Granger, Indiana · 20th century
1920s
29 dated events in 1920s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 29 dated mentions
1920s
- 1921The custom trades counted, not evoked — the 1921 Polk classified sections, what can and cannot be printed
The checklist's pattern is a dated directory count: milliners, dressmakers and tailors numbered from one year's classified sections, the way the floor instance prints 1921.
- 1921The first show and the first census: a county canvass, and a Granger count of zero
Run the 1921-pattern canvass against that record — the first post–World War I directory generation, the pattern year in which a sister city's build counts its first sellers on one hand…
- 1921–2026The last chiefs in complete succession: Big C Lumber and Martin's Super Markets, founder to present
The banked fragment carries William Hass and George Bales (1921 purchase; 1926 reincorporation; Hass's c. 1935 buyout of Bales) and then jumps to Roger Foley in 1982.
- 1921–todayBig C Lumber: a county firm that put its headquarters on this ground
The oldest firm seated in Granger was not founded here, and its own history prints the distinction plainly: Big C Lumber's published account begins in 1921, when William Hass, in partnership with George Bales, purchased a lumberyard in North Liberty, in the county's west…
- 1921–todayDistribution as a trade: the networks counted, and where they stop
Big C Lumber’s yard network is the largest: from the 1921 founding (Hass & Bales, North Liberty; the Westville yard first) and the roughly ten yards that followed quickly — Roseland, Indiana, and Three Oaks, Michigan, among the yards still held…
- 1922The benevolent-society era: parish societies at the county seat, township relief at home — and no benevolent society seated on this ground
The federation that succeeded the society era at county scale arrives in the next article's line — the diocese's Associated Catholic Charities of 1922 on the Catholic side, and the county's federated campaign, whose own early record is the following article's subject and conflict.
- 1922–1925The Klan era: the guarded church, the county chapter, and a township test that returns nothing
The Tribune's front page of 17 December 1922 already read "Threat of Ku Klux Grows." The era's dated, named episode on the record is a church.
- 1922–1950Exclusion measured in years: the Natatorium's fourteen and fourteen, the Kale test case, and the clubs on this ground
The Engman Public Natatorium, 1040 W. Washington Street, South Bend, opened in 1922 as the largest indoor pool in Indiana, and the exclusion can be timed both ways, as the row directs.
- 1922–1961The dance-orchestra era, band by band — at the county's rooms
Downtown, the Palais Royale ballroom — opened 1922 beside the Palace Theatre — hosted in its big-band years, 1935 to 1946 by the National Register nomination's dating: Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, and Woody Herman…
- 1922–1968Redlining in writing: the HOLC sheets quoted, Colpaert named, sixty-eight plats counted — and the plat books named as the settler for this ground
The Commission's housing subcommittee located 68 plats for housing developments in St. Joseph County, created 1922–1953, containing racially restrictive covenants…
- 1922–2023The community's own scholarship: Buford Gordon's 1922 study and the shelf it founded
He came to South Bend in December 1920 as pastor of Taylor A.M.E. Zion Church (now First A.M.E. Zion), at Eddy and Campeau Streets just south of Notre Dame, and in 1922 he self-published The Negro in South Bend: A Social Study…
- 1922–2026Broadcast at the boundary: heard here, seated elsewhere
The market's stations are the cities' whole — the Tribune company's WGAZ of 1922, now WSBT radio; WSBT-TV (1952) and WNDU and the Weigel stations in South Bend; WNIT, the public station (on air February 1974) — and their histories are dug in South Bend's and Mishawaka's builds, not here.
- 1922–2026Joseph County, the county's worked example, and the Granger layer named as GAP-C90-1
The HOA layer is banked (Neighborhoods: modern covenants, the Fox Chase porch, the Quail Ridge fence suit of 2004); this article digs below it, into the deed record…
- 1923–2025The private bus era whole, then the public corporation, with riders and fares as the record states them
The bus was a streetcar company's child first: CERA Bulletin 132's contents give the era its chapter heads — "1923 — The Motor Bus Appears," "More Buses & Receivership."
