Backtrack: Drunk History
What stock-market crash? Young architects boozily ushered in the New Year.
For days, word had gone out about an event at Eastgate Shopping Mall: At an annual art festival, the renowned German-born sculptor Adolph Wolter would give a demonstration with a live model. The model for Wolter’s rendering of ancient Egyptian royalty was to be reigning 500 Festival Princess Kay Sims. But alas for Sims, she […]
In 1981, Coby Palmer, Ed Walsh, and Gary Johnson found out that the big Halloween bash they always attended wouldn’t be held that year. So they decided to have their own fun in costume, organizing a group of 70 or so men on three chartered buses for the first “Bag Lady Bus Tour,” a crawl […]
“It’s over!” Radio reporters blared the news around 3 a.m. Indiana time on August 14, 1945: Japan had surrendered, at last drawing World War II to an end. People across the nation burst onto the streets in joy, and Indianapolis was no exception. The tragedy, rationing, and worry that had plagued the country for nearly […]
It was the early years of the Great Depression, and parents were struggling to make ends meet. So Fannie Caldwell Stewart, owner and publisher of the Indianapolis Recorder, and her son, Marcus C. Stewart, decided that the city’s African-American newspaper was going to throw a picnic for its carriers and their families. That August 1930 […]
