08-26-2009
( Reply#: 3676 ) |
Joel357 |
Ok Tom, I got my dad's yearbooks of the "Dunes", 1936,1938 and 1939.
Joel |
08-26-2009
( Reply#: 3678 ) |
Tom J |
quote:
Originally posted by Joel357
Ok Tom, I got my dad's yearbooks of the "Dunes", 1936,1938 and 1939.
Joel
Cool. If you find something interesting, pass it along.
Tom |
08-27-2009
( Reply#: 3679 ) |
Bill Bucko |
quote:
Originally posted by Tom J
Please!
Way too quiet in here.
Tomster
Busy Tea Partying. My life isn't government property!
[IMG]http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w292/billbucko/culpeper.gif[/IMG]
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
08-27-2009
( Reply#: 3681 ) |
Carol |
Ah, Bill, you're an activist. Good for you! Spent a bit of my life fighting the "system" myself. My hat is off to you.
I just got tired of 'bucking' the powers that were at the time.
Now, my only fight is with age and it always wins.
Keep up the good work. |
08-27-2009
( Reply#: 3682 ) |
Carol |
Okay, Tom, what do you want to talk about? We've pretty much 'done' schools, eating places, etc.
Bring it on, friend.
Ready & willing,
Carol |
08-27-2009
( Reply#: 3684 ) |
wvcogs |
quote:
Originally posted by Carol
Ah, Bill, you're an activist. Good for you! Spent a bit of my life fighting the "system" myself. My hat is off to you.
I just got tired of 'bucking' the powers that were at the time.
Now, my only fight is with age and it always wins.
Keep up the good work.
Bill's such a youngster, just barely into his 60s. Of course, it's the same with Tom J, seejay, and many others on here. [:D][:D] Or, maybe they haven't even made it that far yet!!!
Ken |
08-27-2009
( Reply#: 3685 ) |
Tom J |
quote:
Originally posted by Carol
Okay, Tom, what do you want to talk about? We've pretty much 'done' schools, eating places, etc.
Bring it on, friend.
Ready & willing,
Carol
I don't know, Carol. If you think of a good subject, start a thread on it.
We have some good threads already, though, so maybe you could just pick one and make a new contribution. That would probably trigger a whole new round of discussion on the subject.
Tomster
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!
[IMG]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y145/tsjay/Tom%20and%20Georgeann/img014.jpg[/IMG] |
08-27-2009
( Reply#: 3686 ) |
S C Jones |
Did any of you read about the body found in a car at Alexander and 173rd recently. Can you imagine in our days in Hessville, such a discovery? (I think I read The Times online headlines yesterday or the day before.) |
08-27-2009
( Reply#: 3687 ) |
Carol |
Oh, Ken. Almost everyone is a 'youngster' to us.
Are we not the oldest of the classes on these threads?
Later, Carol |
08-27-2009
( Reply#: 3688 ) |
wvcogs |
quote:
Originally posted by Carol
Oh, Ken. Almost everyone is a 'youngster' to us.
Are we not the oldest of the classes on these threads?
Later, Carol
Actually, we're not; but I dare not mention the names of those who are older, especially the ladies, or lady.
Ken |
08-27-2009
( Reply#: 3689 ) |
Carol |
Ken,
You're such a gentleman!! I'm sure the lady thanks you. |
08-27-2009
( Reply#: 3690 ) |
S C Jones |
quote:
Originally posted by wvcogs
quote:
Originally posted by Carol
Oh, Ken. Almost everyone is a 'youngster' to us.
Are we not the oldest of the classes on these threads?
Later, Carol
Actually, we're not; but I dare not mention the names of those who are older, especially the ladies, or lady.
Ken
Grand Park Subdivision 1940-1961 Boondocks of Hessville! |
08-27-2009
( Reply#: 3691 ) |
S C Jones |
Uh, would that "older" person, be ME? And there is one other lady blogging now and again who is older than you youngsters, I believe. quote:
Originally posted by S C Jones
Have any of you seen, possibly read: Land of the millrats By Richard Mercer Dorson? I found a chapter on ethnics online--no mention of the Irish population, however, which I find strange indeed.
quote:
Originally posted by wvcogs
quote:
Originally posted by Carol
Oh, Ken. Almost everyone is a 'youngster' to us.
Are we not the oldest of the classes on these threads?
Later, Carol
Actually, we're not; but I dare not mention the names of those who are older, especially the ladies, or lady.
Ken
Grand Park Subdivision 1940-1961 Boondocks of Hessville!
