South Bend, Indiana · 20th century
1920s
99 dated events in 1920s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 99 dated mentions
1920s
- 1920–1925The Rev. Buford Gordon · the community writes its own study
He took a chemistry degree at Fisk University, studied at Yale Divinity School, served in the First World War, finished his divinity degree at the University of Chicago, and came to South Bend in December 1920 to pastor Taylor A.M.E. Zion Church.
- 1920–1925The Klan's Indiana · the letter of 1923 and the church guarded
The figure is carried here as the contemporaneous press of record reported it; its scale should be read against Gordon's counts — 1,269 Black residents in the census of 1920, perhaps 3,000 by the Tribune's 1922 estimate…
- 1920–1929Consolidation at South Bend: the works in the 1920s
The cars come home: Studebaker's early automobiles had been built in Detroit, in the plants taken from E-M-F. The 1920 Light Six was, in the museum archivist's statement of the record, the first automobile built at South Bend — the works' own car production beginning sixty-eight years after the wagon shop.
- 1920–1939The first branches: River Park, Washington, Tutt, Western
The spread: The library's own timeline names the River Park Branch, opened in 1920 at River Park School, as its first branch; the branch later moved into a building in the River Park area on a ten-year lease the library purchased, as its collection grew.
- 1920–1994The Golf Parks: Studebaker, Erskine and Elbel
Lead: Municipal golf came to South Bend as a park function, and the department's chronology opens the account: "1920 — Studebaker golf course opens as South Bend's first municipal golf course," a nine-hole course on the southeast side that the 2014 master plan still counted among the system's three.
- 1920–2022The library as civic actor
In 1920 it was already carrying deposit stations inside three factories and school-room libraries in nine outlying districts, and a children's library with its own reading room — the service that produced fixtures like Katherine Croxall, the "Story Lady" of the library's photographs, reading to rooms of children.
- 1920–2024The Football Register: The Rest of the Born and Formed Line
Frank Bacon, wingback, played 1920–25 — 47 games, 410 rushing yards and nine touchdowns in the league's first years — and John Scanlon, tailback, 1921–26, stands beside him in the leather-helmet register.
- 1921The system at its peak — the banks of 1921 and the building-and-loans
Seventeen institutions: Polk's 1921 directory lists seventeen South Bend banks, trust companies and loan offices, and the list is the fullest single picture of the city's banking at its pre-Depression height.
- 1921St. Matthew Cathedral Parish
In 1921 Bishop Herman Alerding gave the Rev. John DeGroote permission to buy 14 lots in the Oak Park addition, bounded by Dubail Street, Miami Street and Dayton Street.
- 1921The Gold Star roll re-counted: a hundred and nine names
The conflict: the Wars section counts the St. Joseph County section of the state's 1921 Gold Star Honor Roll at ninety-four names; the War Heroes section counts the same section at a hundred and nine — a hundred and two full service records and seven more names on a closing list.
- 1921Erskine's Deer: The Potawatomi Park Founding, 1921
Lead: The Potawatomi Zoo's founding, as the zoo itself tells it, rests on a document: the minutes of the South Bend Board of Park Commissioners, Book 1, 21 May 1921.
- 1921"Soft Drinks," the largest trade in town
The Owners Roster section of this history, built from the directories themselves, counts the 1921 classifieds: "Soft Drinks" runs to 92 rows across its headings — ahead of Physicians (61), Meats (56) and Barbers (55).
- 1921A zoo founded on one deer
In May 1921 the Board of Park Commissioners accepted the offer of Albert Russell Erskine, president of the Studebaker Corporation, of one deer as the foundation for a zoo at Potawatomi Park — the whole of the founding act, preserved in the park board's minutes.
- 1921The long contraction, and what stands
The shelf thins; the pillars remain: Read the 1921 directory's secret-and-benevolent columns against the present city and the contraction is the story: the tents, hives, camps, courts and groves — the insurance alphabet that filled two directory pages…
- 1921The lodge census of 1921: the system at its peak
Counting the second government: Polk's directory for 1921 is the lodge world's fullest single portrait, taken at the moment before the Klan, the Depression and the insurance regulators each took their share.