- 1924The unrest set, tested whole: the county's nights are South Bend's; this ground has none in the record
The Klan clash, May 1924: The Ku Klux Klan's Indiana strength met its most famous street resistance in South Bend, where on 17–19 May 1924 Notre Dame students clashed with Klansmen in the city…
- 1924St. Pius X: the pastors, Holy Cross and diocesan
The succession runs in two orders: for the parish's first two-thirds of a century its priests were Holy Cross men — the chaplains of St. Joseph's Farm, whose list the parish's own record begins in 1924, twelve years before the farm community counted itself a parish in embryo, and then the pastors of the Fir Road…
- 1924The unrest day, tested: the county's unrest is South Bend's; no Granger share stands
1924 — the Klan clash: The Ku Klux Klan's Indiana strength made South Bend its target in May 1924: a Klan picnic and parade planned for May 17, and three days of confrontation, May 17–19, in which some 500 Notre Dame students stormed downtown, stripped hoods and robes from Klansmen, drove them to their headquarters at…
- 1924–2019The memorials by war and by institution
The World War I Memorial Door, in the east transept of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, was dedicated on Memorial Day, May 30, 1924, by the university's president, the Rev. Matthew Walsh…
- 1925The unnamed houses, counted as a counted gap
The census year is 1925, the Tivoli's opening year, and the nomination that documents the Tivoli also counts the rooms it does not name.
- 1928The Harris School at Granger: the township's consolidated school
The Harris School at Granger was erected in 1928 — Harris Township's consolidated school, the building the district era built to replace its one-room districts on this ground.
- 1928The laboratory discovery: Lobund and germ-free life
Reyniers inaugurated germ-free animal research at Notre Dame in 1928 and directed the program until 1958, with Philip Charles Trexler as his engineering partner; the Indiana Academy of Science's history of the laboratory runs the course 1928–1965.
- 1928–1929The sound pioneer, flagged
The Colfax Theater, 213 West Colfax Avenue, opened on August 4, 1928 (August 5 in the History Museum's count — printed as the conflict it is), the first theater in St. Joseph County to show sound pictures, and hailed by both South Bend papers as the first theater in the world to offer an all-sound program…
- 1928–2026The schools seated in the place
The Granger attendance center the survey describes is the direct ancestor of today's roster: the Harris School at Granger, erected 1928, eight classrooms on three acres, carrying grades 1–3 — with a privately operated kindergarten renting a room, the district then having no kindergartens…
- 1928–2026The armory succession, tested: none in the two townships; the county's in South Bend, in order
In order: the 1928 armory at 727 South Eddy Street, South Bend — built as the city's National Guard armory and shooting range, later the Newman Recreation Center and a city storage building, and today The Armory, an event venue whose 1928 fabric, munitions doors and drill-hall ballroom survive in the restoration…
- 1928–todayThe institutional tables: a club dining room, a school basement, a parish feast
The school table prints at the Schools section's strength: the Penn-Harris-Madison corporation's feeding of thousands of children daily is that leg's subject, and this section carries only its ancestor image, which the Schools section documents from the 1963 Ball State study…
- 1929The licensing beats: the driver's license comes to Harris Prairie
The vehicle was licensed a generation before the driver was: Indiana's first law governing the licensing of drivers is the Act of March 13, 1929, chapter 162…
- 1929–1960Cadet Field: the airport on Granger's own ground
Its earliest depiction is a Department of Commerce Airway Bulletin dated January 16, 1929: a municipal airport owned and operated by the City of South Bend, a 240-acre square sandy turf field with a 3,200-foot east–west dimension.
- 1929–2014The flagship succession: Bendix Field to South Bend International
In 1929 Vincent Bendix, of the Bendix Aviation Corporation, purchased 610 acres northwest of South Bend for a company airfield.
- 1929–2021Professions inside segregation: the doctors and nurses who practised inside the segregated hospitals, named
Beside them: Dr. Bernard Streets, one of the city's first Black dentists (Indiana University School of Dentistry, 1929), whose west-side office later moved to West Washington Street, who taught himself Polish to serve his Polish clients, and who with his wife Odie Mae helped revive the NAACP in 1930…