Posted in Buildings, Buildings and Campus, Businesses, Culver Academies, Hotels, Organizations - Culver-Union Twp. Volunteer Fire Dept., Schools on Sep 5th, 2012
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.
Posted in Buildings, Events, Fires, Groceries, Lake Maxinkuckee -- East Shore, Maxinkuckee Village, Organizations - Culver-Union Twp. Volunteer Fire Dept. on Sep 4th, 2012
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 […]
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 Buildings, Culver -- Town of, Organizations - Culver-Union Twp. Volunteer Fire Dept. on Sep 4th, 2012
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.
Posted in Buildings, Culver Academies, Events, Fires, Organizations - Culver-Union Twp. Volunteer Fire Dept. on Aug 19th, 2012
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 […]
Posted in Events, Families, Fires, Lake Maxinkuckee -- East Shore, Marmon-Greenleaf, Organizations - Culver-Union Twp. Volunteer Fire Dept. on Aug 19th, 2012
ABOVE: In 1941, the garage and tenant residence at the Marmon cottage, at 1100 East Shore Drive on Lake Maxinkuckee, burned to the ground. The structure likely dated to the 1880s, when Daniel and Elizabeth Marmon arrived here and established the cottage, today occupied by the Greenleaf descendants of the Marmons. […]
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 Culver -- Town of, Events, Fires, Organizations - Culver-Union Twp. Volunteer Fire Dept. on Aug 16th, 2012
The Culver Fire Department, which formed in Jan., 1903, began keeping hand-written records which continued through the century. Pictured here is the very first book in its entirety. Read more about the formation of the department and its early minutes here.