- 1921The LaSalle Hotel and the LaSalle Annex
Lead: The LaSalle Hotel rose in 1921 at 237 North Michigan Street, on the Sheridan House's corner at Michigan and LaSalle — a nine-story house in a Renaissance Revival and Chicago School blend, by the architects Nicol, Schuler & Hoffman in the city's 2018 landmark staff report.
- 1921Meat and sausage: the smokehouse scale of the Polish trade
The 1921 Polk directory's west-side listings set Woodka Bros, meats, amid the Polish grocery trade, and the pattern holds for a century: small market houses, their own smokehouses, a Polish sausage that carries the maker's name.
- 1921–1922The Palace and the Morris: a new act every ten minutes
The Palace Theatre went up on North Michigan Street at a cost of one million dollars, built in 1921 and opened in 1922, its owners the Palace Theater Corporation, who raised the Palais Royale dance hall beside it as its companion.
- 1921–1923Agnes Szabo and the Resale of Seized Liquor
Federal agents arrested her in 1921, and Szabo answered by naming names. The indictments that followed her account numbered more than sixty officials — and this page prints their geography exactly, because it is the point on which retelling most often inflates the case: the indicted men were Gary's and Lake County's.
- 1921–1953The factories on film, I — Studebaker's own pictures
In June 1921 the Capitol Journal of Salem, Oregon — a newspaper of record on the far end of the film's distribution — announced the exhibition there of what it declared to be one of the most remarkable industrial films ever taken: the complete manufacture of the Studebaker Light Six, shown at the Commercial Club…
- 1921–1998South Bend's own: Eddie Talboom of Washington High School
Eddie Talboom was born May 5, 1921, at Delphos, Ohio, and moved to South Bend, where he played football at Washington High School for Bernie Witucki — the tailback of Witucki's single-wing teams, All–Northern Indiana Conference in the Eastern Division, and the South Bend Tribune's Most Valuable Player.
- 1921–1999Charlene Pryer: The Fastest Blue Sox
Charlene Barbara Pryer — later Mayer — was born September 24, 1921, stood five feet one and weighed 105 pounds, and at her peak was the most disruptive offensive player in her league.
- 1921–2026The Lore Business — Books, Tours, Podcasts and Lists
It begins on the campus: the 1921 newspaper horn-blast, the tradition's century of dormitory keeping, the Scholastic 's cover story of April 1995 — "Tales of haunted halls, supernatural bells and secret tunnels shroud Notre Dame in mystery" — and the building historian Pilkinton's ghost chapter, the one scholarly treatment in the file.
- 1921–2026The map today: a second palace, a moving museum
The other stands at 212 South Michigan Street: opened on 29 January 1921 as the Blackstone Theatre, billed "The Pride of South Bend," 2,500 seats, built for $500,000 to Henry L. Newhouse's neoclassical design…
- 1921–todayTaxis and the for-hire trade: a survey
Its first court-documented appearance is the jitney fight told above: the unlicensed for-hire bus of the Sprout case was the cab trade's unregulated edge, and Ordinance No. 2135 of 1921 expressly excepted taxicabs from the jitney definition while subjecting everything else that carried passengers indiscriminately to…
- 1922Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend
The agency's own published history gives the founding: in 1922 Bishop Herman J. Alerding, seeing the need to organize the Church's charitable work across a diocese that then covered the northern half of Indiana, established Associated Catholic Charities, which became Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend.
- 1922Boxing — the Palais and the women pioneers
The room: The Palais Royale ballroom, opened in 1922 across from the Palace Theatre, was converted after the Second World War into a boxing arena — the city's principal fight room of the postwar years, in a building that also held a bowling alley and roller hockey at different times in its long life.
- 1922The station builders: a university's channel, a newspaper's channels, and the men who ran them
The first was the newspaper: the South Bend Tribune's company put WSBT radio on the air in 1922 and WSBT-TV in 1952, the market's first television station — the company that became Schurz Communications.
