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Northwest Indiana Bank history
Northwest Indiana Bank company history timeline
Henry Schrage founded the company is 1895 on 119th Street.
Franciscan St Margaret Hospital in Hammond was founded in 1898 as St Margaret Hospital.
The Lighthouse in Michigan City was built in 1904 and is the only public operating lighthouse in Indiana.
Albert's Diamond Jewelers opened in 1905 in a tiny storefront in East Chicago.
"The cool thing about this is this has deposits from all of the customers," said historian Andy Collins, showing off a bank ledger from 1907 inside the new Centier Bank Museum.
The Post-Tribune was founded in 1907 as The Gary Weekly.
In 1908, the weekly became a daily and changed its name to the Gary Tribune.
In 1913, Citizens Bank opened its doors in a new building with a massive 12-ton Diebold vault door that was so perfectly balanced that a child could open it.
The first license to a radio station in the Calumet Region was awarded in 1923.
President Calvin Coolidge dedicated Wicker Memorial Park in Highland in 1927 to "the doughboys of World War I." Over the years, the park has grown to include an 18-hole golf course, driving range, playground, sand volleyball, picnic areas and 2.5 mile trail.
Miner-Dunn restaurant opened at 5440 Calumet Ave. in Hammond in 1932 founded by Harold Miner and Ralph Dunn.
Gus Bock's Ace Hardware in Dyer and Munster, continues to be family-owned business that began in Lansing in 1935.
The Blue Top Drive-In in Highland first opened in 1936.
In 1940, the station call letters for the station were changed to WJOB and the studio moved to downtown Hammond.
Collins had all sorts of "cool things" to show off – from a 19th-century safe to a 1950's calculator with a hand crank.
49'er Drive-In Theatre, 675 N. Calumet Ave., Valparaiso, opened in 1956 showing "The Seven Little Foys" and "Vanishing Prairie." The drive-in continues to show current movie hits today.
In 1956, the station moved to 6405 Olcott Ave. in the Woodmar section of Hammond.
In 1958, Merchants National Bank upgraded the correct time feature by phone, by adding the temperature.
It moved to its current location, 9700 Indianapolis Blvd., in 1960.
In 1962, Calumet Region Purdue was renamed Purdue University Calumet Campus.
The current building at 8801 Indianapolis Blvd. opened in 1964 and continues to attract loyal classic car enthusiasts.
The original garden center opened in Frankfort in 1969.
Schepel Buick-GMC-Cadillac Richard Schepel bought the former Ray Shem Buick in Crown Point and opened his first car dealership on United States 30 in Merrillville in 1970.
In 1973, when bank officials broke ground on a new Citizens Bank building – the current building that is standing today at 502 Franklin – an underground spring was hit while digging for a basement.
Our current Corporate Headquarters located at 515 Franklin Square: According to a January 1977 ad, the triangular shape of the new building was chosen to represent the three sides of banking: personal, commercial and industrial.
The Valparaiso Popcorn Festival began in 1979 as a way to salute Orville Redenbacher, who lived in Valparaiso for many years, and popcorn.
Gelsosomo's Pizzeria started in 1979 in Portage.
In 1979, the name changed to Purdue University Calumet.
The idea for the Food Bank in Northwest Indiana was born in 1981 when two local United Way and Steel Worker representatives at a conference in Indianapolis learned about how a food bank could positively impact their community.
The chain of restaurants started in 1984 with the Munster location, 215 Ridge Road, and now includes 19 locations in Illinois and Indiana.
At first the Food Bank was only distributing salvaged food, but in 1989 the organization began obtaining food donations from food suppliers and retailers.
The Bank was renamed Horizon Bank in 1997.
For years the Food Bank of Northwest Indiana operated out of a 12,000 square foot barn that had been re-purposed to act as a distribution facility, but in 2018 the Food Bank moved into its new home—a larger, more efficient food distribution facility in Merrillville.
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