Driving Around Downtown South Bend, Indiana and Notre Dame Campus in 4k Video
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- Опубліковано 15 гру 2024
- Filmed on Tuesday, May 30 2023, I drive around downtown South Bend, IN and the University of Notre Dame to see what's going on.
One of the earliest known groups to occupy what would later become northern Indiana was the Miami tribe. Later, the Potawatomi moved into the region, utilizing the rich food and natural resources found along the river.
The Potawatomi occupied this region of Indiana until most of them were forcibly removed in the 1840s.
The South Bend area was popular because its portage was the shortest overland route from the St. Joseph River to the Kankakee River. This route was used for centuries, first by the Native Americans, then by French explorers, missionaries and traders.
The French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, the first white European to set foot in what is now South Bend, used this portage between the St. Joseph River and the Kankakee River in December 1679.
The first permanent white settlers of South Bend were fur traders who established trading posts in the area. In 1820, Pierre Frieschutz Navarre arrived, representing the American Fur Company of John Jacob Astor. He settled near what is now downtown South Bend.
The settlement was first called St. Joseph's, then renamed to Southold, and finally changed to South Bend.
In 1831, South Bend was laid out as the county seat with 128 residents. That same year, Horatio Chapin moved to the settlement, opened the first general store with imported goods, and helped established the first church and Sunday school. The town was formally established in 1835, with Chapin as the first president of the board of town trustees.
In 1842, Father Edward Sorin founded the University of Notre Dame just north of the town.
In 1852, Henry Studebaker set up Studebaker wagon shop, later becoming the world's largest wagon builder and the only one to later succeed as an automobile manufacturer.
The Singer Sewing Company and the Oliver Chilled Plow Company were among other companies that made manufacturing the driving force in the South Bend economy until the mid-20th century.
During this time period there was a great immigration of Europeans, such as Polish, Hungarian, Irish, German, Italian, and Swedish people to South Bend because of available employment in area factories.
In 1949, legendary percussionist Lionel Hampton was informed that his concert at South Bend's Palais du Royale would be a blacks-only event; he threatened to call for a boycott of the venue, and the affair proceeded as an integrated evening, which newspapers said led to all attendees breaking out in "paroxysms of ecstasy."
By 1950, more than half of all employment was in the manufacturing sector. Due to economic difficulties, Studebaker closed its automotive manufacturing plants in South Bend in December 1963.
A general decline in manufacturing soon followed as industry was restructured nationwide. By 2000, manufacturing was only 16 percent of the local economy. Due to the severe loss of jobs, the city's population decreased by nearly 30,000 during that period.
In 2015, the city's population increased by 286, the largest one-year growth in over twenty years. The former Studebaker plant has been developed as the Ignition Park center to attract new businesses, especially in the tech industry. South Bend has also seen new development, particularly in the tech field, a decline in unemployment, and a renewal of the downtown area.
Since the 1960s, education, health care, and small business have come to the forefront of South Bend's economy, though the city has never regained the level of prosperity it enjoyed before that time. Nearby University of Notre Dame is a large contributor to the local economy. The university is the second largest employer in the city, employing 6,086 people.
As of the census of 2020, there were 103,453 people residing in the city, up from 101,168 in 2010.
The racial makeup of the city was 60.5% White, 26.6% African American, 0.5% Native American, 1.3% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 6.9% from other races, and 4.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 13.0% of the population.
The median household income was $46,002 and the per capita income was $26,934. 20.9% of the population was living below the poverty line. #driving #travel #drivingtour
Grew up in Mishawaka/South Bend. Just returned recently. Incredibly depressing. What a tragedy, Thanks Buttigeig. You own this.
lmao why so mad? aint shit changed. booty jibs never did shit for the town. notre dame runs it. and thats facts. with out the school there would be no infrastracuturce nor governing body anyway. the catholics own this land.
