Posted in Boats, Buildings, Center for Culver History (AHS Museum), Culver -- Town of, Culver Academies, Hotels, Lake Maxinkuckee, Lake Maxinkuckee -- East Shore, Lake Maxinkuckee -- Miscellaneous, Lake Maxinkuckee -- South Shore, Lake Maxinkuckee -- West Shore, News on Mar 26th, 2013
Check out our NEW set of 8 note cards! Send out Thank-You’s or Forget-Me-Not’s in high style with vintage images from Culver’s diverse history. They were commissioned by the Antiquarian and Historical Society of Culver, IN and were inspired by a collection of old photos and postcards. The images were selected by Judy Kimmel Sawhook […]
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By Jeff Kenney: Citizen editor Not long ago, Jim Dewitt was in the Culver post office when the topic of the beloved tenderloins he served at the Lake Shore Lanes bowling alley between 1953 and 1978 came up. Soon, various folks in line were speaking up in favor of their favorite menu item, and the […]
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Prior to the 1991 demotion of the Culver Inn, on the campus of Culver Academies, members of the Culver fire department were given permission to utilize the delapidated building for training purposes, as pictured in these photos.
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On Dec. 28, 1985, the Maxinkuckee Village lost one of the last vestiges of its formerly active business community, the Manor Market at the northeast corner of East Shore Drive and 18B Road, to fire. The market, known in the 1930s as Van’s, changed its name to R & J circa 1947. Apartments were also […]
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Images from the mid-1990s to the 2000s of the Culver fire station at 504 E. Lake Shore Drive. The station building, earlier an International Harvester sales building, replaced the fire station at Plymouth and Cass Streets starting in 1965.
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Culver Military Academy’s Trunk Room began its life as theTabernacle for the chautauqua hotel Henry Harrison Culver built at the site of today’s Main Barracks, for the 1889 chautauqua season (famous evangelist T. Dewitt Talmage spoke there). It became the Culver Military Academy gymnasium when the school was started in 1894, and the school’s dining […]
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Then known as the Gignilliat cottage — for Culver Military Acaemy superintendent L.R. Gignilliat — and later as the Superintendent’s Home, all but the first floor of this late 19th century structure burned in a March 25, 1918 fire, though there was time to save most of the furniture and belongings from the flames. The […]
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On Oct. 21, 1978, Lake Shore Lanes bowling alley and the coffee shop accompanying, located at 620 Lake Shore Drive, burned to the ground in a spectacular fire. Dating back to 1953, Jim and Mary Dewitt had owned the bowling alley, which was sold in 1977 to Don and Juliemae Neidlinger. The fire call came […]
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The entire upper floor of the Culver hardware store at 120 South Main Street was lost in a three-hour, $60,000, April, 1957 blaze, which The Culver Citizen describes as interrupting the “traditional” Easter Sunday noon parade. Residing in the apartment at the time was the Chatman family, one of several making up Culver’s African-American community […]
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