In the 50’s my grandfather started a bottle delivery company called Carmel Dairy. He said it was ok but capturing the Sheridan market was the ultimate goal, haha.I can remember when I was a young kid, going up to visit some family friends in Carmel and it was a quiet little neighborhood (no idea exactly where it was now) with very small modest older homes. Definitely had a "blue collar" feel to it.
Carmel was a crossroads with a few houses and Sheridan was a real town.
Our current neighbors patriarch sold his farm to the people that built Sunblest about that time or a little earlier. They came in and bought just shy of a whole section plus some other parcels with cash. They’re good neighbors but I can’t say the money didn’t poison some of their relationships between themselves.Welcome to INGO.
I feel your pain.
I moved to Fishers in 1987 when it was about 1500 people.
The only grocery store was Archer's Market just east of the tracks on 116th St.
And just west of the tracks other than a few old houses, it was open fields.
City Hall was the old house just across the west side of the tracks on the south side of the road, and the police station was an old building that was little more than a big shed behind it that opened at 8am.
In some of the early growing phases it was a decent place to live as a few more things were brought in.
But by the time I moved out of Fishers in May of 2016 I was SO glad to get out of that fustercluck.
This mentality that the more people and things that can be crammed in the smallest area automatically makes life better is insane.
But that's the mentality of the people running Fishers now.
We feel the growth coming. I don’t want to see it but can’t move forward watching the rearview all the time.