12-30-2008
( Reply#: 2543 ) |
Tom J |
I also remember Stardust. I didn't go there a lot, but I did go there a few times.
I think I went there the most while I was in my first year of college, which was at Purdue Calumet, and it was to play pool rather than to bowl.
It's sad that almost all of the places that we remember from the 50s and 60s are closed now, and many are even physically gone.
Tom
A 1967 Graduate of Hammond High who cherishes his memories of growing up in the Hammond of the 1950's and 1960's. Bring back those days!
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01-06-2010
( Reply#: 4492 ) |
nitti |
quote:
Originally posted by cartoonguy
I am presently visiting my family in Hammond and I just learned that the Stardust Bowl on 167th & Columbia Ave, has closed, while I've never been much of a bowler I can recall the Stardust as far back to my early childhood, when I would go shopping with my Grandparents at Burgers Grocery store. It was extra cool in the evening, with the big Stardust neon sign and the Hammond Water's multi color fountain.
Speaking of that Stardust - does anyone else remember that Candes pizza moved into a small place in front of Stardust after they burned, oops- the one on 165th accidentally burned down. |
01-06-2010
( Reply#: 4497 ) |
seejay2 |
That place exploded. I lived a block and a half from it and I remember seeing the 4 corners of the building all separated from each other. A few short days later the place was arazed and that was the end of the globally best pizza ever.......Cj |
02-09-2010
( Reply#: 4956 ) |
Doug G |
Stardust Bowl also always had the latest video games when they became popular. I can remember playing Simon and other games there.
Stardust was owned by Sam Barton who also owned Barton's Grocery Store and Drugstore at Calumet and Michigan. I also recall there being a Stardust 2 later on but can't recall exactly where.
In the early 70s I did a public access TV show for Stardust called Bowling For Bucks! |
02-09-2010
( Reply#: 4960 ) |
Tom J |
quote:
Originally posted by seejay2
That place exploded. I lived a block and a half from it and I remember seeing the 4 corners of the building all separated from each other. A few short days later the place was arazed and that was the end of the globally best pizza ever.......Cj
Didn't we determine in another thread that it was when Candes was on Kennedy that they had the explosion, and that they then moved to 165th Street?
I remember getting Italian beef sandwiches to take home at the 165th Street Candes location.
Tom |
02-09-2010
( Reply#: 4963 ) |
seejay2 |
The place was destroyed when they were at the 165th St location. No more Cande's after that......Cj |
02-09-2010
( Reply#: 4964 ) |
Tom J |
Wonder why they didn't reopen? What year did the place blow up? |
02-09-2010
( Reply#: 4966 ) |
tom w |
Doug; Sam Barton also owned the Grapevine Lounge on State Line in Cal City. His son Barry owned Barton's Pizza at 165th and Indianapolis and on Ridge Road in Munster. He was kinda strange with his phones and beepers. There was also alleged murder charges filed against him at one time or another but I never found out any details.
Sam had an empty house beside his parking lot on Calumet Ave. At Christmas time he filled the house with Christmas trees for sale. My dad took me and my brother there to buy our tree one year. We didn't have a car so we drug that tree down Calumet to 150th St. Down 150th to Oak ST. Tom W |
02-16-2010
( Reply#: 4993 ) |
nitti |
quote:
Originally posted by Tom J
Wonder why they didn't reopen? What year did the place blow up?
It was definitely on 165th St. when it burned. My brother and cousin worked there mixing breadcrumbs with the sausage in the late 60's. I remember taking dates there in the mid seventies.
As I mentioned before, I think they opened a small take out place in a storefront on Columbia in front of Stardust. |
02-16-2010
( Reply#: 4997 ) |
MrRazz |
Hope I have finally figured this out...sorry for the past couple of attempts. Hey Nitti, since you have family who worked at Candes, do you by any chance know the secret recipee for those HEAVENLY Italian beef sandwiches they made??? They have been the subject of past posts.quote:
Originally posted by nitti
quote:
Originally posted by Tom J
Wonder why they didn't reopen? What year did the place blow up?
It was definitely on 165th St. when it burned. My brother and cousin worked there mixing breadcrumbs with the sausage in the late 60's. I remember taking dates there in the mid seventies.
As I mentioned before, I think they opened a small take out place in a storefront on Columbia in front of Stardust.
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02-17-2010
( Reply#: 5001 ) |
nitti |
quote:
Originally posted by MrRazz
Hope I have finally figured this out...sorry for the past couple of attempts. Hey Nitti, since you have family who worked at Candes, do you by any chance know the secret recipee for those HEAVENLY Italian beef sandwiches they made??? They have been the subject of past posts.quote:
Originally posted by nitti
quote:
Originally posted by Tom J
Wonder why they didn't reopen? What year did the place blow up?
It was definitely on 165th St. when it burned. My brother and cousin worked there mixing breadcrumbs with the sausage in the late 60's. I remember taking dates there in the mid seventies.
As I mentioned before, I think they opened a small take out place in a storefront on Columbia in front of Stardust.
