Businesses from ice houses to lumber yards emerged along the right-of-way. The railroads are gone today, but the old rail bed serves the public as a linear park called the Monon Trail. Like many Indiana towns in the late s, Broad Ripple enjoyed a short-lived gas boom.
Along with prosperity, however, it also suffered a debilitating gas explosion, the collapse of a train bridge, and devastating floods and fires. Despite these hardships, in the first decades of the 20th century, Broad Ripple's pastoral setting became a haven for city dwellers who built summer getaways in the area. Soon those same city dwellers wanted to move "up north" on a permanent basis. While the boom was stalled by World War I, when the hostilities were over, the rush was on.
After several attempts and with some residents still opposed, in , the Town of Broad Ripple voted in favor of annexation to the City of Indianapolis, citifying this country retreat. No one had to lock their doors. The Bijou, of course, was The Vogue, which was strictly a movie house back then. I remember going into the Vogue when it was a bright day and coming out, slightly dizzy but fully satisfied, into the early dark. For my sixth birthday party in , after ice cream and cake, my cousin Junior Clayton E.
Ridge Jr. He was not a Marine, like Roy in the novel, but served in the 8th Air Force as a tail gunner on a B What is now the Broad Ripple United Methodist Church at 62nd and Guilford, across from the condominiums that were once School 80, in my childhood was the Broad Ripple Christian Church, an offshoot of the Baptists, complete with a baptismal font for full-immersion dunkings. It was my personal choice at age 11 to be baptized in that method, feeling that the sprinkling my parents had got me as a baby, from the First Presbyterian Church downtown, was not enough to do the job.
He must have been at the church only a short time—maybe he was an interim pastor—because I remember more clearly the Reverend High Gillette, a short, stocky, often laughing man, whose daughter Nancy was a classmate. Gillette entertained kids from School 80 on Wednesdays with hamburgers at lunch for a small fee, along with a film serial. It was rumored that when Rev. Those days were blessed. Listen to this: one day Roy Rogers, the singing cowboy, came to town with his horse Trigger.
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