 gives the founding as 1970, "with one part time employee," and the variant stands here beside the company's own 1971 — beginning with three employees in what is now the STAR Bank building.
Fort Wayne
- 1971Save the Embassy: two days to spare
When the Indiana Hotel closed in 1971, the plan on the table was to convert the hotel to senior housing and demolish the theatre beside it for a parking lot of sixty-five cars.
Fort Wayne
- 1971The vacant city hall: a million-dollar second life
On March 11, 1971, Mayor Harold Zeis proclaimed the new City-County Building the home of municipal government and walked the city's employees out of the 1893 sandstone building at Berry and Barr.
Fort Wayne
- 1971The gay bars: Tulisa's to After Dark
April 29, 1971: Fort Wayne's gay-bar record begins on a single dated night.
Fort Wayne
- 1971The national pattern, in brief
Time treated it as a cover-worthy behavior story on February 8, 1971, under the title "The American Way of Swinging," and Nena and George O'Neill's Open Marriage (1972) put negotiated non-monogamy on the bestseller lists — the book the era's couples cited, and its authors later said was widely misread.
Fort Wayne
- 1971AM General — a headquarters with a Studebaker root
How a Jeep division became a South Bend company: AM General was formed in 1971, when the American Motors Corporation made the Jeep Corporation's General Products Division a wholly owned subsidiary and renamed it AM General Corporation.
South Bend
- 1971Tested and placed outside the city — Stauffer Chemical
A name in the lines, a plant in Bremen: The 1971 Polk volume carries South Bend residents in its alphabetical lines as Stauffer laboratory workers, and no Stauffer entry stands in either banked business fragment.
South Bend
- 1971The mail Jeeps: AM General's Dispatchers, and a South Bend assembly line
The line began under Willys and Kaiser Jeep in the 1950s and 1960s; it passed to the American Motors years and then, from 1971, to AM General, which built it to the end in 1984.
South Bend
- 1971The Southeast neighborhood
The southeast side organized itself into the city's plans: the neighborhood — the ground south of Sample Street and east of Fellows, built over the Denniston and Fellows plat's eastern reach and the industrial flats beyond…
South Bend
- 1971The Zoological Society, 1971
Lead: In 1971 the zoo acquired the institution that would eventually take it over. The Parks Department's chronological history records the founding in one line: "1971 — Friends of the Zoo organized, later became the Potawatomi Zoological Society."
South Bend
- 1971AM General's chiefs — a South Bend seat, a Mishawaka works
The company's founder, in the corporate sense, was a parent: American Motors took over the defense and government-products business on 31 March 1971, and the Detroit Free Press announcement of 2 April 1971 named the new AM General Corporation's directors…
Mishawaka
- 1971The note-passer test: Moses was an uttering, not a series
State, 271 N.E.2d 446 (Ind. 1971). The series test asks whether linked passings — the note-passer pattern, one hand working a route of banks or merchants — stand behind that single count.
Lakeville
- 1971–1973Sure-Brake — the computerized brake of 1971
The first of its kind, as the record describes it: Chrysler, together with the Bendix Corporation, introduced for the 1971 Imperial a computerized, three-channel, four-sensor, all-wheel anti-lock braking system called Sure-Brake, and the 1971 Imperial is widely described in the automotive record as the first…
South Bend
- 1971–1981The Reynolds Historical Genealogy Collection
The naming: On 25 January 1971 the board renamed the genealogy collection the Reynolds Historical Genealogy Collection, in honor of the man who had built it; Reynolds called it "one of the five best in the country."
Fort Wayne
- 1971–2006Charlie Brandt · the killer Fort Wayne raised, whose series was Florida's
On the night of January 3, 1971, a day after the family returned from its Christmas vacation in Florida, the thirteen-year-old took his father's handgun and shot both of his parents in their Fort Wayne home.
Fort Wayne
- 1971–today
- 1971–todayThe Anthis lineage — the Central building after 1971
Course: When Central High School closed in 1971, its 1904 building at 1200 South Barr Street became the Fort Wayne Regional Vocational High School, the district's vocational center.
Fort Wayne
- 1971–todayWayne High School
Founded: Wayne opened in 1971 at 9100 Winchester Road, one of the two high schools opened the year Central closed, taking the southern side of the attendance map the board redrew to desegregate the city high schools.
Fort Wayne
- 1971–todayNorthrop High School
Founded: Northrop opened in 1971 at 7001 Coldwater Road, the north-side half of the settlement that ended Central High School.
Fort Wayne
- 1971–todayAmtrak at South Bend
South Bend's intercity service since 1971 is a story of one route kept, one route gained late, and one train renamed under it: Amtrak's creation consolidated what remained of the city's intercity trains at the South Shore's 1970 west-side station — Union Station's last trains left on 1 May 1971, the day Amtrak began.
South Bend
- 1971–todayThe music rooms as music rooms: the Seahorse, Vegetable Buddies, and Bare Hands tested
Frankel (1940–2007) opened the city's first gay club — the date prints in its variance whole: 1971 in the standard reference, "by 1975" in the Talking Hoosier History account, 1974 in the public library's Michiana Memory telling — moved it to a larger room as Seahorse II in 1975, and built its entertainment on drag pageants and shows.
Granger
- 1972Georgetown Branch
Ground was broken in September 1971, and the branch opened on 27 November 1972, with Patricia Moorman as librarian — the largest of five branches then being built or relocated, in one of the metropolitan area's fastest-growing sections.
Fort Wayne
- 1972A museum that moves: Nickel Plate 765 and the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society
The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, formed in 1972 to put a steam locomotive back under power, leased the engine from the city, pulled it from the park in September 1974, and rebuilt it with unpaid volunteers at New Haven from 1975 to 1979; in September 1979 the 765 ran under its own steam for the first time since 1963.
Fort Wayne
- 1972Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana
Founding: Big Brothers of Greater Fort Wayne was founded on 8 February 1972 — the date the agency's own 50th-anniversary history carries; a 2006 Congressional Record tribute gives August 1972, and the two dates are carried here side by side, the agency's own the primary.
Fort Wayne
- 1972English-Bonter-Mitchell: the Fort Wayne fortune administered from Pittsburgh
The structure: Mary Tower English, her sister-in-law Louise Bonter and her daughter Elizabeth (Betty) Mitchell created the English-Bonter-Mitchell Foundation in 1972 in honor of Dr. Calvin English, a founder of the Lincoln Life Insurance Company (the fortune's story is in the Wealth section).
Fort Wayne
- 1972The English-Bonter-Mitchell founding gift: three friends endow a physician's memory
The gift: The English-Bonter-Mitchell Foundation was created in 1972 by three friends — Mary Tower English, Louise Bonter and Elizabeth (Betty) Mitchell…
Fort Wayne
- 1972The Marketplace of Canterbury: the strip center that became an entertainment district
The Marketplace of Canterbury began as an ordinary thing: a Tudor-styled neighborhood center of about 89,650 square feet, built in 1972 on St. Joe Road to serve the Canterbury Green development then rising around its golf course and the young university campus nearby.
Fort Wayne
- 1972Ethan Sandler: the writer-producer's ladder
In front of the camera first: Ethan Sandler was born in Fort Wayne on 3 December 1972 and raised in the city before Northwestern University, where he met his future wife, the actress Kathryn Hahn.
Fort Wayne
- 1972Amy Coney Barrett — the justice formed here
The tie, exactly: Barrett was not born or raised here, and this entry does not pretend otherwise: she was born on January 28, 1972, in New Orleans and raised in Metairie, Louisiana.
South Bend
- 1972North Village Mall: the small mall on U.S. 31
A $2.1 million mall: The city's own timeline dates the north side's mall plainly: "1972: North Village Mall construction underway.
South Bend
- 1972The ground after brewing: the Omniplex, the Register, the demolitions — and the brand that would not come home
Of the plant that brewed from 1865 to 1972, the standing record in November 2026 is that: a listed district's ground, a smokestack, a park across the way that keeps the founder's name, and a development plan.
South Bend
- 19721972: The Survey That Found This Water Richest
In the summer of 1972 the Michigan Department of Natural Resources surveyed the whole St. Joseph River, headwaters to mouth, at minimum flow — fifty-two mainstem stations, forty-four in Michigan and eight in Indiana, every one of them electrofished, thirty-six netted as well…
Mishawaka
- 1972Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church: the WELS congregation of 1972
The Lutheran seat on this ground dates itself plainly: Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church, at 16791 Cleveland Road, states on its own record that it has been "sharing the message of Jesus with the people of Michiana since 1972."
