10-18-2007
( Reply#: 1794 ) |
seejay2 |
Some of these may be a repeat of photos already viewed, but one must start somewhere.
I love this shot! I think this first one is probably the best photo of Hessville that I've seen as far as depicting the business that it once conducted. This looks like some streets of Chicago that I have seen.
[IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/seejay2_photos/HessvilleBusinessDistrict-Marthaand.jpg[/IMG]
Something Old, Something New
This one is of Kennedy Ave sometime in the 50's. I tried to duplicate the angle just to have some fun (2007).
[IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/seejay2_photos/KennedyComp.jpg[/IMG]
This place needs no introduction.
[IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/seejay2_photos/Morton1961.jpg[/IMG]
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10-18-2007
( Reply#: 1795 ) |
wvcogs |
Comments about the busy street scene in Hessville:
1. I never noticed the sporting goods store before. The sign is barely visible in the background. Now, after checking the 1954 Hammond City Directory I see that Sienkiewicz Sporting Goods was at 6717 Kennedy Avenue.
2. That's quite a combination of movies at the Ace. Anchors Aweigh with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly was made in 1946. There were two movies in the mid 1950s with the title High Society. One was made in 1956 and had Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly. The other was a Bowery Boys movie from 1955 with Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall. Since it's the Ace, my money would be on the Bowery Boys.
3. SVEA3 already has identified the fellow in the front who is crossing Martha Street as one of the Lohse boys.
4. The first building that is visible on the left across Kennedy Avenue is George's Pinbowlarama where we believe Shep worked in the 1930s. And right next to that is Solina's Bakery where our friend Cj worked in the 1960s.
Ken... |
10-18-2007
( Reply#: 1796 ) |
wvcogs |
How about this one from the back of that building that was very special to many of us? That's either a freshman game or football practice on the field behind the school in the late 1950s. The photo is another one from the Purdue Calumet Library Archives.
Ken...
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/Archives/FreshmanFootball.jpg[/img] |
10-18-2007
( Reply#: 1798 ) |
seejay2 |
My God! Is that behind Oliver P?
[IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/seejay2_photos/holycow.gif[/IMG]
Here's one I need help with:
I'm assuming that the pix of the two bikes below are from somewhere near the Hammond area. The pix were taken around 1949, judging from the plate on the car. Does anybody have any idea where this place could be? I'm sure the sign above says DRIVE-IN, but I can't pin it down to an area familiar to me....Cj
[IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/seejay2_photos/bikes.jpg[/IMG] |
10-18-2007
( Reply#: 1799 ) |
S C Jones |
CJ:
Wasn't there a place people called The Nook in Hammond--maybe Hessville--but in Hammond somewhere? Look at the two pictures you posted with the motorcycles. The one on the left has an N over what we assume is Drive-In and the on the the right has a k above that same sign.
Was the Nook somewhere near Tech or Hammond High?
Also, the Loshe guy in the Kennedy Avenue (Janc's) shot (my favorite, too), is Karl who graduated Morton High School in 1958==and==is a cousin of Linda Johnson--but then, who isn't her cousin besides me? [:)]
Grand Park Subdivision 1940-1961 Boondocks of Hessville! |
10-18-2007
( Reply#: 1800 ) |
seejay2 |
Not bad analytical thinking, SC, but not a touchdown either. The "Nook", which went in to become Flick's, is a little bitty place in Hessville on the corner of Janet Pl. & Kennedy Ave on the north end of town.
This is the only pic I have of it right now and I really doesn't do it justice. I wouldn't even have that pic if Ken hadn't pointed it out to me on another site.
[IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/seejay2_photos/flicks_1.jpg[/IMG]
I'm playing with the "N&K" clues, too. 'Nighthawk', Northfork, 'Nosepick'? Don't know.......Cj
PS. Even though my name is Johnson too, I didn't make the "Linda's Relatives" grade either. |
10-18-2007
( Reply#: 1801 ) |
S C Jones |
CJ:
How about the Nitpick Drive-In? Who are the guys? Is this from your family photos? Are you sure the guy on the right isn't Marlon Brando? [:D]
BTW: I have a shot of (newspaper clipping) fire station #4 on Kennedy Ave.--don't know if that is one you or someone else posted--will send to you or Ken for posting, if one of you doesn't already have it.
Ken:
Who would the coach be in that football game/practice? I don't see Zlotnik--no one that wide in that photo.[B)]
I do remember the high school games were always played elsewhere because of the stickers on our playground/field. Interesting that football wasn't the money pit in those days that it is now. The band probably got more money than football. Where did the school system go wrong with its now mad craze for athletics and no physical education?
Lamentable situation, no?
Grand Park Subdivision 1940-1961 Boondocks of Hessville! |
10-18-2007
( Reply#: 1802 ) |
seejay2 |
Let's take a look at your firehouse photo. This is exactly the kind of stuff we want. Is there a story tied to it?..........Cj |
10-18-2007
( Reply#: 1803 ) |
wvcogs |
Here's the one of SC's father and step mother digging out over on Maryland Avenue after the big snow of January 1967.
SC can let us know the rest of the story.
Ken...
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/7234Maryland12867-a.jpg[/img] |
10-19-2007
( Reply#: 1807 ) |
wvcogs |
Here's that famous building during the winter of 1958-59. This is from the 1959 Top Hat. That book won a national award. I don't like to brag a lot, but I still am proud that my wife was its editor.
Ken...
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/Morton_Snow.jpg[/img] |
10-19-2007
( Reply#: 1809 ) |
seejay2 |
Had to go to the old country today. Mom must be getting the "bug", she wanted to go through my yearbook!. I figured I'd update a couple of things while there.
FLICKS (formerly "The Nook")
I never had a pic of this place, so here it is. That red 'thing' over the door is a marketing failure. It says "Flick's Tap", but you can hardly read it from 3 feet away. Maybe it lights up.
[IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/seejay2_photos/Flick2.jpg[/IMG]
CHUCK & IRENE'S
I guess they are still in business, Ken. This was taken today.
[IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/seejay2_photos/CI2.jpg[/IMG]...Cj
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10-19-2007
( Reply#: 1810 ) |
wvcogs |
I looked all morning for a pic of the Nook and couldn't find one. Was it the end or beginning of the bus line? Maybe it was both. Thanks for that and the one of C&I's.
Ken... |
10-20-2007
( Reply#: 1813 ) |
seejay2 |
FYI
Just in case nobody told y'all, this has been sold, torn down and replaced.............
[IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/seejay2_photos/Cclub.jpg[/IMG]
.....with this!...........Cj
[IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/seejay2_photos/Cabela.jpg[/IMG] |
10-23-2007
( Reply#: 1825 ) |
seejay2 |
Here is one passed along from SC Jones. This place seems familiar, but yet I don't know. I can't think of a place on Kennedy Ave that fits the caption. Anybody know where this was or what the story is behind it?.............Cj
[IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/seejay2_photos/Firestation.jpg[/IMG] |
10-28-2007
( Reply#: 1828 ) |
seejay2 |
UPDATE!
Regarding the earlier biker pix:
We received an email from an old gentleman (80 something) telling us that there was a very popular place on Burnham Ave in Cal City called "Nighthawk". This place was frequented by bikers from miles around in the late 40's. I believe this may solve the mystery drive-in pix. Can anybody shed some light on this?....Cj |
11-05-2007
( Reply#: 1832 ) |
svea3 |
Ken, You know the OPM school pix makes me ask when the Elementary building was constructed?
Bikers comments gybes with my cousin's story.
Linda |
11-05-2007
( Reply#: 1833 ) |
seejay2 |
What would your cousin's story be?.......Cj |
11-05-2007
( Reply#: 1834 ) |
wvcogs |
Linda -- The two story elementary building at 170th and Marshall was constructed in 1957. Here's a picture from the Purdue Calumet archives showing the very beginning of the construction.