- 1922–1936The brakes: Perrot's French patents, Adiel Dodge's duo-servo, and the NoRoL hill holder
In 1922 Bendix's father was killed in a Chicago street accident blamed on inadequate brakes; in France in 1924 Bendix met Henri Perrot, the French engineer whose patents covered the internal-expanding drum brake of modern pattern, and acquired the American rights — the accounts date the license to 1923–24.
- 1922–1968Redlining in writing · covenants, the HOLC survey, and A. C. Colpaert
The exclusion was not a custom; it was paperwork, approved by the city: The Reparatory Justice Commission's housing subcommittee searched the county's plats and counted sixty-eight housing developments created between 1922 and 1953 carrying racially restrictive covenants…
- 1922–1998Steve Nemeth: Riley's All-State Quarterback
Steve Joseph Nemeth was born December 10, 1922, in South Bend — "a true son of Notre Dame," in the Canadian league record's phrase, born in the city itself — and at Riley High School he was named the All-State quarterback in both 1940 and 1941.
- 1922–2000The palace a woman bought for a dollar: the Morris, 1922
The Palace: On 2 November 1922 the Palace Theatre opened on Colfax Avenue, built by the Palace Theatre Corporation of Chicago for a million dollars on a lot that cost a hundred thousand, designed by J. S. Aroner for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit.
- 1922–2010The pool that became a conscience: the Civil Rights Heritage Center
The natatorium: In 1922, the year the Palace Theatre opened, South Bend opened the Engman Public Natatorium, its first public swimming pool, with the word "public" carved into its facade.
- 1922–2016WSBT radio: the Tribune's station, from WGAZ to 960
The city's first commercial license went to WBAQ, licensed to Myron L. Harmon and located at the YMCA building — first licensed 29 April 1922 and deleted from the federal list on 7 November 1922.
- 1922–todayThe Morris — opened as the Palace, premiered the Rockne film, saved for a dollar
The place: The theatre at Michigan and Colfax opened in 1922 as the Palace, an Orpheum-chain house built for a million dollars on a hundred-thousand-dollar lot to J. S. Aroner's designs, beside the Palais Royale ballroom of the same campaign — the pair's architecture is the Architecture history's.
- 1922–todayThe Palace Theatre and the Palais Royale (1922)
The Palace opened on 2 November 1922 as a house of the Orpheum vaudeville chain. The two buildings have been under separate ownership since 1935, and the Palais Royale's ballroom spent the Second World War as a Service Men's Center, funded by a United War Chest grant.
- 1923The Klan years: the letter, and the fight
The first wound was the quieter one: the letter of 1923, signed "KKK," threatening a Black prisoner in the city jail and the Black community behind him, after which — by the account carried in the city's histories — more than a thousand Black residents fled South Bend within days.
- 1923The city's own centennial, 1923 — and the birthdays the record does not show
The founding's hundredth year: South Bend dated its founding to Alexis Coquillard's fur-trading post of 1823, and in 1923 the Chamber of Commerce promoted the centennial of that founding.
- 1923A Township Speakeasy
In 1923 the house changed hands again, passing to the Talley/Chirhart ownership; the new owner, in the account Dorothy Corson assembled from the Historic Preservation Commission's record and the St. Joseph County Public Library's newspaper biography file, served homemade wine and Hungarian food to Notre Dame students…
- 1923Morris Park Country Club
The club's own telling runs: golf began on the old Coquillard farm as the Coquillard Golf Club, ground broken in the fall of 1923, first play in June 1926 over a course by Bob Dustin, a first clubhouse the same year.
- 1923The Ku Klux Klan as an organization in South Bend, 1923–1926
The scholarly study of the local organization — Jill Suzanne Nevel's "Fiery Crosses and Tempers: The Ku Klux Klan in South Bend, Indiana, 1923–1926," catalogued by the Indiana State Library — dates the South Bend Klan's life to those years, 1923 to 1926.
