This is the old Sears-Roebuck department store building, built in 1929, where Needler’s Market now occupies the whole bottom floor (where you see the lights turned on).  As a Sears flagship location in Indianapolis, it was one of five such stores in the city. Sears left this location in 1983. 

 

 

 

Across the street, in the parking lot for Roberts Park United Methodist Church, on the northwest corner of Alabama and Vermont, is where Sears had its auto center.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other posts about Indianapolis history Martin Krieg created as he wrote "How Indianapolis Built America" are at this link HERE