South Bend, Indiana · 20th century
1940s
105 dated events in 1940s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 105 dated mentions
1940s
- 1940The war years: training at both fields, and the base that went elsewhere
South Bend bid for a base and got a training program: In 1940, as the Army Air Corps looked for Midwestern bases, South Bend and Fort Wayne lobbied for the same prize, and Fort Wayne won it.
- 1940Knute Rockne, All American (1940) — the first production
The American Film Institute's catalog, working from the trade press of the production months, records two facts that fix the film's geography: the Hollywood Reporter items in its file state that the picture was shot on location at Notre Dame at South Bend, Indiana, with Nick Lukats, a former Notre Dame football star…
- 1940–1941Verified whole — the Bendix Brakes in the ASA's own tournament record, 1940–1941
The Sports leg carried the Bendix Brakes' fastpitch peak from the ASA champions list — runners-up in 1940, champions in 1941 — with Ike Bierwagen's figures carried as local recounting.
- 1940–1950Fastpitch — the Bendix Brakes win a national championship
The title: The ASA's own champions list records it plainly: in 1940 the Bendix Brakes of South Bend were the national runners-up, losing the final to Kodak Park of Rochester; in 1941 the Bendix Brakes were the ASA national champions, beating the Schlitz team of Atlanta in the final.
- 1940–1950Ike Bierwagen: The Factory Game's Ace
The American Softball Association's champions list gives the Brakes the national championship in 1941, after a runner-up finish in 1940.
- 1940–1968The private bus era: 1940–1968
The railway company as a bus company: The reorganization of 1940 left the Northern Indiana Railway, Inc. a railway in name and a bus operator in fact.
- 1940–1992The screen map — what the cameras actually shot here
Knute Rockne, All American (1940): Warner Bros.' biography of Rockne, with Pat O'Brien as Rockne and Ronald Reagan as George Gipp, was made with the university's cooperation and shot, in part, on the campus it depicts…
- 1940–todayAdams High School
Founded: John Adams High School, named for the second president, opened on 30 September 1940 at 808 South Twyckenham Drive, on about twenty acres between the River Park and Sunnymede neighborhoods, across from the ground Indiana University South Bend would later take.
- 1941Trucks to Russia: the US6
South Bend built 197,678 of them between 1941 and 1945, by the count the company's war record supports; Reo built a further 22,204 identical trucks at Lansing as subcontractor.
- 1941Jeremy Leven: the novelist-screenwriter of The Notebook, born here
Jeremy Leven (born 1941): a name the Famous People pass left at "documented tie unresolved," settled up here on the standard biographical record.
- 1941The 113th Engineers' South Bend armory · the induction of January 1941
When the Guard was called up for the Second World War, one of its regiments kept a battalion's rendezvous in South Bend: The 113th Engineer Regiment (Combat), Indiana National Guard, was inducted into the Army of the United States on 17 January 1941 under Colonel John W. Wheeler, and the regiment's own history of the…
- 1941–1945The second war: trucks, engines, and the Weasel
The engines: Under contracts signed in January 1941, the government financed the building of engine plants which Studebaker then operated — at South Bend (the Chippewa Avenue plant), Chicago, and Fort Wayne — to build the Wright Cyclone R-1820 radial engine under license for the B-17 Flying Fortress.
- 1941–1945The Second World War · the arsenal's city and the long roll
The service front wrote itself daily in the hometown paper: from 1941 the South Bend Tribune ran its "Service Notes" column — county citizens drafted, enlisted, promoted, transferred, wounded, decorated, missing and killed…
- 1941–1953The Second World War and Korea: the rolls that are not compiled
The hometown record: through all three wars the South Bend Tribune ran its "Service Notes" column — the county's men and women drafted, promoted, wounded, decorated, and lost, reported as it happened from 1941 through 1979.
- 1941–1963Design as invention: the Loewy studio, Robert Bourke, the Tucker suit, and the Avanti's discs
Robert E. Bourke, hired by Virgil Exner into the Loewy organization in 1941 and promoted to head its automobile design in 1947, ran the South Bend office from 1949 to 1955, and the postwar cars the studio is remembered for are substantially his.
