Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: Kraft’s South Side Baking Company, 915 S. Meridian Street

Today a drive on South Meridian Street between McCarty and Morris Streets gives few hints that this stretch was once a vital commercial corridor heavily populated by the Jewish community. In the past one could...

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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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