Granger
- 1972–1976The Lebamoff years
Ivan A. Lebamoff (born 20 July 1932 in Fort Wayne, of Macedonian descent; Indiana University 1954 and its law school 1957; chairman of the Allen County Democratic Party from 1968) beat the incumbent Republican Harold Zeis in 1971 by more than 3,500 votes and took office in 1972…
Fort Wayne
- 1972–1977Before varsity — the club years, 1972–1977
The ground: Women were first admitted to Notre Dame as undergraduates in 1972, and organized women's sport on the campus began at the level the era allowed: interhall, bookstore and club teams.
Notre Dame
- 1972–1984The Formation of John Glenn School Corporation: Three Carriers, Three Tellings
The first telling is an obituary, read first-hand: Harold "Hal" Muncie was principal of Tyner High School 1963–1965, then of Walkerton High School from spring 1965; "In June of 1972, Hal was named Superintendent of PLJ School Corporation.
North Liberty
- 1972–1984The loss of the high school: a contested decision the record dates three ways
The schools file prints the conflict unmerged: a superintendent's obituary dates the PLJ–North Liberty merger he oversaw only to sometime after June 1972 and before about 1984; a publisher's summary of the standard local pictorial history puts the consolidation in "the early 1980s"…
North Liberty
- 1972–1988Miller, Nemeth, Parent: the downtown builders
Jerry Miller (1972–1976): Miller won the election of 2 November 1971 — Janet Allen, the Republican nominee, would have been the city's first woman mayor — and took office as the renewal era wound down and the city's population slide steepened.
South Bend
- 1972–2006The friendship layer, at its true size: two cities’ sisters, and an empty Granger line
Mishawaka holds one sister: Shiojiri, Nagano Prefecture, Japan — sister cities since 1972 on the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library’s history of its Shiojiri Room, with the friendship’s roots in a 1964 school letter exchange, the Shiojiri Niwa garden dedicated in August 1987, and the fiftieth anniversary celebrated in 2022.
Granger
- 1972–2018The 1970s settlement · Fort Wayne Feminists and the Women's Bureau
Women's Studies at the Fort Wayne campus began in 1971–72 — the program dates its inception to 1971, and its first course, in the psychology of women, was offered in the spring of 1972; a Women's Studies minor followed in 1976.
Fort Wayne
- 1972–2026Granger Christian School, 1972–2026: the independent school's whole course
Its founding year is given as 1972 in the school listings that carry a verified school update (PrivateSchoolReview's profile, sourced to the school itself) and in the school's corporate profiles; when it closed, the South Bend Tribune counted "55 years," which counts from 1971…
Granger
- 1972–2026The modern line, the school-picture firms, and where the pictures live
The floor's modern documentary line is an export: David and Peter Turnley, twins born 22 June 1955 in Fort Wayne, who began photographing in 1972–73 at seventeen in their home town, shared one camera at first, and spent a year on the McClellan Street project, published as McClellan Street (Indiana University Press, 2008…
Granger
- 1972–todayHelmke Library at Purdue Fort Wayne
The Book Walk: When the campus's four-story library building was finished in 1972 it lacked only its books.
Fort Wayne
- 1972–todayThe making layer, and a claim that failed its test
Triangle Truss manufactured roof trusses at the present Big C site from 1972 to 1976 (carried in the suburban-turn entry).
Granger
- 1972–todayThe ground after brewing: registers, reuses and demolitions
The Muessel-Drewry's ground, 1408 Elwood Ave., South Bend: brewing ended November 1972; the complex was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on 28 December 2000 (the Muessel/Drewry's Brewery listing), and the former plant stands today in private hands, known as the Omniplex…
Osceola
- 1972–todayThe Superintendents: Muncie, a Twenty-Six-Year Silence, Reese, and Winchell
Harold Rubert "Hal" Muncie heads the reached line: superintendent of PLJ from June 1972, then of the merged John Glenn corporation through the merger, serving twelve further years and leaving by April 1985 for Western Boone, where he served seven more and retired in 1992…
North Liberty
- 1973The Mexican table arrives: El Azteca, Bandido's, Salsa Grille
It opened in 1973 in the former Helmsing's Lighthouse Restaurant on East State Boulevard, and its opening night entered the city's restaurant folklore on the magazine's telling — the retained Lighthouse cooks all quit on the first night, and co-owner Michael Ray took off his sports coat and cooked.
Fort Wayne
- 1973Young voices: the Children's Choir and the youth orchestras
In 1973, music teacher Jocelyn Basse founded the Children of Peace Choristers to give area children the choral time school schedules could not; she began with about twenty singers.
Fort Wayne
- 1973The National Women's Hall of Fame: Alice Hamilton
She received the Albert Lasker Public Service Award in 1947, died in 1970 at the age of 101, and in 1973 was inducted posthumously into the National Women's Hall of Fame at Seneca Falls, in the Hall's first class.
Fort Wayne
- 1973The St. Joseph County Airport Authority
Its own financial reports give its birth twice: the FY2005 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report states in one passage that the Authority was "established January 1, 1974, by the St. Joseph County Council" under Indiana Code 1971 19-6-2, Public Law 304 — the statute since superseded by IC 8-22-3…
South Bend
- 1973La Casa de Amistad
Founding: La Casa de Amistad — the House of Friendship — was formed on 17 October 1973, in its own published history's exact date, by Father John Phalen, C.S.C., and Latino community leaders of South Bend, as a youth outreach program answering the needs of Latino teenagers, many of them from the migrant-worker…
South Bend
- 1973The boundary at Richmond: the Indiana Football Hall of Fame
It was founded in January 1973 as an affiliation of the Indiana Football Coaches Association, which directs its policies and selections to this day; the organization bought its Richmond building in July 1974, for $98,000, and kept the Hall there — plaques, portraits and a library of the Indiana game…
South Bend
- 1973The West Washington fight and the district of 1975
Tippecanoe Place was listed on the National Register on 2 July 1973 — its nomination already names Southhold Restorations, Inc., the local preservation group, as the house's owner, holding it while the district fight was won around it — and Copshaholm followed on 28 August 1973.
South Bend
- 1973The law of keeping: the ordinance of 1973 and the Commission
The ordinance: The City of South Bend's own account is one sentence: the Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend and St. Joseph County "was established by Ordinance in 1973."
South Bend
- 1973October 1973: the great wave, and where Indiana's center lay
The state record: Blue Book had been closed four years when the largest sighting wave of the 1970s crossed the country in the fall of 1973, and Indiana's documented share of it is dated precisely: on 9 October 1973, by the Mutual UFO Network of Indiana's account as the Stacker state survey carries it, first-responder…
South Bend
- 1973Glass houses on the riverbend: the Potawatomi Conservatories
The display houses came a generation later, and they came, like the theatre downtown, from Ella Morris: the Ella Morris Conservatory and the Muessel-Ellison Conservatory were built in the 1960s, gifts of Ella Morris and the Muessel-Ellison Foundation respectively, and the Arizona Desert Dome joined them in 1973, three…
South Bend
- 1973October 1973: the great wave passes the county by
The state record: Blue Book had been closed four years when the largest sighting wave of the 1970s crossed the country in the fall of 1973, and Indiana's documented share of it is dated precisely: on 9 October 1973, by the Mutual UFO Network of Indiana's account as the Stacker state survey carries it, first-responder…
Mishawaka
- 1973October 1973: the great wave's share, measured honestly
The state's centre lay in the south, and this ground's share was a watching brief: the October 1973 wave was the largest in American history, and Indiana's share of it was real — but its documented centre was southern and central Indiana, not the St. Joseph valley.
Granger
- 1973October 1973: the great wave's share, measured honestly
The state's centre lay in the centre and south, and this ground's share was a watching brief: the October 1973 wave was the largest in American history, and Indiana's share of it was real — but its documented centre was not the St. Joseph valley.
Osceola
- 1973–1976Marian football — the Hecklinski titles: three championships in four years
The titles: Marian won the first IHSAA playoff championship it could have — the Class A title of 1973, in the tournament's first year, beating Providence 21–14 under coach Mike Hecklinski, the team 10–2.
Mishawaka
- 1973–1989The abandonment ledger: G-SP-4 settled, and the Vandalia's docket that isn't there
In-document searches of the same INDOT list for "Lakeville" and "Walkerton" returned zero matches, and no row names a Nutwood-to-Culver segment or any 1973 South Bend Branch abandonment.
Lakeville
- 1973–2004The Mall Screens and the Multiplex
The pictures moved to the malls in the 1970s, and the first mall screen in the record is Scottsdale Mall's: a single screen opened by ABC Great-States on August 17, 1973, with Jesus Christ Superstar , passing to Plitt Theatres in 1974, twinned on June 8, 1984, taken over by Cineplex Odeon in 1985 and by Kerasotes in 1990.
South Bend
- 1973–2004Dead ground rebuilt: Scottsdale to Erskine Village
At boundary size: Scottsdale Mall, South Bend, opened — the date spreads, printed whole — on 1 August 1973 in the Erskine Village record, and in 1971 in Jim Grey's account.
