History of Lakeshore Drive, Culver, Marshall, Indiana
From curve to State Road 10 and 17
NORTH Lakeshore Dr.
This is just a rough beginning of this listings. With no addresses in the early years just the street name it is hard to place them
correct - if you remember won't you help?
Some ads of Culver businesses that appeared in various newspapers etc. of the time are on the side bar menu.
An alpabetical listing of buisnesses of: 1952.
824 1950's-29 Sep. 1999 A & W Root Beer Stand - Carl H. & Myrna Jo Eby
29 Sep. 1999-13 Jun 2003 Eby's Root Beer Stand - Jan & Sandra Eby
Jan s/o of the original owners - who were from Argos. He and his brother took over the business when their parents retired. They
worked their with their parents when teenagers.
? 200_ Original Root Beer Stand
Mark S. & Rebecca A. Damore, DOUGLAS PHILLIP/CATHERINE
BRADLEYS ADD LOT 5
LOT 5 BRADLEYS ADD
BRADLEYS ADD LOT 6
This area in years back was referred to as Bunker Hill - David Burns always called it that and said that it was named such as the
Vandalia Trains filled up there. In an interview that Jeff Kenney and I was on with George Franz on 9 June 2007 he related that
the railroad had underground storage area for their water tanks and possibly other railroad equipment that was needed for the area -
where Papa's is today - something that I have never heard David ever mention and thus the real meaning of the name origin 'Bunker
Hill'!
824 N Lakeshore House of Treasures
Was originally located on West Shore Drive and was moved to this location in the late 1950's or before 1961.
The post card below depicts it shortly after it was moved and before a string of businesses occupied it before Papa's. I looks as
if in it that is sitting empty at the time the photograph for the postcard was taken.
several eating places occupied the building in between; and as one can tell it took on several renovations over the years too change
the appearance of the building & stood Empty for while in between businesses. In behind the building one can see part of the Culver
Lodge - of which some of the rooms were torn down in the 1990's to make way for expansion of Papa's and parking area this is now
the Inn by the Lake.
Papa's today ! - established 1976
?3 Jun 1998 - Marion C. Mc Cormack
3 Jun 1998 - Jams P. & Brian S. Mc Caormack / Allen Fritz & Steve Spaw -Spaw & Fritz Development
11.65' N RR R/W & 20' E SEC LN N 300'
830 N. Lakeshore Inn by the Lake
This is then a residential area from the motel on this side - and on the west side till the medical offices. One must remember that
the area to above College avenue was farm land the east portion belonging last to Lewis C.
Dillon which before him belonged to his father-in-law James Duddleson; the western portion over to School Street and Tamarack
Road belonged to the Houghton family. The area north of what is now Academy Drive then Indiana Avenue was also farm land it mostly
belonged to Lewis C. Dillon also except for a "triangle that belonged to the
Bogardus family they had purchased the ground and area around the original
Isaac N. Morris homestead.
921 921 N Lake Shore Dr
Lakeshore Clinic -
19_ Dr. Joseph Howard - he had the building built in the late 1950's
1968 Dr. Joseph Howard & Dr. Michael F. Deer
In an interview that Jeff Kenney and I was on with George Franz on 9 June 2007 he related that this property was a dump -
which I remember hearing else where and he also reminded us that this was Dillon property also - as well as the opposite side of the
street is where the substation sits and the housing development - and how the academy purchased out the acreage on the north of
St. Rd. 10 where the Black Horse troop pasture is today - because of the "smell" of the hog farm - there was two barns and a windmill
that stood on that corner before 1959 or 1960.
1968 - March 7 – The Lake Shore Clinic announces that Dr. Michael Deery will join the staff in April…
1968 Aug - Dr. Micheal F. Deery
during the 1970's there was a Physician Assistant John Ely.
19_0's - 200_ Dr. Michael F. Derry and Dr. Warren K. Reiss
Academy Dr. (Aka Indiana Avenue) & Lakeshore Dr.
This inquiry came today (25 July 2007 - it has some interesting details - and some memory twisters for someone:
At that time Academy Road was the end of any housing to the north, and there was a big field and hill there. I used to fly a boc kite
there, and tied a camera to it to take aerial photographs! I won the camera selling magazine subscription to the big homes on the east
side of Lake Maxinkuckee.
That started my interest in photography which became my life's work, including directing a film in Hollywood for Howard Hughes Co.
that was nominated for an Academy Award!
