The Oriental Theatre, 1105 S. Meridian St., was packed every Saturday morning as it featured an hour of colored cartoons. The main event was “The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,” which starred Dan O’Herlihy and James Fernandez.
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Back by popular demand, fried turtle and pigs feet were featured at Sebree’s Tavern, 2536 S. Meridian St.
Committee members of the annual two-day Woodlawn Festival, billed as the city’s biggest neighborhood event and held in Fountain Square, were preparing for the colorful affair, complete with food and games for the entire family.
Fifty Years Ago This Week – 1965
Stewart-Carey Glass Co., 3505 Madison Ave., celebrated its 125th anniversary. The company was started in 1840, when only 2,692 people lived in Indianapolis.
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Bill Main, manager of Singer’s Sewing Center in Southern Plaza, marked down the price of every machine in his store. “Even if you’re not in the market for a new Singer sewing machine, we have many very good trade-ins in at rock-bottom prices,” he said.
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The Board of Sanitary Commissioners was being blasted by Southsiders for planning to build a dump at the southeast corner of Southern Avenue and West Street.
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A five-room house rented for $55 a month, and a six-room modern house rented for $65 a month.
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Ruth A. House was appointed to the newly created position of associate dean of women at Indiana Central College.
Forty Years Ago This Week – 1975
Editor George Cafouros wrote an editorial on how to eliminate hardened criminals. “About the only way we will be able to hold down crime in this country would be to isolate a whole county in a cold state, build a huge fence around it and patrol it from the outside with trained attack dogs.
“Then put all the three-time losers inside the corral without any supervisory personnel but with plenty of food, fuel, televisions and cases and cases of beer. Give them each two guns and $200. Then once a month go inside and whoever was left would be put on probation.”
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Donna J. Dewey and Jay R. Doty, graduates of Manual High School, were married at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church.
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Perry Meridian cheerleaders Lori Wilson, Julie Boomer, Leesa Wilson, Christi Heuser, Cindy Eickman, Babette Evans and Jackie Park were honored for their sixth-place finish in the Indiana State Fair competition.
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Jim Feeney, manager of Ayr-Way South, hosted a fashion show to highlight his store’s clothing line. The models included Diane Gonder, Michele Shockley, Ron Land, Dave Shelton and Jo Froelich.
Thirty Years Ago This Week – 1985
Kenya Middleton, Keia Bellamy, Harmonie and Sarah Cloyd, Cindy Sanchez, Rhonda McDaniel, Mary Ann Crider, Margie Stewart, Casey Roberts and Rita Bell appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning, America” in a prerecorded message that celebrated Girls Clubs of Greater Indianapolis’ 40th anniversary.
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Hubler Chevrolet opened its Truck Corral at Hanna and Madison avenues, where the sales staff featured manager Bill Passon, Dick Smith, Ron Shue, Rick Wilhelm, Tom Prenatt, Russ Hollaway, Norm Doughtery and Jon Bethay.
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The new Holiday Inn Holidome was the site for the Perry Township Republican Club’s annual luau, which was attended by City-County Councilor Beulah Coughenour, Ron and Dubbie Buckler, Mayor and Mrs. William Hudnut, John Sweazy, Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Borst, Mr and Mrs. Frank Scholl, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Donley, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Thompson, Stuart and Melanie Bench, Lou and Cindy Borgmann and Indianapolis Police Department Chief Joseph McAtee.
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Nearly 400 Canadian geese were making a nuisance of themselves at the retention pond at Nantucket Cove Apartments, 2900 E. Hanna Ave.
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Bob’s Pharmacy, 1342 S. East St., was holding a going-out-of business sale.
Twenty Years Ago This Week – 1995
Ground was broken for a $2.5 million aquatics center at Garfield Park.
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The Indianapolis Police Department implemented the use of roadblocks and a canine crew to combat crack cocaine and other drugs.
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Carla Lucas, Sarah Pierson and Jennifer Siebert, daughters of Phillip and Debra Lucas, Jack and Peggy Pierson and Steven and Judith Siebert, respectively, were honored during Franklin College’s fall honors program.
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Roncalli’s football team upped its record to 5-0 by defeating Tech 31-0. Nick Kidwell, filling in for the injured Jeff Roell, rushed for 198 yards and two touchdowns.
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Danielle Dodrill, the cute little daughter of Eddie Dodrill and Felicia Sherman and granddaughter of Jim and June Sherman and Ed and Gloria Dodrill, was crowned Miss Tiny Tot of Beech Grove.
Ten Years Ago This Week – 2005
The archives from 2005 are missing.