{"id":8462,"date":"2014-03-13T20:20:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T01:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=8462"},"modified":"2014-03-19T17:36:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T22:36:11","slug":"indianapolis-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/indianapolis-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Indianapolis, pt. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

So when we got here, the librarians were sharing the conference area with dishwasher soap salesman – EcoLab<\/a>. 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\u00a0 Penn State bus parked out front.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Old Point Tavern<\/p><\/div>\n

Walking back, I saw an abandoned diner I liked – the sign still rotates<\/p>\n

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abandoned luncheonette<\/p><\/div>\n

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abandoned luncheonette<\/p><\/div>\n

And it became apparent that the Big 10 Tournament is moving in.<\/p>\n

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Indiana Monuments Circle with Big 10 tourney sign<\/p><\/div>\n

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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<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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Big 10 tournament banner in the hotel<\/p><\/div>\n

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<\/a>, but they got trashed, so went to Greenwich Village<\/a>). 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.<\/p>\n