Organizers of the annual Easter egg hunt at Garfield Park were taking extra precautions so they would not run out of candy like last year. Many children who attended the 1954 hunt left the park with empty baskets.
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Jelly beans and chocolate duck eggs with marshmallow centers cost 15 cents and 25 cents a pound, respectively, at Danner’s 5 and 10 cent store.
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Seven choirs were going to perform at the 18th annual Perry Township Easter Sunrise program at Southport Fieldhouse.
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The PTA of Indianapolis Public School 31 was holding a square dance.
Fifty Years Ago This Week – 1965
Construction on the $550,000 Turtle Creek Executive Center, which would feature 26,000 square feet of office space just south of U.S. 31 and Thompson Road, would begin in late summer.
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Becky Hodges, 17, was named Indianapolis’ Best Junior Achievement Salesman. She earned the honor by completing a series of salesman tests and interviews and was moving on to regional competition in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Shelby Street Federal Savings and Loan Association was the only bank in the area that was open until noon Saturdays.
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A gallon of milk cost 59 cents; 3 pounds of ground beef were $1; rump roast cost 79 cents a pound; and two loaves of bread were 29 cents.
Forty Years Ago This Week – 1975
Orme’s Carpet and Linoleum, 5505 S. Meridian St., placed a full-page ad to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Charles “Chic” Orme and George Hoss owned the business and were assisted by Roger Green and Bob Armstrong.
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City-County Councillor Donald N. Griffith announced his candidacy for re-election. The pastor of St. Andrew United Methodist Church, he was married and had three children who attended Perry Township Schools.
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Betty Buergler and Theresa Springman were pictured holding a poster to promote a card party at St. Roch School.
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A catfish dinner cost $1.49 at Doc Gainey’s Tavern, 3652 S. Meridian St., where a hamburger and fries cost 79 cents.
Thirty Years Ago This Week – 1985
Former Southport High School basketball great Louie Dampier was returning to his alma mater to play in a game to benefit the Southport Booster Club. Dampier’s squad, which included Gary Gegax, Dan Due, Jim Poe, Steve Risley and Ed Harding, was to face a team of Indianapolis Colts, including Rohn Stark, Art Schlichter, Nesby Glasgow, Tim Sherwin and Barry Krause.
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Bryan Hall, a 72-year-old men’s dormitory on the campus of Franklin College, was gutted by fire and would have to be razed before a new one could be built on the existing site.
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The Indianapolis Department of Parks and Recreation was giving away free flower and vegetable seeds.
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The artwork of Southport Elementary third-graders Stacey Cogdill, Sarah Prichard and Tiara Norris was on display at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Their work had been deemed some of the best in the Indiana Young People’s Symphony in Color contest.
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Jack Fisher, Ernest Cosby, Archie Evans, Barbara Adams and Kathy Smith volunteered to help distribute free cheese at Concord Community Center.
Twenty Years Ago This Week – 1995
The husband-and-wife team of Roger and Robin Heldman, who owned Insty Prints, garnered first-place honors while setting several state records at the National Athletic Strength Association’s power lifting meet. Roger squatted 634 pounds, bench pressed 352 and deadlifted 501; Robin’s totals were 270, 160 and 303, respectively.
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Southport High School science teacher Dave Holman was inducted into the Indiana Wrestling Hall of Fame. Holman wrestled at Southport and Indiana Central College and coached the Cardinals for 10 years. He and his wife, Donna, lived in Johnson County with their three children.
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Lincoln Elementary second-graders Jared Dotts, Carrie White, Erin Weight, Rachel Frye, Kim Kambarami, Mike Fasal, Stevee McGraw, Tonya Wilson and Dar Valazquez starred in the musical “Let’s Go to the Jungle,” which was about saving African rain forests.
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Convicted rapist Mike Tyson was released from the Indiana Youth Center. His escort to Indianapolis International Airport, which was led by two Indianapolis Police Department patrol cars at speeds in excess of 115 mph – so fast that news helicopters covering the story could not keep up – drew the ire of many motorists because of the inherent danger.
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Gretchen Baker, a 1994 graduate of Perry Meridian, was the featured violin soloist in the Butler Symphony Orchestra’s performance at Clowes Memorial Hall.
Pledges in the 156-week campaign for the education wing at Christ United Methodist Church, 8540 S. U.S. 31, exceeded $1.2 million.
Ten Years Ago This Week – 2005
The archives from 2005 are missing.