When was the area above Academy Road developed?....
Also, any way to see anything of the Black Horse Troop?
Judi, thanks for any help. - ...
Jack Fenimore
The expansion of Academy Drive probably began as early as - or earlier than 1947 - this is found in the Culver Citizen:
One account of expanison and moving of houses is: 1947 - December 3 – Work has started on moving houses at C. M. A. for
expansion program. Some of the lakefront houses on the Academy campus was moved up along Arcademy Drive then Indiana Avenue and
in the subdivision on the east side of Lakehore Drive which was Dillon property and acquired by the academy from the family
at an unkown date. But the name change came after 1952 as in the July 1952 Indiana Bell Telephone Directory - Academy Drive was
still under its old name; as the peoples addresses were still as such in it. To the west which began about 1957-1959 when the
subdivision was plated out from the Lakeshore Clinic north to School Street/Tamarack Road; this was all Dillon and Houghton farm
ground. The Culver Animal Clinc and Winkler's Automotive; the Lakeshore Clinic and the Dental office were among the first building
there - among the first houses was the Davis property at the corner of Forrest and Academy Drive.
Culver Citizen
July 19, 1919
The New Academy Road
Work began Monday on the academy road beginning at the top of Bunk hell and extending 550 feet to a point north of the horse barn.
The work is being done by the county at an estimated coist of an bout $14,000, the money to come out of the repair fund in the
county treasury. The county is using its own roller, scarifier and truck. The road will be 16 feet wide, and will have a foundation
of crushed rock on which gravel will be placed, with a surface of ashphalt and broken rock thoroughly mixed and pot on hot. The
section between Bunker hill and the mess hall will be finished by the opening of the Summer school if all goes well.
NIPSCO Sub Station
1927 - August 3 – Sub-station of Northern Indiana Public Service Company is finished at Behmer corner.- Culver Citizen
1876-1880 and beyond - J. Duddleson 109.0_A
1898 - L. C. Lewis [Lewis Cass Dillon] - 79._0A he also has surrounding farm land too
1908-1922 and beyond - Lewis C. Dillon farm 238.24A - this also included the subdivision on the west from
Academy Rd. to St. Rd. 10. - this subdivision in the mid 1950's was still farm ground as was much of the land
on the east.
1922 -19__ Lewis C. Cass and Arthur Dillon family
1970 - Arthur Dillon etal - 88.4A
1001 - Culver Dental Clinic -
1958 - June 18 – Heavy rains cause the collapse of the new Culver Dental Building now under construction…
1968 - 1970/2 it was used as an annex to the main Lakeshore Clinic
Thomas Pugh - 1970/2 - 2005
Thomas Pugh & Kurt Richeson - 200_;
Kurt Richeson - 2005;
Just to the west of the Culver Dental Clinic on Academy Dr. Stevenson built a clinc and and Mr. T. and Rob Mckinnis combined their
Drug Stores into one in the mid 1970's
820 Academy Drive
1960's - Dr. Stevenson & Mann Associates Clinic
25 July 1968 – John E. Mann, D. O. and family have moved to Culver where Dr.
Mann has become associated with Dr. James D. Leach and Dr. G. W. Stevenson , Jr. at the Culver Clinic…
1970-1980's , 1990's multi use:
David Feagler, Attorney
Harbor Condo Office
1981 - Lake Realty - Rick Chambers
19__-April 1981 - Shirt on You - Tim Overmyer
April 1981-? - Shirt on You - Bobbi Washburn
Bick Flicks - c.1987-2006- Marilyn Bickel
Dan Bickel came back to Indiana [from Califoronia], where he and a business partner decided to open up a video store in Anderson,
Indiana. “We couldn’t see eye to eye and eventually we split. I took half the stock of tapes and gave them to my mom and dad to
start Bick’s Flick’s (video store in Culver). That was 20 years ago. Bonnie and I forced it on them to give them something to do!
Mom (Marilyn Bickel) really took to it. She was there every single day they were open. (My brother) John was also running it.”