Ken...
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/Archives/SCP457MortonElementary170thMarshall.jpg[/img]
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11-08-2007
( Reply#: 1835 ) |
seejay2 |
Ken Gets 5 Gold Stars [:D]
Ken has solved the riddle of the #4 Firehouse picture. First of all, it's not in Hessville, but East Chicago. Ken emailed the EC fire chief making an inquiry about said firehouse and received this helpfull reply:
Dear Mr. O'Neil
The newspaper photo you sent is of our old fire station number 4 which was located at
4858 Kennedy Ave. in East Chicago, Indiana, the text of the article implies that the
station was torn down for an empty lot; it was actually torn down in order to build the
new station number 4 on the same location. The new #4 took a little over a year from
planning to end of construction, which may account for the writer of the article thinking
it was just too be an empty lot. I believe old station 4 was torn down in 1995 and the
new station was completed in 1996. At the time old #4 was our oldest and smallest fire
station, newer model fire vehicles could not fit in the station, as we were replacing our
older vehicles it became obvious that we would have a problem with this station.
Expanding the station was not an option, since it was built in the 1920's there were many
serious issues with the station. Old station #4 was a single bay station housing only
one fire vehicle, new station #4 is modern 4 bay station housing two fire vehicles (a
fire attack pumper and a 100' ladder truck) and an ambulance.
I hope this information is of some help, if we can be of further assistance please feel
free to contact us again.
Sincerely,
Valeriano F. Gomez
Fire Chief
ECFD
Great work, Ken! NOW I remember the place! I used to pass by it on the way to LTV when I still lived in Hessville. No wonder it looked familiar to me. It was a little bitty place right in a residential neighborhood. They built the new one and right across the street was a mall area that they prettied up at the same time buy adding benches and flowers and stuff. I guess I will have to go over that way again on the next trip to the old country and take a second look..........Cj
BTW Linda: Still waiting on the cousin's "biker photo" story...Cj
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11-14-2007
( Reply#: 1840 ) |
svea3 |
I'll send this to my other "cousin". He went Tech and said these guys were older than him. This sounds like a very reasonable explanation,to me.[;)] |
11-14-2007
( Reply#: 1842 ) |
seejay2 |
I will be waiting for you...........Cj |
11-14-2007
( Reply#: 1843 ) |
svea3 |
WELL[;)] I already sent the message to my cousin's wife.
TO SCJ: Hessville IS my hometown and I proudly claim that. It is just filled with my relatives!My ggGrandfather was one of the originals. I remember riding in buggy for the centennial celebration in costume. Does anyone else recall that parade?[B)] |
11-14-2007
( Reply#: 1844 ) |
seejay2 |
What message? I think there is a bit of confusion here. You said,"Bikers comments gybes with my cousin's story." and I would like to know what your cousin's story is?.........Cj |
11-15-2007
( Reply#: 1846 ) |
wvcogs |
Since this is a Photo Album, here is another somewhat interesting picture. It is of the Hessville 5 and 10 and the two story building where Wachala's School of Music was located taken from inside Hill's Hammond Times Agency. The picture was used as the two page spread that introduced the advertising section in the 1960 Top Hat, the Morton High School yearbook.
Ken...
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/Hammond%20Scenes/Hills.jpg[/img] |
11-16-2007
( Reply#: 1847 ) |
Bill Bucko |
Wow, wonderful photo! Thanks!
I'd forgotten all about that circular rack of books by the front door, where I sometimes glimpsed the really naughty cover of a certain Mickey Spillane novel!
It was rumored (but never confirmed by me) that copies of Playboy were kept under the counter (too racy for public display, in that town and that era).
