Talk:Speedway, Indiana

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Writer, Man Morrow lives in Speedway.

1820 or 1920?

I'm not sure about this edit, but I've left it in for now. Could somebody look into this? I'm seriously no expert in history, especially in terms of cars or city development. --Sid 3050 15:26, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Right you are, being that the Automobile was not successfully built until the 1890's and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was not built until 1909, the idea that this town was built around its nonexistent namesake, nearly 100 years before it existed, for people with automobiles, that would not yet be sold for another 70 years, is ludicrous. If it is one of the two years you mentioned it is undoubtedly 1920. --MJHankel 18:43, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

not to mention the fact that the city flag and seal say 1926. --MJHankel 18:54, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

--To clear up this question, Ralston laid out Indianapolis in the 1820s. Prior to its incorporation, Speedway was a part of Indianapolis. Ralston did not lay out the area that would become Speedway. Through the beginning of the twentieth century that area was rural farmland most likely, until Fisher, Allison, et al came along and began Speedway's development.

It seems very strange to say that in the mid-1920s a town laid out for automobiles, with garages instead of carriage houses, would have seemed "totally alien" to people in Indianapolis. In the early 1900s, Indianapolis's automobile industry rivaled Detroit's, and was home of the Stutz Bearcat, Deusenberg, Cord, Marmon, and dozens of others. By 1920, Indianapolis was a city of 300,000 people and a major manufacturing area. To suggest that its residents would have been surprised to see Speedway laid out for automobiles is odd, indeed.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:19, 18 February 2008 (UTC)