Osceola
- 1973–2008Marian volleyball — a title in the tournament's second year, and four finals under Dan Anderson
The title: In 1973–74, in the second IHSAA girls volleyball championship ever played, single-class Marian beat Fort Wayne Snider 15-10, 15-4 to finish 18–0 under coach Sidney Dunphy.
Mishawaka
- 1973–2011Paul Harding High School (East Allen County Schools)
The school was established in 1973. Course: Enrollment peaked at 1,235 in 1974–75.
Fort Wayne
- 1973–2011The unwinding, 1973–2011: the closure wave as one series
The Vandalia's successor line through town — Penn Central's South Bend Branch, the Nutwood-to-Culver segment that was Lakeville's — was abandoned in 1973 and its track removed in 1974, at the line history's compilation strength, with no ICC or STB docket found in the settler named for it (Railroads, lk-trn-abandonment).
Lakeville
- 1973–2014The fallen — Assistant Chief Jamie Middlebrook, 5 August 2014
James Curtis "Jamie" Middlebrook, born 2 August 1973 to Robert and Carolyn Middlebrook, followed his father into the New Carlisle department and served as a volunteer firefighter for over twenty years, rising to Assistant Chief…
New Carlisle
- 1973–2019Anchor successions for every centre carried
Scottsdale Mall, South Bend : L.S. Ayres; Ayr-Way, becoming Target; Montgomery Ward — the three anchors of the 1973 opening (or 1971; art-54-7) carried to the centre's 2003 demolition without a surviving successor on the enclosed ground; the succession resumes open-air at Erskine Village with Target, Kohl's, TJ Maxx, and Ross.
Osceola
- 1973–2021Children's, young-reader, nature and field-guide writing, as its own cluster
The Gothic children's novelist the university formed: John Bellairs (January 17, 1938 – March 8, 1991), born in Marshall, Michigan, formed at Notre Dame (B.A. English, magna cum laude, 1959), author of fifteen Gothic mystery novels for young readers beginning with The House with a Clock in Its Walls (1973)…
Granger
- 1973–2022The Register Roll — eleven listings, no Landmark, one removal, one over the line
What the city holds is the Register itself, at Register size: eleven listings standing inside the city — the Beiger House (1973), the Dodge House (1978), the Kamm and Schellinger Brewery (1979), the Eller-Hosford House (1983), the Merrifield-Cass House (1983), the Ellis-Schindler House (1990), the Battell Park…
Mishawaka
- 1973–2023The lunch that built a competition: Fischoff, 1973
The founding: In 1973 Joseph E. Fischoff and his fellow members of the South Bend Chamber Music Society sat down to lunch at the former Summit Club and founded a chamber music competition.
South Bend
- 1973–2024Riverfront plans as their own line, and the planning line whole: zoning to comprehensive plan
The comprehensive-plan sequence in the open record begins with the 1973 Transportation and Land Use Plan , named in the 2002 plan as its predecessor.
Granger
- 1973–2025One building of nine: the Arts United Center opens, 1973
The opening: Construction followed the working drawings Kahn's office completed by the summer of 1970, and the Theatre of Performing Arts was inaugurated in a weeklong grand opening from 30 September to 6 October 1973, with Kahn on hand.
Fort Wayne
- 1973–2025The schoolroom: Penn High School's music department
Osceola never had a high school of its own — the Schools section's "high school that never was" is this section's premise too — so the schoolroom where this town's older students made music is Penn High School's, and it is told here at boundary size, as the school's own record keeps it: the audit's 1922–1930 founding…
Osceola
- 1973–2026The Eveleth test: the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame's inductees — and Indiana's one name
The search: The United States Hockey Hall of Fame at Eveleth, Minnesota, has enshrined its members since 1973, individuals and five teams (the 1960, 1980 and 1998 Olympic teams, the 1996 World Cup team and the 2002 Paralympic sled team).
Mishawaka
- 1973–2026The National Register, the Surveys and Who Filed Them
In the order they were listed: the Beiger House (28 August 1973), the Dodge House (8 September 1978), the Kamm and Schellinger Brewery (11 October 1979), the Eller-Hosford House (27 January 1983), the Merrifield-Cass House (16 June 1983), the Ellis-Schindler House (18 December 1990), the Battell Park Historic District…
Mishawaka
- 1973–2026Dead ground rebuilt: the demolished mall, the power centre beside it, and the McKinley Avenue plaza
Dates print in their small conflict, whole: the mall histories give Scottsdale's opening as August 1, 1973, and its redevelopment opening as 2004; the city's own 2011 release dates Erskine Village's opening to 2005.
Granger
- 1973–2026The law of keeping: the 1973 ordinance, the Commission it created, its powers and its present form
The City of South Bend's own Historic Preservation Commission page states the founding fact: the Commission "was established by Ordinance in 1973."
Granger
- 1973–2026The law of keeping: the 1973 ordinance and the commission it created
The Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend and St. Joseph County was established by ordinance in 1973 — Ordinance No. 5565-73 — as a nine-member appointed board.
Osceola
- 1973–todayBlackhawk Christian School
Founded: Blackhawk Christian was established in 1973 by David Jeremiah for the children of Blackhawk Baptist Church and the northeast side of Fort Wayne.
Fort Wayne
- 1973–todayThe Fischoff: a competition founded here
The founding: In 1973 Joseph E. Fischoff and his fellow members of the South Bend Chamber Music Society founded a chamber music competition in South Bend.
South Bend
- 1973–todayDance: Southold Dance Theater whole
The founding: South Bend's dance institution was founded in 1973 — the same year as the Fischoff — by three founders, Ann Dunn, Bonnie Boilini and Jill Engel Tulchinsky, in the company's history as its ticketing partner summarizes it, with first classes and performances in a historic church converted to a studio.
South Bend
- 1973–todayThe modern documentary line — the Turnleys are Fort Wayne's export, not this county's — and the close: where the pictures live
David C. Turnley (born 1955) and Peter N. Turnley are Fort Wayne's: the twins grew up in Fort Wayne, began photographing in 1972–73 at seventeen on Fort Wayne's McClellan Street — the year-long documentary project (1973) that became their book McClellan Street (Indiana University Press, 2007)…
Osceola
- 1974Heather Headley — Trinidad to Northrop High School to a Tony and a Grammy
Formed in Fort Wayne: Heather Headley was born in Barataria, Trinidad, on 5 October 1974. In 1989, at fifteen, she moved with her family to Fort Wayne, where her father had been called as pastor of the McKee Street Church of God.
Fort Wayne
- 1974Two modern foundings, briefly — Asher and Petroleum Traders
The Asher Agency was founded in Fort Wayne in 1974 as a government-relations agency — in the company's own fiftieth-anniversary account of June 2024, "founded by Fort Wayne native Tim Borne in 1974"…
Fort Wayne
- 1974The Fort Wayne Firefighters Museum
The last pumper company moved out on 20 July 1972 after seventy-eight years of service, and the building was nearly razed for a parking lot in 1974.
Fort Wayne
- 1974Arena Dinner Theatre
When the Parks Department eliminated its funding, the company re-founded itself as Arena Dinner Theatre in January 1974, opening in the Anthony Wayne Ballroom of the Chamber of Commerce building at Wayne and Ewing — a ten-year relationship.
Fort Wayne
- 1974The great campaigns: Fort Wayne's habit of the joint ask
The Embassy Theatre's 1974 rescue turned on Robert Goldstine's $250,000 challenge (the theatre is in the Arts section); the arts then federated the ask itself — Arts United's Renaissance Campaign of 1989 consolidated the campus organizations' fundraising the way the United Way had federated charity in 1922.
Fort Wayne
- 1974Cork 'N Cleaver: the chain that shrank to three, and Fort Wayne kept one
Fort Wayne's, at 221 East Washington Center Road, opened in 1974 by Indiana Connection magazine's account (a business-directory listing gives 1977; the magazine's date is followed here and the variant recorded).
Fort Wayne
- 1974The festival tables: pioneer, German, Greek
The Johnny Appleseed Festival, created in 1974 for the bicentennial of John Chapman's birth, is governed by food rules no other city festival imposes: vendors are invitation-only, cooking must be done over open wood or coal fires — no propane — in 1800s dress, and everything sold must have been available in Appleseed's century.
Fort Wayne
- 1974Arena Dinner Theatre
Parks Department budget cuts ended that arrangement, and in January 1974 the board re-founded the company as a separate not-for-profit under a new name — Arena Dinner Theatre — in the Anthony Wayne Ballroom of the Chamber of Commerce building at Wayne and Ewing streets, where dinner and a show in the round ran for ten years.
Fort Wayne
- 1974Jenna Fischer: a birth tie, printed at its size
The tie, exactly: Jenna Fischer was born Regina Marie Fischer in Fort Wayne on March 7, 1974, and left in infancy.
