While we continue to map out the features we want to offer you wonderful H.I. readers, it seems like a good time to offer a really cool glimpse of Indianapolis in 1950.

Through the eyes of Laura Owen Miller, granddaughter of William Henry Harrison Miller, law partner of President Benjamin Harrison, learn what were perceived as the selling points of our city sixty plus years ago.

This article appeared in the August 1950 issue of Holiday magazine, amongst articles on Cape Cod Cottages, Southampton Summers and Yellowstone National Park! Because the article is so long and impossible to capture one whole page in a scan, we offer you the first installment. The next one comes on Saturday…

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To be continued on Saturday…