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: Auto Indy Indianapolis’ Early Automotive Roots

Carl G. Fisher, Photo courtesy LHA/University of Michigan The story of Indianapolis’ early automotive heritage begins a little over 120 years ago.  It actually started with bicycling. In the summer of 1890, 16 year-old Carl...

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Posted in: Auto Indy The American Underslung – “The Safest Car On Earth”

American Eagle During its eight years in business, the American Motors Company of Indianapolis became well known for its “underslung” design, conceived by chief engineer Fred I. Tone.  In those years, the company produced over...

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: The Bridges of Marion County

My husband and I recently celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary by driving around Indianapolis and photographing old bridges. It was a little like The Bridges of Madison County, except that I was the Clint Eastwood...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Ad: Morton Place Auto

From the 1913 Blue Book comes this advertisement for the Morton Place Automobile Company, located at 1835 N New Jersey. The same location had started life as the Morton Place Stables, and today is a...

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