Fort Wayne
- 1974The modern record: the reporting databases
What the counts are: Since 1974 the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) has taken reports by hotline and web form, and its database is the modern record's backbone.
Fort Wayne
- 1974Jenna Fischer: born here, Pam Beesly to the world
The claim, at its true size: Regina Marie Fischer, known to the world as Jenna Fischer, was born on 7 March 1974 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and raised in St. Louis, Missouri.
Fort Wayne
- 1974The Johnny Appleseed Festival: history a child can eat
The founding: The Johnny Appleseed Festival began in 1974, on the 200th anniversary of John Chapman's birth, with a handful of vendors, about twenty of them, concentrated along Parnell Avenue on the west side of the present grounds…
Fort Wayne
- 1974South Bend Heritage Foundation
Founding and course: South Bend Heritage Foundation was established in July 1974, in its own account, "to help reverse the physical and social decline taking place in South Bend neighborhoods"…
South Bend
- 1974South Bend Heritage: the development corporation that outlasted the century
The founding: South Bend Heritage Foundation was incorporated on 11 July 1974, under the name Southold Heritage Foundation, Inc. — the name its articles of incorporation of 9 July 1974 carry, and the name under which the Internal Revenue Service issued its 501(c)(3) determination letter.
South Bend
- 1974The Ethnic Festival: Michigan Street's summer crowd
The History Museum's own account fixes its line: established in 1974, it ran each summer for over twenty years on Michigan Street, and in the mid-1990s it was transformed and renamed Summer in the City and moved to Howard Park.
South Bend
- 1974South Bend Heritage: preservation with its hands on
The corporation: The Nonprofits account in this record carries the charter: South Bend Heritage Foundation was incorporated on 11 July 1974, under the name Southold Heritage Foundation, as a community development corporation, and its first target area was the West Washington ground around the Oliver Mansion.
South Bend
- 1974The database era: the National UFO Reporting Center
The system now: Since 1974 the national record of sightings has been kept not by the Air Force but by the National UFO Reporting Center, founded that year by Robert J. Gribble…
South Bend
- 1974The Mishawaka building before the Humvee
It got one in 1974, when AM General's diversification into transit buses put assembly in the underused plant — and the building's conversion then, and again a decade later, is the reason reference works that describe AM General "building" a Mishawaka factory in 1984 are telling only the last third of the building's story.
Mishawaka
- 1974"The largest single order for buses ever placed" — AM General's 620
When AM General of Mishawaka entered the transit-bus business in 1974, its first great order came from the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority: 620 Metropolitan buses.
Mishawaka
- 1974The database era: Mishawaka in the National UFO Reporting Center
The system now: Since 1974 the national record of sightings has been kept not by the Air Force but by the National UFO Reporting Center, founded that year by Robert J. Gribble…
Mishawaka
- 1974The development corporation, and the neighbourhood corporations as a dated series
South Bend Heritage Foundation, Inc. was established in July 1974 — incorporated first, the tax record shows, as Southold Heritage Foundation, Inc., later renamed…
Granger
- 1974The J & H Tavern robbery and the death of John F. Britton, 1974–1977
On the night of 19–20 November 1974 — the information dates the acts to 19 November, the opinion's narrative to the night of 20 November, and both print here unmerged — Robert Eugene Candler and two companions robbed the J & H Tavern at 59400 Crumstown Highway, North Liberty, a house run by Helen Elliot.
North Liberty
- 1974The night the streak died: Notre Dame 71, UCLA 70
Top-ranked UCLA, 13–0, winners of eighty-eight straight games, met second-ranked Notre Dame, 9–0, at the Athletic and Convocation Center on Saturday, January 19, 1974.
Notre Dame
- 1974–1976The abduction case: Pearish v. State , 1974–1976
At about 8:00 p.m. on January 11, 1974, Cheryl Pauline Simon drove to a Burger Dairy store in Walkerton with her young daughter and her niece, and went inside, leaving the children in the car.
Walkerton
- 1974–1977The riverfront bet: Century Center, 1977
Century Center rose on the banks of the West Race of the St. Joseph River downtown, designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee, two of the most famous architects in America, construction beginning in 1974 and the doors opening on 1 November 1977, at a cost of $13 million.
South Bend
- 1974–1977Candler: the tavern killing, the trial, and the opinion of 24 June 1977
The facts are stated in the crime leg and repeated here only as the murder file requires: during the armed robbery of the J & H Tavern at 59400 Crumstown Highway on the night of 19–20 November 1974…
North Liberty
- 1974–1979The bus years: the Metropolitan
Diesel Metropolitan production ran 1974–1978. The Flyer 700/800/900 series account totals 5,212 diesel Metropolitans sold 1974–1979, and 219 trolleybuses — electric coaches for Seattle Metro and Philadelphia's SEPTA — built in 1979, for the reference total of 5,431 buses including the 219 trolleybuses.
Mishawaka
- 1974–2012The finals ledger — two trips, two defeats, no playoff title
1974: In the second year of the IHSAA playoff tournament, Mishawaka reached the Class 3A final and lost to Indianapolis Washington 19–12.
Mishawaka
- 1974–2019Mike Bennett: forty years at the stadium rail
The freelancer who became the institution: Mike Bennett (c. 1950 – 5 August 2019) was raised in South Bend and came to Notre Dame photography through the stadium gate: he began as a stadium usher in 1966, took a tool-and-die apprenticeship, and built a photography career from 1974, managing a commercial studio before…
South Bend
- 1974–2022The mechanization curve, II: the long thinning, 1974 – 2022
The plateau and the wobbles, printed as published: From 1974 the censuses count wheel tractors (the garden and crawler machines folded into the general stock), and several of the mid-series volumes rest on samples of farms…
South Bend
- 1974–2023The textbook-fee and fee-as-tax lawsuits: the state cases, PHM as plaintiff four hundred times, and the 2023 abolition
App., June 27, 1974), a class action brought by Lillie Chandler, the Court of Appeals upheld the South Bend schools' textbook rental fees — the constitution, the court held, does not require textbooks to be furnished free.
Granger
- 1974–2026The modern database era: NUFORC worked as a database for this ground
Counted and dated, and separated from the file era: the National UFO Reporting Center — founded 1974 by Robert J. Gribble, a Washington-state nonprofit holding more than 200,000 reports, freely searchable with no paywall — files reports by the locality the witness names.
Granger
- 1974–2026Preservation with its hands on: South Bend Heritage, at its true size for these townships
It was incorporated on 11 July 1974 — first as Southold Heritage Foundation, Inc., the name under which its articles and its 1979 Internal Revenue Service exemption letter run…
Granger
- 1974–2026The modern database era: NUFORC worked as a database for this ground
Counted and dated, and separated from the file era: the National UFO Reporting Center — founded 1974 by Robert J. Gribble, a Washington-state nonprofit that has processed more than 200,000 reports, freely searchable with no paywall — files reports by the locality the witness names.
Osceola
- 1974–2026Preservation with its hands on: South Bend Heritage, and the town's own society at its true size
Boundary — the working organisation, at the size of its actual work: the organisation the West Washington fight produced was established in July 1974 as the Southold Heritage Foundation, Inc. (articles of incorporation dated 11 July 1974; state certificate 9 July 1974), later renamed South Bend Heritage Foundation…
Osceola
- 1974–2026The modern database era, worked as a database: NUFORC's record for Walkerton, Indiana
NUFORC was founded in 1974 by Robert J. Gribble as a telephone hotline and is now an online databank of self-submitted reports — more than 150,000 of them — which the Center posts essentially as received.
Walkerton
- 1974–2026The modern database era: the reporting-center record for North Liberty
The modern era files differently: the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC, founded 1974) takes self-filed reports by telephone and web form and publishes them by place.
North Liberty
- 1974–today
- 1974–todayAdrian R. Tio: the printmaker between two cultures
The career: He took his bachelor's at Temple University in 1974, studied with Temple's Tyler School of Art in Rome in 1975-76, and his master's in fine art at the University of Cincinnati in 1979.
Fort Wayne
- 1974–todayThe foot trails: Lindenwood, Fox Island and Eagle Marsh
Its three anchors are nature preserves, and two of them date to the same year, 1974, a year before Ernest Williams's greenway was first dreamed of in the record.
Fort Wayne
- 1974–todayThe funding course: how the money reaches the art
The foundation's own founding stands in this record as a three-way conflict printed unsettled in Charities — its current text says 1992, an aggregator says 1991, and the Internal Revenue Service's exemption date on its own employer number reads May 1974…
South Bend
- 1975The refugee city begins · the Southeast Asians of 1975
Beginning in 1975, as the Vietnam War ended, thousands of refugees from Vietnam, Laos, and Burma began arriving in Fort Wayne under the sponsorship system run by Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend — the agency that remains, a half-century later, the only federal resettlement agency in northern Indiana.