- 1941–1968Jim Crow without signs · public accommodations and the Kale test case
The community tested the arrangement in court at the first opportunity: in 1941 , after the manager of Hook's Drug Stores denied lunch-counter service to two Black women, the Allens' group of lawyers prosecuted State of Indiana v.
- 1941–2023The Morris fortune's giving: an inn, a theatre saved for a dollar, and three generations of lead gifts
In 1941 Morris bought the bankrupt Clement Studebaker Jr.'s Tippecanoe Place — the mansion that had cost 250,000 dollars to build — for 20,000 dollars, and gave it to the South Bend schools, which held it for a generation.
- 1942–1943The Studebaker Champions, 1942–1943
The team: In 1942 the United Auto Workers funded a National Basketball League team for the men of the Studebaker war plants: the Chicago Studebaker Flyers, whose players worked in the company's Chicago aviation-engine plant and played in the NBL, the strongest professional league of its day.
- 1942–1944Thomas Jesse Heltzel: the Silver Star at Saipan
He was a corporal in the United States Marine Corps, a crew chief in the 2d Amphibian Tractor Battalion, V Amphibious Corps, and his Silver Star — awarded posthumously, by the Commander in Chief, Pacific, Serial 470 of 22 February 1945 — covers nearly two years of war, from the Solomons landings of August 1942 to the first wave at Saipan.
- 1942–1945The war years: the showrooms empty
On 2 January 1942 the Indianapolis Times carried the Office of Production Management's ruling under the headline "Sales of New Autos Halted": no dealer could legally sell a new vehicle, not even the cars standing in show windows and warehouses, and the roughly 450,000 new cars then in dealers' hands across the country…
- 1942–todayCrowe — the accounting firm founded on this ground
Crowe was established in South Bend in 1942 by two men whose work already ran through the city's institutions: Fred P. Crowe Sr., a public accountant who had served eight years as St. Joseph County auditor, and Cletus F. Chizek, head of the accounting department at Notre Dame.
- 1942–todayThe smaller banners: DAV, the Marine Corps League, the Vietnam veterans
The chapter's charter year is not in the reachable record; the DAV's national group exemption under which the chapter files dates to 1942, and that date belongs to the national body, not to the chapter, and is not printed as the chapter's.
- 1943The Bendix Field ballpark question
One question from the Sports section is answered here at the size the airport record supports — which is to say, it is not settled: The South Bend Blue Sox of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League played their first three seasons, 1943–45, at a ground the record calls Bendix Field, drawing 40,000 to…
- 1943Elijah Anderson: the sociologist South Bend formed
Elijah Anderson (born 1943): the most consequential scholar this city formed in the twentieth century whom its rosters had not entered — and the entry the earlier passes could not see, because his South Bend tie does not stand in any reference biography's first line.
- 1943War industry as military presence · the proving ground and the ordnance plants
The factories' own records are in the business legs; their ground's uniformed work belongs here: West of the city, the Studebaker Proving Ground — the company's test track, opened in the 1920s…
- 1943Robert E. Hannan Jr.: a Silver Star carried as a synopsis
A technical sergeant in the Army Air Forces, he was a gunner on a bomber of the Far East Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific, and he was killed on 12 October 1943.
- 1943Joseph D. Barry: the pastor who went as a chaplain
The Silver Star: Barry served as chaplain of the 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division, and earned the Silver Star in Sicily, on or about 29 July 1943 — the award published in Headquarters, 45th Infantry Division, General Orders No. 153 of 1944.
- 1943Why "Blue Sox"? The Worked Example of an Honest Blank
The state historical marker's annotation rebuilds the spring of 1943 out of the South Bend Tribune 's own headlines: "Girls Softball," 17 April; "South Bend Approves Team in Girls' Softball League: Business Men Back Plan to Join Circuit," 28 April; "Girls Softball Club Gets Aid of Veterans," 13 May…
- 1943The Fourth City Chosen: The Founding, Spring 1943
On April 17, 1943, the paper was writing about girls' softball; on April 28 it reported "South Bend Approves Team in Girls' Softball League: Business Men Back Plan to Join Circuit"; on May 13, "Girls Softball Club Gets Aid of Veterans."
