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Vol. 13 No. 4
Including the Cultural Districts and Midtown: Meridian-Kessler, Butler-Tarkington, and Meridian St.
Feb 19 - Mar 3, 2016
NEW DISTRICT FOR BROAD RIPPLE Recently the City-County Council map for Indianapolis was redrawn, moving Broad Ripple from District 3 to District 2. The boundaries were also changed. See the maps in full detail at http://bit.ly/1QjxjLx
The parking deck over the canal in 1988 as seen from the air during a special aerial photo tour of Broad Ripple. The start of the canal can be seen above the deck. Below the deck is the College Avenue canal bridge (College running left and right in this photo). Broad Ripple Avenue runs diagonally to the upper right in this photo. In the left center, you can see the old Shell station and apartments that were recently razed to make way for the Fresh Thyme Market and Coil Apartments. In the lower right corner, are Roselyn Bakery and Bob’s Marathon that were razed for the mixed-use parking structure.
Everything you always wanted to know about the canal... By Alan Hague
alan@broadripplegazette.com
Part Eleven For those readers just discovering this series on the canal now in its 10th part, I will explain why the canal is important and why the Gazette is doing this series. The dam that created the Central Canal was built on the White River in 1836 and the Town of Broad Ripple grew up around it. It is why we are here today. For years the canal has supplied the City of Indianapolis with 60% of its fresh water which is processed for our clean water supply.
A little background for this segment... In 1958 a concrete parking deck was constructed over the canal. It completely obscured the canal from the firehouse to about halfway to the College Avenue bridge. I remember a parking lot arm that raised either to let cars in or out, but I don’t remember which. I also don’t know if they charged to park there (I wasn’t born until 1960!) In 1999 it was torn down and the canal was restored to its original glory. Over the years several have sent in photos. If any readers have photos of the parking deck, please let me know. It is important to preserve as much Broad Ripple history as possible. “Were you around for the parking deck that was over the canal?” I asked Sarah Holsapple, Media Relations for Citizens. “No,” she answered, “what year was that? No, I wasn’t here.” “It came down in 1999,” I replied. “This is them taking the canal deck down,” as I pointed at a picture I brought. “The deck is in here too,” said Ed Malone, Director of Water Production for Citizens, pointing at another picture I brought. “Do you remember the parking deck?” I asked Ed. “Yes, I remember the parking deck,” he answered. I showed several pictures. “This is them taking it down in 99. I have an aerial picture of it too, you can see the cars on the canal here. Here is one of them building it.” Ed said, “Actually we liked the parking deck being there. The reason being is we didn’t get the weed growth under the parking deck.” “No sunlight!” added Edwin Morris, Operations and Maintenance Supervisor for Citizens. “It was pretty long,” I explained while pointing to the aerial photo, “ it went from here (Guilford) all the way down to here (half way to College) along the canal.” Sarah exclaimed, “ Wow! Interesting. So, there was a lot more parking in Broad Ripple!”
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Banner Artist of the issue The banner artist of this issue is Kelsey Bigelow. A lifetime resident of Broad Ripple; Kelsey graduated from Broad Ripple High and received a Bachelor’s in fine art from John Herron school of art in 2006. Kelsey continues freelance work in various media. She has produced cover illustrations for books and musical albums for clients both local and worldwide, including a cover and interior illustrations for Cubbing, and My Summer as a Cub by former sports writer for the Indianapolis Star, Russel R. Leonard. She also produces weekly full color pages for a web comic out of Los Angeles called Glam Rock Gorilla, and has contributed cabinet art for locally produced arcade game, Skycurser. Her skills even range to an outdoor mural that can be seen on Boogie Burger facing Broad Ripple Avenue. You can contact Kelsey at psychobob627@msn.com To celebrate the 11th year of the Broad Ripple Gazette we started featuring a year of local artists by allowing them to interpret our banner, while incorporating the words “The Broad Ripple Gazette”. Contact us at info@broadripplegazette.com to inquire if any open issues remain. Still looking for cartoonist, tattoo artist, pen and ink, etc.
1 Canal series #11
5 BR Brewpub Quiz
9 Wine Scene Jill A. Ditmire
11 Random Rippling Classic
19 Right in my Own Backyard
1 Banner - Kelsey Bigelow
6 Classified Ads
9 Where in the Village?
12 BR Winter Farmers Mkt
19 Random Rippling 200th
1 New district map
6 Public Notices
10 Zoning update
12 Hidden History / Sudoku
19 Random Rippling Petite
3 Calendar
7 Local Contacts
10 Random Rippling Brothers
13 Historic Ad / Crossword
19 Random Rippling BlueIndy
4 Poetic Thoughts
7 Mistakes winner
10 Random Rippling Thrapp
14 Gettin’ Ripped in Ripple
20 Random Rippling retired
4 Buzzing Around Town
8 Round the Ripple
11 Random Rippling SoBro
15 Directory / Maps
20 Random Rippling Wellness