My next community meeting was in Adamsville. It’s located just to the west of the West End neighborhood, near where I-20 and I-285 meet. I drive myself to the meetings, so I had googled directions for the ‘Adamsville Rec Center’. The directions took me to 3404 Delmar Lane. I had underestimated the amount of time traffic would take to get off of 75/85 and onto the less congested I-20, so I was in a rush. But when I arrived, I was at an abandoned highschool gym wedged between a fallin down church and a boarded up convenience store. Damnit.
Turns out, in 2003, Adamsville got a giant sized rec center known as the Adamsville Natatorium and Gymnasium. Fortunately it was only a few blocks away, but it took several phone calls back and forth to co-workers to find my way around. The building has an olympic sized pool and is over 100,000 square feet. Big building for a neighborhood I had just heard of the day before. But the area’s been around for longer than I have. It was a farming village to begin with, named Lick Skillet. The name was changed in 1906. But I think I preferred the other one better. Maybe then I would have heard about it.
