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  • Posted in: Bicycles, Friday Favorites Friday Favorite: Zig-Zag Cycling Club

    What Goes Around, Comes Around… The recent surge in bicycle popularity, designated traffic lanes for cyclists, and issues of “sharing the road,” are not new to Indianapolis. Indeed, this “new” phenomenon is a REsurgence — more than 100 years...

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  • Posted in: Friday Favorites Friday Favorite: Can Indy Claim First Ever Auto Accident?

    YOU Decide… Our fair city, whose international fame is flavored heavily with automotive lore, might claim one more dubious automobile first: Indy may have been the site of the first auto accident in the United States....

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  • Posted in: Friday Favorites Friday Favorite: Post card 1910

    One of the first of its kind: an automotive technical institute in the early days of the car – immortalized on a postcard. The Thing About Postcards… You could almost think of them as proto-Twitter: the fastest and...

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