DUNCAN ADAMS PHOTOS
Hey! I got something here… and to be honest, I don’t think you’ll use it LOL.
I’m 65 now.. Live in Brown County7 IN. The old huse I used to line in on North Shadeland Ave is still standing. So is the commercial building Dat built (he did not build the house) for his business.- Harry Adams Plumbing. We moved from there when I was in the second grade, but dad kept the property into the 80’s and rented it out. The house got zoned commercial when we moved.
Anyway … if I looked correctly. It’s the only house still standing North of 21st street. All the others are gone of people Mom and Dad knew, the old barn and farm across the street I remembered as a kid are gone also.
Thought I would throw them at you. As I said I don’t think you’ll want them. Not really something people will go OH! I MEMEMBER THAT (But…well it is kind of like the last man standing in that area, if you will.
The address for the buildings: 3610 and 3616 North Shadeland Ave Indpls. The old store building is on the property line with the old Blue and White Truck Stop.
The pics of the house are from 2005 when the monument company owned the place. The whole area has gone to shit now…. as I am sure you know.
Thanks
Duncan Adams
INDY RAMBLER 
This goes way back and is neither here nor there .. BUT .. When dad got back from Germany from WW2 … housing was at a premium with all the GI’s coming back . He found a boarding house in Indy .. what was the owners name ? anyway this guy was I guess pretty smart and he and dad would sit around and talk .. kinda like an Uncle I think…. He told dad that the east side was going to see the growth – I think he was located east to east central in the city … anyway he told dad that was the place to be in the future . I see that RD 100 did not get commissioned until the 50’s . I am assuming that land lord of dads was speaking to him in the late 40’s . Very insightful . Mom and dad moved to Arlington and 26th street . Then I was born in 58 . About a year or two later they moved to 3610 Shadeland . If one remembers in the 60 -70’s there was a lot of manufacturing on Shadeland and in that east area . Chrysler – Ford – Western Electric – Gen Air – Navel Avionics – International Harvester ( dad worked there before and after WW2 .) Funny how that old man could see what was going to happen . Dad took his advice and moved to that area and it was prosperous for him .
WOW thanks for the Rd 100 web link … I’ll save it . Didn’t know that Shadeland rd 100 had that behind it .. just thought it was an old st. hyw that was taken over ….