Posted in: Then & Now Then & Now: Laundering Behind Old City Hall

Local history buffs love to regale Circle City newbies with anecdotes of yesteryear about the city’s epicenter. A favorite story harkens to decades before the Soldier’s and Sailor’s Monument dwarfed nearby buildings. The original governor’s mansion...

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Posted in: Mailbag HI Mailbag: Lux Laundry Fire

Reader’s Question:  I have recently moved back to Indianapolis after living most of my adult life in Virginia.  I still have vivid memories of a fire in a business near my family’s home, when I was about...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: Progress Laundry, 422-26 E. Market Street

Courtesy of the Indiana Album, ca. 1911 lantern slide from the collection of Joan Hostetler This week I showcase two lantern slides that I purchased on eBay of the Progress Laundry Company. Lantern slides were...

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Posted in: Sunday Prayers Sunday Prayers: Fame Laundry, 14th and Illinois

Surely you’ve passed this building at 14th & Illinois… and wondered what it was in its past life. In this instance, its future life is of equal interest. Formerly home to the Fame Laundry Company...

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