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Studebaker Sign
Studebaker Sign

This was originally on the front of the 1927 Studebaker dealership in downtown Mishawaka, Indiana. A huge part of the local economy, the Studebaker plant in neighboring South Bend closed in 1966.
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/studebaker-goes-bankrupt

The building recently had a major restoration and is now used as the headquarters for the local food pantry. The reference to 'medallions' in this article is talking about this feature:

"People have been asking about my job repairing the old Studebaker showroom, now the Mishawaka Food Pantry. The internal steel I-beams above the picture windows were so rusted, we had to install new custom fabricated steel beams to reinforce the wall. After that was done, we completely rebuilt the entire outside wall on 2 sides of the building. We used the same brick on the front after cleaning them in order to keep the original look of the building. It was a huge and complicated restoration. So although it now appears that nothing was done to the front of the building...that was by design. It was completely torn down and rebuilt again.

Took a long time. The medallions in the pictures (what you see here) were just about to fall out of the wall too. I could have simply yanked on it and it would have crashed to the sidewalk. Whoever did the re-roof cut the steel anchors holding the medallions in, so they were loose.

A good decision I think by Penn Township to restore and preserve the old building rather than razing it which seems to be the norm these days."
forum.studebakerdriversclub.com/forum/your-studebaker-for...

On the current resident, the food pantry:
www.mishawakafoodpantry.org

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Taken on: August 2, 2020
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