Unfortunately,no. I'll ask my brother & Cousin, but all things considered - as anyone who knew Tony and Ralph Mosca Morton '71 - I wouldn't hurry to try a recipe that they provided. |
02-19-2010
( Reply#: 5007 ) |
Jim Plummer |
At the Kennedy ave location, at least one Halloween they gave a slice of pizza to all of the kids. Truly, all other pizzas pale in comparison. I don't remember what it was but another business moved into their location on Kennedy after they moved to 165th. |
02-20-2010
( Reply#: 5008 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
quote:
Originally posted by Jim Plummer
At the Kennedy ave location, at least one Halloween they gave a slice of pizza to all of the kids. Truly, all other pizzas pale in comparison. I don't remember what it was but another business moved into their location on Kennedy after they moved to 165th.
BEST PIZZA I ever tasted was from a little storefront in the strip mall that used to be part of the Kennedy Park Apartments; you'd turn east off of Kennedy Ave just south of the Borman right into the Pizza joint's parking lot. This was in the early-mid 70's, the place was called "Luigi's" (what else?), and the owner was this very nice man named Matt. Best damned pie in my experience--thin crust, tangy sauce, fabulous sausage, etc. A few year's later one of the O'Drobinak brothers took over; also a very nice guy. The pies were almost as good, but not quite--something was missing. Now the whole place has been bulldozed, which is just as well. Thankfully, good old House of Pizza in Woodmar is still around and hasn't changed its great recipe. A close second to the Kennedy Park Apt's Luigi's of the '70's.
I can still taste it... |
02-20-2010
( Reply#: 5009 ) |
tom w |
Yeah man. Thats the kind I llike too. Only mine came from a shop clear up on Ridge Road halfway between Calumet and Indianapolis. It was called (Please forgive the spelling Tommy) Aurillio's. The crust was so thin and buttery that you could almost read a paper thru it. Two other interesting places from my past were Ivanhoes Lounge on Hohman Ave in north hammond had some great froglegs and there was a place I think on Brainerd and Burnham called the Kolo Club that had a Serbian Bar-B-Que of liver and rice that was Soooo Gooood. Tom W |
02-20-2010
( Reply#: 5010 ) |
BobK |
We love the Aurillio's Super Six & Ivanhoe's was my second home before I was married. |
02-20-2010
( Reply#: 5011 ) |
Jim Plummer |
Is the bowling alley in north Hessville on Kennedy ave. still there? |
02-20-2010
( Reply#: 5013 ) |
Dave |
Aurelio's is a small chain (getting bigger), mostly in NW Indiana and the South suburbs of Chicago. Admittedly, it has been about 15 years since I ate at the North Hammond location, but they are very good. They deserve a plug: www.aureliospizza.com |
02-22-2010
( Reply#: 5038 ) |
nitti |
quote:
Originally posted by HassoBenSoba
quote:
Originally posted by Jim Plummer
At the Kennedy ave location, at least one Halloween they gave a slice of pizza to all of the kids. Truly, all other pizzas pale in comparison. I don't remember what it was but another business moved into their location on Kennedy after they moved to 165th.
BEST PIZZA I ever tasted was from a little storefront in the strip mall that used to be part of the Kennedy Park Apartments; you'd turn east off of Kennedy Ave just south of the Borman right into the Pizza joint's parking lot. This was in the early-mid 70's, the place was called "Luigi's" (what else?), and the owner was this very nice man named Matt. Best damned pie in my experience--thin crust, tangy sauce, fabulous sausage, etc. A few year's later one of the O'Drobinak brothers took over; also a very nice guy. The pies were almost as good, but not quite--something was missing. Now the whole place has been bulldozed, which is just as well. Thankfully, good old House of Pizza in Woodmar is still around and hasn't changed its great recipe. A close second to the Kennedy Park Apt's Luigi's of the '70's.
I can still taste it...
It's long gone, but the best pizza we ever had was from Ralph's Pizza on Todd Avenue in East Chicago - in the Italian neighborhood. Right around the corner from the original CB Hall. Most of our family ended up in Hessville, but someone would run back to the old neighborhood to get one. It was a thick pizza with thin crust - the cheese was so thick that you always burned the roof of your mouth eating it.
I think the building and bar are still there, but the pizza's gone.
I've had dozen's of different (and delicious)pizza's but I've never experienced anything similar to Ralph's. |
02-22-2010
( Reply#: 5042 ) |
duane |
Ceasar Battisti Hall - there's a name I've not heard in ages!
If I recall, the pizza place was popular when St. Joseph College was still there. |
02-25-2010
( Reply#: 5049 ) |
Jim Plummer |
Was House Of Pizza the place that cut their slices into little squares? Wonder where that thought came from? |
02-25-2010
( Reply#: 5054 ) |
Dave |
Jim P: every place that I can think of cuts their pizza into squares. (Except for the deep dish places and the national chains.) |
02-26-2010
( Reply#: 5055 ) |
Jim Plummer |
Nobody in SoCal cuts into squares so I guess I've become use to that. Didn't Candes cut into slices?quote:
Originally posted by Dave
Jim P: every place that I can think of cuts their pizza into squares. (Except for the deep dish places and the national chains.)
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02-26-2010
( Reply#: 5058 ) |
nitti |
quote:
Originally posted by Jim Plummer
Nobody in SoCal cuts into squares so I guess I've become use to that. Didn't Candes cut into slices?quote:
Originally posted by Dave
Jim P: every place that I can think of cuts their pizza into squares. (Except for the deep dish places and the national chains.)
Candes cut it into strips - cut in half then a cut every 2 inches or so. |
02-27-2010
( Reply#: 5062 ) |
Jim Plummer |
Thanks for the info! I sure can taste that pizza in my mouth right now! Wish somebody had the recipe! |
