Thank you so much for sharing this video. I have wanted to see images of The Bazaar for quite some time. I remember driving past it several times and never going inside and now I regret it.
I'm old enough to remember ALL of this... I remember when they built it, opened it. I remember going through the Bazaar and OMG the stairs. Up/down/down up. You REALLY got a work out. Of course, Lucifers... The BEST disco in Indy at the time and who could forget Fridays! It was THE place back in those days.. This video brought back SO many memories for me. The days BEFORE I-465... If you notice in the aerial shots, they're just in the process of building I-465. I remember when it opened... I remember when they built the extension of Keystone Ave up that way through Carmel... All of it.. Memories of a 'kinder, simpler time' for sure...
That place was so neat as a little boy my mother shopped there often as we lived close. The silo was the only remaining thing from the Kerr farm one of the two biggest farms in the area . The other being the Haverstick farm. My father owned the Standard service station at 86th & Westfield for many years. I still have matchbooks that call 86th st hwy 100. I didn't see the ice dome in the video , it was just south of there on keystone. I played hockey there in 1973/74.
I am just old enough to have visited the Bazaar when I was very young. The demolition was in phases with the east-west portion first and later the north-south (most eastern) part. I recall that if you were leasing space and held out till the end, you made a killing when you were bought out. Prior to that you lost your shirt. My father provided merchandise for one of the stores. At 5:45 the glass lamp shades were from my dad's studio. It was a cool place, in layout, totally unlike any other mall with stairs and shops interwoven and at different levels and some spilling into others. In the video you can see that a shop would just start at the top of stairs or you could look down from one store into another. The rents for returns were too high. Accessibility was very limited. The whole thing felt more like a hippy experiment from an art commune, so after we left the late '70s it started to get dated very fast.
I was a teenager when this opened. It was like walking through a maze, up and down steps... Not ideal for Handicap or elderly. Had wood floors, all you heart was the sound of peoples heels clacking. The giant Silo was cool. The Cork was the after hours hand out for restaurant employee's nearby.
I used to ride my bike to Castleton when there were 3 buildings. I got beers at Friday's at 17, I looked 21 ez and things were different then. You can't drink much making $2 an hr at McD's.
I'm from Indianapolis and I was born in 1980, this is very interesting. Didn't know Fridays was there back then. I read that the Bazaar was demolished in 1986 and I was 5/6 years old so I don’t remember it. I do remember Mark Pi’s restaurant that was a little further down from the mall on 86th St.
Was just reading the Indy Star and found an article on the front page “What lies ahead for Indy’s Biggest Malls” (12/14/2021). Sometimes I swore I dreamed this mall up because it was just like a fever dream. Glad to know that yes, it was real. I think there were a lot of things wrong like the chaos of trying to find your way around and It was a Fire Marshall’s worst nightmare. But for a kid dulled by the boring Midwest, it was endlessly fascinating and truly bizarre (see what I did there?) I really can’t believe it was ever built in this conservative town. Now if I can just find a video of my other fever dream - the Hangar restaurant on the Westside. Real WW 1 airplanes hung from the ceiling and on weekends it was a disco! Thanks so much for posting this!
Back when this was built it was a nice area. Now in 2024 it's going down hill and a lot of the better stores and restaurants are long gone. Castleton square mall just east of this location is quickly becoming the Lafyette square mall of the 80s and is no place to be. In the 70s and 80s TGI Friday's was one the best restaurants in Indianapolis, with professional chefs and food that was next to none. This TGI Fridays was nothing like the other Friday's or anything like the one's we see today, it was truly top notch. As the city moves out and the riff raff moves in, everything seems to go down hill and that's what happened with Keystone at the Crossing.
What an interesting film. I don't know why it was blurry and playing at the wrong speed. It might have been on early VHS and was at the end of it's life. I hope the Indiana Historical Society can get a copy of this because it's part of the city history. I loved the Bazaar at KATC. I'm a fan of Nashville Indiana and it was like having a slice of Nashville in the Indianapolis area. It looked like it was designed by M.C. Escher and it was very hard to navigate, but it was never boring to look at.
