Andrew Jackson High School - Jacksonian Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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BEFORE CHRISTMAS, school children were invited to paint the temporary panels which camouflaged the down- town construction areas. FIRST STEP toward realization of the new River Bend Plaza was rerouting of traffic around it. lu H VC ' 9J — 6 M DESPITE RESIDENTS ' protests, bull- dozers cleared trees for the widening of Ironwood Road. This was necessary, officials said, to handle the Mall traffic. ' ri- 26

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AT FAR LEFT, AS HER COMPANY TREASURER, Dee Vee Deen makes out payroll checks. AT LEFT, MAKING A booze lamp, Michael Bruns prepares to drill a hole in a bottle. 25

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South Bend gets face-lift; progress sometimes painful Never in South Bend ' s history did so many dramatic changes come in one year. The whole downtown area was Hterally torn out, leaving some gaping holes but also the promise of a modern business and civic center and a beautiful river front. Michigan Street was closed and replaced by tree- lined pedestrian walks. On the southeast side, change was just as dramatic. Following the completion of Scottsdale Mall, new eating places sprang up all along once placid Ireland Road; and the countryside around Ironwood would never be the same again. THE CLARK building, one of the last to fall to the wrecker ' s ball, is demolished by a firm named Jackson. NEW SIGNS indicating one-way streets proved to be almost as confusing as the new traffic patterns. 27