Bick’s Flicks, in fact, became Culver’s sole video rental outlet and remained so until it closed its doors last year. ,- -
Bickel revives Uptown Cinema Friday, 16 November 2007, Plymouth Pilot News By Jeff Kenney Editor
Hole-in-one Donuts & Silk Bouque - March 1983 Robert & Karen (Kresk) Adler
Episcopal Church
806 Academy Drive
1977-19_ Mr. T's Family Pharamcy - Ron Tusing & Robert Mc Kinnis
7 November 1968 – Ronald Tusing held a Grand Announcement to announce his ownership of Mr. T’s Culver Rexall Drug store…
19_- 19__ Mr. T's Family Pharamcy - Ron Tusing
1049 - First National bank Monterey - late 1980's
1105 - 197_-April 1981 Alford's IGA
April 1981-? Park n Shop
1111 - Culver Animal Hospital
1958 - 1982 Oscar R. and Lovinia (Newman) Wesson
They bought the ground from the Dillon family and built their home and business coming in off of the
Newman farm south of town. 3 December 1958 – Dr. Oscar Wesson opens newly built animal hospital…
1958 - December 3 – Dr. Oscar Wesson opens newly built animal hospital…
1982 - Allen & Georgette Samuelson
State Road 10
This area was refered to as 'Dillon's Corner' for years it is the intersection of St. Rd. 10 (east & west) and St. Rd. 17
(north & south). The history of the dillon propery.
The southwest corner was farmland till about 1957-8 Wesson's, Henry Winkler, Davies's (on Academy Dr.}, Lakeshore Clinic and Culver
Dental Clinics being the first buildings there on. It was where Bryce Bigley during the summer months had his fruit stand and billboards
were prevelant.
Some not so good pictures of the area:
This depicts the southwest corner in the background with billboards; where the Liquor store is now located.
The southeast corner was also farm land owned by Dillon's and the Academy purchased this land first there were no buildings on it.
Nipsco substation I am assuming would be the first developement there - followed by the subdivision there now. It is the area bewteen
Academy drive, Lakeshore Dr., St. Rd. 10 West and the Academy grounds. It is where some of the houses that were on the lakefront
were moved to from the area in and around the Eppley Auditorium and Culver Inn (Huffington Library today) and the Culver Inn Motel.
South Side
____ - during the 1950's Bryce Bigley had a fresh fruit market on this corner during the Summer and early fall months
1125 - Late 1960's - Town and Country Business building, built by Clarence W. Epley
#1 - Epley's Town and Country Package Liquor Inc. - Clarence W. Epley
1991-2007 - Stealy's Town and Country Package Liquor Inc.
#2 - Nov. 1968-1977 - Mc Kinnis Rexall Drugs
They moved from the downtown location [which was Rector's Pharmacy on the East side of the street across from the bank] 1968/9
and then merged with Mr. T's in 1977 who had moved also from the downtown area to Academy Dr. just west of the
Lakeshore Clinic and Culver Dental Clinic.
#2 - ? 1985-1991 - Abad & Epley Realty
#2 - now storage area for Town and Country Package Liquor Inc.
Farm Land
Culver Storgae Units - 1988-? - Ralph & Barbara Winters
Farm Land
195_-196) - Henry Winkler Automotive Repair
1970's-1990's - Culver Power - Edginton's/Estel Blocekr & Jeff Gibbons
? empty
Motorcycle shop
? empty
Farm Land
19_-1991 - Maxinkuckee Home Supply Inc. Charles & Rodney Edgington
20 Nov. 1991 - November 20 – Maxinkuckee Home Supply Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in U. S. Bankruptcy Court in South Bend
? - Bar
2000-c. May 2007 - The Ten Spot
The building still has the name on it but seems to be no longer open by appearance.
Farm Land
1983-? Dairy Queen
Farm Land
1970-s-1980's - Bill's Furniture
1990-? - Smith & Smith Furniture Store - Nancy Curtis
19__ - Culver Power - Estel Blocker & Jeff Gibbons
Farm Land
2007-? - Family Dollar
North Side
The northeast corner - had 2 barns, with hog lot, and a windmill and farmland.
The northwest corner - was farm land, the Dillon homestead, a little white house, a barn, long machinery shed, corn bin with dryer,
a hog shed.
Some not so good pictures of the area:
This depicts the northwest corner - one can see the corner of the little white house on th left; and barely visible is the corner
of the one barn on the northeast corner on the right. Looking trough the car windows - one can see parts of the building.
1970's Camelot Bowling Lanes and Skating Rink
19__ - Sat empty
1987 -199_ - Julie Mae's Restaurant, Game Room & Bowling Alley - Don & Julie Mae Neidlinger
1991-199_ - Culver Lanes & the 11th Frame Lounge - Don Neidlinger
mid 1990's sat empty
c. 1999 tore down
...THANKS for the memories...
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