I was always fascinated by the Bazaar, but Keystone at the Crossing was normally a place that we passed on the way to the more middle class Castleton Square. I think we visited the Bazaar maybe three times when I was a kid. By the time I was old enough to drive, it had be demolished to become the extension of The Fashion Mall. The main store that interested me there was The Game Preserve. One of the times I visited the Bazaar, I saw the very rare arcade game, Jack the Giant Killer, but I didn't get to play it.
Wow! I finally get to see a picture of Lucifer's! What a fun disco that was -- 2 stories -- amazing lights and clear dance floor. I wish we had cell phones then to capture the fun. We Army officers would head over there from Fort Harrison. Great memories.
It was awesome. No surprise it didn't last. Many of my favorite memories of Indy involve The Bazaar. It was unique, what's there now is common. A different era, perhaps a better one.
This was a better time. The Bazaar, as an experience, is a dated concept. Artisans had a public space to engage the public. The shopper went to seek unique items but also be entertained by the mood and ambiance of the many shops. Now, the internet has made us lazy, complacent and isolated. Everything is a click away and we don’t even need to put clothes on. And COVID-19 is pushing us to even work online. If this is a reset, hopefully it will result in a return to unique local experiences like we use to have in the 1970s. Plus, in the 1970s, it was far easier and more affordable to pursue a middle class lifestyle. Notice now that more apartments than new housing is being built. Not good.
Living in Carmel I was able to see the early development of Keystone at the Crossing......In reality it was a big BUST, I would assume millions were lost by many retailers. However for a few that held out, Duke bought out the remainder and they made a lot of money. Duke had bigger plans to build the Fashion Mall as well as several office buildings. I attended the Grand opening of the 8100 Building and knew a few who signed for space in the new Fashion Mall. I also leased a retail space across from the mall and had a business there until the late 1980's. We were also good friends of the owner of Charlie and Barney's at Keystone at The Crossing. My brother was an acquaintance of the farmer who sold the land to Phil Duke Company.
any pictures of the bazaar anywhere i was not born yet but love old pictures of things what kind of stores where in there and restaraunts was gattles a restaraunt or a store and when did the fashion mall open up what year
The original TGIF structure shown here, is gone. I seem to remember that it survived the Bazaar. It was separate. I believe the west wall of the old TGIF structure, may have aligned somewhere in what is now the small parking lot west of Crate and Barrel, although it might have sat a little closer to 86th St than that. You can kind of get an idea of where the old TGIF structure sat, from the aerial shot at 2:08. Though widened, I don't think the two roads, Keystone Crossing and River Crossing Blvd (I think formerly that was River Rd,) have moved, so you can rely on those for reference. The current TGIF sits in what was an empty field in the old aerial shot.
@@brycedrennan7722 I used to go to that TGI Friday's as a kid. It is by far my favorite TGI Friday's because it had character. I was sad when it was moved to it's current location and the old one demolished.
@@nkohne I remember the old TGI Fridays had a canoe hanging on the wall or from the ceiling(above the bar I think). I was there maybe twice when I was pretty young. The interior shot brought back memories.
@@MrKmoconne It was an antique wooden rowing shell for a crew of eight plus coxswain. Very long, imposing, dramatic, memorable, as you have demonstrated here.
Late 1970's, Fridays restaurant only vender that still remains there. I worked at the Greenhouse Restaurant, it was located near where lush is now. Glass ceilings, and a live tree indoors.
Thank you so much for sharing this video. I have wanted to see images of The Bazaar for quite some time. I remember driving past it several times and never going inside and now I regret it.
