Article Archives: 100 Years Ago

100 Years Ago: Aug. 12-18

August 11, 2022 | by Steve Nicewanger

From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, August 17, 1922: Nine Indianapolis men attended a meeting yesterday evening at the Denison Hotel under the auspices of the American Unity League, an anti-Ku Klux Klan society headquartered in Chicago. The men pledged to arrange a meeting next week to organize a county chapter … Read More

100 Years Ago: Aug. 5-11

August 4, 2022 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Friday, August 11, 1922: One of the greatest gatherings of swimming stars to assemble in the United States opened the three-day national swimming meet at the Broad Ripple Park pool yesterday with a crowd of spectators filling the grand stand and encircling the west end of … Read More

100 Years Ago: July 29-Aug. 4

July 28, 2022 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, August 1, 1922: A proposed zoning ordinance, prepared by the Indianapolis plan commission, divides areas of the city into five district classifications: U1 dwelling house, only residential buildings; U2 apartment, occupies the principal part of the north side and areas east and west of the … Read More

100 Years Ago: July 22-28

July 21, 2022 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Times, Wednesday, July 26, 1922: What will be one of the finest open air natatoriums in this section of the Mid-West is nearing completion at Douglass Park. The new community swimming pool, costing $70,000 (2020:  $1,100,569), has an oval basin measuring 192 feet in extreme length, and … Read More

100 Years Ago: July 15-21

July 14, 2022 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Times, Tuesday, July 18, 1922: Indianapolis may once again have a public zoo. Walter Jarvis, superintendent of parks and recreation, will ask the city park board for $5,000 (2020: $78,612) next year to build cages in Riverside Park and buy a few animals. Indianapolis once boasted a … Read More