If you’re like us, the “somewhere on Google Maps” trend has been front and center on your social media feeds this winter.
Here’s how it works: folks search their home address to find special memories captured by Google over time, like their grandfather mowing the lawn, childhood pets in the driveway, or even themselves playing outside.
It got us thinking — what moments in Indy have been memorialized by Google Maps? Here’s what we found.
Somewhere on Google maps... it’s 2019 and the area that’s now the thriving North Mass District is mostly abandoned, anchored by an empty facility that will later become North Mass Boulder.
Somewhere on Google maps... it’s 2009 and Conseco Fieldhouse has no idea it will soon become Bankers Life Fieldhouse (and Gainbridge Fieldhouse a few years later.)
Somewhere on Google maps... it’s 2014, before Mari Evans takes up residence at 448 Mass Ave.
Somewhere on Google maps... it’s 2009, and Old National Centre, before its rebranding, welcomes guests as Murat Egyptian Room.
Somewhere on Google maps... it’s July 2007, before the Coca Cola building that now houses Bottleworks Hotel was restored to its full glory.
