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 The Al Greens souvenir napkin is a wonderful display of Hoosier pride, something that a business could order custom-made with their name on it, although any number of businesses might have had their name on it too. It's an excellent snapshot of all the things Hoosiers had to be proud of in 1954, the date printed on the back.
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Al's Showboat Restaurant idea |
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 My dad knew Al, Nate, and Belle quite well and use to be the guy up in the projection booth running the projectors.
There were times I got to go along with him and spend the night up there helping him. The car hops were always real nice to me and I ate quite well up there. Belle, in her later years lived in the house due South of the drive-in next to the railroad tracks, off of Shortridge. (Note: Belle also had a house in Broad Ripple. Reeves is referring to her brother Al’s house on Shortridge.) Al, and Nate owned a bunch of rentals downtown, and my dad did a lot of maintenance on them. At one time Al had my dad get and build a model of the Robert E. Lee steamboat with the ideal of tearing down the drive-in and building a full scale replica of the steamboat and. He wanted to call it Al's Showboat. However, it never went any further then the building of the model. My dad’s name was Robert (Bob) Reeves.
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 Dr. Moris Green, brother of Al and Belle and former Physician in Chief of Reily Hospital. Read more about him here »
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 Indianapolis Star columnist John Shaughnessey's eulogy of Al Green in the Indianapolis Star was recently sent in by Al Novotny, a Secina high school graduate (1970). It was written some time around 1996 but the clipping does not show a date.
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Dale, graduate of Manual High School, sent in this photo of a physical model he made. Way to go Dale!  |
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