- January 2026
- Issue 018
Business was good across South Bend in 1926, except when it wasn't. The Roaring Twenties brought prosperity to some, and doom to others, including South Bend's Wool Industry.
Aaron Helman remembers the fate of the South Bend Woolen Mills, insolvent in 1926, a victim of shifting tariff policies.
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Six years into Prohibition and with a newly enacted host of stricter enforcement laws, New Year's Eve 1925 was supposed to be the driest celebration on record. Spoiler alert: It wasn't.
The Elbel family had been South Bend's music royalty since they arrived in the 1840s, but in 1926, the whole nation was slow dancing to the new hit waltz written by a pair of Elbel cousins.
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