Fort Wayne
- 1975Charlie Savage — the Fort Wayne reporter who won a Pulitzer on presidential power
Born and raised in Fort Wayne: Charlie Savage was born in Fort Wayne in 1975 and grew up here. He graduated from Harvard College in 1998, reported for the Miami Herald, and joined the Boston Globe's Washington bureau in 2003, covering national security and legal policy in the years after the September 11 attacks.
Fort Wayne
- 1975ARCH: the organization, 1975 to its fiftieth year
A bicentennial committee that refused to disband: ARCH Inc. — the name, its founders insist, was never meant to stand for anything, though "Architecture and Community Heritage" came to be used as the tagline…
Fort Wayne
- 1975St. Mary's Soup Kitchen
Founding: The soup kitchen at St. Mary Mother of God parish began in 1975, when the pastor, Father Tom O'Connor, started serving soup to the poor from the back porch of his rectory — the soup made on the pastor's own stove.
Fort Wayne
- 1975Jill Bennett: the web-series producer who brought her feature home
From Fort Wayne stages to the festival circuit: Jill Bennett was born in Fort Wayne on 14 August 1975 and grew up in the city — acting from the age of sixteen, winning a state speech title, and leaving for Bradley University on a theatre scholarship.
Fort Wayne
- 1975Charlie Savage: the Pulitzer winner from the Journal Gazette's newsroom
The claim: Charlie Savage was born in 1975 in Fort Wayne and raised here, and unlike several entries in this section, his Fort Wayne chapter includes his first professional formation.
Fort Wayne
- 1975The only murder on the campus · Helen Tobolski
On Saturday, March 22, 1975 — the first day of spring break, on a mostly empty campus — she checked in at 7 a.m. and began her cleaning routine in the aerospace engineering building, a one-story structure that stood just north of what is now the Joyce Center.
South Bend
- 1975Lee Nailon: From Clay's State Title to an MVP in Israel
Lee Nailon was born February 22, 1975, in South Bend, and at Clay High School, alongside the sophomore Jaraan Cornell, he led the Colonials to the 1994 Indiana state championship.
South Bend
- 1975The West Washington Historic District — the Street the Industrial City Built
Listed on the National Register on 17 January 1975, the West Washington Historic District runs in an irregular pattern roughly bounded by Main Street, Western Avenue, West LaSalle Avenue and McPherson Street, and takes in more than three hundred buildings developed between about 1854 and 1910…
South Bend
- 1975The surveys: the city reads its own buildings
The downtown was surveyed first: the Historic Resources of Downtown South Bend survey ran from 1975 to 1981, and its inventory became the January 1984 Multiple Resource Area nominations that carried dozens of downtown properties onto the National Register in a single batch on 5 June 1985.
South Bend
- 1975Sydney Pollack: the Mirage years
The credit record carries him as a producer from 1975 — on his own films first, Three Days of the Condor among them, and Tootsie (1982) and Out of Africa (1985) after — and in 1985, just before Out of Africa 's release, he founded his own company, Mirage Enterprises, naming it, as a pilot, after an airplane.
South Bend
- 1975Kyle Bornheimer: the quarterback who went to the Groundlings
The tie, exactly: Kyle Edward Bornheimer was born September 10, 1975, in Mishawaka, and raised here — a full-strength tie.
Mishawaka
- 1975The first district fight whole: West Washington, designated 1975
The district was listed on 17 January 1975 (National Register reference 75000049), with 330 contributing buildings — the first National Register neighbourhood in South Bend, as the University of Notre Dame's Building South Bend project states it…
Osceola
- 1975Union North Ambulance Service — a Separate Corporation
Ambulance service for the Lakeville area is carried by Union North Ambulance Service , a nonprofit corporation distinct from the fire territory: the exempt register gives its ruling as 06/1975, its Form 990 record gives EIN 23-7416532 and the address 117 S Main St — co-located with the township and fire address…
Lakeville
- 1975Whitmer v. Town of North Liberty: the strip on State Road 23
On 22 December 1975, at a regularly held year-end meeting, the Town Board of North Liberty unanimously adopted Annexation Ordinance No. 4-1975.
North Liberty
- 1975–1980Dan Devine and the green jerseys, 1975–1980
The tenure: Dan Devine coached Notre Dame from 1975 to 1980 and went 53–16–1, with three bowl wins. He arrived with a college record of 120–40–8 built at Arizona State and Missouri, and the Green Bay Packers' head coaching job behind him.
Notre Dame
- 1975–1987The dream of 1975: an editor, a consortium, and nine miles
"It all started back in 1975," George DeRoche, president of the Greenway Consortium, told The Waynedale News in September 2005.
Fort Wayne
- 1975–2012The surveys: the county reading its own buildings
Boundary apparatus, county size: South Bend's downtown was read building by building for the Downtown South Bend Multiple Resource Area nomination on the Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory — the inventory fieldwork dated 1975–1981, in the nomination's own words "started in the late 1970's and completed in 1981"…
Osceola
- 1975–2026The later wars: an exact zero, with its searches
The test: searches for a post-1975, Iraq, or Afghanistan casualty with hometown or home of record Osceola, Indiana were run across the casualty-list classes — the DCAS-based compilations, the Honor the Fallen class, and the county frames — and returned zero Osceola, Indiana names.
Osceola
- 1975–2026The later wars: an exact zero, with its searches
The test: searches for a post-1975, Iraq, or Afghanistan casualty with hometown or home of record Walkerton, Indiana were run across the casualty-list classes — the DCAS-based compilations, the state Iraq and Afghanistan casualty lists, and the county frames — and returned zero Walkerton, Indiana names.
Walkerton
- 1975–todayThe keepers of the record · museums, monuments, and the mayor's office
The society that preserved it: In 1975 two Fort Wayne teachers, Hana L. Stith and Miles Edwards , began working with the county historical museum to gather a Black history no institution had kept — the founding act of the African/African-American Historical Society of Allen County.
Fort Wayne
- 1975–todayBowling — the test, and what the record actually holds
The association: The Michiana Bowlers Association, the region's tournament bowlers' organization, was founded at Chippewa Bowl in 1975 and celebrated its fiftieth anniversary there on September 21, 2025, telling its own founding story in the room where it began.
South Bend
- 1975–today1975: Adams Road Development creates Knollwood
The founding fact is the developer's own: the Home Builders Association of St. Joseph Valley's Spring 2019 showcase account, published for Adams Road Development Corp.'s Bradford Shores, states the course plainly: "Adams Road Development entered the Michiana Area in 1975 with the creation of Knollwood and Knollwood Country Club.
Granger
- 1976The fort ordered out of the floodway
Built first, permitted never: Historic Fort Wayne built the Old Fort replica in 1976 on the banks of the St. Marys River — without the prior approval of the Natural Resources Commission, in the regulatory floodway.
Fort Wayne
- 1976Wes Malott — the PBA Hall of Famer who bowls out of Fort Wayne
The tie, stated precisely: Wesley Clint Malott was born in Austin, Texas, on 26 October 1976 and comes from Pflugerville, Texas.
Fort Wayne
- 1976March 4, 1976 · the robbery whose record is a shooting
What the record holds: a bank robbery occurred in Fort Wayne on the morning of March 4, 1976 — the federal court opinion that preserves the day does not name the bank, and no account of the robbers themselves is in the record reached for this section.
Fort Wayne
- 1976WBCL: faith on the FM dial
WBCL signed on 8 January 1976 from Fort Wayne Bible College — the college's 1976 yearbook, The Guidon , calls it "Fort Wayne's first and only non-commercial radio station," broadcasting contemporary Christian music at 50,000 watts from studios at 1115 West Rudisill Boulevard.
Fort Wayne
- 1976Gentlemen's clubs: the adult rooms and the courts
The earliest date in that record belongs to a building, not a name: the property at 1407 South Calhoun Street was used as a sexually oriented business from approximately 1976 until October 2016, as the federal court's statement of facts puts it — forty years of adult use on a downtown-edge street.
Fort Wayne
- 1976Pine Valley and Coldwater Crossing: the power-center north
Property listings date its original construction to 1976 and put the center at 91,024 square feet; the grocery anchor is documented at the corner from 1990, when directory research shows a Scott's supermarket at 10201 Coldwater Road, a store that trades today as a Kroger Marketplace, shadow-anchored beside a Walgreens.
Fort Wayne
- 1976Cinema Center: film as art
Fort Wayne Cinema Center was founded in 1976 with first funding from the Fort Wayne Bicentennial Committee; its first presentation was Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep , shown on September 11, 1976, in the Fort Wayne Art School auditorium in West Central.
