Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: Freund’s Pharmacy, 502 N. Highland Avenue

Freund’s Pharmacy as it appeared in about 1907-1908. The man in front is possibly William C. Freund. (The Indiana Album: Loaned by Joan Hostetler) Just east of Pogue’s Run sits a nondescript little triangle of...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: Blake and W. New York Streets / IUPUI

1927 – Courtesy of IUPUI, Indianapolis Power and Light Collection Loaned by Deedee Davis It’s hard to imagine that IUPUI’s 500-acre campus, with its institutional buildings and sprawling parking lots, once contained intimate neighborhoods with...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: S. Meridian Street and Bluff Road

Bluff Road begins in the 1900 block of S. Meridian Street and  angles southwest creating a wedge-shaped parcel. Long ago a two-story frame flatiron building was constructed on the land and through the years it...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: Passo Pharmacy and Shapiro’s Delicatessen & Cafeteria, 802 and 808 S. Meridian Street

IUPUI University Library, Neighborhood of Saturdays Collection The near southside of Indianapolis was a melting pot of Appalachians, African Americans, several ethnic groups, and a large Jewish population from the early 1900s through the 1960s...

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