01-18-2007
( Reply#: 727 ) |
m10bob |
Two things you might find are Sheps mom getting those washrags and his uncle getting stuck on the coaster at Riverview park.?? Both supposedly were on the front page of the Hammond paper.[:D]
In Hoc Agricula Conc
In Est Spittle Louk |
01-18-2007
( Reply#: 728 ) |
Tom J |
quote:
Originally posted by m10bob
Two things you might find are Sheps mom getting those washrags and his uncle getting stuck on the coaster at Riverview park.?? Both supposedly were on the front page of the Hammond paper.[:D]
In Hoc Agricula Conc
In Est Spittle Louk
I'll be sure to watch for those news items. [:)]
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01-18-2007
( Reply#: 729 ) |
Tom J |
I typed in my dad's name and did a search in the Hammond Times. The only thing I found was where Dad was interviewed in a survey conducted by the paper in which people were asked to tell the reporter about ther favorite vacation. The June 30, 1963, edition had that interview.
Dad told about our family vacation that we had taken the previous summer, when we visited dad's brothers in PA, then went on to Washington DC. We drove a portion of the Skyline Drive in VA during that trip, probably on our way home.
Of course Dad had to mention his annual fishing trip to KY Lake each May, when he tried to schedule his vacation to correspond to the crappie spawn, which was almost impossible to do, as far in advance as Dad had to set his vacation time. The peak week for the crappie spawn varies from year to year depending on weather and water conditions.
That week was the high point of Dad's year. He sure loved that crappie fishing. He took me out of school for a week in 1966, my junior year, and let me go with him. I would LOVE to know the story Dad gave the school in order to get me an excused absence for a whole week. [:D]
Tom
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01-19-2007
( Reply#: 730 ) |
duane |
Hi Tom. I see that you call the paper both the Times and the Hammond Times. It was Hammond Times for most of our youth. I think they changed it to just the Times sometime in the 1970's, but I'm not sure. (probably trying to appeal to the EC, Dyer, Highland crowd once newspaper circulation started going down)
Sounds like you had a Shep type vacation fishing for "Crap-ies" as Ralphie calls them. I really got a kick the first time I read Ollie Hopnoodles Haven of Bliss, and then later saw the movie. Every year, our family would take a family vacation to lower Michigan to my Grandmother's farm. But the trip was very similar to the trip the Parker's take in Ollie. We'd load up the old 1950 Chevy to the gills (fishing tackle included) and my mom would always pack a picnic lunch for us to stop along the way. We would travel via old HWY 12 through the Dunes country (later after college, I worked at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore as a ranger!) I remember there was a place that sold "Indian blankets" and always had a bunch of them hanging out on display. Lots of roadside markets along the Red Arrow Highway once we got into Michigan.
-Duane from EC |
01-20-2007
( Reply#: 731 ) |
Tom J |
quote:
Originally posted by duane
Hi Tom. I see that you call the paper both the Times and the Hammond Times. It was Hammond Times for most of our youth. I think they changed it to just the Times sometime in the 1970's, but I'm not sure. (probably trying to appeal to the EC, Dyer, Highland crowd once newspaper circulation started going down)
Sounds like you had a Shep type vacation fishing for "Crap-ies" as Ralphie calls them. I really got a kick the first time I read Ollie Hopnoodles Haven of Bliss, and then later saw the movie. Every year, our family would take a family vacation to lower Michigan to my Grandmother's farm. But the trip was very similar to the trip the Parker's take in Ollie. We'd load up the old 1950 Chevy to the gills (fishing tackle included) and my mom would always pack a picnic lunch for us to stop along the way. We would travel via old HWY 12 through the Dunes country (later after college, I worked at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore as a ranger!) I remember there was a place that sold "Indian blankets" and always had a bunch of them hanging out on display. Lots of roadside markets along the Red Arrow Highway once we got into Michigan.
-Duane from EC
Duane:
Thanks for your post. I really enjoyed reading it.
