Mishawaka, Indiana · 20th century
1960s
39 dated events in 1960s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 39 dated mentions
1960s
- 1960Decline and remaking: the slide, the closings, the replacement anchors, the riverfront
Groundbreaking for Town & Country Shopping Center, at McKinley Avenue and Hickory Road, came in May 1960; it opened in the spring of 1961, accelerating the north side's growth, in the commissioned history's account, while hastening downtown's decline.
- 1960The Tivoli: the wrestling, the new front, and the Cinema Art
The palace's second life began in 1960, after two years vacant: a reopening under Gloanna Enterprises, Inc., with a combination bill no 1925 stockholder would have recognized — live wrestling and movies — and a major remodeling of the exterior and interior.
- 1960–1980Canfield, and the sweep of 1963
Joseph Canfield took office in January 1960 — the last mayor of the sixteen-year Democratic hold, and the incumbent whose defeat would end it.
- 1960–2026The mayors as persons, III: Canfield to Wood, 1960–today — and the count, checked
Joseph M. Canfield, 1960–1963: The Democrat who won the election of 1959 did it, in De Kever's words, "by the largest margin in the city's history" to that date.
- 1960–todayReverewood and the postwar plats: the suburbs inside the city
The largest planned housing community in the city's history is on its southeast edge: on the southeast edge of town, Portage Realty completed the first homes in the Reverewood subdivision in 1960 — a 507-acre development at the southeast corner of Harrison and Elm Roads.
- 1961Joy Lynn White: Little Lynn of the Singing White Family
Her birth stands in conflict on every axis and is printed in conflict whole: born October 2, 1961, at Bentonville, Arkansas, per the standard biography; born at Turrell, Arkansas, per Country Music International of October 1997; and a birth date of July 24, 1961 in a celebrity-birthdays compilation.
- 1961The annexation trials: Minne and Conner, 1961–1968
Two ordinances, two remonstrances: At the inception of the controversy, in the Supreme Court's own summary, the Common Council adopted two annexation ordinances; their notices were last published on 28 December 1961.
- 1961–1966The Mishawaka Times, 1961–1966: the paper the directories missed
The library's film holds a Mishawaka Times from 1961 to October 5, 1966 — monthly reels running September 1961 through the fall of 1966, a five-year file.
- 1963Jim Strickland: a Mishawaka birth, a Memphis life
The tie, exactly: James Steven Strickland Jr. was born October 22, 1963, in Mishawaka. His family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, and every other line of his record is Memphis: this is a birth-tie entry, printed at birth-tie strength, and it is a quiet recovery — the standard Mishawaka compilations do not carry him.
- 1963"The second largest Belgian-American settlement in the United States"
Mishawaka High School's yearbook, The Miskodeed , in its 1963 edition, wrote of the Belgian settlement on the city's west side that it was "thought to be the second largest Belgian-American settlement in the United States" — a sentence this history's culture file carries as what it is, a schoolbook boast, and prints untested.
- 1963–1977The peak and the long decline: 1963 to 1992
1963 is the employment peak of the whole series.
- 1963–2010The Mishawaka that went to sea
The Mishawaka (YTB-764) was a Natick-class large harbor tug — 109 feet, 356 tons full load, a crew of twelve — laid down on 1 February 1962 at Slidell, Louisiana, by the Southern Shipbuilding Corporation, launched 3 January 1963, and placed in service that April in the 11th Naval District at San Diego.
- 1963–2013The bypass and the eastern corridor: the St. Joseph Valley Parkway and Capital Avenue
Its course reached Mishawaka's side of the metro in stages: the first section, from US 20 to Mayflower Road, was completed 19 September 1963; the road was extended past the SR 23 interchange in late summer 1965 and to US 31 on 15 December 1967, where for a generation it ended.
- 1963–todayThe police line after Bolerjack: a named silence, then Witkowski and Arendt
The silence, printed whole: Between Bolerjack's last directory (1963) and the modern succession's resumption, the sources reached for this build name no Mishawaka chief of police at all…
- 1964Shiojiri Niwa
The sister-city garden by the river began as children's letters: In 1964, pen-pal exchanges opened between Nishi Primary School in Shiojiri, Japan, and Battell Elementary School in Mishawaka, arranged under Hiroo Takasuna on the Japanese side and Helen Amos on the Mishawaka side.
- 1964Wheelabrator: the export record whole, from the company's own historian
The one complete export history a Mishawaka house left: The Wheelabrator Corporation's historian, Tony Harris, wrote the company's history on 1 June 1964 with a chapter headed "The export market," and it is the fullest outward record in this build…
- 1964The Company Histories — and One That Was Not Read
Tony Harris's 1964 history of Wheelabrator was read whole by the Businesses and Exports legs — its account by the company's historian, dated 1 June 1964, carries the firm's complete export history and the Indabrator agreement, and it settles a counting trap: American Foundry Equipment is the same house under its…
- 1964–1969The move of 1969: carts on the Lincolnway
The 2025 News-Times feature reconstructs the new building's course from the press record: the site was the Rohleder-Groff building's, a 1924 commercial building that had housed the South Bend Tribune for thirty-eight years and was demolished for the project…
- 1964–1997Robin Hood — an LPGA winner from Mishawaka
The record: Robin Hood was born 26 September 1964 in Mishawaka. Her biographical record credits her with the 1981 Indiana Women's State Amateur championship as a teenager.
