Your Savings Store
S.S. Kresge and Company appeared in the newspaper October 28, 1923 touting the opening of their...
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Tag: Sunday Adverts
Sunday Ads: Music to Your Ears
Business: Â Wilking Music Company Location: Â 120 East Ohio Street, near Massachusetts Avenue Years...
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Sunday Ad’s: Hook’s for Drugs
Business: Hook’s Drugs Date of Ad: July 29, 1906 Location: Various Locations, Originally Prospect...
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Sunday Ads: Be a Good Sport!
Business: Em-Roe Distributors Date of Ad: Â July 29, 1906 Location: Downtown – 209-211 West...
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Sunday Ads: Tip of the Hat
This Sunday ad from 1966 targets the “back to school” crowd. Who doesn’t want to...
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Sunday Ads: We’re All Nuts
Business: Morrow’s Nut House Date of Ad: December 30, 1945 Location: 50 North Pennsylvania Street,...
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Back to the When
38 North Pennsylvania Street Years of Operation: 1932-1997 Notable: Before Office Depot or Staples...
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Sunday Adverts: Indianapolis Tent and Awning Company
Business:Â Indianapolis Tent and Awning Co. Year of this Advertisement:Â 1900 Location: Â 20 S....
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Sunday Adverts: Polk’s Milk
Photo courtesy of Evan Finch Business:Â Polk’s Milk Year of this Advertisement:Â pre-1950...
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Sunday Adverts: Indianapolis Light and Heat Company
Image Courtesy of IMCPL Digital Collections From 1904 – 1926, the company now known as the...
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Sunday Adverts: George William Hoffman Co. (Bar-Keepers’ Friend)
In 1883, George William Hoffman, an Indianapolis chemist and owner of the George William Hoffman...
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Sunday Adverts: Metropolitan Theater
Earlier this week, Historic Indianapolis featured the Metropolitan Theater in “A Room with a...
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Sunday Adverts: Ad. Hereth & Co.
In 1852, John C. Hereth, a German immigrant who came to Indianapolis via Jefferson County,...
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Sunday Adverts: Hibben, Hollweg & Co.
This 1920 advertisement, showcases a product sold at Hibben, Hollweg, & Co., a dry goods store...
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Sunday Adverts: The Freeman Newspaper
In July 1888, Edward Elder Cooper, originally from Florida, founded The Freeman, the first...
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Sunday Adverts: Real Silk
In 1922, brothers Jack and Lazure Goodman formed the Real Silk Hosiery Company, one of the first...
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Sunday Adverts: The Pink Poodle
Image courtesy of personal collection of Evan Finch. In the early 1960’s an up and coming...
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Sunday Adverts: Boncilla Cosmetics
In 1896, John M. Price, born in 1872 in Washington County, Indiana, started the Crown Chemical...
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Sunday Adverts: William B. Burford Printing Company
In the 1860’s Miles W. Burford, a banker from Independence, Missouri, moved with his wife to...
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Sunday Adverts: American Box Ball Company
James I. Holcomb (the namesake of the J.I. Holcomb Observatory and Planetarium) and Jacob...
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