Monthly Archives: March 2017

100 Years Ago: March 17-23

March 16, 2017 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, March 18: Moments before midnight, Indianapolis Telephone Company subscribers heard “Central’s” sweet feminine voice ask, “Number, Please,” for the last time. At the stroke of midnight, the phone company’s automatic service began. No more will operators, perched on stools at the switchboard, connect callers with … Read More

The Paramount Music Palace, Part 2

March 16, 2017 | by Al Hunter

In part one of this article, we skipped down memory lane to remember the Paramount Music Palace restaurant once located at the southwest quarter of the Washington Street and I-465 interchange. The Palace operated on Indy’s eastside from 1979 to 1995 as the Paramount Music Palace Family Pizza Restaurant & … Read More

World War I 100 Years Ago: March 17-23

March 16, 2017 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Monday, March 19: Irvington schoolboys are organizing a cadet company to be known as the Irvington Reserves. The organization is open to any Irvington boy from the ages of twelve to sixteen, who is five feet in height and weighs at least 100 pounds. Several Irvington … Read More

2017 Indy Car Opener

March 16, 2017 | by Steve Nicewanger

It was the two Frenchmen who reigned supreme at the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg last Sunday in the opening race of the 2017 IndyCar season. Sebastien Bourdais, coming from last to first, and defending series champ Simon Pagenard were uncatchable in the second half of the race. Bourdais, … Read More

Fake News

March 16, 2017 | by CJ Woods III

In 1997, the artist Bob Cassilly, along with his wife Gail, opened a museum near downtown St. Louis, MO. I could see the building that housed the museum, or more specifically, the hippopotamus perched on the top floor of it, when I walked out of the front door of my … Read More