Did you receive formal training for that job as a ranger? I'm a Purdue Forestry grad (B.S. Forestry and Conservation, 1971), and that's why I ask. Just wondering if you are a fellow forester.
If any more childhood memories come to mind, please share them. If you want to share more details about what you just told us, I'm very interested.
Tom
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01-20-2007
( Reply#: 732 ) |
duane |
Small world. Yes, BS Forestry, Purdue 1976. Eric Stark, Clair Merrit, John Mozer, Charlie Miller, summer at Lost Lake Forestry Camp on the Nicolet NF...ahhh the memories.
I have worked for the Forest Service now for about 30 years. For the past 10 years, I was the Forest Planner on the Superior NF in northern Minnesota and currently, I am in charge of the Recreation and Wilderness (Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness) on the Forest.
One reason I went into Forestry is because I knew that to get a job, I would HAVE to move out of "da Region". It's been a rewarding, and sometimes frustrating career working for Uncle Sam's Forest Rangers.
So, did you go into a career in Forestry? Let me know. I remember one of the professors (not Eric - he was always very positive about careers) telling us that half of us would be selling cars and the other half would be selling insurance.
Nice to talk to you. Will people get upset that this discussion has little to do with Shep? |
01-20-2007
( Reply#: 733 ) |
Tom J |
quote:
Originally posted by duane
Small world. Yes, BS Forestry, Purdue 1976. Eric Stark, Clair Merrit, John Mozer, Charlie Miller, summer at Lost Lake Forestry Camp on the Nicolet NF...ahhh the memories.
I have worked for the Forest Service now for about 30 years. For the past 10 years, I was the Forest Planner on the Superior NF in northern Minnesota and currently, I am in charge of the Recreation and Wilderness (Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness) on the Forest.
One reason I went into Forestry is because I knew that to get a job, I would HAVE to move out of "da Region". It's been a rewarding, and sometimes frustrating career working for Uncle Sam's Forest Rangers.
So, did you go into a career in Forestry? Let me know. I remember one of the professors (not Eric - he was always very positive about careers) telling us that half of us would be selling cars and the other half would be selling insurance.
Nice to talk to you. Will people get upset that this discussion has little to do with Shep?
Duane:
I asked our gracious host, Mr. Jim Clavin, if he would set up a forum for Hammond stuff that might not necessarily relate to Shep. He was kind enough to do so.
Even so, we should take our discussion to private messages and emails, since others would not be interested in our Forestry discussions. I'll be sending you a PM.
Tom
Oops! Forgot that we don't have the PM feature here. You will have to email me by calling up my profile and clicking on the email link. Please do that, Duane. I would LOVE to swap lies with a fellow Purdue Forester! [:D]
Tom
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01-22-2007
( Reply#: 734 ) |
diskojoe |
A couple o' things for Tom J (forgive me for not being from Hammond, IN; the closest I can come is that I do have relatives in Winesburg, OH):
1. What is the quality of the newspapers that you have accessed via
newspaper archieve.com? I'm curious since I work part-time as a
reference librarian & I'm appalled about the quality of the
newspapers on microfilm.
2. Who are you rooting for in the Super Bowl (if I can use that term
without running afoul of the copyright police?), the Bears or the
Colts, who defeated the Pats last night [V]? What teams do Hammond
people usually root for, the Chicago teams (Cubs or White Sox like
Shep?) mostly? Just curious, diskojoe |
01-22-2007
( Reply#: 735 ) |
Tom J |
diskojoe:
The image quality of the newspaper scans varies, but is generally pretty poor. The text is actually unreadable in some sections of some of the pages.
I was a White Sox fan as a kid growing up in Hammond. They were on the South Side, which put them closer to Hammond than were the Cubs, but since both teams were so close, I guess the difference in the distance to the ballparks really shouldn't have been a factor.
I think there was a fairly even split in the number of Cubs fans vs. the number of Sox fans back in my days in Hammond. I don't know how it is now.
