Mishawaka, Indiana · 20th century
1930s
34 dated events in 1930s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 34 dated mentions
1930s
- 1930The city's art teachers, at their named points: 1930 to the present
1930–1931, the department's first named heads: The 1930 Miskodeed lists the high school's departments and gives art and music together: "the Art Department, supervised by Miss Humke" — Nell Humke, the first art teacher the yearbook record names.
- 1930The succession: the second Kamm generation, and the officers the record does not name
The founder's death, mid-drought: Adolph Kamm died at Mishawaka on 16 December 1930, in the cemetery record of St. Joseph's — in the middle of the dry years, when the company he had founded sixty years before was a maker of soda and cereal beverage, and three years before it would brew again.
- 1930The Census Failures: A Missing Page, an Empty Pull, a Timed-Out Chapter
First: the 1930 Census of Agriculture, vol. I, prints its minor-civil-division table on p. 179 — and p. 179, carrying St. Joseph County entire, is missing from the Census Bureau's own scan, whose file passes from p. 178 (Randolph County) to p. No Penn Township figure is printed from it.
- 1930–1951Open: Who Presided at Kamm & Schellinger, 1930–1951
The Wineries leg carried the brewery whole — the family settlement beneath the partnership, the incorporation conflict, output from 30,000 barrels to a 150,000 rating, the April 1918 closing under Indiana's own law, the 1951 governing date against the Tribune 's 1952 — and its presidency between 1930 and the end is in no source reached.
- 1930–1959The mayors as persons, II: Petro to Doyle, 1930–1959 — the holes printed inside
Mason L. Petro, from January 1930 — with the 1934 hole inside his profile: The Political Graveyard's events list documents that on 5 November 1929 Mason L. Petro, a Democrat, was elected mayor of Mishawaka; he took office in January 1930.
- 1930–1979Miniature golf's two waves: the craze that left no Mishawaka name, and the Putt-Putt of 1979
Garnet Carter patented his Tom Thumb course in 1927; by the fall of 1930 the United States held some 25,000 miniature courses, valued by the Commerce Department at $125 million, and the first national tournament was played that October on Carter's own Fairyland course on Lookout Mountain.
- 1930–2010The fallen, police side: four officers and a K-9
Patrolman Clarence Casper, 10 June 1930: The first name on the memorial is the first death: Patrolman Clarence Casper, on duty 5 May 1930 to 10 June 1930 — one month of service, in the city's own ceremony account — who was riding his motorcycle on duty when it struck a car turning left…
- 1930–2010The Enforcement Line: Mishawaka's Fallen Officers
Patrolman Clarence Casper was killed in a motorcycle crash on June 10, 1930, the Mishawaka department's first line-of-duty death.
- 1931–2013The Tale in Circulation: Reprints, Homespun, and the Folklore Canon
The homespun carrier, 1931: the valley's own centennial history carried the tale up the river and graded it, in print, almost-history.
- 1932Centennial Week, May 15–21, 1932: the birthday as an event
The week's meaning — the city performing itself, ethnic programs as one of its seven days, celebration chosen in 1932 as a cultural act — is Culture's, told whole there; the fairs record carries the Main Street carnival as a fair-type event, cross-referenced there.
- 1932The face with no original
The figure was erected in 1932 for the city's centennial season, on the Daughters of the American Revolution's boulder, with the Lions Club's tablet, by the citizens of Mishawaka; the tablet still stands legible on the riverwalk, photographed for the Historical Marker Database in May 2024, and it nowhere says the woman came out of a book.
- 1932The archive that is not there
Vincent Brunner — born in 1862, brought from Switzerland at the age of five, a Mishawaka resident for the rest of his life, and the city's historian…
- 1932The bronze that gets it wrong
The monument of 1932: a statue on a native boulder provided by the Mishawaka Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the tablet given by the Lions Club, erected by the citizens of Mishawaka for the centennial.
- 1932A Carnival on Main Street: Centennial Week, 1932
Centennial Week ran from Sunday 15 May to Saturday 21 May 1932. The week opened in the sacred register, with an interfaith religious service in Battell Park on Sunday afternoon; then the fair took the street.
- 1932–1939The Wheelabrator: Minich's abrasive-throwing machine, patented from Mishawaka
Against those, the Auburn University case study of the company — a management study, careful on other points — places the development in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1932, and dates the company's move to Mishawaka to 1936.
- 1933The DiLoreto Club: the north side's Italian hall
The DiLoreto Club — the DiLoreto Society, on Division Street — was founded in 1933 and named for Maria SS. Di Loreto, Our Lady of Loreto, the patroness of Plati, the Calabrian town the neighborhood's families came from.
- 1933Repeal, the last expansion, and the end
They stand in this section as De Kever gives them — real in his telling, unplaced in time — with their settling source named: the South Bend Tribune and Mishawaka Enterprise runs for 1933–1951, at the Mishawaka-Hamilton Public Library, where a fatal explosion at the city's brewery cannot have gone unreported.