- 1943–1944The Charter Seasons: 1943 and 1944
The league played a split season in 1943, and on the league's own split-season tables South Bend finished second in each half — 28–26 in the first, 30–24 in the second — for a whole-season line of 58–50.
- 1943–1945The Ballpark No Map Keeps: Bendix Field
The documented facts: For three seasons, 1943 through 1945, the South Bend Blue Sox of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League played their home games at a ground every source calls Bendix Field.
- 1943–1945A charter club — the Blue Sox begin, 1943–1945
The league: The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was founded in 1943 by Chicago chewing-gum magnate Philip K. Wrigley, to keep professional baseball in the Midwest while the men's game was drained by the war.
- 1943–1945Dottie Schroeder: All Twelve Seasons
She played in the league's first game, on May 30, 1943, as the Blue Sox' shortstop, and she played in its last championship game, on September 5, 1954, as Kalamazoo's shortstop, and won a championship in it.
- 1943–1946Bendix Field — the placement hardened to the far west side; the lot still unlocated
The same annotation gives the Bendix Field seasons' attendance — 41,918 in 1943, 49,294 in 1944, 49,223 in 1945 — inside the range the banked entry carries.
- 1943–1950Bonnie Baker: The Face of the League
Mary Geraldine Baker — Bonnie — was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, on July 10, 1918 (the Canadian references give 1919; the register's 1918 is printed here and the variant carried in this history's note), and she was recruited out of Canadian softball by the scout Hub Bishop for the league's first tryout camp at Wrigley Field in May 1943.
- 1943–1954The Blue Sox stars, at one line each
Bonnie Baker: Named with Faut in the league record as the franchise's defining players — the catcher at the center of the club's first decade, who played in the league's first game on May 30, 1943, and was featured in Life magazine in 1945.
- 1943–1954The Game They Played: Softball Growing into Baseball
The Blue Sox of 1943 and the Blue Sox of 1954 were playing recognizably different games under the same name, because the league rebuilt its rules almost every year in one direction — from softball toward baseball.
- 1943–1954The Managers
Bert Niehoff (1943–44) and Marty McManus (1945) were the softball-era managers; McManus made the Mahon trade and returned for the first overhand season in 1948.
- 1943–1954The Supporting Cast
Two future Rockford greats began as Blue Sox, as the charter-seasons entry records — Lois Florreich (1943–44) and Rose Gacioch (1944) — and the league's most famous name of all, Dorothy Kamenshek, never wore the uniform; she is Rockford's, and this history leaves her there.
- 1943–1954The Twelve Rosters
For 1943–48 and 1954 the lists are the registers' own and are printed whole.
- 1943–2023The radio roster: FM's two starts, the school station, and the campus air
The Tribune 's first FM grant, for 47.1 megahertz under the construction-era call sign W71SB, was held in suspension while the Federal Communications Commission investigated whether newspaper ownership of radio stations should be restricted at all; the permit was reinstated on 9 June 1941 and the station began broadcasting in May 1943.
- 1944–todayThe culture: pulls at the fair, and no plowing contest
The Lakeville Lions Club, which took over sponsorship of the fair in 1944 and ran its food booth from that year, records in its club history, in one sentence, the start of the pulling tradition in this county: "In the 50's and 60's, we sponsored an annual tractor pull."
- 1944–todayThe rest of the champions — soccer, lacrosse, golf
Men's golf: The NCAA team championship of 1944 stands in the record as the program's title from the war years.
- 19451945: Epworth becomes Memorial
A new charter and a new name: In June 1945 the organization was reincorporated, and the Methodist Church ceased to play a management role in the hospital it had founded fifty-one years before.
- 1945On the water: tested, and mostly a negative
That regatta, first run in 1945, was sanctioned by the National Outboard Association and later by the American Power Boat Association, with two heats each in the A, B, C, and F hydroplane classes.
