Lost Landmarks: Then and Now
January 30 - December 31, 2010
Carroll Gallery
Do you remember watching baseball games at Playland Park or catching the train at the South Shore Station in downtown South Bend? If you do--and even if you don't--you'll enjoy the memories conjured by Lost Landmarks: Then and Now, featuring over 40 photographs of South Bend and Mishawaka buildings that were once local landmarks but are no longer standing.
A perennial favorite, the exhibit features for the first time, courtesy of the South Bend Tribune, photographs showing the current landscape of the “lost landmark,” so that visitors can compare buildings of the past with their locations as they look today. An image of Playland Park brings reminiscences of swimming, horse racing, midget car racing, ballroom dancing and other leisure
activities enjoyed in this amusement park open from 1925 to 1967. For several years, Playland Park was home to the South Bend Blue Sox. Many of the park’s buildings were razed in 1969, and today the property is owned by Indiana University South Bend. A 1960s street scene of Mishawaka spotlights the intersection of Lincolnway West and Main Streets where Karlin Drugs and the Mishawaka Trust & Savings Company were located. The Liberty Mutual Insurance Company has occupied that site since 1985. The elegant Oliver Hotel, which opened in 1899, was located at the corner of Washington and Main Streets. Later known as the Pick-Oliver Hotel, the establishment continued to serve guests until 1967 when the building was demolished. Chase Bank and Holiday Inn now stand at that location.