Grand Park Subdivision 1940-1961 Boondocks of Hessville! |
08-27-2009
( Reply#: 3692 ) |
Carol |
Hi, S C.
Hadn't heard about a body being found. But, yeah, that is scary.
I remember cruising Hessville one nite with a bunch of friends in my car and someone suggested we turn around. So, with no hesitation, I turned left into a parking lot (seems like it was very close to Kennedy & 165th). Little did we know that the cops had set up a surveillance on that lot. We were surrounded and split up into different cop cars (to see if we told the same story, I'm sure). We did, so we were 'let go'.
Scared the wits out of us!!!
That was in the mid 50s, so I'm not terribly surprised to hear of a body being found some years later. |
08-27-2009
( Reply#: 3693 ) |
Carol |
Hey, Tom! Thanks for the suggestion!
I have started a couple of threads, but they didn't seem to go anywhere. Maybe they were too close to existing threads.
What do you think of "First Date & First Kiss" the when, where and who? Do you think that might 'fly'?
I do reply to some threads, also, but don't often end with an open question. Maybe that would help.
Whadya think?
Carol |
08-27-2009
( Reply#: 3694 ) |
tom w |
Carol;
Nope. I have asked questions that have been sitting for months. Or maybe it's just me. Tom |
08-27-2009
( Reply#: 3695 ) |
Tom J |
quote:
Originally posted by Carol
Hey, Tom! Thanks for the suggestion!
I have started a couple of threads, but they didn't seem to go anywhere. Maybe they were too close to existing threads.
What do you think of "First Date & First Kiss" the when, where and who? Do you think that might 'fly'?
I do reply to some threads, also, but don't often end with an open question. Maybe that would help.
Whadya think?
Carol
Carol:
Your "Kelly's Drive In" thread got 17 replies, and your "Hammond to Highland" thread got 7 replies, so I wouldn't say that the threads you have started didn't go anywhere.
As far as your idea about "First Date & First Kiss," that might not be a bad idea, if you just call it "First Date," because there has already been a thread about "First Kiss."
Tom
P.S.
Here's a link to the First Kiss thread.
http://www.sheptalk.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=391
It occurred to me that maybe the newer folks around here do not realize that there are more than one page of threads. Look down toward the botton of the screen, and you will see how you can call up a second page of discussion titles. I think there might even be a third page. |
08-28-2009
( Reply#: 3696 ) |
seejay2 |
The body found in the car was some dude from Chicago. His dad is some kind of politician, but I don't think they have said why he was in this area......Cj |
08-28-2009
( Reply#: 3697 ) |
Carol |
A politician's son from Chicago, huh?!!? Sounds like it may have been a drug deal gone bad. Unfortunately, we have all too many down here. Being so close to the Mexican border, we have alot of drug trafficking and deaths in the Houston area. Ugh!! I hate to think of it being so close to "home".
Carol |
08-29-2009
( Reply#: 3698 ) |
tom w |
This is just an observation on my part. A couple of minutes ago, I was standing in my front yard watching the shuttle launch. And as I watched it arch over the ocean and watched the fuel tanks drop away just like so many times before, I thought about how lucky some of you guys are to be able to see Lake Michigan and some of you are to see some mountains and stuff. But I guess it's all kinda relative,huh?
Tom J. Did you ever consider a thread about hobbies? Some of us old cranks might have ended up with some pretty interesting ones. tom w |
08-29-2009
( Reply#: 3699 ) |
seejay2 |
quote:
Originally posted by Carol
A politician's son from Chicago, huh?!!? Sounds like it may have been a drug deal gone bad. Unfortunately, we have all too many down here. Being so close to the Mexican border, we have alot of drug trafficking and deaths in the Houston area. Ugh!! I hate to think of it being so close to "home".
Carol
"Home" in Hessville is a far cry from what it used to be. Nothing but gangs and drugs and every day gets a little worse. It's unsalvagable, as far as I'm concerned. Recently, we were able to move my mother out of there and into a new apt in Lowell near my brother. We sold the house in 3 days only because the few blocks around there are still clean, but it's closing in.
I'm living in Portage now and it's heading in the same direction. We just closed out on a house in Kentucky, only a 7 minute walk to Kentucky Lake. By next year I hope to be dragging up and moving down that-a-way......Cj |
08-29-2009
( Reply#: 3703 ) |
Carol |
Oh, CJ, it hurts like crazy to know "that" part of life has reached so deeply into NW Indiana. One of the times I went to Highland to visit family, I was driving by the Jr. High and on the telephone wire hung a pair of shoes. I laughingly told my family about it, thinking that someone was pranking someone else. My grandson looked at me like I had worms coming out of my head. He said that was a gang marking their territory. In Highland, for God's sake!!! I hope your move to KY will bring you happiness. |
08-29-2009
( Reply#: 3704 ) |
seejay2 |
It already has. We have been taking some 'long' weekends down there and we just shipped a brand new pontoon boat there which we haven't even put 10 minutes of use into yet, but that will change on Labor Day weekend.