I'm old enough to remember ALL of this... I remember when they built it, opened it. I remember going through the Bazaar and OMG the stairs. Up/down/down up. You REALLY got a work out. Of course, Lucifers... The BEST disco in Indy at the time and who could forget Fridays! It was THE place back in those days.. This video brought back SO many memories for me. The days BEFORE I-465... If you notice in the aerial shots, they're just in the process of building I-465. I remember when it opened... I remember when they built the extension of Keystone Ave up that way through Carmel... All of it.. Memories of a 'kinder, simpler time' for sure...
what was it like getting on 465 for the first time
That place was so neat as a little boy my mother shopped there often as we lived close. The silo was the only remaining thing from the Kerr farm one of the two biggest farms in the area . The other being the Haverstick farm. My father owned the Standard service station at 86th & Westfield for many years. I still have matchbooks that call 86th st hwy 100. I didn't see the ice dome in the video , it was just south of there on keystone. I played hockey there in 1973/74.
I am just old enough to have visited the Bazaar when I was very young. The demolition was in phases with the east-west portion first and later the north-south (most eastern) part. I recall that if you were leasing space and held out till the end, you made a killing when you were bought out. Prior to that you lost your shirt. My father provided merchandise for one of the stores. At 5:45 the glass lamp shades were from my dad's studio.
It was a cool place, in layout, totally unlike any other mall with stairs and shops interwoven and at different levels and some spilling into others. In the video you can see that a shop would just start at the top of stairs or you could look down from one store into another.
The rents for returns were too high. Accessibility was very limited. The whole thing felt more like a hippy experiment from an art commune, so after we left the late '70s it started to get dated very fast.
I was a teenager when this opened. It was like walking through a maze, up and down steps... Not ideal for Handicap or elderly. Had wood floors, all you heart was the sound of peoples heels clacking. The giant Silo was cool. The Cork was the after hours hand out for restaurant employee's nearby.
About 50 years later Keystone at the Crossing has grown into Indy’s second downtown.
I used to ride my bike to Castleton when there were 3 buildings. I got beers at Friday's at 17, I looked 21 ez and things were different then. You can't drink much making $2 an hr at McD's.
I'm from Indianapolis and I was born in 1980, this is very interesting. Didn't know Fridays was there back then. I read that the Bazaar was demolished in 1986 and I was 5/6 years old so I don’t remember it. I do remember Mark Pi’s restaurant that was a little further down from the mall on 86th St.
Was just reading the Indy Star and found an article on the front page “What lies ahead for Indy’s Biggest Malls” (12/14/2021). Sometimes I swore I dreamed this mall up because it was just like a fever dream. Glad to know that yes, it was real. I think there were a lot of things wrong like the chaos of trying to find your way around and It was a Fire Marshall’s worst nightmare. But for a kid dulled by the boring Midwest, it was endlessly fascinating and truly bizarre (see what I did there?) I really can’t believe it was ever built in this conservative town. Now if I can just find a video of my other fever dream - the Hangar restaurant on the Westside. Real WW 1 airplanes hung from the ceiling and on weekends it was a disco! Thanks so much for posting this!
Back when this was built it was a nice area. Now in 2024 it's going down hill and a lot of the better stores and restaurants are long gone. Castleton square mall just east of this location is quickly becoming the Lafyette square mall of the 80s and is no place to be. In the 70s and 80s TGI Friday's was one the best restaurants in Indianapolis, with professional chefs and food that was next to none. This TGI Fridays was nothing like the other Friday's or anything like the one's we see today, it was truly top notch. As the city moves out and the riff raff moves in, everything seems to go down hill and that's what happened with Keystone at the Crossing.
What an interesting film. I don't know why it was blurry and playing at the wrong speed. It might have been on early VHS and was at the end of it's life. I hope the Indiana Historical Society can get a copy of this because it's part of the city history. I loved the Bazaar at KATC. I'm a fan of Nashville Indiana and it was like having a slice of Nashville in the Indianapolis area. It looked like it was designed by M.C. Escher and it was very hard to navigate, but it was never boring to look at.
This looks more like an old/warped 16mm film. Too bad I never experienced the Bazaar; I was born the same year it was demolished.
I was always fascinated by the Bazaar, but Keystone at the Crossing was normally a place that we passed on the way to the more middle class Castleton Square. I think we visited the Bazaar maybe three times when I was a kid. By the time I was old enough to drive, it had be demolished to become the extension of The Fashion Mall. The main store that interested me there was The Game Preserve. One of the times I visited the Bazaar, I saw the very rare arcade game, Jack the Giant Killer, but I didn't get to play it.