Fort Wayne
- 1976Cinema Center and the Spectator: the art-house thread
Before it stood the Spectator Theater, the city's last art and specialty movie house, on The Landing; when the Spectator lost its lease, a group of film enthusiasts founded Fort Wayne Cinema Center in 1976 to fill the void, opening with The Big Sleep at the Fort Wayne Art School auditorium on September 11, 1976, with…
Fort Wayne
- 1976Television: segments, stock shots, and one famous courthouse
The syndicated magazine format Evening Magazine , which ran nationally from 1976 to 1989 through local station franchises, produced segments filmed in Fort Wayne, as the genealogical society's video record documents.
Fort Wayne
- 1976Matt Vogel: two gold medals in two days at Montreal
At the 1976 Olympic trials Vogel finished third in the 100-meter butterfly, behind Joe Bottom and Gary Hall, barely on the team.
Fort Wayne
- 1976The electric era: a factory electric Jeep in 1976, and the documented negative after it
1976 — the Electruck: The most forward-looking vehicle in this section was a mail Jeep.
South Bend
- 1976The credit union robbery of 1976 · the case the court reports carry
The robbery: late in the afternoon of October 15, 1976, two men walked into a federal credit union in South Bend — the court reports that preserve the case do not name the institution — and robbed it of about $2,400.
South Bend
- 1976The first line: the 1976 ordinance and Dandy Co.
The ordinance: On December 14, 1976, South Bend enacted Ordinance No. 6090-76, effective January 1, 1977 — one of the early American attempts to disperse adult businesses by zoning.
South Bend
- 1976Doc Pierce's: the downtown steakhouse with a borrowed name
The house's account: Doc Pierce's Restaurant stands at 120 North Main Street, at the corner of Lincolnway East and Main in downtown Mishawaka, and its own account is the record's spine for it: "Locally owned since 1976."
Mishawaka
- 1976The Keenan Revue: the campus stage
It was first performed in 1976, organized by resident assistants Thomas Lenz and Richard Thomas as a deliberate alternative to the campus drinking culture — the Rev. Rich Conyers, C.S.C., under whom it began, said the same of its purpose.
Notre Dame
- 1976–1979The Associates' departure — an interval, printed unreconciled
A sourced history of the Las Colinas development in Texas records that "in January 1976, The Associates North America closed on a site in Wingren Office Park, and before the year was out, opened its new headquarters…
South Bend
- 1976–1980The Armstrong years
He had run for council in 1971, the year Lebamoff won the mayor's office; four years later he took the office from him by 384 votes and served 1976–1979, the city's list reads, as the 30th mayor.
Fort Wayne
- 1976–2021The Later Wars: a Negative with Its Method
No post-Vietnam, pre-2001 service death — the 1991 Gulf War included — attributed to Lakeville was found either; those two tails (1976–2000, and September 2011–2021) rest on index-strength negatives, and the settler that raises them to file strength…
Lakeville
- 1976–2023The city's own shelf: Mishawaka writing Mishawaka
Janice Bridges, Indiana's Princess City: The History of Mishawaka, 1832–1932 (1976), is the first book-length history of the city by one of its own, and for a generation it was the shelf.
Mishawaka
- 1976–todayThe school libraries, at the record's true size
Mishawaka High School's library was renewed as one named item in the school's four-year modernization of 1976–1980 — "the auditorium, cafeteria, gymnasium, library, administrative offices, industrial education wing, hallways, classrooms and stadium"…
Mishawaka
- 1976–todayThe mechanism: registration, the fund, leases by the quarter-mile, and the volunteers who groom
The Indiana Snowmobile Trails Program began in 1976, in the words of the DNR's 2025–2027 program manual, "as a cooperative effort between Indiana's snowmobilers and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources," its intent "to provide public trails for snowmobilers to use in the pursuit of safe, healthful, outdoor recreation."
Granger
- 1977The friendship layer: sister cities
The city holds four sister-city affiliations designated through Sister Cities International — Takaoka, Japan (1977), Płock, Poland (1990), Gera, Germany (1992) and Taizhou, China (2012) — and a friendship-city tie to Mawlamyine, Myanmar (2015), the last a recognition of the Burmese community that had made Fort Wayne its American center.
Fort Wayne
- 1977Casa: two friends, a St. Louis recipe book, and four dining rooms
The Italian dynasty: In 1977 Tom Casaburo and Jimmy D'Angelo — friends, neither with any restaurant experience — formed Casa D'Angelo, Inc. D'Angelo's cousins ran Cunetto House of Pasta in St. Louis…
Fort Wayne
- 1977Ryan Newman — the Daytona 500 winner, cross-referenced
He was born on December 8, 1977, graduated with honors from LaSalle High School, and — the distinctive fact of his career — took a bachelor's degree in vehicle structure engineering from Purdue in 2001 while his racing career was already running, which made him the rare stock-car driver who could argue suspension…
South Bend
- 1977David Stremme — two hundred Cup starts from the short tracks
David Andrew Stremme was born in South Bend on June 19, 1977, into a line of Midwestern short-track racers — a great-uncle who raced in the 1950s, his father, his mother, his brother — and his first stock-car victory came at fifteen, in the early 1990s, at New Paris Speedway in his mother's street-stock car…
South Bend
- 1977Ryan Newman: the speedway builder's grandson
Born here, tied to the quarter-mile by blood: Ryan Newman was born in South Bend on 8 December 1977.
South Bend
- 1977David Stremme: the other 1977
A racing family's son: David Stremme was born in South Bend on 19 June 1977 — the same year as Ryan Newman, in the same city — and came out of a racing family entire: his great-uncle raced in the 1950s, and his father, his mother, and his brother were all racers and champions at Midwest tracks…
South Bend
- 1977The dealer pattern, tested: Gurley Leep took the lot online and stayed
The Gurley Leep Automotive Family — the family-owned dealer group founded by Mike Leep Sr. and Van Gurley, whose own history begins with a Buick store in South Bend in 1977 and whose relationship with Mishawaka dates to 1984, when the company partnered with the city on the Grape Road corridor…
Mishawaka
- 1977Gurley Leep: the 1977 house that made Grape Road its home
The founding: The Gurley Leep group was founded in 1977 — on 7 October, by the arithmetic of the South Bend Tribune's account of its fiftieth-anniversary year — with a Buick franchise in downtown South Bend, by Mike Leep Sr. and Van Gurley.
Mishawaka
- 1977The long-lived house at the doorstep: Gurley Leep, 1977 to the 2026 campus
In 1977 Leep and his former partner Van Gurley expanded to South Bend, acquiring the Buick store downtown.
Granger
- 1977The group era's founding, at founding strength: one Buick store, 1977
Mike Leep Sr., ten years from a salesman's desk at Highland Dodge (1967) and three years from his first store of his own (Highland Dodge, acquired 1974, the 1973 variant printing in row 7), joined with his former partner Van Gurley to acquire the Buick franchise in downtown South Bend in 1977.
Granger
- 1977Potato Creek's Traces of Human Impact — 10.85 Hiking Miles, the Worster Ice, and Its Lost Village
The human traces the checklist asks for stand on the property's own record: Worster Lake, 327 acres, is a dammed lake — ice-plant water standing where a creek ran…
Lakeville
- 1977Candler: the tavern killing, the trial, and the opinion of 24 June 1977
State , 266 Ind. 440, 363 N.E.2d 1233 (Ind. 1977), the Supreme Court of Indiana affirmed the murder conviction and the life sentence, held that the felony-murder conviction absorbed the underlying armed-robbery conviction so that its separate sentence had to be vacated, and held a warrantless search of the defendant's…
North Liberty
- 1977The one dam: Worster Lake, 1977
In 1977 the state dammed the creek on township ground east of North Liberty to make Worster Lake, the 327-acre centre of the new Potato Creek Recreation Area, dedicated by Governor Otis R. Bowen on 6 June 1977 and named for Darcy Worster, the naturalist who had lobbied for the reservoir for decades.
North Liberty
- 1977Potato Creek State Park: the township's park, at its true frame
Its facts, from the Department of Natural Resources' and the park's own record: 3,840 acres at 25601 State Road 4, around the 327-acre Worster Lake made by damming Potato Creek in 1977; natural habitats of old fields, mature woodlands, restored prairies, and wetlands on ground that had been farmland…
North Liberty
- 1977Marvin Miller: siderophores, Trojan horses, and the tuberculosis program
Smuggling drugs through the iron door: The medicinal chemist of this record is Marvin J. Miller, who joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1977 and held the George and Winifred Clark chair from 1996.
Notre Dame
- 1977–1980The first varsity teams — Sharon Petro, 1977–1980
The first game: The varsity program opened on December 3, 1977, at home, with a 48–41 win over Valparaiso.
Notre Dame
- 1977–1981The addition of 1981, and a new name
The addition: Construction of a major addition to the Main Library began in 1977; the Facilities Master Plan lists the addition's build year as 1979.