Yeah, who woulda thunk that it would spread to little-bitty Hessville? In retrospect, I remember seeing the flags popping up as far back as the 60's. Again, 'who woulda thunk it'---but it certainly came to fruition, didn't it?......Cj |
08-29-2009
( Reply#: 3705 ) |
tom w |
Thanks for the tip about the shoes. I see them quite often here too. most recently, two houses down. They tell me that the house that I was born in,(4900 block of Oak street) is in a war zone now. Since I havent been back for many years and I don't have an armored car available, I would prefer to be content with my memories of friendly parents and kids, clean yards, streets and alleys. No fear of strangers or attitudes for authority etc, etc. Anyone agree?? tom w |
08-29-2009
( Reply#: 3706 ) |
Tom J |
quote:
Originally posted by tom w
Thanks for the tip about the shoes. I see them quite often here too. most recently, two houses down. They tell me that the house that I was born in,(4900 block of Oak street) is in a war zone now. Since I havent been back for many years and I don't have an armored car available, I would prefer to be content with my memories of friendly parents and kids, clean yards, streets and alleys. No fear of strangers or attitudes for authority etc, etc. Anyone agree?? tom w
Yeah, Tom, it is MUCH better to remember our old neighborhoods the way they USED to be than to see them now.
In my case, though, the old neighborhood looks like it would still be a good place to live. Those residents who have come along since my days have changed the looks of the houses in many cases, but they seem to be doing a good job of maintaining them. A lot of houses that my memory says should be there over on Crescent Place are gone, having been torn down for the new Maywood School. Also, our vacant lot where we played is gone. It's part of the Maywood School campus.
What is REALLY sad is what has happened to Downtown!
Tomster |
08-29-2009
( Reply#: 3707 ) |
Carol |
CJ,
You are going to LOVE your pontoon. Spent many days with many friends on ours. First ex got that along with our lake house. Sob!!
Pontoons are great "party" boats.
Carol |
08-29-2009
( Reply#: 3708 ) |
seejay2 |
Oh Yeah!!! |
08-31-2009
( Reply#: 3713 ) |
Paddy |
quote:
In my case, though, the old neighborhood looks like it would still be a good place to live.
It's interesting, isn't it? In my first Hammond neighborhood, Beech Street between Hohman and 150th, the homes are still well kept. My second neighborhood on Harrison Avenue looks like a dump. As far as the dollar value of the homes in both neighborhoods, the homes on Harrison Avenue were a step up when we moved there in the early 1950's. Go figure. |
09-01-2009
( Reply#: 3715 ) |
tom w |
Paddy;
Don't you mean Hoffman not Hohman? LOL We lived in the 4700 and 4900 block of Oak. I believe my parents were on Elm St when I was born. My uncle owned a lot of Houses and grocery stores in that neighborhood so we rented from him. My parents saved their money and bought a house on Monroe a block from Rand McNally. We lived next door to the people that owned the Patio Drive In. As far as neighborhoods and such, it seems to me that progress generally means to go rapidly in the wrong direction. Damn the concequences(sp?)
Tom W |
09-02-2009
( Reply#: 3727 ) |
Pro2am |
I just thought of something to post.
Does anyone remember the big fruit market on the SW corner of Indianapolis Blvd. and Michigan St. at the bottom of the 9-span bridge? It used to be owned by two guys named Morris and Max. In the late '50s we'd go there to get our pumpkins for Halloween.
This lot is now occupied by a business called The Pool Store - and has been for many years.
Mike Rapchak Jr.
=========================
quote:
Originally posted by Tom J
Please!
Way too quiet in here.
Tomster
|
09-03-2009
( Reply#: 3730 ) |
seejay2 |
I believe it was Michigan Fruit Market or something on that order....Cj |
09-03-2009
( Reply#: 3731 ) |
Bill Bucko |
Across the street from Stauffer Chemical Company (formerly Grasseli's), with its big heaps of yellow sulfur (southeast corner).
See the posts on Shep's reporting of the banana oil spill, which apparently occurred at this corner, just north of the Viaduct.