- 1923–1934The motor bus appears: 1923–1934
The company's own buses: The motor bus came to South Bend's transit record in 1923, and it came from inside the railway company.
- 1923–1971The Black press: the Forum, the Journal, the Herald-Times, and The Reformer
The South Bend Forum , a weekly, dates from 1923. The South Bend Journal , also a weekly, dates from 1928 and was edited by William D. LaMarr.
- 1923–2013Ed "Bulbs" Ehlers: The Celtics' First Draft Pick, Raised Here
Edwin Sheffield Ehlers — "Bulbs" — was born March 10, 1923, in Joliet, Illinois, and raised in South Bend, where he attended South Bend Central and played basketball for John Wooden: the coach's own pupil, from the coach's own South Bend years.
- 1923–todayThe Veterans of Foreign Wars: the Linden Avenue post
In January 1923, the University of Notre Dame Archives record, a special committee of Notre Dame's own VFW post approved Vincent Fagan's design for the university's World War I memorial — the "God, Country, Notre Dame" door of the Basilica, carried in full below.
- 1923–todayRobertson's — the Department Store Building (1923)
George A. Robertson, whose store had opened on Michigan Street in 1904, bought the property in 1922 and in 1923 built the store building that stands today.
- 1924The Klan clash, May 1924
The setup: In May 1924 the Ku Klux Klan — then at the height of its Indiana power, its movement told in Black History — announced a three-day rally in South Bend beginning Saturday, May 17, with a picnic and a parade, in what the university's own account calls the most Catholic area in the state, blocks from the…
- 1924May 1924 · the Klan comes downtown, and the students come down to meet it
In May 1924 the Klan announced itself in the city in force, with its headquarters at 230 South Michigan Street, and students from the University of Notre Dame marched downtown and fought the Klansmen in the street.
- 1924The unrest · May 1924, the Klan and the students
This section's share of 1924 is the cross-reference, stated at its documented size: In May 1924, with the Ku Klux Klan at the height of its Indiana power, a Klan gathering in South Bend met the resistance of Notre Dame's students, and the confrontation in the city's streets became the best-known street episode of the Klan years here.
- 1924The Izaak Walton League: the St. Joseph County chapter
A conservation club with ground: The sportsmen's club of the record is the Izaak Walton League's St. Joseph County chapter, chartered in January 1924.
- 1924The Scottish Rite Valley of South Bend and its cathedral
The valley in the stone building on Main Street: The Scottish Rite — the system of degrees from the fourth to the thirty-second, organized in valleys under the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction — keeps its South Bend seat in the building every South Bender knows: the Scottish Rite Cathedral at 427 North Main Street, built in 1924.
- 1924–1963Company and labor papers: The Studebaker Co-operator and the union's own house
Its contents, as the head of the department described them to the Society of Automotive Engineers in November 1924, were the plant's own life: snapshots of workmen's babies, the baseball and bowling scores of the plant teams, personal items.
- 1924–1998US 20 and US 33 on the city streets
In October 1924 the State Highway Commission relocated it: the South Bend Tribune of 3 October 1924 reported the state road moved onto "Division street extended" — the street now called Western Avenue…
- 1924–2003Passenger service, lost line by line
The Pumpkin Vine suspended operations between SSS Junction and Galien in 1924, and its St. Joseph end closed in the mid-1950s.
- 1924–todayRiley High School
Founded: The school at 1902 Fellows Street, on the city's southeast side, was built as Southeast Junior High School: completed in October 1924, dedicated in March 1925, designed by Ennis R. Austin and Norman Roy Shambleau, and built for about $600,000…
- 1925Sunnymede and East Wayne Street
The city's premier streetcar-and-automobile suburb was a real-estate firm's showpiece: Whitcomb and Keller platted the Sunnymede Addition in 1925 — the first of six Sunnymede additions the firm would file…
- 1925Erskine Park and the south-side suburbs
The Erskine gift made the south side's anchor: Erskine Park Golf Course, at 4200 Miami Street, opened on 27 June 1925 — the History Museum's photograph caption and the Venues Parks & Arts record agree on 1925…
- 1925A fair inside a pleasure ground: the Interstate Fair at Springbrook
The fair's own history carries the next entry in one line: the first Interstate Fair was established at Springbrook Park, and continued until 1925.
