The "Open Job"

ID: 2044 ~ Source: Photo Courtesy of Indiana University Libraries' Archives of Traditional Music, Hoagy Carmichael Collections 1920-1981 ~ Date: 1923
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The "Open Job"

Hoagy, pictured here at the steering wheel, made his way around Bloomington during his college years in an old car that often didn't run that he referred to as "the open job." The five other men in and around the automobile are unidentified.

This file appears in: Maxwell Hall, Indiana University

By Monroe County History Center
Hoagy attended Indiana University from 1920-1926. His mother and grandmother encouraged him to study law as a more practical and reliable career than music. Hoagy obliged, but as a student at IU he put most of his time and energy into playing at…