Granger, Indiana · 20th century
1960s
21 dated events in 1960s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 21 dated mentions
1960s
- 1960The Soap Box Derby at its peak: a national champion in 1960 — South Bend's boy, at a South Bend address; the Granger negative printed
The peak, named: the All-American Soap Box Derby's official past-champions roll reads, for 1960: "Fredric Lake, South Bend, IN."
- 1962–2026The successor designation: Oaklawn, from September 24, 2010
Oaklawn's own founding belongs to the Mennonite mental-health movement that followed the Second World War: Mennonite conscientious objectors who had served in the era's institutions came home believing "there has to be a better way," and built a system of community-based hospitals of which Oaklawn, opening at Elkhart in 1962, was one.
- 1962–2026The second rank, one by one at true size: the actress-producer and her franchise, the author-producer's company, the broadcaster's company — and the resident broadcaster's negative
Hannah Storm and Brainstormin' Productions: Hannah Storm, born Hannah Lynn Storen in Oak Park, Illinois, on 13 June 1962, graduated from the Westminster Schools in Atlanta and from the University of Notre Dame in 1983, worked at South Bend's WNDU-TV while a student, and became the first full-time female sports anchor…
- 1962–todayThe corridor rooms and the licensing war: the Backer, and the two Corby's
The landmark lounge, and the war: the student corridor that serves Notre Dame runs along South Bend Avenue and Eddy Street south of the line, and its landmark lounge is documented to the year and the loan: the Linebacker Lounge at 1631 South Bend Avenue, founded in 1962 by Notre Dame linebacker Myron "Mo" Pottios, who…
- 1962–todayThe sweet record: four ice-cream houses and no candy shop
The oldest name is an import from the county's east: The Chief Ice Cream, which began as a small shop in Goshen in 1962 and grew into a regional institution — Thrillist's list of the top thirty-one ice-cream shops in the nation carried it — keeps its Granger room at 12479 Adams Road, hard by the farmers market's Adams Road seat.
- 1963–1966The record side at its true size: Bill Dobslaw and the Riviera label — South Bend's — with the record-producer and studio tests set out as negatives, the searches named
The local label and its man: William "Bill" Dobslaw of South Bend — musician, producer, manager and businessman — discovered the teenage band the Rivieras in 1963, became their manager, booked and financed their first session (an hour at Columbia Recording Studios in Chicago), and created his own Riviera label to…
- 1963–2026The superintendents of Penn-Harris-Madison: the line from 1971, and the two gaps in it
The founding, and the first gap (1963–1971): The corporation was formed by the Penn–Harris merger of 1962, with Madison Township's accession in 1963 completing the three-township district the banked file carries (the formation instrument itself stands open as GAP-SPINE-6 and is not retried here).
- 1963–2026The recorded record: what this ground put on disc
The Rivieras: five South Bend Central High School teenagers who formed in the fall of 1962, cut "California Sun" in a one-hour session at Columbia Recording Studios in Chicago in the summer of 1963, pressed a thousand copies on their manager's Riviera label in La Porte, and watched the disc climb to No. 5 on the…
- 1965The Weather Record and the Crest
What already stands: Two of the weather set's four elements are banked whole in the Stories file and are cross-referenced here, not retold: the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 11 April 1965, mapped not-here — the outbreak's tracks crossed the county but not this ground…
- 1965–1978The storms as told and as recorded: Palm Sunday 1965, and the Blizzard of 1978
On the evening of 11 April 1965 the outbreak that the National Weather Service's Northern Indiana office still keeps as its benchmark crossed St. Joseph County three times, and every track ran through the county's southern tier.
- 1965–2026The moving line, listed as far as the record lists it: a litigated annexation, a standing procedure, one lot in 2026 — and the wave table that is not open
In the matter of the annexation of certain territory to the City of Mishawaka — two cases together, decided by the Appellate Court of Indiana on 16 December 1965, rehearing denied 20 January 1966, and reported at 138 Indiana Appellate 207 (212 N.E.2d 393)…
- 1965–2026The Memorial Question: Two Flag Poles and a Veterans' Section
AMERICAN LEGION POST 303 1965"; the southeast pole, "THIS FLAG POLE DEDICATED IN HONOR OF ALL VETERANS INTERRED IN THE PARK.
- 1965–2026What stands outdoors: a statue, a mural, and two flagpoles
Its first dated piece is not a statue but a pair of flagpoles: at St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park, the memorial cemetery at 375 West Cleveland Road, two flagpoles were dedicated in 1965, in the American Legion's own memorial register, "in honor of all veterans interred in the park"…
- 1966–2026Park government as its own article: the board created in 1966, never abolished, and the director line to 2026
The St. Joseph County Parks and Recreation Board was formed in 1966: the county's own Bendix Woods pages record that the Bendix Corporation donated 175 acres and the Studebaker Clubhouse to the St. Joseph County Parks and Recreation Board in 1966, the gift going to a "newly formed Parks Board," and the South Bend…
- 1966–todayThe county's sugar camp, and the campus table's signature sandwich
It is carried now, at boundary size, from the county record: Bendix Woods County Park, 32132 State Road 2, New Carlisle — St. Joseph County's first county park, on ground the Studebaker Corporation took in 1926 for its proving grounds, some 175 acres of it donated to the newly formed park board by the Bendix…
- 1967–2026The teaching ledger around her: the state's title and the Milken, tested
The Indiana Teacher of the Year test: the Department of Education's own roll of past Indiana Teachers of the Year was read whole, from 1967 through 2024 as the department prints it.
- 1967–2026Unrest, firsts, the Black press, displacement counted — and the reparatory accounting, dated
Racial unrest struck South Bend's west side 25–28 July 1967.
- 1968–1980The downtown unmade: renewal, the hole, and the mall that stayed on paper
South Bend's Central Downtown Urban Renewal Project, Indiana R-66, was already a public plan by March 1968, when the downtown council unveiled the model: a remodelled core with a shopping mall, an eleven-acre cultural center, and two new parking garages, on a project the federal government was to fund at two-thirds of…
- 1968–1986The locally produced phenomenon: Dave Williams and Beyond Our Control — South Bend's teenagers, South Bend's station, tested for a Granger tie and not absorbed
The phenomenon, whole, as its own city's: Beyond Our Control was a youth-produced sketch-comedy series made almost entirely by high-school students and aired on WNDU-TV, the University of Notre Dame's NBC affiliate in South Bend, for nineteen seasons, 1968 to 1986…
- 1968–2026The ethnic superlative, tested comparatively: no "second-largest" here — and the paired counts measure different cities doing different things
Its counted moments are hall crowds, not street crowds — Robert Kennedy's 1968 visit is the type specimen, with some 5,000 inside Stepan Center and over 1,000 more outside, 6,000 and more at the courthouse speech, and 1,500 and more inside the club itself.
- 1968–todayThe medical school as research campus: IU School of Medicine–South Bend
No medical school stands in the CDP — the schools file tests the ground whole and finds no college at all — but the branch school that teaches this ground's physicians is a research campus in its own right, and this article prints its own identity, not its parent's: the Indiana University School of Medicine began…