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39 minutes ago, Magnanimous said:

Student war council (1943)

 

"Look fiercely at the camera. Hitler may be watching!"

 

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Nick's goes dry (1940)

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Downtown Bloomington (1907)

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Downtown Bloomington (1963)

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Downtown Bloomington (1913)

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Pre-Sample Gates

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1 hour ago, Magnanimous said:

Nick's goes dry (1940)

 

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This thread is great, these pictures are awesome.   Thanks!

I'd like to share a story that not many Hoosier fans seem to know about Branch McCracken and his childhood basketball buddies.  From Mac's Boys by Jason Hiner:

Branch and his younger brother Bill would play ball with their neighbors, the Wooden boys.  The back of the Woodens' farm butted up against the back of the McCracken's farm, and Johnny Wooden, who went on to basketball fame as a player at Purdoo and coach at UCLA, was the same age as Bill and they were good friends.  John's older brother Maurice was close to the same age as Branch.

"We played with a stuffed sock because we didn't have enough money to buy a basketball," said Bill McCracken.  We had some pretty rough games there in that old barn."

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1932 wrestling team that won the national championship. This was IU's first national championship in any sport.

Bloomington in general has a rich wrestling tradition during this era at high school and collegiate levels.


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Downtown after making the 2002 championship game

 

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The owner of Uptown Cafe discussing the revitalization of downtown Bloomington in the 1980s.

 

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A then and now of South Walnut.

 

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2 hours ago, southsidehoosier said:

 

Bloomington in general has a rich wrestling tradition during this era at high school and collegiate levels.


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I can't speak for the high school level, but it looks like the college team fell off after WWII. There were no NCAA championships from 1943-1945. In addition to the 1932 title, we were national runner-ups in 1934 and 1940. 

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Nick Hrisomalos (1891-1953). The founder of Nick's English Hut. Nick was a Greek immigrant who settled in Bloomington in 1914. He opened Nick's in 1927.

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Daniel Kirkwood (1814-1895), who Kirkwood Avenue is named for, was an astronomer and professor of mathematics at IU from 1856 until 1886. According to Bloomingpedia, he is famous for identifying a pattern relating the distances of the planets to their rotation periods, which was called Kirkwood's Law.

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The Von Lee was a downtown movie theater on Kirkwood Ave (now where Noodles is located).

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Andrew Wylie (1789-1851) was the first president of IU. He served as president from 1829 until his death in 1851.

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David Starr Jordan served as IU's seventh president from 1884-1891. He then left IU to become Stanford's first and founding president. 

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Sherman Minton attended IU for undergrad and law school (law class of 1915). He is IU's only alumnus to become a US Supreme Court Justice, where he served as an associate justice from 1949-1956. 

As an aside, associate justice Wiley Rutledge attended IU law school part time but then transferred to Colorado-Boulder. Both of these men attended IU law school in Bloomington, which is nowcalled the Mauer School of Law. Other notable IUB law alumni include Wendell Willkie (Republican nominee for the 1940 presidential election) and Hoagy Carmichael. Willkie was good friends with Minton while at IU. 

Notable alumni of IU-Indy law school (now McKinney School of Law) include former vice-president Dan Quayle and current vice-president Mike Pence.

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Michael Higgins is the current president of Ireland, having taken office in 2011. He received his master's degree in sociology from IU.