- 1925–1933Insull: the line remade
Samuel Insull bought a bankrupt interurban and rebuilt it into the finest electric railroad in America, and South Bend got its share of the rebuilding: The old company went into receivership on 28 February 1925.
- 1925–1956The Neighborhood Houses — Indiana, Armo, Linden/Cozy, Lyric, White Eagle
The Indiana Theatre , 826 West Indiana Avenue in Rum Village, opened on August 31, 1925, with A Chapter in Her Life ; it was operated by Affiliated Theatres at its closing in 1956, the longest run of the five, and its building survives in industrial use.
- 1925–1963Hering House · the House of Hope on Western Avenue
Hering House was dedicated on 8 March 1925 , Gordon himself giving the benediction, and was modeled openly on Jane Addams's Hull House: part church, part school, part employment office and part concert hall.
- 1925–2012Ernie Zalejski: Washington High, Three National Titles
Ernest Raymond Zalejski was born November 23, 1925, in South Bend, and at Washington High School he earned all-state honors three straight years, 1942 to 1944.
- 1925–2016Harold Zisla: the designer who built the city's art teaching
Harold Zisla (1925–2016): Cleveland-born on June 28, 1925, he served in the Navy from 1943 to 1946, took a diploma in painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950 and bachelor's and master's degrees from Case Western Reserve, and in 1952 came to South Bend with his wife Doreen for a designer's job at…
- 1925–2023Jean Faut: The League's Greatest Pitcher, Eight Years a Blue Sox
Jean Faut was born January 17, 1925, in East Greenville, Pennsylvania, and every one of her eight professional seasons was played in a South Bend uniform, 1946 to 1953 — the tie is played here, and it is total.
- 1926The Erskine: a Studebaker make, assembled at Detroit
The make: The Erskine was produced by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend from 1926 to 1930, named for the corporation's president, Albert Russel Erskine, and marketed as "The Little Aristocrat."
- 1926The Greeks of Jefferson Boulevard
Forty-five families founded the Greek parish: the first Greek Orthodox Divine Liturgy in the area was celebrated on 15 January 1926, Bishop Philaretos of Chicago officiating, and St. Andrew Greek Orthodox Church — founded by forty-five Greek immigrant families…
- 1926–1928The County's Two Executions: John Grzyb
The Department of Correction's row is the whole of the official skeleton: born October 26, 1905; offense dated March 29, 1926; sentenced October 24, 1926; crime, murder in the first degree and robbery; four stays; electrocuted April 10, 1928…
- 1926–1930Assembly packet — the Erskine export figure, kept unresolved
First, the company history's account, as the Studebaker section carries it (its source there is the standard encyclopedia history of Studebaker): "The Erskine Six, a new small car named for him, was launched in Paris in 1926 and sold 26,000 abroad in its first season with many more in America."
- 1926–1945The township years: North Liberty and Lakeville
When the fair marked its anniversary in 2001, its committee found the old written histories, kept in old fair programs, putting the first fair in 1927, which would have made 2001 the seventy-fifth; the head of the anniversary committee, Diana Kuhn, said the fair had actually begun in 1926.
- 1926–2014US 31: the Michigan Road under a number
On 1 October 1926 the Great Renumbering made the old road a United States highway: The road south from South Bend had been State Road 1 — carrying, for a season, three designations at once: a 1925 auto-trails map shows the Rochester–South Bend stretch signed as State Road 1, the Dixie Highway (trail 25) and the…
- 1926–2014James Helms Kasler: three Air Force Crosses
The tie, stated exactly: James Helms Kasler was born in South Bend on 2 May 1926. He finished high school at Shortridge in Indianapolis, and his hometown of record was Zanesville, Indiana.