- 1945–1947McManus, Grant, and the Move to Playland: 1945–1947
Marty McManus, the former major-league infielder, took the club in 1945 and made the trade that stocked its middle years: from Kenosha he brought in outfielder Lib Mahon, infielder Pauline "Pinky" Pirok and pitcher Phyllis "Sugar" Koehn…
- 1945–1952Lib Mahon: The Run Producer
Elizabeth "Lib" Mahon was born November 18, 1919, in Greenville, South Carolina, came to South Bend in Marty McManus's 1945 trade with Kenosha, and stayed eight seasons, becoming the best run producer the club ever had and one of the best in the league.
- 1945–1984The Torrington works — Bantam Bearings on the west side
The tie is documented in the period trade press rather than in a modern list: from 1945 through 1961, journals from Iron Age and Aviation Week to the Paper Trade Journal and Design News carry the division's advertisements and listings under the dateline "South Bend 21, Ind." beside "Torrington, Conn.," and the…
- 1945–2026John Voorde: forty years an elected official
The mayor's son who started in the street department: John Joseph Voorde was born in 1945, the son of Edward F. "Babe" Voorde, the mayor whose death in a car crash on 2 September 1960 — the boy's first day of high school — is told in the Government section.
- 1946The Mexican and Latino west side: from the migrant stream to La Casa
As early as 1946, it documents, migrant families from the Southwest came to work the farms of South Bend's west side — two of the first families were the Lopezes and the Frank Martinezes — leaving the migrant stream so their children could finish a school year, and staying.
- 1946The Second World War's dead · the record as the government printed it
The official accounting of this county's Second World War dead exists — in two lists, by two services, and not in any single number: The War Department's World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel from Indiana (1946) arranges its dead by county, name, serial number, rank and type of casualty…
- 1946The Second World War's Army dead: the War Department's own figure is 430
So the Army side of the county's Second World War price is settled at its official figure: 430 men of St. Joseph County, of whom twenty stand on findings of death — the presumptive findings made for men who did not return and were not seen to fall — and two still stood carried as missing when the volume closed in 1946.
- 1946South Bend Motor Speedway: built by its drivers
It opened on Friday night, 23 August 1946, before some 8,000 fans, with 25 cars on hand. Chicago's Ted Duncan, the fastest qualifier, won the 25-lap Class A feature, followed by Bob Muhlke, Frank Burany, and Gus Klingbiel.
- 1946Charlie Van Acker: the builder who raced at Indianapolis
His first Indianapolis attempt came in 1946, too slow to make the field.
- 1946The home drivers: the names the quarter-mile kept
Gus Klingbiel, the Wisconsin native who finished behind the leaders on opening night, closed the 1946 season as its first champion.
- 1946–1950Playoff years without a title — and the best record of 1949
The playoff line: The Blue Sox reached the league playoffs in 1946, 1947, 1948 and 1949 — and lost their first four playoff series, a fact the league record states outright before it turns to the titles.
- 1946–1953Jean Faut: The Best Pitcher in the League
She came to South Bend in 1946 as a third baseman and left it in 1953 as the defining pitcher of the overhand era.
- 1946–1958Home to the city, as a guest: the Playland Park years
The move: In 1946 the 4-H Fair moved to larger quarters at Playland Park in South Bend, in the Lakeville Lions' own summary of the years they had sponsored it in the townships.
- 1946–1986Wheel Horse: forty years of garden tractors built in South Bend
A garage on the south side of the industry: In 1946 Elmer Pond began building two-wheel, self-propelled garden tractors — the "Walk-Away," sold under the Pond name — in his two-car garage in South Bend.
- 1946–2020Joe Kernan: the catcher, the prisoner, the governor
Joseph E. Kernan (1946–2020): the fullest public life of the city's modern era, and the one the Government section expressly left for this page — his mayoralty (1988–97), lieutenant governorship, and governorship stand there; what belongs here is the whole man.
