Then and now.

• Position: AROUND INDIANA

IF YOU WERE A BUSINESS executive in Indianapolis in 1957, you drove your Studebaker Golden Hawk hardtop to Weir Cook Airport to catch a flight on Lake Central Airlines. You got phone service from Indiana Bell. In your leisure time, you listened to 33-1/3 record albums made locally by RCA.

Lake Central, based in Indianapolis, was bought by Allegheny 40 years ago, which in turn became USAir and later US Airways. Now US Airways Express, the carrier's regional service, B operated by Indianapolis-based Republic Airways.

Indiana Bell was a subsidiary of AT&T, which was broken up in 1984. After being...