Allen County, Indiana Genealogy

Address is 4201 Coldwater Road, many visitors enter from Coliseum Boulevard shown in this Street View photo from Google maps

Glenbrook Square 1965 1966 1976 photograph panel by Palisades is a Pyramid Scheme taken August 26, 2021 in a Glenbrook Square series of 13 photos on flickr showing panels for 1965, 1966, 1976, 1981, and 2018.

4201 Coldwater Road, Glenbrook Square www.glenbrooksquare.com.

1. July 23, 2015 post by Hofer and Davis, Inc. Land Surveyors on Facebook:

   For Throwback Thursday we present this article from The Journal Gazette on May 16, 1966 from the H & D Scrapbook. By the way... Hofer and Davis provided the survey for Glenbrook over 50 years ago, and many others since. July 23, 2022 Facebook post stated:: Glenbrook was built on several lots of Rahdert’s Subdivision which my grandfather, A.K. Hofer platted in 1941. We surveyed Glenbrook from then to the present.

   May 16, 1966 The Journal Gazette newspaper article Giant Glenbrook Center Takes Shape On North Side shows groundbreaking on June 23, 1965 on the north edge of the city at U.S. 27 and U.S. 30 Bypass.

2. Was the former Christian and Sophia Rosebruck Rahdert Farm shown in a 7 September 1957 photo published November 29, 2014 on the original Great Memories and History of Fort Wayne, Indiana page on Facebook.
3. 1965 to 1966: Construction of Glenbrook Square in Fort Wayne by Corey McMaken with 8 photographs published July 28, 2022 lists some of the original 70 stores including several newspaper articles published at the time in the History Journal archives of the Journal Gazette newspaper.
4. Photo of November 1966 Spotlite on Fort Wayne magazine article on opening discussed November 2, 2016 on PostiveFortWayne.
5. Aerial photos comparing now on Google map with 1938: Coldwater Road and North Clinton Street by Corey McMaken published May 2, 2019 in The Journal Gazette newspaper.

6. ⏰ From the Vault: We're taking it back to 1966 when Glenbrook Square Mall was built. Anchor tenants included JCPenney,...

   Posted by Elevatus Architecture on Thursday, December 17, 2020

   Thursday, December 17, 2020 post by Elevatus Architecture on Facebook:

   From the Vault: We're taking it back to 1966 when Glenbrook Square Mall was built.

   Anchor tenants included JCPenney, L.S. Ayres, Marshall Field’s, Sears and over 160 specialty stores, plus an 11-unit food court with seating for 600 and a 3-screen movie theater.

7. Glenbrook Square information on Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
8. Glenbrook Square History at malls.fandom.com.