Speed Restaurant & Store photographs Speed, Indiana

Description:	13 photographs of the Speed Restaurant and Speed Store taken in the 1960s and 1970s. This building was located in Speed Park on Highway 31 between Maryland Street and Indiana Avenue. The original building was built in 1919 by the Louisville Cement Company which is across the road as the Speed Community House. In 1925 the gymnasium was added to the building. The building was used by the Speed and Sellersburg community for meetings, parties, movies, library, school, well baby clinic, dances and much more. By 1963, the Community House was no longer being used during the summer months because of the many changes in the needs of the community. In July 1966, Louisville Cement Company decided to permanently close the building as a community house and renovate the space into a restaurant and store. Around October 1966, Joseph and Lavina Sexton opened the Speed Restaurant in the main part of the building. It included a dining room, private party rooms and a snack bar. Also at this time, Glenn Johnson leased the gymnasium and moved the Speed Store into it. He had been running the old grocery store in a building which was located next to the Community House since 1951. The building is no longer there.
Origin:	1966
Created By:	Sexton, Joseph W., 1911-1988
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15078coll17/id/13134
Collection:	Clark County Collections
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Geography:	Sellersburg, Clark County, Indiana 38.411696, -85.752850
Subjects:	Speed Restaurant Speed (Ind.) Sellersburg (Ind.) Louisville Cement Company (Speed, Ind.) Speed Community House (Speed, Ind.)

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