Osceola, Indiana · 20th century
1950s
17 dated events in 1950s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 17 dated mentions
1950s
- 1950The Mid-Century Clothing Trade
Named gap: the c.1950 clothing-trade state of South Bend, Mishawaka, and Osceola is uncoverable from open sources here.
- 1951The Moran School of 1951, the Osceola School's companion
The building, located on a 33 acre site, and of brick construction, was erected in 1951. It includes 11 classrooms, as well as a kitchen-lunchroom and a combination gymnasium-auditorium.
- 1951–2026Restaurants as successions, with anniversaries counted: Rocco's at seventy-five, Frankie's the smokehouse — South Bend houses, and Osceola's own pair restated
In 1951 Rocco and Julia, with her parents, opened Rocco's — "the restaurant was small — just enough seating for 12" — at 537 North St. Louis Boulevard.
- 1952Case: the neighbouring-city index case — Mishawaka, 1952, in two datings
The whole of this case is one line in the Air Force's own 1952 index, and the line carries two dates in the record, printed whole and not merged: the index line itself reads, in full: Mishawaka, Indiana — INSUFFICIENT DATA.
- 1952Case: 31 July – 2 August 1952 — the newspaper sky-watch
A press event, entered as one and not counted as a case: ten days after the Kloth sighting and in the immediate wake of the Washington flap, the South Bend Tribune did what the era's newspapers did at the flap's height: on 31 July 1952 it appealed to the public for help in a two-hour saucer watch, and the watch the…
- 1952The one national-series race: Playland Park, 20 July 1952 — a single race, printed as a single race
There was exactly one NASCAR Grand National race on this valley's ground, and it is dated to the day: Sunday, 20 July 1952, at Playland Park, South Bend — race 22 of the 1952 Grand National season.
- 1952–2005The station builders: Notre Dame's channel, the newspaper's channels, and Elkhart's channel — producing infrastructure carried as producing
The newspaper's channels: WSBT-TV signed on in December 1952 (21 December, on the contemporary trade record) as the television arm of the South Bend Tribune's house — Schurz Communications, the Tribune's company, owned WSBT from its beginning until the 2015 Gray/Schurz transaction set its sale in motion…
- 1952–2013The boundary inn: the Morris Inn
Ernest M. Morris's gift of $1 million built it; it was dedicated in 1952 with 92 rooms, and it traded as the university's own inn for sixty years before closing in October 2012 for the rebuild: reopened in late August–September 2013 after a renovation of more than $30 million, at 132 rooms and 18 suites, AAA Four…
- 1954–1966The last chiefs in complete succession to the end of the house: Studebaker, 1954–1966
After Vance: James Nance , president of the new Studebaker-Packard company from its birth on 1 October 1954, retiring when Curtis-Wright's three-year management contract began on 31 October 1956.
- 1955–1990Comics authorship: the strip written from a local paper route
Jerry Scott was born in South Bend on 2 May 1955, and delivered the South Bend Tribune on his bicycle as a boy — the paper route is the local tie, and it is the tie the row names.
- 1955–2009Prolific genre and popular lines at true strength
Ralph McInerny taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1955 to 2009 as Grace Professor of Medieval Studies, and wrote, by his own count given to Notre Dame News in 2007, "over 100" novels.
- 1955–2026The posts and the parade: Post 308 stands; no stone does
A "Founding Year 1955" rests only on that nonprofit directory profile; it is printed as a directory claim, not as a charter date — the Indiana Legion's post history is the named settler.
- 1955–todayThe institutional production houses in succession: Golden Dome, Fighting Irish Media, and WNIT's producers
The university line: production at Notre Dame ran first through WNDU itself (art-64-5) — the university as broadcaster, 1955–2005 — and, after the station's sale, through the university's own production houses: Golden Dome Productions, the university's production company of the post-WNDU generation, and its successor…
- 1956–1998The bypass that became a highway, and the toll-road edge dated: the parkway whole, the Toll Road at this ground's edge
The toll/interstate edge, dated against this ground: the Indiana Toll Road — the Indiana East–West Toll Road, 156.28 miles from the Illinois line to the Ohio line, signed I-80/I-90…
- 1957Case test: January 1957 — the next index year, opened
Tested negative at index strength: the register's floor opens the next index year after the flap years, and this section opened it: the Blue Book unknowns literature and the NICAP chronologies for 1957 were searched for a South Bend, Mishawaka, Osceola or Penn Township entry in January 1957.
- 1957–1967A regulated-era timetable snapshot, and the first jets
The snapshot is the April 1957 Official Airline Guide, and it shows four carriers on one field: North Central, 10 weekday departures; United, 9; Lake Central, 6; TWA, 3 — twenty-eight weekday departures in the regulated era, divided among four airlines in the proportions the Guide prints.
- 1957–todayThe strip the town did have — at county size: Osceola Dragway, 1957, on Elkhart County ground
Osceola has a drag strip under its own name: Osceola Dragway, opened in 1957 by Art Chizum, who built the place from scratch and ran it until his death in 2000…