MEMORY BANK: Former O’Brien car lot is now Milktooth on Virginia Avenue
Founder Thomas O’Brien launched his auto sales in 1933 across the street with a Desoto-Plymouth dealership.
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Memory Bank: Brightwood once had thriving business district
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.
Memory Bank: Downtown interstates completed in 1976
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.
Luxury car plant opened in 1911
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.
Memory Bank: Claypool Hotel before the fire
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.
Memory Bank: Uncle Sam campaigns with C.I.O. in 1944
The national group was initially part of the American Federation of Labor but broke off to become the nation’s first political action committee.
Memory Bank: Baseball begins
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.
MEMORY BANK: Kentucky Avenue billboard advertises used cars
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).
MEMORY BANK: Indiana Theatre hosts premiere of movie about harness racing
What was then called the Indiana Theatre hosted the world premiere of “Home in Indiana,” a movie about harness racing, on June 14, 1944.
MEMORY BANK: Broad Ripple Amusement Park had roller coaster, other rides
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.
Memory Bank: Mallory factory whirs with activity in 1943
At its height in the 1960s, the P.R. Mallory building on Washington Street had 1,500 workers.
Memory Bank: Looking up Indiana Avenue
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 […]
MEMORY BANK: L.S. Ayres flagship store rises
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.