About one block north of the intersection they built the interstate, and the South Shore station (which I believe is still there).
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
09-03-2009
( Reply#: 3733 ) |
BobK |
I remember the fruit market and Stauffer's. The Interstate is the Toll Road and the South Shore station is still there.
I remember the building of the Toll Road as I lived just west of Calumet Ave where it crossed. It messed up my play area of slag filled swamp. We could play all the way from 141st & Calumet to Wolf Lake before the Toll Road.
I used to race Go-karts on Calumet just north of the Toll Road on the west side of Calumet. It was a beautiful track. My Uncle leased and ran it for several years.
Bob
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rkekeis/Bob1.jpg[/img] |
09-03-2009
( Reply#: 3734 ) |
Tom J |
quote:
Originally posted by tom w
This is just an observation on my part. A couple of minutes ago, I was standing in my front yard watching the shuttle launch. And as I watched it arch over the ocean and watched the fuel tanks drop away just like so many times before, I thought about how lucky some of you guys are to be able to see Lake Michigan and some of you are to see some mountains and stuff. But I guess it's all kinda relative,huh?
Tom J. Did you ever consider a thread about hobbies? Some of us old cranks might have ended up with some pretty interesting ones. tom w
Tom:
I missed this post somehow.
Hey, that might be a good idea about the hobbies, but don't wait for me to start a thread. Anyone can start a thread at any time.
Tom |
09-05-2009
( Reply#: 3740 ) |
Pro2am |
Bill,
That's the location. [:)]
Mike Rapchak Jr.
=========================
quote:
Originally posted by Bill Bucko
Across the street from Stauffer Chemical Company (formerly Grasseli's), with its big heaps of yellow sulfur (southeast corner).
See the posts on Shep's reporting of the banana oil spill, which apparently occurred at this corner, just north of the Viaduct.
About one block north of the intersection they built the interstate, and the South Shore station (which I believe is still there).
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63
|
09-08-2009
( Reply#: 3759 ) |
Carol |
Hey, guys. This is me! My son-in-law helped me post my pic.
[URL=http://s624.photobucket.com/albums/tt325/carolgrantzof4/?action=view¤t=041.jpg][IMG]http://i624.photobucket.com/albums/tt325/carolgrantzof4/th_041.jpg[/IMG][/URL] |
09-08-2009
( Reply#: 3760 ) |
BobK |
Wow! What a cutie. What were you doing to get those beads? LOL
Bob
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rkekeis/Bob1.jpg[/img] |
09-09-2009
( Reply#: 3762 ) |
Carol |
Bob,
Wow! What a liar!! The pic was taken last Memorial Day weekend in New Orleans. After a fantastic dinner at Mr. B's Bistro (along with a couple of Dirty Martinis), we walked Bourbon St. There was a young couple on one of the balconies with a handful of beads. So... I, with outstretched arms, shook my "endowments" at them. We all had a huge laugh and I got my beads!
|
09-09-2009
( Reply#: 3763 ) |
BobK |
I've wanted to go there for a long time and have never made it. We do however go to the Lake Wales Mardi Gras parade every Winter. http://my.opera.com/rkekeis/albums/show.dml?id=700901?&abc=&page=1&skip=0&show=&perscreen=20
Bob
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rkekeis/Bob1.jpg[/img] |
09-10-2009
( Reply#: 3764 ) |
dilligaf717 |
Bob,
I have some dear family friends that live in Lake Wales, The husband is from Hammond originally. He and my father worked together for the Pennsylvania R.R. His name is Ralph Webster. You wouldn't happen to know him and his wife Bonnie, would you?
Jim
Still runnin against the wind. |
09-10-2009
( Reply#: 3765 ) |
BobK |
No I don't Jim. Our winter place is in Avon park and we just go to Lake wales for the parade or when riding through. We've only been wintering there for the past two years.
Bob
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rkekeis/Bob1.jpg[/img] |
09-10-2009
( Reply#: 3771 ) |
S C Jones |
Hey guys,
If you google Hammond, Indiana and search the list that comes up for a flickr site---there are some pictures by somebody of trains (One is of a Harbor engine), signs: Minas, Woodmar, and some buildings in Hammond. CHECK IT OUT. |
12-23-2009
( Reply#: 4287 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
Just noticed this post from Sept, 2009 and thought I'd give my brother Mike an assist. Here's a photo taken on Friday night, October 28, 1960 at the Michigan Fruit Market, Indy Blvd & Michigan (at the foot of the 9-span bridge's North end). I'm on the left, Mike on right and in the middle is Maurice, one of the two owners (we always called him "Morris"). It was "Max's and Morris'" to us--Morris was the friendlier of the two guys, Max being a bit gruff--but both were good friends of our dad's.
