Minturn Apartments, 22nd & Capitol
The city is replete with buildings like this–loaded with potential, sad and forlorn–a...
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Tag: vintage
Sunday Ads: State Fair: September 17-22, 1888
A few ads and other info from the State Fair program from the 1888 State Fair. Hotel...
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Sunday Adverts: The Postcard From Nowhere
AÂ “Postcard from Nowhere,” side one: found in Indianapolis Marion County Public...
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Friday Favorite: Classy Vintage Address
Lockerbie Street Cruising historic neighborhoods allows for many fanciful discoveries. One of the...
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Ladies Lounge: Glamour For an Indy Woman, Born 1913
Does the sight of a baby ever prompt you to wonder what the world will look like for that child...
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Road Trip: Vintage Fashion in Pattern
“Want to write about fashion from a historical perspective…?”...
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Sunday Adverts: Rink’s for Coats
The last “Friday Favorite” was about the former Joseph Rink family home; next...
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Ladies Lounge: Warm Colors of Autumn
I don’t know about you, but this is the most eagerly anticipated autumn I can recall. Ever....
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Friday Favorite: Park it Like It’s Hot
A couple of months ago, one of the current and most oft quoted Hoosiers I’m aware of,...
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Ladies Lounge: Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Sew Me
With all the talented women who have lived and do live in Indianapolis, I’m guessing the...
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Ladies Lounge: That Ayres Look, 1951 Derby Style?
Many thanks to Thomas Brown for sharing this gorgeous 1951 advert with a dress by Traina-Norell...
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Ladies Lounge: The Skirts Have It
“There’s nothing new under the sun,” so the saying goes–and never more so...
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IndyView Revisited: The Circle, 1942
A blustery rainstorm blew through Indianapolis in January, 1942. Photographer John Vachon was in...
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Ladies Lounge: Spring…in your step!
Our unusually early (and fabulous) Indianapolis spring inspires the dusting off of the spring and...
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Ladies Lounge: What would we wear to the Oscars if they’d been in Indianapolis in February
1956 No Doubt there would have been a lot more long sleeves, for a start. Some of those ladies...
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Ladies Lounge: Pinteresting
It’s often difficult to find vintage Indianapolis ads or other ephemera we’d love to...
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Sunday Prayers: Commercial Buildings Need Love Too!
Would love to know what’s behind all that cruel looking vinyl and what the ornamentation and...
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Ladies Lounge: Elegant Winter Wardrobe, No Clothes Required
Charm Magazine, February 1953 Today’s Ladies Lounge, brought to you by Minx Vintage &...
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Indianapolis Then and Now: West Market Street and the 500 Festival Parade
Thanks to Jon Berg, a Historic Indianapolis reader, who shared this photograph at the Indiana...
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Ladies Lounge: 2012 Golden Globes, Reimagined Worst to Best
With all the money, stylists, designers, and the like, how can Hollywood still turn out this many...
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