Ordinance No. 924, adopted by the City of Lubbock that year, reorganized street names across the city. Before the change, Indiana Avenue was called Tyler Avenue. The reasoning behind the original naming ties back to a broader system the city put in place, according to KFYO Lubbock News Talk.
People who drive Indiana Avenue every day have probably never thought about where the name came from, but the street wasn't named for a Hoosier transplant or anyone with a personal tie to Indiana. The real story sits in a city ordinance most folks in Lubbock have never opened.
Somewhere in a 1949 filing cabinet, Lubbock quietly rewrote its map, and nobody driving Indiana Avenue today would guess it.