- 1946–todayRacing — the speedway line, cross-referenced
South Bend Motor Speedway, a high-banked quarter-mile paved oval on State Road 2 west of Mayflower Road, was built over two years by the South Bend Auto Racing Association — Joe Kovatch and thirteen others, local drivers Charlie Van Acker and Charlie Szekendy among them…
- 1947Eric F. Wieschaus — the Nobel laureate, born here and educated here
He was born in South Bend on June 8, 1947, and lived here until the family moved to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1953, when he was six.
- 1947Phillip Hoose — the children's author
The tie, exactly: Hoose was born in South Bend on May 31, 1947, and grew up in the Indiana towns of South Bend, Angola, and Speedway — publisher's phrasing, and this section keeps it whole rather than trimming it into a hometown claim the record doesn't make.
- 1947The Christ Child Society of South Bend
Founding: The Christ Child Society of South Bend was founded in August 1947 by Rosaleen "Puddy" Crowley, who invited a circle of some fifteen friends to serve poor children in their community, following her own mother's example.
- 1947The South Bend Museum of Art — the institution
The course: The city's art museum began in 1947 as the South Bend Art Center, founded on the bequest of Carlotta Banta, a kindergarten teacher who left her life savings to found an art center for the community; its first home was the carriage house at Copshaholm, the Oliver mansion, a mile and a half from where it sits now.
- 1947The national frame: 1947 and the Air Force investigations
The frame: South Bend's record sits inside a national one that begins, by the usual reckoning, on 24 June 1947, when private pilot Kenneth Arnold reported nine bright objects in a chain near Mount Rainier, Washington, moving, in his phrase, like a saucer skipped across water…
- 19475 July 1947: South Bend in the first saucer wave
The record: South Bend's name enters the modern record eleven days after Kenneth Arnold's report, in the first great rush of the 1947 wave.
- 1947The Blue Book ledger for St. Joseph County
For this section, the Air Force's published yearly indexes for every year of the project, 1947 through 1969 — in both digitized copies of each, the redacted and the unredacted, preserved from the National Archives records…
- 1947Closing: what this record can and cannot support
The bottom line of the record: South Bend's documented UFO record, at its whole size, is this: an unnamed report in the 1897 airship wave and another in the wave of July 1947, neither with its content preserved; four cases in the Air Force's own indexes — Studebaker engineers' disc of October 1948, closed as debris in the air…
- 1947The Irish Football Network: the network one sportscaster built
The founding year stands in two forms in the record — the Indiana Broadcast History Archive and the Indiana Football Hall of Fame give 1947; the University of Notre Dame's own athletics history of the network, published in 2008, gives 1948 — and both stand as they are given.
- 1947Phillip Hoose — the basketball town's historian, for young readers
Phillip Hoose was born in South Bend on 31 May 1947 and grew up in South Bend, Angola and Speedway — the publisher biographies carry the three towns together, and this entry prints all three rather than trimming the list to the one city.
- 1947The Tony record: an empty line
The test: The Tony Awards, Broadway's honors since 1947, give this city no name. No performer born in South Bend, raised here, or formed here stands on the Tony record as a nominee or a winner; the line is printed empty at its true size.
- 1947Martin's Super Markets: the chain born on Portage Avenue
Martin and Jane Tarnow opened their grocery on September 15, 1947, in the 1500 block of Portage Avenue, with $200 in cash — the founding facts as Martin Tarnow's obituary in the South Bend Tribune (August 18, 1998) states them.
- 1947–1949Jordan: the Nash salesman on Jefferson Boulevard
The house's own history says its Ford store has been in the same location, 609 East Jefferson Boulevard, since 1947, on the corner of Jefferson and Cedar, where it counts sixty-five years and more.
- 1947–1950The 1947 Inventory and the Postwar Barns
Lead: The fullest surviving picture of the mid-century zoo is the animal report of 1947, carried in the zoo's earlier published history, and it is printed here at the size the zoo published it…
- 1947–2026The museum in the carriage house: art, 1947
The founding: The South Bend Museum of Art was founded in 1947 as the South Bend Art Center, and its founding joins the two threads that run through this section.