Fort Wayne
- 1977–2009The township branches: Francis, North Liberty, Lakeville, Centre, German
In 1977 the library opened its newest branch as the Clay Branch; it was later renamed the Francis Branch, for the former director Roger B. Francis, and stands today at 52655 North Ironwood Road.
South Bend
- 1977–2013The national names by family succession: the speedway builder's grandson, and the other home name of his generation — South Bend ties, graded; the Granger tie is none
The builder's grandson: Ryan Newman (born 8 December 1977, South Bend) said it himself on NBC Sports' NASCAR America in 2017: "My grandfather helped build South Bend Motor Speedway, so racing's been in my blood for a long time."
Granger
- 1977–2013The national names by family succession: Ryan Newman and David Stremme — South Bend ties, stated exactly
Ryan Newman (born 8 December 1977, South Bend) is the speedway builder's grandson in the direct line the row asks for: Newman himself states it — "My grandfather … helped build South Bend Motor Speedway, so racing's been in my blood for a long time" (NBC Sports, August 2017)…
Osceola
- 1977–todayCanterbury School
Founded: 1977, by the Rev. Dr. C. Corydon Randall, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, with leaders of the church.
Fort Wayne
- 1977–todayLandmark acts IV: rebuilding downtown, project by project
The convention bet, 1977: The first monument of the post-Studebaker government was a wager that downtown could be a destination rather than a memory.
South Bend
- 1977–todayThe public era: NICTD and the freight split
The line's rescue was an act of the Indiana legislature, and its final form is two railroads on one track: In 1977 the Indiana General Assembly established the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District — NICTD — to subsidize, and then to own, the passenger service.
South Bend
- 1977–todayThe Modern Era — the Century Center and the Present State of the Record
The Century Center, designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee — the Johnson/Burgee partnership at the height of its powers — broke ground in 1974 and opened in 1977, at a cost carried at $13 million in the university's survey record.
South Bend
- 1977–todayGurley Leep: the Buick store bought in 1977
The founding: In 1977 Mike Leep Sr. and Van Gurley purchased the Buick store in downtown South Bend.
South Bend
- 1977–todayProlific genre and popular lines, at true strength
The mystery count the checklist requires is stated: his Father Dowling series runs from Her Death of Cold (1977) through some thirty volumes — the series that became the 1989–91 Father Dowling Mysteries television programme…
Granger
- 1977–todayThe apparatus I — the honors accounting
The coaching line, from the university's all-time table: Sharon Petro, 1977–80, 49–20. Mary DiStanislao, 1980–87, 115–79.
Notre Dame
- 1977–todayNotre Dame women's basketball — two banners
The program: Women's basketball at Notre Dame dates its varsity record to 1977; the program marked its fiftieth season in 2026–27.
Notre Dame
- 1977–todayNotre Dame fencing — sixteen national titles
Men's titles: 1977, 1978, 1986. In the combined-championship era the Irish won ten: 1994, 2003, 2005, 2011, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025 — fourteen in all through 2025.
Notre Dame
- 1978The Blizzard of 1978
The first statewide Blizzard Warning in Indiana history was issued at 3:45 p.m. on 25 January 1978. The storm's central pressure fell to about 956 millibars over Michigan, and Fort Wayne recorded the lowest pressure in its history, 28.78 inches (975 mb).
Fort Wayne
- 1978The Blizzard of 1978
The storm Fort Wayne still measures winters against. The first statewide Blizzard Warning in Indiana history was issued at 3:45 p.m. on 25 January 1978.
Fort Wayne
- 1978The March 1978 flood
The blizzard winter's second act. Snowmelt put the Maumee at flood stage from 17 March to 2 April 1978, and Fort Wayne took its worst flood since 1913.
Fort Wayne
- 1978The Great Blizzard · January 1978
The Blizzard of 1978 is the storm Indiana still measures winters against, and Fort Wayne sat near the centre of it.
Fort Wayne
- 1978Deregulation and the regional-jet age
More airlines, smaller airplanes: The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 first showed at Fort Wayne as construction — the 1981 terminal modernization, jetways added "to handle increased traffic brought on by" the Act…
Fort Wayne
- 1978Fort Wayne Dance Collective
Founding: In the summer of 1978 five women — Cathy Craighead, Ranny Levy, Liz Monnier, Krista Schloss and Lisa Tsetse — met at a modern dance workshop sponsored by the Fort Wayne Women's Bureau, most accounts placing it at the Arts United Center, and decided to keep going.
Fort Wayne
- 1978Artlink
In the summer of 1978 Artlink opened at 1126 Broadway, founded by a group of young artists to promote awareness of emerging artists and art forms (its fortieth-anniversary release compresses the story to "founded in an apartment on Broadway" in August 1978).
Fort Wayne
- 1978The blizzard that bent the barometer
The pressure: The Blizzard of 1978 holds two of Fort Wayne's strangest weather distinctions at once. It was the storm of Indiana's first statewide Blizzard Warning in history, issued at 3:45 p.m. on 25 January 1978 — no such warning had ever covered the whole state before.
Fort Wayne
- 1978Center for Hospice Care and the Hospice Foundation
Its published release of June 2018 says the Center for Hospice Care was "established in 1978." Its current site says it has been "serving patients in St. Joseph County since 1980," and its 2020 annual report calls 2020 "our 40th anniversary year" — arithmetic for 1980.
South Bend
- 1978The Blizzard of 1978 · the winter that still measures all the others
January 1978 alone brought 86.1 inches .
South Bend
- 1978The Natatorium: preservation as repair
The pool closed in 1978 and the building stood vacant for more than a quarter-century.
South Bend
- 1978St. Patrick's County Park
The park opened in 1978, and the county's map preserves the gesture that marked it: at the park's north end, evergreens planted that year spell out "St. Patrick's," a living sign that "pays tribute to the historic pine trees at Bendix Woods County Park that spell 'Studebaker.'" The named trails on the county's map run…
South Bend
- 1978Spicer Lake Nature Preserve
In 1978, the county's master plan records, the park board — assisted by the South Bend Audubon Society, the Indiana Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources…
South Bend
- 1978Macri's: the Calabrian bakery of 1978
The founding: George Sr. and Iole Macri came from Calabria and opened Macri's Italian Bakery in 1978 on LaSalle Avenue, beside the family's jewelry business.
South Bend
- 1978The Blizzard of '78
The storm: The Great Blizzard of January 1978 — January 25 to 27, the worst blizzard on record for Indiana — is Mishawaka's largest winter event, and its record is the twin cities' shared record, stated as such.
Mishawaka
- 1978Hacienda: the chain founded in a brewer's mansion
The founding, in the company's own sentence: The chain Mishawaka sent out into Indiana begins with a sentence its own history still leads with: "Hacienda Mexican Restaurants began with one location in 1978 in the historic mansion of a brewer in Mishawaka Indiana."
Mishawaka
- 1978The Blizzard of 1978, tested for the snowmobile only
The Blizzard of 1978 stands told whole in this build's Stories-Mysteries leg — the National Weather Service's station figures, Notre Dame's account, the conflicts printed, the verdict CONFIRMED — and it is pointed to here, not repeated.
Granger
- 1978The blizzard whole: January 1978, the benchmark storm
The benchmark storm of this ground's life is the Blizzard of 1978, and the weather service's history of it is a record of records.
New Carlisle
- 1978The Blizzard of 1978 — the town's share at reached strength
Settler: the Independent-News (Walkerton) for January–February 1978.
North Liberty
- 1978The blizzard test, and the modern position
The snowmobile's documented moment in this region's life is the Blizzard of 1978 (26–27 January), when northern Indiana stopped entirely and snowmobiles became emergency transport across St. Joseph County — a county-frame fact carried in this build's South Bend and county record.
North Liberty
- 1978–2012The surveys: the county volume, under two datings (C121)
From 1978 to 2012, Indiana Landmarks partnered with the Indiana DHPA to conduct the Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory, completing 85 of 92 counties with a printed report per county…
North Liberty
- 1978–2026Spicer Lake Nature Preserve: the birders' purchase, on the state line
In 1978 , with the Indiana chapter of The Nature Conservancy's and the DNR's assistance, the South Bend Audubon Society bought the original forty acres from the Conservancy and donated the land to the county parks — a second deed in kind in the township's park record — and the ground was dedicated a State Nature Preserve…
New Carlisle
- 1978–todayThe weather eyes: instruments built here on every American weather satellite
L3Harris's own Indiana fact sheet states the record in one sentence: the company's technology has flown on every NOAA weather satellite in low-Earth orbit since 1978 and in geostationary orbit since 1994.
Fort Wayne
- 1978–todayThe weather instruments — Fort Wayne's eyes in orbit
L3Harris's own Indiana fact sheet states the span: the company's Fort Wayne technology "has been on every National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather satellite in low-Earth orbit since 1978 and in geostationary orbit since 1994."