I will be for the Bears in the Super Bowl, but if they get beat, I'll be glad that it was the Colts that beat them rather than some other team.
Tom
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01-22-2007
( Reply#: 736 ) |
diskojoe |
Tom, thanks for your reply on both my inquiries. The website must have received the newspaper images from the microfilm, which is probably all that exists of the newspapers in question. The original newspapers themselves were probably gone a long time ago.
As for the Super Bowl, I was hoping for a rematch of Super Bowl XX [8D], but I think I'll be rooting for "Da Bears". |
01-23-2007
( Reply#: 737 ) |
duane |
Not from Hammond, either, but from East Chicago (next door and where Josephine Coznowski lived!) I'd agree with Tom - most folks I knew were White Sox fans. For some reason, as a youth, I always thought the American league was REAL baseball, and the national league couldn't compare. However, even though I'd been to old Comisky Park several times, our church group always chose to go see the Cubs, and Wrigley field was WAY nicer than old Comiskey park (which always smelled like old drunks (Ludlow Kissel?)had been urinating in the corners under the bleachers.
As for football, I'd say that most people in "da Region" (the Calumet Region - roughly defined as the industrial towns of Northern Lake County - the area Shep wrote about) and more than about 25 years old are 1st Bears fans. For us older Northern Indiana Hoosiers, we still remember the Colts as being Baltimore and Johnny Unitas.
I again agree with Tom - I'm glad its da Bears and Indianapolis. Too bad they just don't play the Superbowl halfway in between at Ross Aide stadium in W. Lafayette (Purdue U). |
01-23-2007
( Reply#: 738 ) |
Tom J |
quote:
Originally posted by duane
Not from Hammond, either, but from East Chicago (next door and where Josephine Coznowski lived!) I'd agree with Tom - most folks I knew were White Sox fans. For some reason, as a youth, I always thought the American league was REAL baseball, and the national league couldn't compare. However, even though I'd been to old Comisky Park several times, our church group always chose to go see the Cubs, and Wrigley field was WAY nicer than old Comiskey park (which always smelled like old drunks (Ludlow Kissel?)had been urinating in the corners under the bleachers.
As for football, I'd say that most people in "da Region" (the Calumet Region - roughly defined as the industrial towns of Northern Lake County - the area Shep wrote about) and more than about 25 years old are 1st Bears fans. For us older Northern Indiana Hoosiers, we still remember the Colts as being Baltimore and Johnny Unitas.
I again agree with Tom - I'm glad its da Bears and Indianapolis. Too bad they just don't play the Superbowl halfway in between at Ross Aide stadium in W. Lafayette (Purdue U).
That's right, Duane. The Colts are supposed to be in Baltimore! :)
Also, I was just like you in that I thought of the American League as "real" baseball when I was a kid and a White Sox fan. My dad took me to Comiskey a few times, and it was not exactly the cleanest or most attractive place on earth, was it?
I have become a Reds fan, since they are now the closest team to me since my move to Kentucky. ("Close" is a relative word; the Reds are four hours east of me.) I went for the first time this past summer to their new park, and WOW! Now THAT'S what a ball park is supposed to look like! I absolutely loved it.
Hey, either fix your profile so that I can email you, or else call up my profile and email me. We have LOTS of Purdue talk to catch up on. Your actual email address does not appear to the person emailing you through Sheptalk, so there is no risk in allowing yourself to be accessible, but if you are nervous about that, then just call up my profile and email me. OK?
Tom
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01-24-2007
( Reply#: 740 ) |
diskojoe |
Great pictures, Tom. It sure looks like a nice ballpark. Shep talked in his shows about going to Reds games when he was in Cincy & did a show about Opening Day (the tradition was that the Reds would play the first game of the season since they were the oldest team). I guess Bronson Arroyo did OK for the Reds this past season. Also, don't forget the Big Red Machine & the '75 World Series, one of the greatest of all time (even though the Red Sox came up short; oh well, at least it took the Reds 7 games in '75, they swept the Yanks the next year) |
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