I spent 3 years in the Notre Dame area, used to drive around Mishawaka/South Bend a lot. Left in 2019. Must be worse now then...
Whenever I look at an American city, I'm amazed by the sheer number of national flags in the streets.
I wish there were more flags though
@exploreusacities 🇺🇲 A lot of young people today don't respect the American flag like in the past. American cities have increasingly gotten worse with crime by folks who disrespect our American flag.
Yes. Those are folks who love America. The other guys are called Democrats.
@@rubencohen2936 Crime countrywide peaked in the 80's and 90's dude, including cities. And people dont respect the flag for good reason. Our massive corporations would rather see us dead in a ditch then pay us a decent wage, and our gov takes our money and spends it bailing out the rich and bombing people.
@@rubencohen2936 The crime rate across the country has been going down steadily since the 90's. Stop fearmongering.
Was a nice place to live until about 1980.
What happened in 1980?
still is a nice place to live, as I live there.
I have no problem living here
@@exploreusacities He doesn't know, he just making up a date. South Bend was stereotypical of Rust Belt industrial might until after the second world war when deindustrialization left much of the city a rusted out hull of its former self. Like many others the city was dependent on one large factory (Studebaker) and was economically devastated when it closed. If you want to point specifically to an event that occurred around 1980, the opening of the UP Mall in Mishawaka pretty much ended DTSB's time as a retail destination for the area, as a lot of those businesses relocated to the mall when it opened.
AW man, seeing that empty space where Fat Daddy's used to be :( Thanks for uploading, havent been home in 20 years. See a lot of change and a lot still the same
8:27 to the right of the stop light Cardinal Nursing and Rehab Center, worked there 12 years. best bunch of folks ever That Subway caddy corner and behind it was a 711 where we'd all go on our lunch breaks.
Fat Daddy’s!!!! My first butterfly knife was purchased there.
The greatest city in America ❤
🇩🇪 oh that's nice, I know everything here, that eases my wanderlust to Michiana. I love South Bend/Mishawaka, Elkhart and Goshen my second home 🇺🇸
Michiana is a great little area. I filmed Elkhart but didn't make it to Goshen.
My hometown.
Nice!
There was a hospital in South Bend. I forget the name of it but there was a Nursing School attached to it. I heard that the Nursing School is no longer around but let's just say that the male Notre Dame students really like those student nurses. Is the hospital still there?
Don't know!
Memorial Hospital is still operating in downtown South Bend.
What the other car did at 2:05 is illegal in the US, isn't it? Crossing the double yellow line.
No
The double yellow line is for no over taking. For example going around a slow car..
Understood.@@yellowstonegaming
It looks like a neat, tidy town, but for a weekday, it sure did seem empty. Not much activity. What time was this recorded?
Looks like early evening, my guess would be after 6PM
Born and raised in SB. The city is growing rapidly but can be a little misleading. you only showed the nice areas ( downtown and Notre Dame/ east side) forgot west, north, & south side of town
The city limits of South Bend ranks on the top 10 most dangerous places in Indiana. Notre Dame is a separate town north of the city.
notre dame is a catholic college, the fact its allowed to be considered its own town just shows how big its ego has gotten.
@@brooklynforge4591Your FOS. The school was founded in 1842 and has had its own Notre Dame, In. US Post Office since 1851.
South Bend is not top 10 most dangerous. You're full of it.
I’ve heard South Bend is a very insecure city. Where shouldn’t I go?
Silent streets, beware,
Where pitbulls roam around free,
boarded homes whisper.
use to be a lot easier to get around town before mayor buttplug turned all the one way streets to two way with tons of stop lights,no one wants to stop unless you want to get harassed by the homeless.
The point of reconfiguring the streets wasn't so you could blast through town like a bat out of hell, motorhead. It was to help make the downtown area more friendly for pedestrians and cyclists, and as someone who used to work in DTSB, can say that goal was accomplished.
You stopped identifying streets
never have identified streets. would take forever.