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Historic Ad - Broad Ripple Ice
posted: Jan. 26, 2023

This historic ad is from 1950. It is for Broad Ripple Ice at 6538 Winthrop Avenue. The city directory from that time lists Broad Ripple Ice at 6538 Westfield Boulevard, not Winthrop. In an earlier 1920s directory this location was Polar Ice and the street was Cornell (before the name change).
You can see how the street name changes can make historic business research difficult!
There must have been some confusion in the 1940s about the stretch of Westfield (today) north of the canal. This historic ad lists it as Winthrop. The city directories in the 1940s list it was Westfield, most of my old maps list it as Westfield, but one George F. Cram map from 1942 has it named Winthrop. I wish I had been around back in the 40s to know what the street signs said.
Today, this 6538 address would be the south portion of what is now Howald Heating, Air Conditioning and Plumbing on Westfield Boulevard.

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