Granger, Indiana · 20th century
1930s
8 dated events in 1930s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 8 dated mentions
1930s
- 1930–1951The Indianapolis line in three distinct forms — test drivers, the builder who raced there, the home starter — all three South Bend's, none Granger's
John Charles MacDonald, known as J. C. McDonald (23 December 1902 – 11 May 1966), was a Canadian racing driver who lived in South Bend; his only AAA Championship start was the 1930 Indianapolis 500, in a Studebaker special he designed and built himself, finishing 18th after a fuel-tank leak.
- 1930–2026State Road 23: the 1930 designation and the corridor it made
The road northeast from South Bend through Granger to Edwardsburg — the wagon road to Michigan, along which the village's trade ran to the state line…
- 1933The chief as casualty and the chiefs as rescuers: Heritage Square after the surrender, and the Depression test
On Granger ground itself the test is negative, printed as a finding: no firm seated in the CDP's townships in 1929–1933 had a chief the Depression killed or a receiver who handed it back…
- 1934–2008The first-rank producer at credit level: Sydney Pollack — the producing filmography separated from the directing and acting record, credit by credit
The tie first, exactly: Sydney Irwin Pollack was born in Lafayette, Indiana, on 1 July 1934, and reared in South Bend, where he fell in love with theatre at South Bend Central High School under drama teacher James Lewis Casaday, went straight to New York's Neighborhood Playhouse instead of college, and died at Pacific…
- 1936Earhart at Bendix Field, 1936
The St. Joseph County Airport Authority's own history page records: "Amelia Earhart in 1936 when she landed her Lockheed Electra aircraft at Bendix field."
- 1936–2017St. Pius X: the farm becomes a parish
The farm's chapel community grew into one of the largest parishes in the diocese: the Catholics of St. Joseph's Farm were an unofficial parish community from 1936, on the parish's own history, served by Holy Cross chaplains whose list begins in 1924.
- 1936–2022The first church music, and the instrument makers who did not live here
St. Pius X, the parish whose line runs from the 1936 farm-chapel community to its formal establishment in 1956 (told whole in Religion), built its great church on Fir Road in 2017 and filled it with other cities' work: a Wicks organ — Wicks of Highland, Illinois…
- 1937–2026The disability charities: the one charity neighborhood seated on this ground, the community-resources agency across the line, and the camp
The camp of the set is Camp Millhouse, on the southwest side of South Bend since 1940: begun 1937 as a camp for children with polio, remade as the vaccine era emptied that purpose into a residential summer camp for children and adults with disabilities…