Rowdy areas of Indy: some bygone pockets

<p dir="ltr">Roadhouses, saloons and gambling were part of the wildness during the late 1800s and early 1900s at <strong><a href= "https://www.class900indy.com/post/gambling-baseball-beer-and-fast-times-the-history-of-brighton-beach-in-indianapolis">Brighton Beach</a></strong>, a long-forgotten, notorious area just west of downtown <a href= "https://downtownindy.org/"><strong>Indianapolis</strong></a>. Newspapers in the 1890s called Brighton Beach (where enticements included "chuck-a-luck", a game of chance played with dice) "one of the toughest places in town".</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong id= "docs-internal-guid-09fef3a7-7fff-fd2b-94a0-d7f6758bb65c"><a href= "https://www.class900indy.com/about">Ed Fujawa</a></strong>, an Indianapolis attorney and founder of <strong><a href= "https://www.class900indy.com/">Class900 Indy</a></strong>, a blog about city history, has researched some bygone rowdy pockets of Marion County, including Brighton Beach, which was located north of W. 16th Street and west of today's I-65. The area now primarily consists of infrastructure for the <strong><a href= "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Indianapolis+Water+Company+Canal/@39.8151877,-86.1944537,15z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x886b56c74370ce9d:0xdee747582dc43615!8m2!3d39.8153201!4d-86.1894326!16s%2Fg%2F1pxxzvwws?entry=ttu">Indianapolis Water Company</a></strong>.</p> <p dir="ltr">"The infamous reputation of the Beach, and its saloons and roadhouses, continued to grow (during the 1880s), as did a criminal element", Ed Fujawa wrote in a recent blog post. "Reports of crime were frequent. Robberies, assaults, stabbings, even murders, were reported."</p>