Posted in: Historic Miscellania The Rise and Fall of the Billy Goat Beer

If you strolled down the streets of Indianapolis in 1900, you would have needed a bale of cotton stuffed in your ears not to hear a conversation or two auf Deutsch. Thanks to Germany’s turbulent...

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Posted in: Then & Now Then & Now: American Legion Mall, East North Street

Courtesy of the Indiana Album: Elizabeth Laslie Collection Uniformed members of Greenfield Knights Templar Commandery No. 39 pose on E. North Street in Indianapolis, looking north toward the Indiana Institute for the Education of the...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: Hoosierdini

This advertisement promoting the famous Harry Houdini’s performances at B.F. Keith’s Theater (March 1910) was recently found Ebay. Indy was Wild about Harry Though born Erich Weisz on March 24, 1874 in Hungary, the man...

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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: Sunday Ads Sunday Ads: Houdini in Beer?

Ad from December 27, 1911 with beer provided by Indianapolis Brewing Company. Evidently, Houdini visited Indianapolis more than once, since this well known picture of him in front of the Pluto Water advert is reportedly...

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