Granger, Indiana · 20th century
1940s
25 dated events in 1940s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 25 dated mentions
1940s
- 1940The colour line at the desk: the Green Book, run edition by edition — absence printed as absence
The editions read whole at their Indiana pages — the 1940 Negro Motorist Green Book, the 1949 edition, and the Smithsonian-transcribed edition of the same era — agree exactly.
- 1940–2013The productions shot here, one by one — and the Notre Dame pictures, separated
Knute Rockne—All American (1940) was, per AFI, "shot on location at Notre Dame at South Bend, IN," premiering at South Bend October 4, 1940.
- 1940–2026The service clubs as clubs, dated: a Lions club, a Kiwanis club, and the Rotary's missing charter
The Clay-Granger Lions Club is a Granger club in the federal record — Post Office Box 526, Granger, with a directory seat at 16360 Fairfield Lane — whose tax profile carries a ruling date of December 1940 (rendered "founded in 1940" by CauseIQ's profile…
- 1941–1945The Second World War: the County's 430
The disproportion is the finding, and the remedy is a named source: the South Bend Tribune chronicled the county's service daily in its "Service Notes" column from 1941, and the St. Joseph County Public Library's index to that column (1941–1979, across three wars) is the instrument from which a township roll…
- 1941–1968Counter-moves, dated: separate defence housing, twenty-two couples in secret, a mapped district, and the March 1968 ordinance
South Bend's council refused a housing authority in 1939; the authority created in 1941 existed only to support defence-worker housing, and its first two projects were restricted to defence workers and segregated by race and location under federal policy: 250 housing units for White workers, 150 for Black workers.
- 1941–2015The registers by tie: born here, formed here, chose this ground
Chose this ground — one name: Ken "Hawk" Harrelson was born September 4, 1941, in Woodruff, South Carolina, and raised in Savannah, Georgia, where he was schooled at Benedictine Military School; nothing in his formation touches Indiana.
- 1942–1945The war years whole: the trade with nothing new to sell, 1941–45
The federal course, at the strength the record carries it: on January 1, 1942, the Office of Production Management froze all consumer vehicle sales — even cars already ordered could not be delivered.
- 1943–1954The women's-league test: the South Bend Blue Sox had no Granger daughter
The test, stated: The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League played in this county for its whole life — the South Bend Blue Sox, 1943–1954 — and the Blue Sox file lives in South Bend's history, where it belongs.
- 1945–2026Second lives: cargo, the accident record, the small fields, and the boundary stated
Chain-O-Lakes Airport (3IN7, private use, South Bend), activated November 1945, is a grass strip. Elkhart Municipal (EKM) is the neighbouring city's public field.
- 1946–2024The home drivers' roll: the names the quarter-mile kept — the South Bend Motor Speedway roll as the record holds it, and the Granger roll the record does not
The track the drivers built: the South Bend Motor Speedway opened on Friday night, 23 August 1946, built over two years by the South Bend Auto Racing Association — Joe Kovatch and thirteen others, including the local drivers Charlie Van Acker and Charlie Szekendy.
- 1946–2026State honors: the Sagamore test, and its honest limit
The award: the Sagamore of the Wabash is the highest honor an Indiana governor regularly bestows — created by Governor Ralph F. Gates in 1946, its first certificates going to Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft and Kentucky Governor Simeon Willis at a tri-state meeting in Cincinnati, and carrying the formula that its holder…
- 1947Fire: from a township pumper to a territory
Granger's fire service is the Clay Fire Territory whole, and its course is the department's own: on June 11, 1947, the Clay Township trustee and advisory board announced the township would buy equipment and start its own department…
- 1947Fire and rescue: the Clay Fire Territory whole
Granger's fire service began as two township departments and is now one territory, and the course is the department's own official history, read whole: on June 11, 1947, the Clay Township trustee and his advisory board announced that the township would purchase firefighting equipment and start its own department…
- 1947Case: 5 July 1947 — the first-wave report
Eleven days after Arnold, in the nationwide rash of Independence Day weekend sightings that Alfred Loedding's history of the 1947 wave reconstructs day by day, South Bend appears in the wave's own chronicle among the cities reporting on Saturday 5 July 1947…
- 1947–1969The national frame: 1947 and the Air Force investigations, stated once
The file system every local case below is checked against: in the summer of 1947, beginning with Kenneth Arnold's sighting of 24 June 1947 over the Cascades, the United States received its first great wave of “flying saucer” reports, and the Air Force answered with a standing investigation in three successive forms…
- 1947–1969The Blue Book ledger for the county, compiled whole and split by ground
The county's official file, every case the open official indexes name: (1) 5 July 1947, South Bend — press-wave report in the 1947 chronology; no case file, no disposition.
- 1947–2026The famous-name test: one documented concert, and the claims checked
Beyond the school, the county's documented famous performances are the cities' and are stated as such: the Palace Theatre in South Bend (today's Morris) hosted, in its own centennial record, Will Rogers, George Burns and Gracie Allen, a young Frank Sinatra (1947), and Louis Armstrong (1953).
- 1947–todayThe grocery succession: Martin's, twice seated, under three owners
Granger has exactly one supermarket banner in its entire record, and it has had it under three successive owners: Martin's Super Markets was founded in 1947 in South Bend by Martin and Jane Tarnow, in a first store of 800 square feet, and grew family-owned across Michiana for seventy-one years.
- 1948Michael A. Dvorak: the prosecutor who lived in Granger for decades — and whose son's seat is South Bend's
The course: Michael A. Dvorak, born in South Bend on 24 October 1948, sat in the Indiana House of Representatives for the 8th district from 1986 to 2002, then left the legislature to run for St. Joseph County Prosecutor, defeated the incumbent in 2002, and held the prosecutor's office from January 2003 to January 2015.
- 1948Case: 13 October 1948 — the disc over the Studebaker works
The case is a Project Sign case, and the modern study of the Sign files printed in the NICAP Loedding volume ranks it pointedly: a much better sighting, that study argues, than the famous Gorman dogfight of 1 October 1948 that has overshadowed it…
- 1948–1988Drive-Ins: the County's Screens
The South Bend Auto Theatre , on Route 2 at the city's west edge (4903 West Western Avenue), was operating by May 27, 1948, capacity 650 cars, raised to 850 in 1950 and listed at 650 again by 1952, and closed in 1959.
- 1948–2026The touring record: what the road brought to this ground's rooms
What the road looked like at township size stands in that collection's own pages: The Township News of October 21, 1948, carries the Granger section's autumn — the PTA's Halloween party for the school children, with its grand march and entertainments, in the schoolhouse, at PTA expense, the Camp Fire Girls' paper drive beside it.
- 1949The first postwar canvass: the field counted, and this ground still at zero
Run at that pattern against the two townships, the 1949 canvass returns the same figure as the 1921 canvass, and the figure is the finding: no automobile seller is listed on Granger ground in the first postwar directory generation reached .
- 1949–2010The designated centre founded whole: Madison Center
Madison Center was founded in 1949 — the date stands in the organisation's own boilerplate, printed in its final designation release — as a nonprofit provider in South Bend, and it grew into the institution the county's modern system was built around: "Indiana's largest community mental health agency," as the…
- 1949–2026The drive-in test, printed
At pointer size, as the checklist directs where the screen was never in the place: St. Joseph County has no operating drive-in in November 2026, and the South Bend Tribune 's current guide sends this ground's families out of the county for the form…