Indianapolis, Indiana
An 1821 act of the legislature named Indianapolis as Indiana's new capital, and the city has been building its own traditions ever since. Your part in its story deserves to be told in your own words.
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Who did you go to the 500 with, and what did you always pack for race day?
Race weekend in Indianapolis is as much about rituals as cars, and your rituals will matter more than any lap record to the people who love you. Picture them reading about who sat beside you and what was on the radio. A guide, part of Archive Membership, can point them to those passages, quoted and dated, without ever pretending to be you.
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Indianapolis, Indiana
Carl Fisher helped found the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1909, and the track also served as a testing ground for new automobile technology. In 1911 it introduced a 500-mile race that became its main event. For many people here, race weekend is less about the cars than about the rituals around them: who you went with, where you sat, what you packed and who you listened with on the radio. If the 500 is part of your life, tell it your way, from the first lap to the drive home.
Downtown, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument has come to stand for both the city and the state. Visitors can climb its steps, or ride the elevator most of the way, to an observation level 231 feet above the street, with views of the skyline in every direction. From up there you can pick out neighborhoods, rooftops and the roads you drive every week. If you could point someone you love toward one spot in that view and tell its story, which spot would you choose?
Most of a life in Indianapolis happens far from the headlines: in church basements and school gyms, on porches and in parking lots after a game, at the diner where they know your order. These are the places where opinions get formed and friendships get tested. Your view of the city, what you love about it and what you would change, is a record of this moment in your own voice. The generations after you will be glad to hear it.
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