So when we got here, the librarians were sharing the conference area with dishwasher soap salesman – EcoLab. Now the Big 10 tournament folks are coming in – I think I waited in the Starbucks line with Penn State staff this morning. Starbucks in the Onmi Hotel, so one of the nicer hotels, and there were a bunch of guys in nice athletic gear, with Penn State Logos, and the Penn State bus parked out front.
I walked a little further from the Convention center at noon on Thursday – thought I might go camp out in a Starbucks. But when I got there, it wasn’t a very nice Starbucks, so I went and had a cup of chili at the Old Point Tavern.
Old Point Tavern
Walking back, I saw an abandoned diner I liked – the sign still rotates
abandoned luncheonette
abandoned luncheonette
And it became apparent that the Big 10 Tournament is moving in.
Indiana Monuments Circle with Big 10 tourney sign
Illini Lane – didn’t find the Badger street until Thursday night – it’s actually the block depicted above; the part of Meridian St. that deadends at the monuments, where we ate at Napolese Pizza
Big 10 tournament banner in the hotel
In addition to being an old train station, the hotel had all these plaster people hanging around (kind of like George Segal’s – these gay & lesbian couples used to be in Madison, but they got trashed, so went to Greenwich Village). There was a pair of nuns by the turn off to the lobby, and various other folks sitting on benches and of course a train porter. Here’s a combo of other blogger’s shots & official views from the hotel.
And here’re a couple of shots of Shapiro’s from our last morning (Friday) in Indy.
Shapiro’s sign – there’s cursive one on the side, but I didn’t get a shot of that
From across the street, so you can see how big it is – my shadow in lower right. Meredith offered to take a picture with me in front of the sign, a Shapiro, at Shapiro’s – too meta for me
