Starke County (Ind.) ; Posters; Memorabilia; Big bands;
This poster is advertising the 12 Creoles, a big band popular in the 1920s that played often at the Savoy in Chicago. The Crytal Ball Room, built c.1925 at the south end of Bass Lake, was a popular place through the 1960's. It featured big bands...
History; County government; Pioneers; Families; Farm life; Farming;
Mr. McCormick describes his work as an "An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with an Extended Survey of Modern Developments in the Reclamation of Lands and the Progress of Town and Country".
In the early 1900s Marks and Benson, a men's clothier, began an advertising campaign that they would continue for over 25 years. Some of the rules and offers changed over the years, but basically when any boy, accompanied by a parent, purchased a...
Louisville Cement Company (Speed, Ind.); The Speedometer (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); The Speed Way (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); The Warning Star (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); Louisville...
The Speedometer was a monthly or sometimes bi-weekly newsletter of the Louisville Cement Company in Speed, Indiana. The newsletter was focused on safety issues at the plant but also included human interest stories. The Speedometer began publication...
Starke County (Ind.) ; Advertisements; Publicity; Big bands;
The Crytal Ball Room, built c.1925 at the south end of Bass Lake, was a popular place through the 1960's. It featured big bands and dancing, roller skating and other events, such as prize fights. Young men bought tickets for 10 cents for the...
Starke County (Ind.) ; Publicity photographs; Big bands;
This photo is a publicity photograph, popular in the early 1900s. The Black Diamonds were a big band contracted by the Brunswick Recording Company. The Crytal Ball Room where they were contracted in Bass Lake was built c.1925 and was a popular...
Starke County (Ind.) ; Tickets; Memorabilia; Dance parties;
This image of a ticket to the Crystal Ball Room and the Blue Dog was good for either dance and was purchased for fifty cents. The dances were sponsored by local business men of Bass Lake, the Knox Chamber of Commerce and the North Judson Chamber...
Starke County (Ind.) ; Tickets; Memorabilia; Boxing;
This image is an original ticket sold for a boxing show or fight on July 4th. Throughout the years the Crystal Gardens, built around 1925 was a sight for dancing to big bands, roller skating, boxing and many other forms of entertainment.
Starke County (Ind.); Dance halls; Automobiles; Big bands; Boxing;
The Crytal Ball Room, built c.1925 at the south end of Bass Lake, was a popular place through the 1960's. It featured big bands and dancing, roller skating and other events, such as prize fights. Young men bought tickets for 10 cents for the...
Starke County (Ind.) ; Roller skating; Memorabilia; Tickets;
This ticket was for the ladies to skate free and to skate for health on Monday nights at the Crystal Roller Rink. You could bring your lunch and have a picnic all for thirty five cents at least on Monday. On Tuesday through Friday nights in March...
Starke County (Ind.) ; Tickets; Memorabilia; Big bands;
This ticket selling entry for one night only is for what is advertised as the New Crystal Ball Room. The Crystal Ball Room had many variations of its name throughout its existence and was a source of entertainment for many years. Dan Russo and...
Starke County (Ind.) ; Tickets; Memorabilia; Dance halls;
The Crytal Ball Room, built c.1925 at the south end of Bass Lake, was a popular place through the 1960's. It featured big bands and dancing, roller skating and other events, such as prize fights. This ticket admitted one lady on Saturday night.
Starke County (Ind.) ; Tickets; Memorabilia; Big bands;
This ticket would have been a pretty expensive ticket in the 1920s selling for seventy-five cents advanced purchase of a dollar at the door. But Bobbie Grice and her Brick Tops could have brought that kind of money at the Crystal Ball Room. The...
The Crytal Ball Room, built c.1925 was famous for contracting big bands and entertainment and remained popular through the 1960's. It featured big bands and dancing, roller skating and other events, such as prize fights. Young men bought tickets...
Starke County (Ind.) ; Publicity photographs; Big bands; Dance halls;
The Crytal Ball Room, built c.1925 at the south end of Bass Lake, was a popular place through the 1960's. It featured big bands and dancing, roller skating and other events, such as prize fights. Young men bought tickets for 10 cents for the...
The Crytal Ball Room, built c.1925 at the south end of Bass Lake, was a popular place through the 1960's. It featured big bands and dancing, roller skating and other events, such as prize fights. Young men bought tickets for 10 cents for the...
Fort Wayne (Ind.)--History;
Allen County (Ind.)--History;
Allen County (Ind.)--Biography
Pictorial history of Fort Wayne, Indiana; a review of two centuries of occupation of the region about the head of the Maumee river; also the story of the townships of Allen county by Mrs. Samuel R.Taylor
Illustrated.
Handwritten letter to Carey informing of Mr. Riley's date of arrival. He will be appear at Madison Square Gardens Concert Hall and has complimentary tickets.
