From way back in 1888, a tale of woe to a gang of small boys who only wanted to make a little candy money selling rags to the Dietrich department store but ran afoul of the long arm of the... Continue Reading →
The 1890s ushered in the bicycle craze, as the safety bicycle (with two matching wheels and a chain) pushed out the dangerous "penny-farthing" high-wheel bicycles. J F Weiss, the hardware store on the northeast corner of Center and Plymouth lured... Continue Reading →
Woodie Schramm came to Bremen from Warsaw in 1944 and bought the Home Cash Grocery from Lester Koontz. In 2014, Woodie's son Charles gave a History Chat talk at the Bremen History Center on the history of the business and... Continue Reading →
The Pizza Hut building on the northeast corner of Plymouth & Marshall was knocked down today to make way for a somewhat larger building in August that will reportedly have a little dine-in space. The work is being done by... Continue Reading →
The Main family recently donated the old telephone switchboard from the Liberty Coach plant to Historic Bremen. It is on display now at the History Center. An operator sat in front of the switchboard and connected those who rang her... Continue Reading →
John J Wright's Opera House occupied the second floor of the building above Wright's Store (today's Panda Garden). It opened in the early 1880s (before the Enquirer was around to document it) and hosted the first real Bremen High School... Continue Reading →
Although Bremen was first surveyed and platted in 1851, the beginning of the town is often dated to 1871, when it was incorporated. What was it like back then? In 1870, the census of Bremen covered just three pages: 120... Continue Reading →
Happy new year from the Bremen A&W Drive-In... The A&W opened in Bremen in the summer of 1957. They closed each winter (you can't walk orders to the cars very easily if there's snow all over), but before long Ervin... Continue Reading →
August 25, Dean Kimble, the 97-year-old former proprietor of Kimble Furs in Bremen, gave a History Chat at the Bremen History Center on the fur business over his 50+ years in it. Mr. Kimble explained how his father Walter Kimble... Continue Reading →
Charles Jackson "CJ" Hoople came to Bremen in 1876 and opened a saloon that would become the most venerable tavern in Indiana: Hoople's. His father was John Rawden Hoople, who had come to America from French Canada in about 1830... Continue Reading →
The Plymouth Tribune, on February 19, 1903, ran this glowing article on Bremen's townsfolk and businesses. Flanking the article was a similar one about the town of Bourbon. Click on an image below to see a larger version. You may... Continue Reading →
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