Osceola, Indiana · 20th century
1960s
12 dated events in 1960s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 12 dated mentions
1960s
- 1960The Soap Box Derby, with its peak named: Fredric Lake of South Bend, national champion, 1960
The Derby's peak for this valley is named, with its year: Fredric Lake of South Bend won the All-American Soap Box Derby at Akron in 1960 — the official past-champions roll reads "1960 – Fredric Lake, South Bend, IN."
- 1962–todayThe landmark lounge across from the institution: the Linebacker, and the corridor's licensing war
The landmark lounge exists — across from Notre Dame, in South Bend: the Linebacker Lounge at 1631 South Bend Avenue, founded in 1962 by Notre Dame linebacker Myron "Mo" Pottios, who borrowed 5,000 dollars against his future NFL salary from Art "The Chief" Rooney to take over the building that had been Eve's Drive-In…
- 1963–2026Marking counted both ways: twenty-three state markers, and the town's own marking
The state's marking, counted: the Indiana Historical Bureau's marker list for St. Joseph County carries 23 markers , placed from 1963 to 2021 — the county figure in the statewide tally of March 2024 as well.
- 1964–todayThe second rank at true size: Vivica A. Fox, born here, and her franchise — and the two pattern names that do not seat here
Vivica Anjanetta Fox was born in South Bend on 30 July 1964, daughter of Everlyena, a pharmaceutical technician, and William Fox, a school administrator…
- 1965–2026The athletes: a softball town, mostly — each tie stated
Phil Allen — Wabash College's Athletics Hall of Fame: he "entered Wabash in 1965 from Osceola, Indiana"; a sprinter and jumper who rewrote the Wabash and Little State sprint records, team MVP three seasons, an NCAA national-meet qualifier, Phi Beta Kappa, and an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship winner.
- 1966The imperial-door mechanism: the Canadian plant as the door to Empire trade
The door outlasted the wagon era and the parent plant itself: when South Bend stopped automobile production on 20 December 1963, Studebaker production continued at Hamilton, Ontario , and the last Studebaker automobile rolled off the Hamilton line on 17 March 1966.
- 1967Dress on Show
The row asks for at least one named, dated public fashion event — the 1967 bridal fashion-show pattern — with its sponsoring club or store.
- 1967–2007The ledger of losses, complete and separate from the rescues
Boundary losses, named with dates: the Oliver Hotel, South Bend's flagship, demolished 1967 (its corner's later life is told in the Hotels & Motels addendum, art-69-10); the ten-story Odd Fellows Building, gone in the urban-renewal era; the Oliver Opera House (built 1885…
- 1967–2017Brand successions on one corner to the present
Boundary — the successions run whole, flag by flag, at the strength the record reached: on the flagship's corner — Main and Washington, where the Oliver stood until 1967…
- 1967–2026Unrest, firsts, press, and displacement in a row — and the closing accounting, dated
Unrest: the county's 1967 unrest ran 25–28 July 1967, and its precipitating shooting is named: Melvin Phillips was shot on 26 July 1967 outside the LaSalle Neighborhood Center, 2910 West Western Avenue.
- 1968–1986The locally produced phenomenon: Beyond Our Control — the show the city's own teenagers produced, 1968–1986
Beyond Our Control was a youth-produced sketch-comedy television series aired on WNDU-TV, the NBC affiliate in South Bend, for 19 seasons, 1968 to 1986.
- 1969–2025Novelists, graded by exact tie
Susan Choi was born in South Bend on 28 January 1969 and lived there to the age of nine.