A–Z: P

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• The Packard merger and the Curtiss-Wright management Studebaker
• The paid department: organized 26 November 1886 Fire & Public Safety
• The Palace — The Morris Performing Arts Center Theaters
• The palace a woman bought for a dollar: the Morris, 1922 Culture
• The Palace and the Morris: a new act every ten minutes Kids & Family Entertainment
• The Palace Theatre and the Palais Royale (1922) Architecture
• The Palais Royale Theaters
• The palimpsest: what the street names remember Main Roads & Corridors
• Palm Sunday · the evening the tornadoes crossed the county Major Events
• Palm Sunday 1965 · the outbreak's edge crosses the county's south Wars, Unrest & Disasters
• Pamela Gaye Walker: the stage actress Notable People
• The Pan-American delegation comes to dinner, 1889 Events Calendar
• Paper — the La Salle Paper Company and the first paper made here Businesses
• The Parish Grade Schools as They Stand, and the Closing Wave Schools & Colleges
• The parish tables: the Polish dinner, the parish feast, and the cookbook that is not there Food & Restaurants
• The Park Board: Created, Abolished, Restored Parks & City Planning
• The Park Master Plans, 1954–2027 Parks & City Planning
• The Parkovash: buffalo on the river, and the ox-head of Portage Prairie Wildlife
• Parks & City Planning Section
• The Partnership's Count: Thirty-Four Planned, Twenty-Four Connected, Seventeen Named Trails
• The passenger pigeon over the county Wildlife
• Passenger service, lost line by line Railroads
• Patrolman Howard Wagner · the Dillinger gang's last bank robbery Notable Murder Cases
• Patrolman Oscar Christensen · three trials for a killing in the rail yards Notable Murder Cases
• The patronage era: the branch as the party's property License Branch
• The patrons' Insurrection of 1837 Strange but True
• The pattern: one stayed home, one phoned it in, one university industrialized it Influencers & Digital Creators
• Paul Beckwith, and the man visible only in his successor's advertisement Photographers
• Paul G. Hoffman and Harold S. Vance — the receivers who handed back a company Founders & CEOs
• The paved fishing floor: sturgeon at Fort St. Joseph Wildlife
• The peak The Story of South Bend
• The pension collapse · what December 1963 did to the households Major Events
• The pension termination Studebaker
• Pentecostal Beginnings: The Swedish Mission, Calvary Temple, and Christian Center Churches & Religion
• Pentecostal Cathedral Church of God in Christ Churches & Religion
• The peoples of the factory city The Story of South Bend
• The peoples of the valley: Miami first in the record, Potawatomi in possession Before the City
• The peoples' own houses: Hungary, and the House of Friendship Culture
• The periodical and scholarship stock Sources
• Perry Vine: a meadery-winery at true small size Wineries & Distilleries
• The Persian Corridor and the echo after Exports
• Pete Buttigieg — Mayor Pete, then the Cabinet Famous People
• Pete Buttigieg — the mayor as memoirist Authors & Books
• Pete Buttigieg: the 29-year-old, the programs, and the national stage Government
• Peter Veldman and Mike Joines — the Tire Rack Founders & CEOs
• The petition, the 1883 law, and the school board's resolution Libraries
• Phil Newbold and Kreg Gruber — the health system's chiefs Founders & CEOs
• Phillip Hoose — the basketball town's historian, for young readers Authors & Books
• Phillip Hoose — the children's author Famous People
• Photographers Section
• Pierce-Arrow and the Rockne: the luxury badge and the coach's car Studebaker
• Pierre Navarre: The First Settler, Without a Fortune Great Fortunes
• Pinhook Park and the Native Tree Trail Trails
• Pinhook Park and the Small River Parks Parks & City Planning
• The Pioneer Stock — the Navarre Cabin and What Survives of the First City Architecture
• Plan Z and the Rebuilt Ladder Schools & Colleges
• Plank, then gravel: the road's second surface Main Roads & Corridors
• The Planning Line: From the Zoning Ordinance to South Bend 2045 Parks & City Planning
• Plans as maps: the city drawn as it was meant to become Historic Maps
• Playland Park: the oval inside the amusement park Racing
• Playland Park: the trolley park on the river Kids & Family Entertainment
• Playoff years without a title — and the best record of 1949 Sports
• The plowmaker to the world Exports
• "Plowmaker to the World" — Oliver's phrase for himself Famous Stories & the Record
