After emigrating to America in 1903 from Odessa, Russia, Louis Shapiro opened a small grocery store in Downtown Indianapolis with his wife Rebecca and their eight children. Louis was a grocer by trade, previously operating the American Grocery Company in his homeland. The original downtown grocery, still located on South Meridian Street, was an 18-foot-wide space, where the Shapiro family called upstairs home. Sales of canned goods, pickles, mayonnaise, and kosher deli meats were brisk. Now over 100 years later, the Indianapolis Deli is still going strong.
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