- 1947–todayAcross the Line: Marian and Bethel, Mishawaka's Schools
It was founded in Mishawaka, not moved there: the church approved its liberal-arts college in 1944, bought the Mishawaka land in 1946, and opened Bethel College in the fall of 1947 with ninety-four students, under a first president, Woodrow I. Goodman, who at twenty-seven was the youngest college president in the United States.
- 1947–todayThe honest thin spots: a teacher's life savings, and the institutions no patron built
The South Bend Art Center opened on her bequest in 1947. The amount of a kindergarten teacher's life savings is not published in the museum's own account, and none is printed here; the Morris Indiana Room gift of the following year, told in the Morris entry, was the young institution's second benefaction.
- 1947–todayThe South Bend Museum of Art: a schoolteacher's bequest
Her bequest founded the South Bend Art Center in 1947, housed first in the carriage house at Copshaholm, the Oliver mansion.
- 1948St. Jude Parish
Monsignor William Voors of St. Matthew gained Bishop Leo Pursley’s permission in June 1948 to prepare a new parish.
- 1948Whistle-stops, airport crowds, and rally nights
The printed trail begins with the whistle-stop era's last great practitioner: on October 26, 1948, President Harry Truman's campaign train stopped in South Bend, and the Truman Library's photograph of the rear-platform stop (accession 64-836) names the Indiana men standing with him — Frank McKinney, Frank M. McHale, and John E. Hurt.
- 194813 October 1948: the disc over the Studebaker works
The disposition, in the record's three voices: The Air Force's own index for 1948 closes the case in a line: "South Bend, Indiana — Brooke, Thompson — Other (DEBRIS IN AIR)."
- 1948Two rinks in the 1948 directory
The national Directory of Roller Skating Rinks for 1948 lists exactly two rinks for South Bend, and this article claims those two listings and no more: the Playland Roller Rink at 1741 Lincolnway East, out by the amusement park whose name it carried, and Bock's Rink at 226 S. Lafayette Blvd., downtown.
- 1948–1949The Overhand Era and the Tie That Was Not a Pennant: 1948–1949
Overhand pitching arrived in 1948, and with it the modern shape of the club: a bigger ballpark game played by a smaller professional core.
- 1948–1966Hamilton: the Canadian epilogue, 1948–1966
On 18 August 1948, before more than 400 employees and a battery of reporters, the first Hamilton car, a blue Champion four-door sedan, rolled off the line.
- 1948–1988The Drive-Ins
It was operating by May 27, 1948, with The Red Stallion on the screen, capacity 650 cars under operator A. Ochs; the capacity was raised to 850 in 1950 and listed at 650 again by 1952, under G. Benner (the record also spells Brenner) and then Benner and S. B. Greiver jointly, until it closed in 1959.
- 1948–2003The O'Brien Corporation After 1983
The company had taken its modern name in 1948, becoming the O'Brien Corporation. In 1967 it combined with the W. P. Fuller Company of the West Coast, and the Fuller-O'Brien Corporation came into being — the South Bend paint house inside a national paint combination, its marks and lines carried under the Fuller-O'Brien name.
- 1948–2024The Morris–Raclin line: three generations of giving
It opens in March 1948, when Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Morris — Ernest M. and Ella L. Morris — sponsored the Indiana Room at the young South Bend Art Center, a gallery reserved for Hoosier artists, and donated the collection's first six artworks, in their words, to encourage the art and artists of Indiana.
- 1949The corn-and-livestock order
Corn for all purposes stood on 60,563 acres in 1954 (52,176 in 1949), on 1,592 farms; harvested for grain it made 57,835 acres and 3,610,820 bushels, of which 1,088 farms sold 2,150,103 bushels — the rest walked off the farm as pork, beef, and milk.
- 1949The nursery and greenhouse line
The one specialty that never left: Every other specialty in this record — wheat, cream, orchard fruit, even mint at its 1949 size — contracted.
- 1949The terminal line: 1949, 1981, and the present concourse
Three buildings, one address: The airport's first real terminal was a 1949 building designed for 25,000 passengers a year; by the end of its life it was accommodating about 400,000.