- 1926–todayThe Proving Ground: from the tree sign to Navistar
Studebaker's ground: The proving ground Studebaker opened in 1926 — the first controlled outdoor proving ground of an American automobile manufacturer — lay on some 840 acres of rolling farmland near New Carlisle, about twelve miles west of South Bend, centered on a three-mile paved oval.
- 1926–todayThe civic builders: the bank, the foundation, the tire store, and the 29-year-old mayor
Peter Veldman (1926–2014): the immigrant who out-sold the tire business. Born on 4 April 1926 at Didam, in the Netherlands, Veldman immigrated to the United States in 1949 and served in the U.S. Army in the Korean War (1950–52), where he received his automotive training.
- 1926–todayThe Studebaker Proving Ground and its tree sign — the name written for airplanes
The place: Twelve miles west of the city, in Olive Township, stands the ground Studebaker opened in 1926 as the first controlled outdoor proving ground built by an American automobile manufacturer…
- 1927Airmail: the transcontinental airway over the bend
Contract Air Mail route CAM-17, flown by National Air Transport, was awarded on 2 April 1927 and opened for service on 1 September 1927 — the New York–Chicago leg of the transcontinental route, meeting Boeing Air Transport's CAM-18 at Chicago to carry the mail coast to coast.
- 1928St. Augustine Parish
In 1928 the diocese decreed St. Augustine a parish, founded, in the diocesan archives’ phrase quoted by Today’s Catholic, to serve Black Catholics — “Negroes in all of South Bend.”
- 1928The armory line, I · 727 South Eddy Street, 1928
The city's first purpose-built armory still stands, and keeps its 1928 face: The armory at 727 South Eddy Street was built in 1928 and served for its first decades as the city's National Guard armory, with an indoor shooting range behind its brick drill-hall walls — 16,200 square feet in all.
- 1928Marked by its own hand: the Rotary marker and the landmark tour
In 1928 the Rotary Club of South Bend erected a marker at Michigan Street and LaSalle Avenue reading, in full: "On this site South Bend was founded as a fur trading post in 1823 by Alexis Coquillard, who came here from Detroit, Michigan, representing the American Fur Company."
- 1928Dainty Maid: the bakery of 1928, closed and twice revived
The house: The Dainty Maid Bake Shop opened in 1928 at 231 South Michigan Street and baked there for eighty-eight years, a downtown institution of the kind the directories count without comment — its windows were worth photographing: the University of Notre Dame Archives holds Ron Parent's c.‑1970s photographs of them.
- 1928Across the line: West End Bakery, Mishawaka's Belgian house — a boundary entry
The house and the paczki measure: West End opened in 1928, a Belgian bakery run by three generations of the Fobe family, Greg Fobe the third.
- 1928–1933Pierce-Arrow and the Rockne: the luxury badge and the coach's car
Pierce-Arrow: In August 1928 Studebaker bought control of the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company of Buffalo, the luxury maker, to stand at the top of its range as Cadillac stood at General Motors'.
- 1928–1933The Bendix Brakes on the court, 1928–1933
The player-record compilations of the era place a South Bend Bendix Brakes team playing independent professional basketball in 1928–29 and 1929–30 — the brake works' name on a court, in the years when the Bendix plant was becoming the city's industrial giant.
- 1928–1994J. Chester and Elizabeth Fletcher Allen · two lawyers, thirty years of cases
He married Elizabeth Fletcher , a Chicagoan he had met at Boston University, in 1928; she joined him in South Bend in 1931, was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1938 — the first Black woman attorney in South Bend and in the state of Indiana…
- 1928–1996Dottie Schroeder: All Twelve Seasons
Dorothy Schroeder was born April 11, 1928, in Sadorus, Illinois, and signed with South Bend at fifteen, for fifty-five dollars a week, the youngest of her league's founding players.
- 1928–todayGates: the grocery store side business that outlived downtown
L. O. Gates started his first dealership in 1928 as a side business from his grocery store, and the South Bend Tribune's account fixes the place: the first Gates dealership was established in Plymouth, Indiana, in 1928.