- 1933–1982The labor system: two locals and a reckoning
UAW Local 5 — begun in 1933 as an AFL local of Studebaker's South Bend workers, the oldest existing local in the UAW on the union's own account…
- 1933–2013Capital Avenue: State Road 331, the corridor the city fought over
State Road 331 is two roads wearing one number, and the older one ran down Main Street: SR 331 first appeared on the February 1933 edition of the Indiana State Highway Commission's map, running from SR 25 in the south — by way of Bourbon and Bremen — north to SR 2, the Lincolnway line, at Mishawaka.
- 1933–2026The workforce and Local 5
UAW Local 5 began in 1933 as AFL Local Union 18310, representing Studebaker workers in South Bend; in 1935 it was renumbered UAW Local 5, and the first UAW Constitutional Convention was held in South Bend in 1936.
- 1934Rose Park and the New Deal in the parks
The Depression built Mishawaka's second generation of parks, and Rose Park is its dated first work: At the southwest corner of West and Fifteenth Streets, Rose Park was developed in 1934 by the Civil Works Administration and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration…
- 1934The blast-cleaning first — a pointer
One paragraph, by design: The strongest "first" in Mishawaka's technology record is not this section's to retell: the foundational patent of airless blast cleaning — filed from this city in 1934 by the Wheelabrator company's founder, US 2,077,637…
- 1934The first field of the name: Mishawaka Airport, 1934
The opening: Labor Day 1934 — Monday, 3 September — marked the beginning of another airport in St. Joseph County: at Dragoon Trail and Elm Road, the opening ceremonies of Mishawaka Airport included an air parade and parachute jumps.
- 1934–1940The last streetcars: Mishawaka's cars ran to the system's last day, 15 June 1940
The CERA history's summary of the whole property is one line: bus conversion, begun in 1934, was completed 15 June 1940.
- 1934–1943The New Deal tests: no post-office mural; the WPA's own murals
The post-office test — negative, with the evidence: Between 1934 and 1943 the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture commissioned murals for new post offices across the country, Indiana receiving thirty-seven commissions of which thirty-six survive.
- 1935–1970The factories on film: verdicts, firm by firm
Ball Band — positive: the company's own pictures survive as the Foreman's Club picnics: "Ball Band Foreman's Club Picnic," Christian's Tavern, South Bend, June 1935; the picnic at Berrien Springs Country Club, June 1936, the reel also containing 1937; and the picnics of 1938 and 1939…
- 1937The county's disability camp: Camp Millhouse
Camp Millhouse was founded in 1937 as a camp for children with polio — in its first summers, 1938 and 1939, it ran as the Sunshine Camp at the Studebaker Clubhouse and Proving Grounds, sponsored by the St. Joseph County Society for Crippled Children, as the camp's own anniversary history tells it from the South Bend…
- 1937–1938The library murals' painter, settled: Crewes Warnacut (1900–1952)
The remodeling he painted for: In 1937–38 the Carnegie Library was remodeled with $20,000 of WPA labor to designs by the South Bend architect Ernest W. Young, and the remodeled building was shown at an open house on 7–8 May 1938.
- 1937–1949The cushion line: Marion M. Cunningham and the seating program, 1937–1949
The grants: The line opens in the brake trade: with Charles E. Bradley, No. 2,081,578, "Brake material and process connected therewith," of 25 May 1937, assigned jointly to the Bendix Aviation Corporation of South Bend and the Mishawaka Rubber and Woolen Manufacturing Company…
- 1937–1995The WPA House: the reservoir caretaker's residence, at the boundary
The city's Works Progress Administration application of 1937 was authorized that December, and from March to December 1938 some thirty WPA men built the house: a solid brick one-and-a-half-story cottage on a seven-inch poured concrete slab over a full basement, a fieldstone chimney, metal-framed casement windows…
- 1937–2015Buddy Emmons: the Big E
The tie, exactly: Buddy Gene Emmons — "Buddie" in some accounts, the Big E to the music world — was born January 27, 1937, in Mishawaka, and raised between Mishawaka and nearby South Bend; Vintage Guitar 's account puts the raising in South Bend, and this section prints the twin-city childhood whole rather than claiming the half it likes.
- 1938Bonnie Doon: the ice-cream company whose first and last houses stand here
The founding and the name: Bonnie Doon Ice Cream was established in 1938 by the Muldoon brothers — three brothers, in the encyclopedia's account; Indiana Landmarks names two of them, Herman and Andrew Muldoon, and calls them South Bend ice cream makers.
- 1938–2011Covenants, red lines, and the public-housing record
The LaSalle School Conservation District's bounds — Panama and Ewing to the south, Logan Street east, the railroad tracks north, Ironwood Drive west…
- 1939–1947Castleman and Brady: the war years
On the shifted Indiana cadence — elections in 1934, 1938 and 1942 — the reading that fits is that Castleman won the election of November 1938 and took office in January 1939; but no source read for this section dates his first election, and the cadence reading is printed here as a reading, not as the record.