Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Indy's Eastgate Center



The Wasson's anchor store, on the mall's northwest end. It closed in
April 1980 and eventually re-opened as a Burlington Coat Factory.
This store lasted until 2004.
at 5:10 PM

5 comments:

Indy Mall Guy said...

From my devotion to accuracy department...

The logo on the Wasson's graphic shows where the signage would have been. Though I remember it as a sans serif font, not a script.

Mon Feb 12, 05:23:00 PM EST
Anonymous said...

Hello, - I've found a photo that includes a good view of the Wasson's 60s logo. Is there an e-mail address where I can send you that photo?

Fri Sep 14, 09:49:00 AM EST
The Curator said...

Hiya,

Thanks for offering the EASTGATE photo. I would love to see it...but I am quite reluctant (paranoid) to post my actual e-mail addy on here. I get enough bull#$@% as it is, hee hee....

I did have an alternate Hotmail account...but -apparently- that is gone and MSN took it over or something.

You could post an email addy on here that I could reply to. I will check this posting place here and IMMEDIATELY delete the post, if you do this. If not, I will certainly understand.

Another option...you don't have a place -such as Flickr- to post pics on the web?

I guess I need to check out MSN Mail and set up another alternate account. If I do this, I hope that they will -then- leave it the heck alone then...and not morph the mail thing into something else anytime soon...hee hee.

Cheers,

Fri Sep 14, 12:08:00 PM EST
Anonymous said...

I understand about the e-mail thing.

So instead, here's the link where I found the photo.

http://shawnwolfe.com/gallery/Burger-Chef/burgerchef1large_001?full=1

It's not a photo of Eastgate, but of the Wasson's downtown location. It's actually a grainy tinted shot of a downtown Indy fast food. But if you follow the line of cars on the street, you'll see the Wasson's building to the left.

My mistake. The font was a script hand. The only thing you don't get is the "o" due to a light pole. But it's a great example of the signage used on all their stores through the 60s. Glad I could finally find an example for you.

Fri Sep 14, 12:23:00 PM EST
The Curator said...

Anon,

I followed the link and saved the photo..Thanks much. I will see what I can do to try and modify my Wasson's/Eastgate rendering to more accurately portray the way that the W's logo looked circa-1957.

The downtown Indy BURGER CHEF in the photo brought back many fond memories for me.

I hail from the Cincinnati-Dayton area (over in the "Buckeye State") and I fondly recall the opening of a Burger Chef in my neighborhood...this being WAYYYY BACK in the fall of 1967.

I still think that a Big Chef was about the best burger I ever had. I hated to see the chain fold in the 1980s.

Thanks -again- for the memories!

Btw....was there, by any chance, a Burger Chef -outparcel- on the perimeter of EASTGATE CENTER...back in "the days"? If so, I will be delighted to add it onto the site plan of the mall.

Cheers,

Fri Sep 14, 01:15:00 PM EST

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)