- 1964–todayMarian High School: the diocesan school across from the motherhouse
That history records that classes began on Tuesday, 8 September 1964, at 8:40 in the morning — "the beginning of Catholic secondary education in Mishawaka" — after two years of planning and construction under the Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend, delayed by bad weather to that fall.
- 1965Palm Sunday, April 11, 1965: the outbreak crosses the county
The outbreak: The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of April 11–12, 1965 — forty-seven tornadoes across six states, among them fifteen significant and seventeen violent — is the largest weather event in this county's record, and northern Indiana was its center.
- 1965–todayThe Backyard Brawl — the Penn rivalry from the Mishawaka side
The first Penn–Mishawaka game was played 5 November 1965 at Tupper Field and ended 0–0. The series' historical data is kept by Mishawaka football archivist Dean McCool, credited in the national account of the rivalry.
- 1965–todaySharon Versyp — Miss Basketball of 1984, and Purdue's winningest coach
The player: Sharon Versyp was born 3 December 1965 in Mishawaka and played at Mishawaka High School from 1980 to 1984.
- 1966Todd A. Fonseca: the engineer who wrote the cavern
The tie, exactly: Todd A. Fonseca was born October 3, 1966, in Mishawaka.
- 1966Jim Gaffigan: the claim, tested where it belongs
The people file of this build tested it and printed the result whole: James Christopher Gaffigan was born July 7, 1966, at Elgin, Illinois, and raised at Chesterton, in northwest Indiana — "the Chesterton raising is the one he himself builds his act on"…
- 1966Todd A. Fonseca — the engineer's two caverns
Todd A. Fonseca was born in Mishawaka on 3 October 1966; the life — Marquette degrees in electrical and biomedical engineering, a Medtronic vice-presidency, a Minnesota home — stands in People at the thin size the record gives it.
- 1966–2026The unaccounted-for: the county's man is South Bend's
It carries exactly one St. Joseph County man still unaccounted for: Major John Russell Hills of South Bend, a pilot of the 1st Air Commando Squadron, whose A-1E Skyraider was lost over Laos on February 14, 1966, and whose case stands in the agency's "Active Pursuit" status.
- 1967The mall that stayed on paper: the St. Joseph Valley Regional Center, May 1967
In May 1967 a master plan for downtown Mishawaka was drawn at a scale nothing in the county was ever built to: the St. Joseph Valley Regional Center.
- 1967Plans as maps: the drawn half of the comprehensive plan
Its federal-era sheet is the Area Plan Commission's 1967 map of the 1960 census tracts for South Bend and Mishawaka, at about 1:24,000 — the two cities ruled into statistical districts, the planning map as an instrument of the census state.
- 1967Dress on show: the Julianna Club bridal fashion show, 1967
In the issue of May–June 1967 (Vol. 26, No. 3), the magazine reported the annual card party of the Julianna Club, the company's women's club, held that April, and named its highlight: a bridal fashion show.
- 1967–1973Richard C. Brenneman: the fullest record the city holds
The day he was lost — the Distinguished Flying Cross: On 8 November 1967, First Lieutenant Brenneman flew his first mission into North Vietnam.
- 1968The pool test: Mishawaka opened its first municipal pool in 1968
Mishawaka's first municipal pool is the Olympic-size pool at Merrifield Park, opened in 1968 — with the ice rink, in the park-building years after the Civil Rights Act…
- 1968The nightclub test, and the adult-business record
The largest entertainment conversion in the city's record — the Kamm & Schellinger brewery complex at 100 Center, remade from 1968 — is documented as shops, restaurants, artist studios and a cinema (the cinema is the Theaters section's); no nightclub or disco at 100 Center was found in the record reached, and none is printed.
- 1968–1982The footwear leaves: the 1968 announcement and the Chrapliwy case
The record shows otherwise, and this entry prints the record: what happened in 1968–70 was the removal of the footwear divisions — the original business, and the maker of the name — from a plant that then worked twenty-eight more years on its other lines.
- 1968–todayThe public corporation and the Mishawaka Transfer Center, 1968 to today
The corporation: In 1968 the two cities set up the South Bend Public Transportation Corporation — Transpo — to take over the bus operation from the privately operated Northern Indiana Transit.
- 1969The second industrial age: the contract truck plant
The system changed its product a third time, and changed its nature with it: The third life began, as the second had, in an existing building repurposed: the components plant Rockwell built on McKinley Highway, taken by Kaiser-Jeep for truck beds in 1969 and converted by AM General to bus assembly in 1974, was converted again…
- 1969Timothy J. DeGeeter: raised on the line, mayor across the lake
The standard biographies give his birth as June 16, 1969, in South Bend, and describe him as raised in South Bend.
- 1969–1971AM General is formed
The sale announced: On 2 December 1969, at the Detroit Hilton, AMC chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr. announced the agreement to buy the Kaiser Jeep Corporation from Kaiser Industries.
- 1969–2026The modern rebuild's money: what was bonded, and what the record does not price
The gap, named first because it is the finding: No bond amount for the 1969 Lincolnway building, and no bond amount for the 1998 downtown expansion, stands in any source reached for this build…