- 1949Wooded Estates and the postwar east side
The east side's postwar suburb survives in the assessor's record rather than the plat literature: Wooded Estates, in the 46617 ground east of the Sunnymede additions — Corby Boulevard, White Oak Drive and Oak Ridge Drive among its streets…
- 1949St. Anthony de Padua Parish
The parish: St. Anthony de Padua has served the east side of South Bend from its grounds at the intersection of Ironwood Drive and Jefferson Boulevard since 1949.
- 1949Black doctors and nurses · practice inside segregated hospitals
Dr. Bernard Vagner , the city's first Black surgeon , opened his Washington Street practice in 1949 in offices shared with Dr. Mott and Dr. Foreman; a surgeon needs referrals, and his came from his own family practice — "all the surgery I got came from my practice."
- 1949Madison Center and the making of the Memorial Epworth Center: 1949–2011
Madison Center, founded in 1949 on its own statement, was a nonprofit provider of mental health and substance abuse services for St. Joseph, Elkhart, LaPorte, Marshall, and Porter counties, and for decades the state-designated Community Mental Health Center for St. Joseph County…
- 1949Madison Center: the community mental health center
The city's own psychiatric institution was a nonprofit: Madison Center's founding year is its own statement, repeated in its announcements to the end: founded in 1949.
- 1949The camera club and the pictorialist: Paul B. Miller's seven salons
One caption therefore establishes three things at once: that the South Bend Camera Club existed and was active in 1949; that a South Bend pictorialist held membership in the national and the English royal photographic societies; and that his work had passed the juries of seven salons…
- 1949–1962The Postwar Ring — Holy Family, St. Jude, St. John the Baptist, Corpus Christi, Our Lady of Hungary, St. Anthony
St. Anthony de Padua School: St. Anthony’s parish began in 1949 on the east side, at Ironwood Drive and Jefferson Boulevard, and worshipped first in its own small school building, whose community room served as the worship space until the church was built in 1960 — the parish’s own account, carried in Religion.
- 1949–1968Dyngus Day: the holiday that endorses candidates
Its first mention in South Bend's English-language newspapers comes in April 1949, children going door to door carrying spring twigs.
- 1949–1971Wheel Horse in the directories, 1949–1971 — the cross-reference the Tractors record owed
1949 — the trade is one repairer: The company's own history is carried whole in the Tractors record of this build — Pond's powered wheelbarrow of 1946, the Ride-Away tractor of 1947, the move to 515 West Ireland Road, the snowmobiles, and Toro's purchase in August 1986 — and is not retold here.
- 1949–1987The managers: the roster as the directories give it
Paul Butler and John Shively, managers, 1949. The directory of 1949 names two men as the bureau's managers — "Paul Butler and John Shively mgrs."
- 1949–1992The road to a building: Rutgers, the unbuilt years, and Kings Mills
The site had been chosen in 1949: Rutgers University at New Brunswick, New Jersey, picked by a vote of sportswriters, coaches and athletic leaders because Rutgers and Princeton had played the first intercollegiate game there on November 6, 1869.
- 1949–2020Urban renewal · 606 families, and the lake that became a Superfund site
What was called renewal, counted by the renewed: The federal Housing Act of 1949 made South Bend eligible for urban-renewal money, and the Commission's accounting of what it bought is the section's hardest number: by the late 1960s an estimated 606 South Bend families had been displaced by urban renewal projects…
- 1949–2026The seats in succession: five downtown rooms and the Ireland Road branch
530 South Michigan Street — the directory of 1949. The Polk directory of 1949, in its State Offices list, prints the "Automobile License Bureau" at 530 S. Michigan, under two managers, Paul Butler and John Shively — the first seat and the first holders this record reaches.
- 1949–todayWelsheimer Funeral Home — 521 North William, across three directories
The roster itself carries it from the 1949 Polk alphabetical — the Wm Welsheimer Funeral Home, with A. C. In 1956 the classified reads "Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N William."