Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: Long gone Regal Guitar Mfg. STILL has the perfect gift for you!

I wonder what name they finally settled on! Advertisement from early 1901. Probably from a newspaper. eBay Regal Manufacturing Company was a division of the Wulschner-Stewart Music Company. Emil Wulschner (b. 1847)  immigrated to Indianapolis from...

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Posted in: At Your Leisure At Your Leisure: Dancing on the Roof

The back side of this 1943 postmarked postcard reads “I am dancing at the Indiana Roof, beautiful combination Night Club and Ballroom, where Indianapolis dances every Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.” (Image: eBay) The Indiana...

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Posted in: Friday Favorites Friday Favorite: To The Beat of a Different Drum

  … a Bigger and Better Drum! Tucked away among the over-tight streets of the Bates-Hendricks neighborhood near Fountain Square, the SENSE Charter school lovingly serves children in grades Kindergarten through seventh. The school inhabits an interesting building. Rough, inconveniently-placed...

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania The Paramount Music Palace

Location of the long-gone Paramount Music Palace (and recently gone Don Pablo’s) – Photo by Ryan Hamlett At the request of a good friend, this week’s not exactly picturesque local is the site of the...

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