Vonnegut Hardware Company , a native of Germany, immigrated to America at age 27 and started the Vollmer and Vonnegut business with Charles… Read More »Vonnegut Hardware Company
WAIV The second independent commercial FM station in the city, WAIV went on the air in 1961 from studios in the… Read More »WAIV
WAJC WAJC was the city’s first nonprofit educational radio station and also its first permanent FM station. Licensed to the Arthur… Read More »WAJC
Walker Dorothy “Tommie” Walker could never have imagined what she was starting when she began going door-to-door conducting surveys in 1939.… Read More »Walker
Walther Cancer Foundation In 1985, Dr. Joseph E. Walther sold the and used the $37 million in proceeds to establish the Walther Medical… Read More »Walther Cancer Foundation
War Manpower Commission Industries producing war material geared up immediately following Pearl Harbor. To meet the demand for labor, the employment services of… Read More »War Manpower Commission
WBRI In October 1963, Radio One Five Hundred Inc., a subsidiary of New York City-based brokerage firm Edwin Tornberg and Co.,… Read More »WBRI
Westchester Country Club Following the success of the , the first Jewish country club in Indianapolis (1921), members of the Jewish community established… Read More »Westchester Country Club
Western Association of Writers In 1885, Marie L. Andrews of Connersville, Indiana, suggested forming a Midwestern writers group to encourage the development of a… Read More »Western Association of Writers
Western Censor & Emigrants’ Guide Established on March 7, 1823, the Western Censor & Emigrants’ Guide was launched nearly one year after the appearance of… Read More »Western Censor & Emigrants’ Guide