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
11-16-2007
( Reply#: 1848 ) |
seejay2 |
Great shot of Hill's Ken! Just as I remember it. Now I need to see the shooting arcade machine in the back where I blew every dime I had trying to shoot the "Witch"..........Cj |
11-17-2007
( Reply#: 1849 ) |
S C Jones |
Hey, Linda!
Hessville is my hometown too, but all my known relatives (and there are a lot of them) are in the hills of Southeastern KY--Yahoo! I have been online searching in geneology sights and have found a picture of my paternal great-great grandparents, have some pretty reliable info saying my grandmother was Choctaw. Not sure, because some say it was my great-grandmother who was Native American.
I love the fact that you have a passel of relatives in Hessville and surrounding area (EC, I think you mentioned). Your grandparents walked some of the same ground I walked to school--though they may have been hoeing and plowing, since it was farmland when they walked it.
quote:
Originally posted by svea3
TO SCJ: Hessville IS my hometown and I proudly claim that. It is just filled with my relatives!My ggGrandfather was one of the originals. I remember riding in buggy for the centennial celebration in costume. Does anyone else recall that parade?[B)]
Grand Park Subdivision 1940-1961 Boondocks of Hessville! |
11-24-2007
( Reply#: 1854 ) |
wvcogs |
A trip through some old files produced the negative for this picture of the Memorial Day 1960 observance at Hessville Park. Notice the 48 star flags carried by all but the boy scout who has a 50 star flag. I recognize the two Morton band members, the one with the rifle and the one carrying the flag.
Ken...
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/Archives/MemorialDay1960.jpg[/img] |
11-19-2008
( Reply#: 2445 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
This great shot of the old Ace Theatre was taken sometime during the week beginning Friday, November 25, 1955.
I came across the info in the Hammond Times theater listings in the Hammond Library's old microfilm collection.
As another reader notes, there were TWO films entitled "High Society" released around this time;
the one which played at the Ace on this double-bill was the Leo Gorcey version.
[quote]Originally posted by seejay2
Some of these may be a repeat of photos already viewed, but one must start somewhere.
I love this shot! I think this first one is probably the best photo of Hessville that I've seen as far as depicting the
business that it once conducted. This looks like some streets of Chicago that I have seen.
[IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/seejay2_photos/HessvilleBusinessDistrict-Marthaand.jpg[/IMG]
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11-19-2008
( Reply#: 2446 ) |
wvcogs |
Hasso,
Thanks for the information. I just wonder if there could have been an article explaining all the activity. All those folks probably were not there to see the movies. My guess is that Santa just made his appearance in the empty lot between the Pin Bowl and the old A&P. Does anyone remember that he showed up one year in the late 1950s in a helicopter?
Ken... |
11-19-2008
( Reply#: 2447 ) |
seejay2 |
I remember the helicopter visit, but I don't remember what year it was..............a long, long time ago.
I do remember, however, being more interested in how the helicopter worked over the presence of Santa.........Cj |
11-20-2008
( Reply#: 2452 ) |
wvcogs |
How about getting some action started again on this photo album? Here's my posting. It's the old Hessville home place on Carolina Avenue. Actually, I had left for college by the time this picture was taken, but probably took it while home for the Christmas break.
Ken...
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/CarolinaAve.jpg[/img] |
11-21-2008
( Reply#: 2454 ) |
seejay2 |
I'm game!
Here is the "CJ" estate when it was purchased in 1954 (left side).
[IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/seejay2_photos/Oldhome.jpg[/IMG]
It is situated in the middle of the 6600 block of Arizona Ave. One of the features of this lovely home was the huge "octopus" oil fired furnace in the basement. It had been converted from a coal burner to oil, a major selling point. After the old man slammed his head into the tentacles of it enough times, we finally got one of those wee forced air gas furnaces that everyone has now.
It was re-sided a few years later with a navy blue and yellow trim (UGGHHH!!!!)
Some time in the 60's, the porch was enclosed and converted to an inside living area and was again re-sided with a brand new concept---aluminum!!!
