Regarding the picture of the McDonald’s in last week’s Southsider Voice.
The McDonald’s on Shelby Street near Hanna Avenue was, indeed, the first one the Southside.
It opened in July 1962 and featured a 10-item menu, most notably a 15 cent hamburger. It was the second of its kind in Indianapolis, the first having opened in 1960 on 38th Street, a couple blocks east of Emerson Ave.
Dan O’Brien