Memory Bank: ISTA building rises along Market Street
This photo was shot on April 26, 1957, from a balcony on the east side of the Statehouse, looking east down Market Street, with construction of the ISTA Center on the left.
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Memory Bank: Block’s budget store takes over Kresge building
S.S. Kresge Co.—then one of the nation’s largest retailers—built a 65,000-square-foot office building at the southwest corner of Pennsylvania and Washington streets in 1924.
Memory Bank: Sanding parts at the GM stamping plant
This photo was taken in the 1940s of a woman sanding parts using a power grinder at the plant. T
Memory Bank: Governor, first lady meet with Eleanor Roosevelt
Democrat Paul McNutt was governor from 1933 to 1937, after serving as dean of the Indiana University Law School and then state and national commander of the American Legion.
Memory Bank: Shopping at Standard Grocery
By the early 1900s, groceries became self-service stores, in which customers would pick up their own goods and pay for them at check-out stations, like the ones shown in this Aug. 9, 1941, photo at a Standard Grocery.
Memory Bank: Photographer exposes child labor abuses
New York-based schoolteacher and photographer Lewis Hine took these pictures in about 1908 at a glass factory in Indiana,
Memory Bank: Art instruction on the Circle
Circle Hall was constructed for the Second Presbyterian Church in about 1840 on the northwest quadrant of the Circle at Market Street—the spot where the English Hotel and Opera House, a J.C. Penney and then the Anthem headquarters would later be located.
Memory Bank: White River bridge collapses in 1902
The city finished repairs and upgrades to an 1870 bridge over the White River on Jan. 15, 1902. The next day, the middle section collapsed.
Memory Bank: Trucks, wagons line up for goods
The Indianapolis Traction Terminal opened in 1904, taking up much of the downtown block bordered by Ohio Street, Illinois Street, Market Street and Capitol Avenue.
Memory Bank: Columbia Club rises on Monument Circle
The Columbia Club formed in 1889 and had two homes on Monument Circle before the group spent $827,000 to construct the 10-story clubhouse it still uses today.
Memory Bank: Crowds gather to see L.S. Ayres displays
The L.S. Ayres department store opened at the southwest corner of Washington and Meridian streets in 1905 and within 20 years had become known for its festive Christmas-themed windows.
Memory Bank: Young Republicans protest price limits in 1946
On Oct. 1, 1946, the Young Republicans Club protested the Office of Price Administration, an agency created in 1941 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to prevent runaway prices, profiteering and hoarding during World War II.
Memory Bank: Band leader comes to Indy in 1946
Jazz singer, saxophonist and band leader Tony Pastor signs his name on albums and photos at Wasson’s department store in downtown Indianapolis on July 19, 1946.
Memory Bank: The monument at nighttime in 1951
The 284-foot-tall monument is the largest of more than 200 Civil War memorials in the U.S. and the only one that combines large-scale sculpture in bronze and stone.
Memory Bank: Selling fall produce outside Tomlinson Hall
This photo of an Indianapolis City Market vendor taken Oct. 6, 1923, shows the back side of the stands, with vehicles pulled up and fruit and vegetable crates tossed aside.
MEMORY BANK: Burger Chef opens 450th restaurant
Burger Chef launched in Indianapolis in 1958 and opened its first downtown location in September 1965.
Memory Bank: Hotel Washington was upscale option
The 17-story building now known as Symphony Centre at 32 E. Washington St. was constructed in 1912 as the upscale Hotel Washington, a project developed by local hotelier J. Edward Krauss and designed by Indianapolis architecture firm R.P. Daggett & Co.
Memory Bank: Bootlegger busted
In this Dec. 9, 1920, photo, three Indianapolis police officers pose with a still and some of the ingredients they confiscated during a raid at a farm a half-mile east of New Bethel (a town in Marion County now called Wanamaker).
Memory Bank: Kentucky Avenue stretches to Washington
An amateur photographer, Walter Carpenter, captured the street scene on March 9, 1913, where Kentucky Avenue met the intersection of Illinois and Washington streets.
Memory Bank: Cars on display in Westfield
This Westfield photo was on a postcard mailed Aug. 24, 1911. At the time, the community was already more than 75 years old. It was settled in 1832 by Quakers who left North Carolina to protest slavery and established a stop on the Underground Railroad. They initially called the town—which was laid out with 48 […]