• Pointed Elsewhere: The Names This Record Does Not Hold Sports Players
• Pointed To: The Merchants National Bank Robbery Crime History
• Pointers: The Grotto, the Ghosts, and the Claims Folklore
• Pokagon's band: the exception that held Before the City
• The Pokagons: the band that remained Notable People
• The Police Tapes: Fourteen Years Over Five Cassettes City Controversies
• The police tapes: the appeal is filed, and reported carried to the state's highest court South Bend Today
• The police: constables, marshals, and the uniformed department Fire & Public Safety
• Polio: the children's hospital the state built here Epidemics & Public Health
• The Polish Falcons: gymnastics, insurance, and the first Sokolnia in America Lodges & Fraternal Orders
• The Polish Schools — Nazareth and the Felicians Schools & Colleges
• The Polish superlatives — two counts that measure different cities Famous Stories & the Record
• The Polish west side: four parishes and a city within the city Communities
• The polka world: the music the west side danced to Music
• The pool that became a conscience: the Civil Rights Heritage Center Culture
• The Pooled Afterlife: The Community Foundation Great Fortunes
• Population Section
• The population figures, re-dated: Vintage 2025, verified November 2026 The Story of South Bend
• The Portage Manor clock: day 35 of 180 South Bend Today
• Portage Manor's second life: the county home as a residence for the mentally ill Mental Health Institutions
• The Postwar Decades: The Department Turns Outward Crime History
• The Postwar Ring — Holy Family, St. Jude, St. John the Baptist, Corpus Christi, Our Lady of Hungary, St. Anthony Schools & Colleges
• Potato Creek State Park Trails
• Potawatomi Park: The Fairgrounds Gift Parks & City Planning
• Potawatomi Zoo: the city's zoo, at cross-reference size Kids & Family Entertainment
• The Powell case · a family seized, freed, and sued for Black History
• The Powell case in the full record · two writs, a courtroom seizure, and a second discharge Underground Railroad
• The prairie chicken: Chapman's warning, and the last bird Wildlife
• The prairie farms and the first crops Farms & Crops
• Prairie Station and the Business-Industrial department Libraries
• The present calendar, verified to November 2026 Events Calendar
• The present ecosystem, November 2026 Arts
• The present map, at survey size: the food institutions standing in 2026 Food & Restaurants
• The present map, November 2026 — and the boundary Bars & Nightclubs
• The Present Map: November 2026 Hotels
• The present scene Artists
• The Present State: South Bend's Religious Landscape in 2026 Churches & Religion
• The present state: the CONNECT plan, the 2025 network, and the cuts of 2026 Public Transit
• Preservation: the statewide corporation's South Bend office Foundations & Nonprofits
• The press as institution: the Press Club, the halls, and the archives Newspapers & Media
• Press Ganey — the survey company in Ignition Park Businesses
• Press Ganey: the measurement of the patient's voice, 1985 Medical Advancements
• The price of the rescue · Norris v. Newton, the penalty suits, and Norris v. Crocker in the Supreme Court Underground Railroad
• The price: Paul Howe, 1958 Racing
• Primrose Road — The Road That Tests Your Car Ghost Stories
• Prince Hall Masonry: St. Peter's Lodge No. 31 Lodges & Fraternal Orders
• The printers — the press as a business Businesses
• The prisoners: Kernan and Kasler War Heroes
• The private bus era: 1940–1968 Public Transit
• Private Clubs Section
• The private layer: tested, and not there Mental Health Institutions
• The producers: one mogul by adoption of the craft, and a city that produced television better than records Film & TV Producers
• The professions: the bar, the press, and the classroom Women's History
• Prohibition's places Bars & Nightclubs
• The Protest Series: The 1952 Final Against Rockford South Bend Blue Sox
• The Proving Ground's owner, re-dated Studebaker
• The Proving Ground: from the tree sign to Navistar Studebaker
• The public art program: commissions and their process Arts
• The public courses, stated plainly Private Clubs
• The public era: NICTD and the freight split Railroads
• Public Servants Section
• Public Transit Section
• The Pulitzer record: a finalist born here, an empty line for the paper National Honors
• The Pumpkin Vine: the St. Joseph, South Bend & Southern Railroads