Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: Meadowbrook Diner, 5151 E. 38th Street

Undated linen postcard of the Meadowbrook Diner (The Indiana Album: Loaned by Joan Hostetler) With three operating traditional diners and the recent explosion of food trucks zipping around town, Indianapolis is enjoying a diner revival...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: Indiana State Fair, 1202 E. 38th Street

Among a group of old photographs found in the attic of an Indianapolis home were these three faded snapshots identified as the 1900 Indiana State Fair. Many people might have tossed the small, poorly processed,...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: DeLuxe Cake & Pastry Shop, 657 E. 38th Street

DeLuxe Cake & Pastry Shop, ca. 1945 / Courtesy of IUPUI Library, Neighborhood of Saturdays Collection Travelers along Maple Road (now 38th Street) in the 1930s and 1940s recognized the DeLuxe Cake & Pastry Shop...

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