Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Ads: They would have had a booming Super Bowl business

Though G. J. Eberhardt may no longer be in business, we know there are a number of tent rental companies that are cleaning up with the influx of sports lovers, partiers and the like in...

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: What goes around, comes around – the oval road to the Super Bowl.

Celluloid pin promoting the 1898 League of American Wheelmen National Meet. There’ll be plenty of credit to go around when Indianapolis hosts the Super Bowl next month. The entrepreneurs who put a racetrack in a...

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Posted in: Then & Now Then and Now: Union Station’s Santa Colossal

At Christmastime in 1949, a large and unusual singing Santa Claus made a short appearance in Union Station, the city’s 1888 Romanesque revival train station. The Chamber of Commerce organized the Indianapolis Industrial Exposition to...

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