Gone but not forgotten in Indianapolis (Columbus, Washington: hotel, floors, shopping center)

[swmr1ml]

There was a cinema at Eastgate Mall

[pp8616]

Indy WAS a great place until the 1980's. Bussing, Ilegal immigration, population explosion etc... I live in Corydon now and the quality of life is superb. Havent been to Louisville yet and am not going to. Its too much like Indy. Any more I watch CNN because the big city crime is just too depressing.

[pp8616]

I remeber Eastgate mall. I worked at Radio Shack in H.S. (Warren Central). Once the Metro busses started going one way across town non stop, the undesireables ruined it not to mention the cinema there. What a shame!

[indybail]

The Snakepit at the Indianapolis 500.

[swmr1ml]

Originally Posted by pp8616

I remeber Eastgate mall. I worked at Radio Shack in H.S. (Warren Central). Once the Metro busses started going one way across town non stop, the undesireables ruined it not to mention the cinema there. What a shame!

I too went to Warren Central back in the good old days the eastside used to be the best.

[REM]

Originally Posted by swmr1ml

I too went to Warren Central back in the good old days the eastside used to be the best.

I graduated from Warren in 2010, it's really wasn't that bad.



Anyone remember discovery zone on 82nd?
Oh the childhood memories.

[Eire1916]

Originally Posted by jakesjag

Ayres Tearoom
Roselyn Bakery
Milk Delivered to your door
Fruit being being sold by man on horse drawn wagon through Forrest Manor area.
Music Memory Contests in elementary school

I remember Ayres Tearoom and milk delivered to your front door.

I loved Roselyn Bakery while I still lived in Indy. It's a shame what happened to them.

[Eire1916]

Originally Posted by wickedwonder

Things I remember from a 80's childhood-
Linder's ice cream, on Keystone and Binford and 49th and College
Flakey Jakes on E 82nd St (I had my first remembered restaurant meal there, in kindergarten)
Showbiz Pizza, W 38th, E 82nd, E Washington and Greenwood (we went to all 4)
Fast Eddies on 38th and Meridian
Hills Department Store (it's where the toys are)
Eastgate Mall, and the General Cinema there
Cub Foods
Glendale when it was still a mall
I still say Preston Safeway, and Hook's, and Deer Creek Music Centre
I'm not quite old enough to remember the Burger Chef days, but we had straws and napkins from them well into my childhood.

I worked at Preston's at East 16th Street and North Emerson Avenue as a young lad long before Safeway bought them. It was catercorner from Walt's grocery store across from the Shi-Kay Lounge.

Hook's and Haag's were THE drugstores back in the day.

How about Paramount Palace? I used to love to request the "Phantom of the Opera" song (Johann Sebastian Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D minor").

My parents and I frequently went to the Dog 'n Suds near East Raymond and South Sherman on Saturday nights before going to whatever that nearby racetrack was that always ended with a demolition derby and a figure 8 race. Does anyone remember the name of that racetrack? I think it was on South Kitley or something like that. Is it still there? If not, what IS there now?

[Eire1916]

Originally Posted by wickedwonder

More random thoughts-
Indiana Bell, before Ameritech even. My uncle worked at the Castleton one- my dad would pick me up from school 43 and zoom down I-69. I still think the building looks 'odd' after its expansion, even though the new part has been there for years.
Lafayette Square, with both movie theatres. My mom took us to see The Care Bears Movie at the 4-5-6 on the bus, I remember that being the best trip ever. The Flintstones phone inside the mall that my dad would take me to if I was good. Imagine my sadness when we went one day and it was gone! Lafayette was always packed out- we went there the other day and my sister remarked about us being able to park much closer than we ever did back in the day.
Twin-Aire, close to the Twin Drive-In. My mom worked for Brylane briefly, and she would go to McCrory's 5 and Dime and pick up stuff for me. I loved my Tinkerbell perfume set!
Drive-ins period. The Pendleton Pike, which I loved. The Shadeland, which was fading fast when I got to go there, you could see the rivets in the screen when the picture was rolling. The Twin, which I don't ever remembering seeing in operation, but I've been assured that I saw movies there. The Clermont, where I wore my first "grown-up" earrings to, and went to their last day open, dancing with my tiny niece in my arms. Tibbs, from dusk til dawn.
Other movie theatres- The Glendale 1-2-3-4-5, The Castleton 6 maybe? (we didn't go there that often) and when Clearwater opened and the in-mall Castleton closed and the outlot went to Castleton Arts. Now, back at the mall again- Clearwater was only open for 13 years. Shortsighted much? The Loews Theatres- Cherry Tree, Norgate, the one behind Lafayette Square- which one am I forgetting?

There used to be a movie theater downtown near Washington and Meridian next door to McDonald's (or was it Burger Chef?) called the Loew's. I remember going there on a class trip in elementary school at Little Flower School. It was a big deal when the nuns took us on a class trip. I can remember some scenes from the movie. It was a religious biography type film where a young female saint before she became a saint, obviously, (Maria Goretti, maybe?) was almost raped but somehow preserved her virtue, but I can't remember the name of the film. We went to the restaurant next door afterwards for lunch and my buddies and I all sat upstairs.

[BillMullenholz]

Does anyone remember the Jack & Jill Drive-In around 30 hundred North Shadeland, or the Little Brown Jug at 16th and Arlington? They had great food and were fun to cruise. Incidently, the train in Broad Ripple Park was restored about 25 years ago and is usually in Noblesville or Ft. Wayne. I believe it is Nickel Plate 765 and can be seen in action on several YouTube videos.