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Front Yard of Bricks: Fans embrace Indy 500 traditions
By JENNA FRYER Associated Press May 27, 2021 9:00pm Text size Copy shortlink:
INDIANAPOLIS The navigation system advises taking a right on Meridien at Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis. But there is no Meridien Street and so round and round you go past the memorial for soldiers and sailors until you realize Meridien has been replaced by Dixon Drive.
All downtown Indianapolis streets have been renamed, in fact, for each of the 33 drivers in the Indianapolis 500. Residents across the city have been counting down to Sunday s race for weeks and many enthusiastically entered the Spectacle of Homes contest meant to spark civic pride.
Jenna Fryer
The home of Charlotte Fisher and Mark Tennell, decorated as part of the Spectacle of Homes contest to be featured ahead of the Indianapolis 500 auto race, is shown Thursday, May 27, 2021, in Indianapolis. Because the traditional parade has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, drivers will instead cruise by homes that have been decorated to celebrate the 105th running of the race. (AP Photo/Jenna Fryer) May 27, 2021 - 7:50 PM
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) â The navigation system advises taking a right on Meridian at Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis. But there is no Meridian Street and so round and round you go past the memorial for soldiers and sailors until you realize Meridian has been replaced by Dixon Drive.
Their stories begin with snippets of history passed down through their family trees.
The forced exile of Maya Hofstetter’s great-grandmother Stella Rinde Coburn began in August 1939, the year after Austria’s annexation by Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.
Gershon’s grandfather Eric Otto also left.
“He didn’t want to leave Austria. It wasn’t his decision,” says the 46-year-old sales director for Israel’s national carrier, El Al.
“When he was 13 years old in 1938, his parents put him on a ship to Palestine,” he says.
Only after World War II did Otto learn that his family had died in the Nazi camps.