Memory Bank: Drive focuses on minority voters
Indianapolis Mayor William Hudnut participated on Sept. 24, 1983, in a march for Operation Big Vote, a coalition of labor and social groups created to increase voter registration among minority groups.
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Memory Bank: T.C. Steele paints plein air in Brown County
The renown artist built a home and studio in Brown County called the House of the Singing Winds and would often paint in the prairies and woods near his home.
Memory Bank: Floral float carries Newsboys Band
The first Indianapolis Fall Carnival took place Oct. 9-12, 1900, and included two parades daily, including the Floral Parade on Oct. 10.
Memory Bank: End of an era
The building that once housed The English Hotel and Opera House in the northwest quadrant of Monument Circle was demolished in 1949.
Memory Bank: German sculptor makes Indiana his home
Sculptor Adolph Gustav Wolter, a native of Reutlingen, Germany, immigrated to the United States in 1922 and came to Indiana after the state hired him to carve symbolic relief sculptures for the Indiana State Library’s exterior.
Memory Bank: Noblesville supports war effort
Crowds gathered on the northeast corner of Noblesville’s courthouse square on Nov. 2, 1942, during activities to support World War II.
Memory Bank: Downtown is humming at Washington and Illinois
Three buildings in this 1910 photo were later razed, but the two on the far right still stand and are now home to The Capital Grille.
Memory Bank: Flood waters surge through Indianapolis
This 1913 photo shows West Michigan Street, where teams of horses are trying to tow streetcars out of the flood waters.
Memory Bank: Capehart becomes father of jukebox
After being forced out of an earlier company he had founded, Homer Capehart (better known in political circles for serving nearly two decades in the U.S. Senate) launched the Packard Manufacturing Co., which developed a mechanism for automatic record changing.
Memory Bank: Battling the Prest-O-Lite fire
On Aug. 17, 1907, a fire at the Prest-O-Lite factory at 229 E. South St. downtown led tanks of acetylene gas to explode, sending pieces of steel flying through the air.
Memory Bank: Waiting for the train
The Boulevard Station, built in 1922, was a stop on the Monon Route, which connected Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville.
Memory Bank: Coliseum fills for state fair parade
The larger 1951 photo shows the 4-H Club Parade at the fairgrounds’ coliseum, while the inset photo shows Eli Lilly showing a cow at the 1941 fair.
Memory Bank: Running the presses
This photo, taken in 1915, shows students operating printing presses at Arsenal Technical High School.
Memory Bank: Hundreds gather for film honoring Ernie Pyle
A crowd formed at Loew’s Theatre, 35 N. Pennsylvania St., on July 6, 1945, to see the premiere of a film titled “The Story of G.I. Joe,” which was inspired by the life of Indiana native Ernie Pyle, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent.
Memory Bank: Grandstands fill for fair racing
In this photo, standardbred horses and their drivers in two-wheeled carts, called sulkies, race in front of hundreds of people at the Indiana State Fair in 1938.
Memory Bank: Das Deutsche Haus hosts gymnastics competition
Das Deutsche Haus (now known as The Athenaeum) was constructed in Indianapolis in two phases from 1893 to 1898 for the Indianapolis Socialer Turnverein. It was considered a “house of culture,” according to The Athenaeum Foundation. The building, awarded the National Historic Landmark designation in 2016, served for many years as the home to German […]
Memory Bank: Slovenian family opens grocery in Haughville
Joe Zeunik, part of a family of Slovenian immigrants, sold dry goods, hardware and groceries at 777 Haugh St. in the 1930s.
Memory Bank: A friendly place to congregate
In this photo taken on June 27, 1943, servicemen relax in a YMCA reading room.
MEMORY BANK: A city streetcar without its mule
Streetcars similar to this one photographed in 1881 were introduced in Indianapolis in the 1860s and were generally pulled by mules.
MEMORY BANK: Former O’Brien car lot is now Milktooth on Virginia Avenue
Founder Thomas O’Brien launched his auto sales in 1933 across the street with a Desoto-Plymouth dealership.