60 Years Ago This Week — 1963
A five-room half-double at 930 S. Delaware St. rented for $30 a month.
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Chocolate Drops, a favorite for the holidays, cost 33 cents a pound at Woolworth’s.
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Indiana Central College released its schedule of spring classes, which featured 111 courses.
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Burger Chef opened a restaurant at the corner of Madison Avenue and Thompson Road, where its conveyor broiler could cook 1,000 hamburgers an hour. Burgers and milkshakes cost 15 cents each, and a Triple Threat, which included those items and an order of fries, was 39 cents.
50 Years Ago This Week — 1973
Center United Methodist Church celebrated the birth of Jesus through a live Nativity scene.
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A five-room half-double at 930 S. Delaware St. rented for $30 a month.
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Chocolate Drops, a favorite for the holidays, cost 33 cents a pound at Woolworth’s.
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Indiana Central College released its schedule of spring classes, which featured 111 courses.
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Burger Chef opened a restaurant at the corner of Madison Avenue and Thompson Road, where its conveyor broiler could cook 1,000 hamburgers an hour. Burgers and milkshakes cost 15 cents each, and a Triple Threat, which included those items and an order of fries, was 39 cents.
50 Years Ago This Week — 1973
Center United Methodist Church celebrated the birth of Jesus through a live Nativity scene.
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David Wooden (left) and Steve Hoagland (right) president and vice president, respectively, of the freshman class at Indiana Central College, accepted a plaque on behalf of their classmates for raising more than $900 through a runathon for the Marion County American Cancer Society. James Whitfield, president of the society, made the presentation.
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Davidson’s Home Supply Center, 108 Union St. in Southport, was selling its discontinued paint for $2.49 a gallon, a savings of $7.50. Pints cost 40 cents, quarts 75 cents.
40 Years Ago This Week — 1983
The grand prize in the huge raffle being hosted by St. Simon Parish on the Eastside was $200,000, with the total package being $800,000. Tickets cost $10, and Southsider Steve Papuan had sold more than 2,100.
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A classic bentwood rocking chair was advertised for $39.99.
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The Iowa Street Block Club invited Indianapolis Mayor Bill Hudnut to its Christmas party.
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Cases of Budweiser, Stroh’s, Miller Lite and Olympia cost less than $7 at Swing-in Discount Liquors, 3601 Shelby St.
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Alan Slightom was named director of the chancel choir at Rosedale Hills United Methodist Church. He was a graduate of Southport High School and had served as the band director at Meridian Middle School.
30 Years Ago This Week — 1993
A groundbreaking ceremony was held at Glenns Valley Elementary School for six new classrooms and a media center.
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Gidget Rogers joined the staff of DM’s Designer Hair on Main Street in Greenwood, where she specialized in manicures, pedicures, sculptured nails and moisturizing peach paraffin treatments.
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Roncalli’s Kevin Finn was named to the Indiana Music Educators All-State band.
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Billboard’s top pop single was Meatloaf’s “I’d Do Anything for Love.”
20 Years Ago This Week — 2003
Spotlight correspondent and retired Indianapolis Star editor/writer Fred D. Cavinder penned his third book, “More Amazing Tales from Indiana,” a sequel to “Amazing Tales of Indiana. The tomes featured short stories about interesting people and places in the state.
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Davidson’s Home Supply Center, 108 Union St. in Southport, was selling its discontinued paint for $2.49 a gallon, a savings of $7.50. Pints cost 40 cents, quarts 75 cents.
40 Years Ago This Week — 1983
The grand prize in the huge raffle being hosted by St. Simon Parish on the Eastside was $200,000, with the total package being $800,000. Tickets cost $10, and Southsider Steve Papuan had sold more than 2,100.
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A classic bentwood rocking chair was advertised for $39.99.
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The Iowa Street Block Club invited Indianapolis Mayor Bill Hudnut to its Christmas party.
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Cases of Budweiser, Stroh’s, Miller Lite and Olympia cost less than $7 at Swing-in Discount Liquors, 3601 Shelby St.
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Alan Slightom was named director of the chancel choir at Rosedale Hills United Methodist Church. He was a graduate of Southport High School and had served as the band director at Meridian Middle School.
30 Years Ago This Week — 1993
A groundbreaking ceremony was held at Glenns Valley Elementary School for six new classrooms and a media center.
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Gidget Rogers joined the staff of DM’s Designer Hair on Main Street in Greenwood, where she specialized in manicures, pedicures, sculptured nails and moisturizing peach paraffin treatments.
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Roncalli’s Kevin Finn was named to the Indiana Music Educators All-State band.
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Billboard’s top pop single was Meatloaf’s “I’d Do Anything for Love.”
20 Years Ago This Week — 2003
Spotlight correspondent and retired Indianapolis Star editor/writer Fred D. Cavinder penned his third book, “More Amazing Tales from Indiana,” a sequel to “Amazing Tales of Indiana. The tomes featured short stories about interesting people and places in the state.
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St. Roch eighth-graders (from left) Kate Herron, Courtney Petty, Carly Mappes and Jennifer Fowler traveled to Shipshewanna for a closer look at Indiana’s Amish community.
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Roncalli’s Pat Kuntz (center) is closely guarded by two Lafayette Central Catholic defenders. The Rebels lost 48-38.
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Arlington Elementary kindergartners Jacob Ruston, Chris Grubaugh, Dylan Eversman, Rocky Ramsey, Jacob Proffer and Renea Dalton prepared care packages for soldiers serving abroad.
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Purdue junior Alyssa Wycoff, a 2001 graduate of Perry Meridian and the daughter of Jim and Susie Wycoff, was inducted into the Golden Key International Honour Society.
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Franklin Township Middle School Principal Lorrie Wilham and seventh-grade teacher Chuck Gillmore kissed a pig as part of the school’s fundraiser.
10 Years Ago This Week — 2013
Klosterman Bakery, one of the largest family-owned bakeries in the Midwest, moved its Eastside delivery hub to the corner of Churchman and Elmwood avenues in Beech Grove, where about 50 workers would be employed.
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Arlington Elementary kindergartners Jacob Ruston, Chris Grubaugh, Dylan Eversman, Rocky Ramsey, Jacob Proffer and Renea Dalton prepared care packages for soldiers serving abroad.
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Purdue junior Alyssa Wycoff, a 2001 graduate of Perry Meridian and the daughter of Jim and Susie Wycoff, was inducted into the Golden Key International Honour Society.
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Franklin Township Middle School Principal Lorrie Wilham and seventh-grade teacher Chuck Gillmore kissed a pig as part of the school’s fundraiser.
10 Years Ago This Week — 2013
Klosterman Bakery, one of the largest family-owned bakeries in the Midwest, moved its Eastside delivery hub to the corner of Churchman and Elmwood avenues in Beech Grove, where about 50 workers would be employed.
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Six members of the Indy Air Bears rope jumping team, Allison Taylor, Mallory Burnett, Grace LaVier, Elise McQueen, Katie Tyson and Caitlyn Louie, were going to perform in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena
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Six members of the Indy Air Bears rope jumping team, Allison Taylor, Mallory Burnett, Grace LaVier, Elise McQueen, Katie Tyson and Caitlyn Louie, were going to perform in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena
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