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Children Eating Ice Cream From this 1946 picture, it appears that youngsters of the 1940s liked ice cream cones as much as we all do today. Take a look at the item at the bottom of the picture and you’ll see that they also played some of the same [...]
posted on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
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Knute Rockne All-American Premiere The stars were out in South Bend on the night of October 4, 1940, when Hollywood’s elite gathered for the world premiere of “Knute Rockne All-American.” In this photo the cast of the film are shown. Standing from left to right are Peggy Diggins, Ricardo [...]
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AAGPBL Mary “Bonnie” Baker This photo was taken in the 1940s during a game between the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League’s South Bend Blue Sox and the Racine Belles. Poised to catch an incoming ball was Irene “Choo Choo” Hickson, catcher for the Racine Belles. Mary “Bonnie” Baker of [...]
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Notre Dame Football Team This circa 1926 photo shows the Notre Dame football team at the South Shore station, which was then located at the corner of LaSalle and Michigan Streets in downtown South Bend. The team was preparing to leave for one of the many away games. Legendary [...]
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Rene Simon On September 10, 1911, French aviator Rene Simon completed the first successful airplane flight in St. Joseph County on a Bleriot Monoplane. A crowd of 30,000 onlookers gathered at a field located near the southeast corner of Ironwood and Dragoon Trail to watched as Simon made local [...]
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Lady Owls The Lady Owls was formed as an auxiliary to the Order of Owls, a nationwide fraternal group that originated in South Bend in 1904 by local attorney John Talbot and a group of his associates. Shortly after the South Bend group was founded, other chapters or “nests,” as [...]
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South Bend Tribune The table was set, and these youngsters who sold papers for the South Bend Tribune were lined up for dinnertime at Hudson Lake on August 25, 1908. Founded by Alfred B. Miller and Elmer Crockett, the South Bend Tribune began as a weekly paper in 1872, [...]
posted on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
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Bicycle This high wheel bicycle—also called a penny-farthing or high wheeler--features a large front wheel and much smaller rear wheel, and has hand brakes, typical of many high wheelers. The frame was steel, making the bicycle very heavy. In those days, bicycle clubs were popular, and it is possible [...]
posted on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
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Bookmobile Ever go to the St. Joseph County Public Library’s Bookmobile? Originally the South Bend Public Library, its name changed in 1990 to the St. Joseph County Public Library. With a capacity of 2,000 volumes, the Bookmobile traveled to many neighborhoods. The $7,943.91 purchase was approved in 1952 by [...]
posted on Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
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East Race-Stephenson Underwear Mills The Stephenson Underwear Mill was one of hundreds of industries that used the water of the St. Joseph River to power their machinery. This photo taken c. 1918 shows a group of people standing near the dam located by Stephenson Underwear Mill. Go Back
posted on Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
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