Author: Lisa Lorentz

Friday Favorite: Zig-Zag Cycling Club

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | Jun 13, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

What Goes Around, Comes Around… The recent surge in bicycle popularity, designated traffic...

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Friday Favorite: Winona Technical Institute

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | Jun 6, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

It was the “Tech” Before “Tech” was “Tech”… Fans and...

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Friday Favorite: Can Indy Claim First Ever Auto Accident?

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | May 30, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

YOU Decide… Our fair city, whose international fame is flavored heavily with automotive...

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Friday Favorite: Frank(lin) Facts

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | May 23, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

Franklin Township If you’ve lived in Marion County for a while, you know that Franklin...

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Friday Favorite: Post card 1910

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | May 16, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

One of the first of its kind: an automotive technical institute in the early days of the car...

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Friday Favorite: Arsenal Tech Trivia

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | May 9, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

Bet You Didn’t Know…” Regardless of the side of town in which you live, if...

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Friday Favorite: Art History

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | May 2, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

110 East 16th Street One look at the building and you just know it’s been an important...

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Friday Favorite: Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | Apr 25, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

Historic Legacy * Education Resource * Local Treasure To some avid HI architecture fans, he might...

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Friday Favorite: The Quincy Kid Caper

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | Apr 18, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

Indiana National Bank, 1880’s. Built “when stumps dotted Washington Street.”...

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Friday Favorite: Hoosier Harem Beauty

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | Apr 11, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

Though it can’t be known for sure if this is Stella Murphy, it is a photo of a performer...

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Friday Favorite: Easter Leggacy 1877

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | Apr 4, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

An Easter Egg Dye Recipe: April 1877 The custom of Easter egg decorating is believed to date back...

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Friday Favorite: The Battle of Irvington

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | Mar 28, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

The first Irvington school began as one room in 1874 and grew to two stories with a tower by the...

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Friday Favorite: Frivolous Feats of Fancy

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | Mar 21, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

March Madness is not the only kind of madness found in the history of Indianapolis! Hoosiers and...

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Friday Favorite: To The Beat of a Different Drum

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | Mar 14, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

  … a Bigger and Better Drum! Tucked away among the over-tight streets of the...

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Friday Favorite: Which Came First, the McCormick or the Pogue?

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | Mar 7, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

Indianapolis in 1820 by Alois E. Sinks – showing the point where Washington Street crossed...

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Friday Favorite: Sissle-ing Talent!

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | Feb 28, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

A Pioneering Singer, Bandleader, Composer: Noble Lee Sissle Born in Indianapolis in July...

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Friday Favorite: The Dubious Drs. Bye

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | Feb 21, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

Home Grown Cancer Quacks Current issues of healthcare reform aside, if you’ve gotta be sick,...

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Friday Favorite: In Love with Early Indy Newspapers

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | Feb 14, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

Loving Indy’s Early Newspapers If you’re a history lover, there’s no cozier Indy...

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Friday Favorite: Healin’ Hurty

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | Feb 7, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

John N. Hurty (1852-1925) Purdue University photo. (C)lean and Mean… John Hurty began his...

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Friday Favorite: 1852 Balloon Scheme Goes Bust

Posted by Lisa Lorentz | Jan 31, 2014 | Friday Favorites |

Indianapolis businessman, J. H. McKernan, had it all arranged — a day of perfect weather and...

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