Throwback Thursday: Primrose, Where Life's a Holiday

Number one on the list for three years...

(Not actually a 1950s Primrose picture. AI-generated photo)

I’m pulling out the big guns.

Today’s Throwback Thursday rerun was first posted on May10, 2023, when 5 a.m. Stories were less than two months old. It quickly rose to the very top of my most-read list and has stayed there for three years.

It seems unbeatable.

I can’t release exact readership numbers, but I can confirm the recorded page views are somewhere between thirteen hundred and four million.

That surprises me just a bit, because it’s very Indianapolis-focused. On the other hand, it is a genuine Old Neighborhood story, told with some twists and surprises, offering equal parts nostalgia and sentiment, and spanning five decades.

I guess it’s hard to go wrong recounting a trip back to the old ‘hood after half a century.

Especially since this single block of Primrose Avenue boasted its own weekly podcast AND its own Substack, tended by two different former denizens.

Picture that classic 1959 Twilight Zone episode, Walking Distance, but without Rod Serling’s dramatic storytelling talent or brilliant writing skills.

I hope you enjoy reading — or rereading — Where Life’s a Holiday.