This photo from the 1940s shows Allen’s Furniture and Roesch Pharmacy, on the west side of the street’s 2300 block, while Brightwood Jewelers and Goldman’s, a clothing store, anchored the east side.
The Indiana Department of Transportation is making plans now to rebuild the north split and some neighbors are advocating alternatives that could include removing the highways or reducing their footprints.
Stutz Motor Co. built luxury cars, race cars and safety vehicles at this plant at the corner of 10th Street and Capitol Avenue from 1911 through 1935.
The Claypool Hotel operated for more than a century at the corner of Illinois and Washington streets, with this photo taken on Sept. 21, 1955.
The national group was initially part of the American Federation of Labor but broke off to become the nation’s first political action committee.
Frank Sigamoos, a former Indianapolis Indians infielder, pitches the first ball to Joseph Taylor, director of program development at Flanner House, to mark the start of the Little League season in an undated photo believed to be from the 1950s.
This 1927 billboard above Martin Zinkan grocery at 1205 Kentucky Ave. advertises used cars at Capitol Overland Co. at Capitol Avenue and Michigan Street (a building that remains).
What was then called the Indiana Theatre hosted the world premiere of “Home in Indiana,” a movie about harness racing, on June 14, 1944.
Broad Ripple Amusement Park—on the site of what is now Broad Ripple Park—was the successor to White City Amusement Park, which opened May 26, 1906, but burned down just two years later.
At its height in the 1960s, the P.R. Mallory building on Washington Street had 1,500 workers.
This photograph from the 1940s shows a view of Indiana Avenue looking northwest from Ohio Street, with Sacks Bros. Loans to the left and a Firestone service station to the right. At that time, Indiana Avenue ended at Ohio Street. But the street was shortened by one block in 1982 for construction of what was […]
Workers erect steel on April 22, 1905, for what would become the L.S. Ayres flagship store at the southwest corner of Meridian and Washington streets.
