Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: Indianapolis Water Company – Canal Bridges

Considering all the recent talk of selling the Water Company (and what is being done with some of the funds), it seemed an ideal time to feature this old advert of Canal Bridges–at West and...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: A full page of Fountain Square

Can’t recall when I found this and don’t know the exact date, but clearly, it’s around Thanksgiving 1922.  Which stand out most to you? The next time you’re in Fountain Square, look in the window...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: Butler College and Bobbs-Merrill

Butler College, 1910, Irvington Foreshadowing on a Sunday… Having visited the current Butler University campus twice this week: once for the public introduction to Local Stake, a new way of connecting local entrepreneurs and investors...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: Presidential Cookbook

With the recent political race and the general national obsession with food, it seemed like a good time for this advert for a White House Cookbook from November 7, 1896:    ...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: Citizen’s Gas 1928

Nothing is constant but change, the saying goes- so Citizen’s Gas is no exception. If you live In Indianapolis, as am I, you undoubtedly have surely started receiving your Citizen’s Water bill as of last...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Ads: Unexpected Honeybees

From the same booklet as yesterday’s map, the Dreher’s Simplex Street and House Number  Guide–not something you see every day in advertisements: supplies for beekeeper’s. I couldn’t resist featuring this, especially considering the current global...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: Hoosier Kitchens, Cabinets, and Refrigerators in 1919

I think most of us have heard of the Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet, right? (There is one on display at the President Benjamin Harrison Home, if I’m not mistaken.) Thumbing through Good Housekeeping from 1919, there...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: House Movers, 1897

Considering the recent ‘to-do’ over the planned demolition of approximately 2,000 Indianapolis structures and the desire by some of us to explore other options before we eradicate more of our (potentially restored) historic homes and...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: Round-Up Bar, Virginia Avenue

Anyone ever heard of this one? Looking at google maps, 828-839 Virginia appears to be approximately where the Virginia  highway bridge goes over I-65.  Wonder who played there? And was there a mechanical bull?...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday adverts: Parquet!

Ooh la la! One of the things on my dream house check list: parquet floors! And yes, I’m lucky enough to have them in my entry way! Wonder which vintage Indianapolis homes got their parquet...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday adverts: printers, stationers, bookmakers

Some of the historic memorabilia found in yesterday’s “Indianapolis Collected,” may have been printed at one of the following: Love the Burford adverts found in Indianapolis Blue Books. Bowen-Merrill, the famed book store that later...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: Pluto Water

Since Thomas Taggart was already fresh on my mind, his former hotel in French Lick seemed like good fodderr for today’s advert. The following two have been made into greeting cards. And if you haven’t been to...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Ad: the Model Clothing Store, 1895

From 1895 is this advertisement for the Model Clothing store. How children’s fashions have changed! The Model was located at 41-49 East Washington Street and 2-22 South Pennsylvania Street in the late 1880s and 1890s....

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: Hotel Harrison

Today’s advertisement is actually stationary from the Hotel Harrison. Of course, stationary emblazened with the image of the hotel had to have been pretty effective advertising. Hotel Harrison was built in 1928, one of the...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Hotel Adverts of 1910’s-1920’s

From the 1910’s and 1920’s- The Claypool–more to come on that subject… More on this hotel coming soon, too! Circle Hotel, formerly the Morton Hotel on the Circle. We’ve been through our fair share of...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Ads: Hotels of the 1890s and 1900s

Here are just a handful of advertisements of Indianapolis hotels from the 1890s and 1900s. By this time, there were more than 40 hotels in the city. By this time, the Enterprise Hotel, on Massachusetts...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Ads: Hotels of the 1870s and 80s

Continuing in the vein from last week’s advertisements of the 1850s and 60s, here are some from Indianapolis hotels of the 1870s and 80s.   Circle Park Hotel appeared in Indianapolis in the 1880s. These...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Ads: Hotels and Boarding Houses of the 1850s and 60s

The 1855 Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory reported the following about the lodging in Indianapolis: Indianapolis is noted for its fine and well regulated hotels. Perhaps no other city in the West can boast...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Advert: Woodruff Place

From the catalog of the 1874 State Fair and Exposition (taking place at the State Fairgrounds in what is now Herron-Morton Place), an advertisement featuring Woodruff Place appeared:  ...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Ad: Father’s Day in the 30s and 40s

Happy Father’s Day! Today, we have a few advertisements celebrating dads. First is a Father’s Day 1945 advertisement for the Meridian Furniture Company. As the ad says, “Furniture makes a GREAT GIFT…one he can enjoy...

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