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Ethnic Festival The Ethnic Festival was a popular event that took place each summer for over 20 years on Michigan Street in downtown South Bend. As this circa 1985 photograph shows, there was hardly an open space to be found as crowds milled through the festivity. The view in [...]
posted on Monday, August 24th, 2020
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Barber Shop The Oliver Hotel Barber Shop, shown in this early 1900s photograph, was located on the northwest corner of Main and Washington Streets. All three barbers are sporting moustaches, which was very popular at the turn of the 19th-20th century. Of the men in the chairs, two also [...]
posted on Monday, August 24th, 2020
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Grand Trunk Railroad This photograph of a Grand Trunk Railroad car was taken circa 1870 near Division Street (now Western Avenue) in South Bend. In the 1860s, Division Street was one of the most desirable neighborhoods in South Bend. However, in 1868, the Peninsular Railway Company of Indiana was [...]
posted on Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
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4th of July 1889 This photograph from the 4th of July in 1889 was taken on the northeast corner of South Bend’s Main and Wayne Streets, in front of the home of Darwin H. Baker, owner of the boot and shoe company D.H. Baker & Bros. On this patriotic [...]
posted on Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
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Rockne Premiere On October 4, 1940, Hollywood came to South Bend in the form of the world premiere of Knute Rockne, All-American. All four local theaters, the Granada, Palace, Colfax, and State, participated in screening the feature film that showcased one of the most famous of Notre Dame’s football [...]
posted on Wednesday, July 1st, 2020
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Odd Fellows Building The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) building, or as it was commonly known, the Odd Fellows building, stood at the intersection of South Bend’s Washington and Main Streets, on the site where Teachers Credit Union is now located. The construction firm for the building was [...]
posted on Wednesday, July 1st, 2020
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Notre Dame Astronomy Lab Taken in the 1870s at the astronomy lab at the University of Notre Dame, this picture of Notre Dame science students shows Professor Timothy Howard, for whom Howard Street in South Bend is named, peering through the telescope. The telescope was a gift to Notre [...]
posted on Wednesday, July 1st, 2020
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Buffalo Bill Cody One of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody was a frontiersman, scout, buffalo hunter, soldier, and show business entrepreneur of the first order. In 1883, at age 37, Cody founded Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, which was variously described [...]
posted on Wednesday, July 1st, 2020
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Coveleski Stadium South Bend Mayor Roger Parent announced in March 1985 that the city planned to build a minor league baseball stadium in downtown South Bend. Robert and Debbie Staley, from Decatur, Ill., had met with the mayor and decided that South Bend would be the perfect location for the [...]
posted on Monday, June 1st, 2020
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The Philadelphia The Philadelphia was celebrating its 39th year in business when this photograph was taken in 1940. It had been opened in 1901 by Eustice Poledor, along with his brothers Andrew and Pendel. You could get a raspberry ice cream soda there for fifteen cents, according to a [...]
posted on Monday, June 1st, 2020
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