- 1929Holy Cross Parish
Founding and character: Holy Cross Parish and Holy Cross School in South Bend were founded in 1929 and remain ministries of the Congregation of Holy Cross, the order that founded Notre Dame.
- 1929Crash and sit-down: the Depression city
The factory city's prosperity had been built on things people could stop buying, and in 1929 they stopped: The consolidation of the age had begun months before the crash: on April 1, 1929, the Oliver Chilled Plow Works merged with the Hart-Parr and Nichols & Shepard companies and the American Seeding Machine Company…
- 1929The forecast record: what South Bend predicted for itself
When Union Station opened on 27 May 1929, Mayor Chester R. Montgomery predicted the city would reach 200,000 residents by 1939 — a doubling of the 104,193 the census was about to count, in a single decade.
- 1929Bendix Field: the purchase of 1929 and the opening of 1933
The airport began as a manufacturer's land purchase: In 1929 Vincent Bendix, founder of the Bendix Aviation Corporation, purchased 610 acres northwest of South Bend to give the city air service closer in than the northeast field.
- 1929St. Matthew Cathedral School — and the Second Floor’s High School
The school: St. Matthew’s parish, on the southeast side, built its school before its cathedral: construction began May 15, 1929, and Bishop Noll dedicated the building on October 13, 1929, at a cost of 167,000 dollars.
- 1929Holy Cross and Christ the King — the Congregation’s Own Parishes
Holy Cross School: Holy Cross School, at 1020 Wilber Street, was established in 1929, and the school was the parish’s first building, housing the original church — the school-first pattern of St. Anthony’s and St. Casimir’s repeated a generation later.
- 1929The licensing beats: the driver's license at the county seat's counter
The vehicle was licensed a generation before the driver was: Indiana's first law governing the licensing of drivers is the Act of March 13, 1929, chapter 162…
- 1929–1945The Bendix works at war — the South Bend production record
What South Bend made: The Bendix company of this record — founded in South Bend in 1924 on brakes, its founder's starter drive manufactured for it from 1914 by the Eclipse Machine Company of Elmira, New York…
- 1929–1976The boundary: after 1929, an Oliver tractor is an Iowa tractor
The merger line, at pointer size: On 1 April 1929 the Oliver Chilled Plow Works merged with the Hart-Parr Tractor Company of Charles City, Iowa, the Nichols & Shepard Company of Battle Creek, Michigan, and the American Seeding Machine Company of Richmond, Indiana, to form the Oliver Farm Equipment Company, with its…
- 1929–2010Ralph McInerny — a hundred books, thirty of them mysteries
Ralph McInerny was born in Minneapolis on 24 February 1929 and came to the University of Notre Dame in 1955 to teach philosophy; he stayed fifty-four years, retired in the spring of 2009, and died in South Bend on 29 January 2010, the obituaries datelined from this city.
- 1929–2026The Planning Line: From the Zoning Ordinance to South Bend 2045
A City Plan Commission was reporting zoning recommendations to the Common Council by the spring of 1931: the council minutes of 13 April 1931 carry its reports of 2 and 3 April on petitions to change zoning classifications, under a zoning ordinance, No. 2331, that the council had already amended by Ordinance No. 2697…
- 1929–todayUnion Station
It was built in 1928–29, for $1.2 million, to the Art Deco design of Fellheimer & Wagner — the firm of Buffalo Central Terminal and the Cincinnati Union Terminal, working here at smaller scale…
- 1929–todayUnion Station — the screen test negative, the wires positive
The test that fails: A grand 1929 station by Fellheimer and Wagner — the firm of Buffalo's Central Terminal and Cincinnati's Union Terminal — would seem a natural film location, and stations named Union Station are among the most filmed interiors in America.
- 1929–todayThe Tower Era — the Tower Building (1929) and Liberty Tower
The Tower Building was designed by Austin & Shambleau and built by H. G. Christman & Company in 1929: twelve stories and 150 feet, faced in terra cotta and marble on its north and east sides, in the Skyscraper Gothic style — the only structure of its kind in South Bend, on the university survey's judgment.