Osceola, Indiana · 20th century
1930s
7 dated events in 1930s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 7 dated mentions
1930s
- 1930The Indianapolis line in three forms, never merged: a starter who built his car, a builder who raced, and the test-driver residue
Form one, the home starter in the 500 itself: J. C. McDonald — John Charles MacDonald, born Pictou, Nova Scotia, 23 December 1902, a racing driver who lived in South Bend — started the 1930 Indianapolis 500 in a Studebaker "special" he designed and built himself…
- 1933Temperance as an actor — on plants that were not here, and on the town that was
What the dry crusade did to the county's actual plants is boundary material, dated at art-58-3: Indiana's dry law and national Prohibition closed the county's brewhouses as plants (Kamm & Schellinger's run breaks at 1918 and resumes only with repeal in 1933), separately from the policing story.
- 1934War Work in Cloth
Ball-Band's coated-fabrics line began in 1934, fusing fabric with natural and synthetic rubbers; its first coated fabric, Leatherette, was used for clothing, and raincoats were made at the Mishawaka factory .
- 1934–2026Bank robberies: the test run, and its result
The gang-era test asks after the Dillinger gang and its kind: the gang's St. Joseph County record is South Bend's — its final bank robbery, the Merchants National Bank in South Bend on June 30, 1934, where Patrolman Howard Wagner was killed, is the South Bend build's whole…
- 1936The famous landing, at the size the record supports
The airport's own official history states: Amelia Earhart landed her Lockheed Electra at Bendix Field in 1936.
- 1936–1972The successor on the same ground: Drewry's, 1936–1972, and the brand that would not come home
Drewry's Limited of Winnipeg — Canada's brewing company founded by E. L. Drewry in 1877 — entering the United States after repeal, purchased the Muessel Brewing Company of South Bend on 1 October 1936 (the Evansville Sterling purchase was its companion move the same year)…
- 1939–2026The transition: from the studio chair to the Kodak counter — the county's counter is Gene's Camera, 1939 to the present
The county's verified transition house is Gene's Camera, 513 Lincoln Way West, South Bend: the business began as Picture Equipment Company in 1939; Eugene Mutzl later purchased it and renamed it Gene's Photo Shop (in time, Gene's Camera); Jack St. Pierre acquired it in 1981…