That guy shouldn't have taken that Quaalude before they shot the film.
I came here for the music and also...old school indianapolis history. Love
Wow! I finally get to see a picture of Lucifer's! What a fun disco that was -- 2 stories -- amazing lights and clear dance floor. I wish we had cell phones then to capture the fun. We Army officers would head over there from Fort Harrison. Great memories.
It was awesome. No surprise it didn't last. Many of my favorite memories of Indy involve The Bazaar. It was unique, what's there now is common. A different era, perhaps a better one.
This was a better time. The Bazaar, as an experience, is a dated concept. Artisans had a public space to engage the public. The shopper went to seek unique items but also be entertained by the mood and ambiance of the many shops. Now, the internet has made us lazy, complacent and isolated. Everything is a click away and we don’t even need to put clothes on. And COVID-19 is pushing us to even work online. If this is a reset, hopefully it will result in a return to unique local experiences like we use to have in the 1970s.
Plus, in the 1970s, it was far easier and more affordable to pursue a middle class lifestyle. Notice now that more apartments than new housing is being built. Not good.
Living in Carmel I was able to see the early development of Keystone at the Crossing......In reality it was a big BUST, I would assume millions were lost by many retailers. However for a few that held out, Duke bought out the remainder and they made a lot of money. Duke had bigger plans to build the Fashion Mall as well as several office buildings. I attended the Grand opening of the 8100 Building and knew a few who signed for space in the new Fashion Mall. I also leased a retail space across from the mall and had a business there until the late 1980's. We were also good friends of the owner of Charlie and Barney's at Keystone at The Crossing. My brother was an acquaintance of the farmer who sold the land to Phil Duke Company.
Who is the narrator?
Anyone know when this was made and HD and a clean soundtrack would be terrific. Love the 70's vibe and George Benson
I like the video. However, the background music is kind of creepy - it gives me chills 😨!
Hope my woman doesn't walk in on me while watching this. She's gonna think I'm watching a porno
How old is Friday's? I just noticed that restaurant in the west end was Friday's.
any pictures of the bazaar anywhere i was not born yet but love old pictures of things what kind of stores where in there and restaraunts was gattles a restaraunt or a store and when did the fashion mall open up what year
Is the only remaining original structure TGI Friday's?
The original TGIF structure shown here, is gone. I seem to remember that it survived the Bazaar. It was separate. I believe the west wall of the old TGIF structure, may have aligned somewhere in what is now the small parking lot west of Crate and Barrel, although it might have sat a little closer to 86th St than that. You can kind of get an idea of where the old TGIF structure sat, from the aerial shot at 2:08. Though widened, I don't think the two roads, Keystone Crossing and River Crossing Blvd (I think formerly that was River Rd,) have moved, so you can rely on those for reference. The current TGIF sits in what was an empty field in the old aerial shot.
Thanks Bryce!
@@brycedrennan7722 I used to go to that TGI Friday's as a kid. It is by far my favorite TGI Friday's because it had character. I was sad when it was moved to it's current location and the old one demolished.
@@nkohne I remember the old TGI Fridays had a canoe hanging on the wall or from the ceiling(above the bar I think). I was there maybe twice when I was pretty young. The interior shot brought back memories.
@@MrKmoconne It was an antique wooden rowing shell for a crew of eight plus coxswain. Very long, imposing, dramatic, memorable, as you have demonstrated here.
When was this? People look dressed for the late 70s.
Wikipedia says the opening year was 1973
Late 1970's, Fridays restaurant only vender that still remains there. I worked at the Greenhouse Restaurant, it was located near where lush is now. Glass ceilings, and a live tree indoors.
i party my ass off please don't crossing back in the seventies and you know whatit ain't shit now
I liked going to Saks when I lived in Indy.
My husband bought his dresses there.
LOL
Oh the comment section! 😆😆. Sometimes more entertaining than whatever video I just watched.