Posted in Christmas and Christmastime, Culver -- Town of, Events, Fires, Holidays, Nursing homes, Organizations - Culver-Union Twp. Volunteer Fire Dept. on Sep 4th, 2012
At least as far back as the 1950s — if not earlier — Santa Claus helped kick off the Christmas season each December by arriving in town on a Culver fire truck, often greeting children at the annual children’s Christmas party at the station afterwards.
Posted in Bowling Alleys, Buildings, Businesses, Culver -- Town of, Events, Fires, Organizations - Culver-Union Twp. Volunteer Fire Dept., Restaurants on Aug 19th, 2012
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 […]
Posted in Businesses, Events, Fires, Ice Houses, Organizations - Culver-Union Twp. Volunteer Fire Dept. on Aug 17th, 2012
In 1906, the first commercial ice house operation on Lake Maxinkuckee, opened in the early 1880s by Sterling Holt of the Indianapolis Ice Co., burned to the ground. These shots were taken from across the lake at Culver Military Academy by a cadet. The ice house was located in the depression near South Street and […]
Posted in African-American History, Buildings, Culver -- Town of, Culver Hardware, Events, Fires, Organizations - Culver-Union Twp. Volunteer Fire Dept. on Aug 16th, 2012
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 […]
Posted in Buildings, Businesses, Culver -- Town of, Events, Ferrier Lumber Co., Fires, Organizations - Culver-Union Twp. Volunteer Fire Dept. on Aug 15th, 2012
The fire which claimed the Ferrier Lumber Company on the north side of East Jefferson Street in Culver was spotted around 4:30 a.m. April 21, 1923. Fire departments from Knox, Plymouth, and Logansport assisted, and Culver’s inadequate water supply forced firemen to pump water from nearby Lake Maxinkuckee. Efforts were concentrated on saving the surrounding […]
Posted in Businesses, Culver -- Town of, Publications -- Miscellaneous, Publications -- Telephone Directories on Dec 15th, 2011
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