City-County Observer

University of Southern Indiana Alumni Association and Athletics are pleased to announce that the 2010 NCAA Division II Baseball National Championship game between USI...

Workers construct a section of the thirteen steps that would eventually lead to the Four Freedoms monument on Evansville’s riverfront, across the street from...

Yesteryear: Evansville Centennial Celebration by Pat Sides During the week of May 11-17, 1947, Evansville lavishly observed the centennial of its city charter. A packed...

President Taft Visits Evansville by Pat Sides Evansville became an even busier hub of activity after April 6, 1917, when the United States formally entered the...

American Theater Yesteryear by Pat Sides The American Theater opened in 1915 at 626-628 Main Street, in the same block where the Victory Theater would open...

Evansville Country Club by Pat Sides When the Evansville Country Club was organized by 143 members in 1900, the rural area had already witnessed much...

Majestic Theater by Pat Sides When the old Igleheart Mill moved to First Avenue in 1904, the building it vacated at Fifth and Locust streets...

Yesteryear: Hotel Lincoln by Pat Sides The Hotel Lincoln was one of Evansville’s finer downtown hotels in the first half of the twentieth century. Located...

Rose Bowl Lane Fire by Pat Sides This photo appeared in an Evansville newspaper on August 8, 1966, capturing the drama during a fire at...

East Side School BY Pat Sides Members of the Evansville School Board gathered to break ground for the construction of a new school in 1949....

YESTERYEAR: JOE AARON By Pat Sides Evansville Courier columnist Joe Aaron was the guest of honor at a “roast” held at Das Kollker Haus restaurant on...

Evansville Mayor William Dress is pictured here with two unidentified Boy Scouts in the late 1940s. A native of Ohio, Dress moved to Evansville to...

Louis Ruthenburg Evansville’s Leading Industrialist In The Mid-1900s Yesteryear by Pat Sides This special event, sponsored by the Evansville Chamber of Commerce in November 1941, celebrated the...

Division and Main Streets by Pat Sides In this 1982 photo, the old railroad tracks that once stretched down the center of Division Street are...

Over the decades, the annual West Side Nut Club Fall Festival has evolved into one of Evansville’s most eagerly-anticipated events, as well as one...

President Taft Visits Evansville Evansville became an even busier hub of activity after April 6, 1917, when the United States formally entered the war in...

St. Lucas Evangelical Church Choir The St. Lucas Boys Choir, posing at the entrance of the church (now named St. Lucas United Church of Christ),...

D-Patrick has deep roots to the Evansville business community.  Way back to 1934, when Joseph E. O'Daniel partnered with George Ranes Sr. to form O'Daniel-Ranes...

YESTERYEAR: 109 YEARS AGO BY RONALD RIECKEN 1910 Ford Make sure you read all the statistics under the photo. Show this to your friends, children and/or grandchildren! The year...

Way back to 1934, when Joseph E. O'Daniel partnered with George Ranes Sr. to form O'Daniel-Ranes Oldsmobile in downtown Evansville, Indiana. With the expansion...