Posted in: Historic Miscellania Public Transportation in 1940 Indianapolis

“Car and Bus Routings and Stops, Downtown” All aboard the time machine again…let’s head back to Indianapolis of 1940 to look at how we were maneuvering to and from home and downtown. This map is...

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania Women Take to the Skies in Jazz Age Indy

“You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.”  That was Amelia Earhart’s verdict on rising up to the aerial view, where she thought the soul changes after a glimpse of...

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Posted in: At Your Leisure College Football in the Circle City Derailed: The 1903 Purdue Wreck

The 1903 Purdue football team of which fourteen members perished in a train wreck in Indianapolis. (Image: Purdue University) For many, this weekend marks the true beginning of autumn as college football kicks off across...

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Posted in: Sunday Prayers Sunday Prayers: Paving Over The Past

(photo by Dawn Olsen) The intersection of South and Delaware streets wasn’t exactly paradise … but it was paved and made into a parking lot. Several parking lots, in fact. Though the lots are used...

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Posted in: Then & Now Then and Now: The Little Depot and the Interstate

Although a psychic once told me that I “don’t have a psychic bone in my body,” as a local historian I sometimes see ghosts of Indianapolis’ past. Such was the case last week as I...

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