Fort Wayne
- 1979A recording studio in a VW bus
One durable company of the next era began in the factory city's last decade: in 1979 Chuck Surack, a touring musician come home, started Sweetwater Sound as a four-track recording studio in the back of a Volkswagen bus, moving it into his house on Getz Road.
Fort Wayne
- 1979Sweetwater: the homegrown giant that never left
The largest dot-com win in this record was built on the city's own ground: Sweetwater began in 1979 as Chuck Surack's mobile recording studio in a Volkswagen bus — its full company history sits in the Business record…
Fort Wayne
- 1979Care of the smallest: Parkview's neonatal intensive care, 1979
Dr. William J. Lewis, a neonatologist, started Parkview's neonatal intensive care unit together with Dr. Donald Hoffman, and served as the unit's medical director from 1979 to 2005 — the dates stand in his published obituary in the Fort Wayne newspapers, the fullest account of the unit's founding.
Fort Wayne
- 1979Sweetwater: the studio that became an industry
Chuck Surack, a touring saxophonist who wanted off the road, founded the company in Fort Wayne in 1979, making location recordings of local bands with a TEAC four-track reel-to-reel in the back of his Volkswagen bus and mixing them down in his mobile home.
Fort Wayne
- 1979The Sweetwater session layer: a staff of producers
Chuck Surack, the founder, is a producer in his own right before he is a retailer: the company began in 1979 as his four-track recording studio, local musicians cut their first songs on the eight-track in his basement (the singer Doug Strahm's recollection, jingles included), and Surack carries a producer's credit on…
Fort Wayne
- 1979The Heritage Trail and the Blizzard Blazers of Hoagland
The Hoagland Blizzard Blazers Snowmobile Club tells its own history in two sentences on its website: "We were established in 1979 after the great blizzard of ‘78.
Fort Wayne
- 1979Glenbrook Dodge and the flag: eighteen employees to a landmark
The founding: Douglas McKibben opened Glenbrook Dodge in 1979 with eighteen employees, one building, and less than five acres of land.
Fort Wayne
- 1979Tire Rack — the tester that stayed
From one Indianapolis store: Tire Rack was founded in 1979 in Indianapolis by Peter Veldman and his wife Wilma, German immigrants who had come to South Bend, with their son-in-law Mike Joines joining them in the business — beginning as a single retail tire store.
South Bend
- 1979The carrier hotel: Kevin Smith, Soft Chip, and Global Access Point
The purchase itself carries a printed conflict this section does not average: the station's standard history dates Smith's purchase to 1979, while ChoiceLight's account of the building says he bought it in 1981, following it through bankruptcy and winning it with a bid of 28,000 dollars.
South Bend
- 1979The tire line: distribution as an export trade
Tire Rack was founded in Indianapolis in 1979 by Peter and Wilma Veldman and their son-in-law Mike Joines, as a retail tire store with a mail-order idea — stock a few of every tire, and ship the odd sizes the local trade could not supply.
South Bend
- 1979Peter Veldman and Mike Joines — the Tire Rack
The founding: Tire Rack was founded in 1979 in Indianapolis by Peter Veldman and his wife Wilma, beginning as a single retail tire store; their son-in-law Mike Joines joined them in the business.
South Bend
- 1979Across the line: University Park Mall
The Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation announced it in 1976, in joint venture with the local developers George and Donald Cressy; Sears opened ahead of the mall on March 1, 1979, and the mall itself on March 14, 1979, with JCPenney, Sears, L. S. Ayres, and Hudson's for anchors.
South Bend
- 1979Baugo Creek and the Tributary Survey, 1979
In the spring and fall of 1979, Ginger Lee Marenchin and David M. Sever of the Department of Biology at Saint Mary's College seined and electrofished seven tributary streams across the two counties — 3,741 specimens, forty-one species plus hybrid shiners…
Mishawaka
- 1979The Lampreys: Two Natives and an Invader
The natives first: the 1979 tributary survey collected lampreys in the drainage's small water — two specimens of an Ichthyomyzon brook lamprey at two localities, and the brook lamprey Lampetra lamottei at Turkey Creek, a species the Saint Mary's biologists flagged as a new record for the entire St. Joseph River drainage.
Mishawaka
- 1979The opening and the anchor course, 1979–1980
Sears opened first, alone: on 1 March 1979 the Sears store at the mall's end opened for business ahead of the center it anchored — 196,000 square feet with a seventeen-bay auto center, the largest single store the mall would ever hold.
Mishawaka
- 1979University Park Mall, Across the Line
University Park Mall opened on 14 March 1979, developed by the Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation with George and Donald Cressy, at an estimated cost of $35 million; it is a Simon Property Group centre today.
Osceola
- 1979–1983The Humvee is designed
The requirement: In 1979 the Army set out to replace two aging light vehicles — the M151 jeep and the M561 Gama Goat — with a single high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle: a 1.25-ton truck family in several configurations, wide, low, and able to keep up with the new generation of armored vehicles.
Mishawaka
- 1979–1985The Humvee: a claim tested — designed by AM General, built in Mishawaka
The AM General file of this history establishes the first half of the truth: the Humvee was genuinely the company's own design, the first vehicle AM General and its predecessors had designed themselves rather than building to another firm's drawings, with preliminary design work begun in July 1979 and the prototype contracts of July 1981.
Mishawaka
- 1979–2003Notre Dame's earlier ladder: the gifts each era called the largest
In 1979 the Kellogg Foundation gave 10 million dollars. In 1989 Edward J. DeBartolo, the Youngstown shopping-mall developer, gave 33 million dollars — a single benefaction that underwrote DeBartolo Hall, the DeBartolo quadrangle and the Marie P. DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.
Notre Dame
- 1979–2017Beverly Crone and the county's other firsts
Beverly Delores (Munger) Crone, after twenty years in bookkeeping and accounting, first sought office in 1979 as a member of the South Bend Common Council; elected at large, she was re-elected in 1983, and left the council to fill a vacancy in the St. Joseph County Auditor's office…
South Bend
- 1979–2026The Grape Road screens in dated generations
University Park Mall, 6501 Grape Road, Mishawaka, opened March 14, 1979, with a three-screen movie theater among its opening tenants, operated by General Cinema Corporation.
Granger
- 1979–2026The advocates: the family association, separate from the providers
The advocates' body of the pattern is NAMI — the National Alliance on Mental Illness — a family-founded body, not a provider: it began in 1979 as a small group of families gathered around a kitchen table in Madison, Wisconsin (founders Harriet Shetler and Beverly Young…
Osceola
- 1979–todayPetroleum Traders Corporation
Founded: 1979 (business start), Fort Wayne — stated as a company claim, with a distinct incorporation record flagged.
Fort Wayne
- 1979–todaySweetwater Sound
Founded: Chuck Surack founded Sweetwater in Fort Wayne in 1979. He had come off the road as a touring saxophonist and keyboard player and, in 1978, launched a mobile recording studio — a four-track Teac rig in the back of a Volkswagen bus.
Fort Wayne
- 1979–todayBeyond books: television, radio, reading services and maker labs
Reading service: The Audio Reading Service began in 1979 as the Northeast Indiana Radio Reading Service, reading newspapers and books aloud for blind and print-disabled listeners; it joined the library in 2004, took its present name in 2015, and reaches some 80,000 people.
Fort Wayne
- 1979–todayUnion Station — the carrier hotel
Its second life began when Kevin M. Smith bought it — in 1979 on the station's standard account, in 1981 on the account of ChoiceLight, the fiber company that later worked from it, which quotes Smith himself; the two years stand as their sources give them.
South Bend
- 1979–todayKovach, Beutter, Rea, and the caucus of 2010
Robert Kovach, 1980–1983: The Democrat Robert "Bob" Kovach won the election of 1979 and served one term — in the Story of Mishawaka section's summary, the only Democratic mayor of Mishawaka between Margaret Prickett's victory in 1963 and the present day.
Mishawaka
- 1979–todayThe Grape Road fringe: the far north side becomes the city's second center
The fringe began with the mall and then acquired an office city: the commercial growth on Mishawaka's far north side began, in the commissioned history's sequence, with University Park Mall and University Center in 1979 and continued with Indian Ridge and Wilshire Plaza in the early 1980s — the mall course is the malls file's, whole.
Mishawaka
- 1979–todayPeace Lutheran School: the Cleveland Road school of the WELS
The school's own synodical federation — Southwest Michigan Lutheran Schools, the WELS federation the school belongs to — dates the school from 1979: "Since 1979, Peace Lutheran School has provided a Christ-centered education."
Granger
- 1979–todayThe Grape Road succession: three generations of Mishawaka screens
The succession in dated generations, every generation's opening and closing line stated — on Mishawaka ground: Generation I, the mall three (1979).
Osceola