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A History of Ogden Dunes, edited by Joseph Thomas, 1976:
"By 1931 passable cinder roads consisted of Hillcrest Road, Dogwood Lane, Cedar Trail and Shore Drive. Also The Ledge and a few dead-ends that provided access to some developed lots." Grandin (Ogden) Road extended from Hillcrest east to the hilltop at the southern edge of what then was a big blowout and later extended northward to connect with Ogden Court. In the late 1930s Ogden was extended to East Hill and connected to the eastward extension of Shore Drive. By that time Shore Drive was extended westward to Tamarack, and Diana extended that far to complete the circle. Locust connected Sunset Trail to Diana, and Woodland Trail was built southward to connect with Ski-Hill Road, opened just after the ski slide came down.
These cinder trails later were treated with oil, widened and improved, and gave rise to the present blacktop road system that opened many other subdivisions. Skyline Drive and Aspen Road were built after 1946, and an access road was developed to the top of former Mount Everest. The base of Mount Everest was bulldozed away, making possible an extension of Sunset Trail.
Street signs were bought from the state prison.
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The Ogden Dunes Sandpiper, April, 1939, Helen Reck, editor:
street-renaming--Hillcrest Road, Ogden Road, Bittersweet Court, Sunset Trail, Beach Lane, Diana Court, Ogden Court, Cedar Court.
"The new routes [are] more logical than the old ones which were named from the engineer's preliminary plat of the 1st Subdiv. without benefit of a topo map. [I question that.] As the actual roads were built, certain awkwardnesses became apparent but nothing was done until recently when the purchase of street signs was contemplated."
road oiling--#4 oil applied to "stone" (gravel) or cinders and #6 oil later would eventually lead to "a good asphalt base road-bed."
"asphaltic oil covered with sand or stone chips"
The Ogden Dunes Sandpiper, August, 1939:
"Late in June the five miles of roads in the town were oiled with a 50% asphaltic oil to lay the dust. In addition a further treatment of 80% asphaltic oil and sand was spread on 800' of Ogden Road between the Royers' and the Nickersons' homes and past the Marshal's cabin at the entrance.
10,000 gallons of the 80% asphaltic oil was to be spread on Hillcrest Road from the highway to the Tracht home and on Cedar Trail to Juniper Grove and to treat an ample stock pile of cinders and sand with the oil for use in road repairs."
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The Ogden Dunes Sandpiper, April, 1940:
About 26 wooden street signs were to be erected and more added later.
The Ogden Dunes Sandpiper, August, 1940:
30,000 gallons of asphaltic oil was applied. Shore Drive was widened to a full 30' from East Hill "Drive" to Diana Road. "Since the town now owns a tar-kettle, repairs will be made from time to time with hot asphaltic oil and beach gravel.
Townspeople are again requested to make an effort to drive to the extreme right of the road. This helps to pack the sand and asphalt evenly over the full width of the road. Besides, it's safer."
Black on yellow steel street signs "matching the Chicago Motor Club traffic signs" were erected. They have the names of both the cross-streets on each blade. [I say the last of these was on Ski-Hill Court until it, too, finally disappeared in the late '60s(?) The same sort of signs are still used in Duneland Beach. Those signs were replaced by round-cornered ones without the cross-street additions. Those were replaced by square-cornered ones. The most recent signs have been non-embossed green & white. -- Since I wrote that, our street dept. repainted most (all?) of the yellow signs black on green. That was not the first time signs had been repainted, as I recall a black on white one, at The Ledge & Hillcrest, from my childhood.]
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The Ogden Dunes Sandpiper, October, 1940:
Stop signs (from the Chicago Motor Club) were placed along Hillcrest Road for Boat Club Road, Ogden Road, and Sunset Trail traffic.
The Ogden Dunes Sandpiper, July, 1943:
Due to a manpower shortage, resident men themselves filled and reasphalted chuckholes.
The Ogden Dunes Sandpiper, May, 1944:
400' of Shore Drive west from Cedar Trail was raised over 5'. The "Shore Drive Improvement Assn" wanted Shore Drive lot-owners to kick in for grading & paving a half mile (east from Diana Road) 20' wide.
The Ogden Dunes Sandpiper, July, 1944:
Stone came from the Thornton Quarry.
The Ogden Dunes Sandpiper, September, 1946:
Water draining off private drives and landscaping into the roads was causing problems and draining the town budget.
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The Ogden Dunes Sandpiper, June, 1947:
6 new street lights are mentioned sounding like there were already some street lights in town?
Ruppert wanted to be able to extend Shore Drive to his parking lot but nearby residents objected.
The Ogden Dunes Sandpiper, September, 1948:
"There being no roads in the development at that time [1923], materials were hauled in wagons drawn by 4-horse teams over the Big Blowout, now the route of Ogden Road. That winter the sand froze hard and callers drove down the beach from Marquette Park or, turning in from U. S. 12 which had just been extended beyond Ogden Dunes, followed an abandoned logging trail and came out into the Big Blowout at a point just southeast of the present Nickerson residence."
Porter, Indiana, topographic quadrangle, U.S.G.S., 1940 edition (surveyed 1934)
shows: old & new Stagecoach Roads, southern Hillcrest Road/Edgewood Court, and The Terrace as dirt roads; Dunes Highway, Hillcrest Road, Shore Drive between Diana & (future) East Hill, Diana between Shore Drive & ~Diana Court+, Cedar Trail, Ogden Court, Ogden Road between Ogden Court & ~Svihla's and between Hillcrest & ~Grandin Court-, The Ledge, Sunset Trail between Hillcrest and Pine Trail, Lupine, Woodland Trail to Ski-Hill Road, and Ski-Hill Road between Woodland & Ski-Hill Circle.
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