[IMG]http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af12/HassoBenSoba/MaxMorris0001.jpg[/IMG]
quote:
Originally posted by Pro2am
I just thought of something to post.
Does anyone remember the big fruit market on the SW corner of Indianapolis Blvd. and Michigan St. at the bottom of the 9-span bridge? It used to be owned by two guys named Morris and Max. In the late '50s we'd go there to get our pumpkins for Halloween.
This lot is now occupied by a business called The Pool Store - and has been for many years.
Mike Rapchak Jr.
=========================
quote:
Originally posted by Tom J
Please!
Way too quiet in here.
Tomster
|
12-24-2009
( Reply#: 4288 ) |
duane |
[quote]Originally posted by Pro2am
I just thought of something to post.
Does anyone remember the big fruit market on the SW corner of Indianapolis Blvd. and Michigan St. at the bottom of the 9-span bridge? It used to be owned by two guys named Morris and Max. In the late '50s we'd go there to get our pumpkins for Halloween.
This lot is now occupied by a business called The Pool Store - and has been for many years.
Mike Rapchak Jr.
=========================[quote]
Wasn't that also later a Delock's market? There was one on Chicago Ave and the street just into Hammond by Bishop Noll, also one on Indy Blvd and either 165th or 169th. The 9 span bridge was forever know as the viaduct in our circles. There used to be a Shell station on the NE corner (now gone) and more recently a "Krazy Kaplan's fireworks" on the NW corner. That building housed lots of businesses...it was a fence company for a while before the fireworks. A bit farther north toward the toll road was the Clark gas station (remember Clark - the Premium People? They only sold premium gasoline at that time). Also the old E.C. South Shore Station (before they built the new one). Farther north, just on the other side of the toll road was the Knights of Columbus hall (used to be woods before that) and then the famous bridge on the Grand Cal where Martin Piniak lived (but that is another topic listed elsewhere).
As for first kiss and first date threads....I believe those have already been tried with limited success, because all of use being gentlemen or ladies, most of us don't kiss and tell.
Merry Christmas everybody!!! or Wesoleh Swiat as we say in the vernacular of the mother country (Poland). |
07-19-2010
( Reply#: 5887 ) |
tom w |
Hey does anyome remember Castaways in Cal City? Now there was a hotspot hangout that had to be much more fun than ours (The Wishing Well or Brahos or the Big Wheel) There was another one where Jack Fox used to be but I dont recall the name but I remember going in one night about 3 AM and there, Laying in the middle of Hohman Avenue was an 1887 Silver Dollar. No Bob, I dont think it was yours!
Tom W |
07-20-2010
( Reply#: 5888 ) |
Tom J |
I remember Castaway's, but I don't believe I was ever in there.
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!
[IMG]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y145/tsjay/Tom%20and%20Georgeann/img014.jpg[/IMG] |
07-20-2010
( Reply#: 5891 ) |
Jim Plummer |
Where was the Castways located in Cal City? I can't place it but I no the name. |
07-20-2010
( Reply#: 5892 ) |
Tom J |
I believe it was just up the street on State Street from the Greyhound station.
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!
[IMG]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y145/tsjay/Tom%20and%20Georgeann/img014.jpg[/IMG] |
07-20-2010
( Reply#: 5893 ) |
BobK |
It's still there on Sibley. 1025 Sibley Boulevard, Calumet City, IL
http://www.castawaysbowl.com/
Bob
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rkekeis/Bob1.jpg[/img] |
07-20-2010
( Reply#: 5894 ) |
tom w |
At that time it was way out in the country. A lot of entertainers got their starts there too. TOM W. |
07-20-2010
( Reply#: 5895 ) |
BobK |
They had some good entertainment behind the bar.
Bob
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rkekeis/Bob1.jpg[/img] |
07-20-2010
( Reply#: 5896 ) |
Tom J |
I'm sure there was once a Castaways on State Street near the bus station.
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!
[IMG]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y145/tsjay/Tom%20and%20Georgeann/img014.jpg[/IMG] |
07-20-2010
( Reply#: 5897 ) |
BobK |
There may have been, I don't recall another, but it wasn't "THE" Castaways with live FREE entertainment on stage behind the bar and 32 bowling lanes. It doesn't look like they still have entertainment.
It may be under new management and more family oriented now. Back in the day I think the Mob owned it.
Bob
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rkekeis/Bob1.jpg[/img] |