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11-21-2008
( Reply#: 2455 ) |
wvcogs |
About one hundred years ago, many different ethnic groups began the journey to Northwest Indiana (and other areas of this country) from Eastern European countries to work in the mills and other industries. My wife's grandparents came separately to the United States from Hungary in 1907 and settled in the Hungarian community along Melville and Alexander Avenues in East Chicago. They were married in 1910. I never knew my wife's grandfather, but her grandmother, who was born in 1887, became one of my favorite ladies of all time. For that reason, I am posting in her memory this photo that I took sometime around 1960. Everybody called her Grandma.
Ken...
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/Grandma2.jpg[/img] |
11-21-2008
( Reply#: 2456 ) |
seejay2 |
Very, very interesting photo, Ken. My great-grandparents lived at 4716 Alexander and my mother, at one time, lived in the 4800 block of Melville. Mom is the Hungarian side of the family. Here is a pic of my fam in the Alexander home.
[IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/seejay2_photos/Untitled-1.jpg[/IMG]
Great-grandma is all the way to the right. She sure does look alot like the "Grandma" in your photo, doesn't she?
I am the guy kneeling on the left. My brother would probably grin like that if his hair was on fire. My sister---not so much.
In the back are great-gramps, gramps and mom....Cj |
11-24-2008
( Reply#: 2458 ) |
wvcogs |
All of us at Morton High School were not athletes; but those of us who were in the band were also awarded "letters" for our achievements. Here's the one I received for being in John Melton's band from 1956 until 1960.
Mr. Melton was teacher and band director at Morton from 1929 until about 1970. He was at the school on Marshall Avenue before the building we all knew was constructed in 1936-37; and he moved on to the current building at 169th and Grand. Before the three story addition was built onto the Marshall Avenue building in 1953, the band room was on the first floor where the shop was located after Mr. Melton moved to the third floor.
Ken.
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/Band_Letter.jpg[/img] |
12-05-2008
( Reply#: 2467 ) |
wvcogs |
SC Jones asked me to post this photo with the following comment:
"A great-niece (now a senior in high school) of SC, wears this sweatshirt which was purchased by her mother (niece of SC) when she was a freshman or sophomore at Oliver Perry Morton High School in the mid-70's. SC graduated Morton in 1958."
[url="http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/T-shirt.jpg"]Morton Governors[/url]
Ken... |
12-21-2008
( Reply#: 2509 ) |
seejay2 |
Hi Gang!
Just a small thing...
For those of you who feel slighted because you have been away from 'Da Region' for so long, here is the other edge of the sword..
..it was 3 below when I took these this morning!
I believe it is well within the concept of a well digger's butt....Cj
[IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/seejay2_photos/Icy1.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/seejay2_photos/Icy2.jpg[/IMG] |
12-22-2008
( Reply#: 2516 ) |
duane |
Reminds me of the scene on Christmas morning when Ralphie looks out his bedroom window! We have -18 this morning in northern Minnesota, but no ice, thank goodness. |
12-25-2008
( Reply#: 2534 ) |
svea3 |
Brrrrr
We in the Detroit River received a blanket of snow some 12". I was looking at the OPM year book of 1959 and noted that in one of the descriptive blurbs about the court yard near the Kindergarten picture which remarks that there was a shutting down of the schools which had not been done since 1938! I remember wearing wool socks when Judy Bogan and I walked to school in -14 weather.
Linda[:I] |
01-27-2009
( Reply#: 2703 ) |
wvcogs |
Okay my Hessville friends from the 1950s and '60s... Who among you can tell me a story about this picture of the crossing guard lady and her young friends? Where was the picture taken? What time of day was it taken? Who do you think the kids are, not individually, but where are they coming from? I think I know, but just want to check with some of you.
How about two pairs of shoes for $5.00???
Ken...
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/CrossingGuard.jpg[/img]
This photo is from the Purdue Calumet Library Archives. |
01-27-2009
( Reply#: 2704 ) |
S C Jones |
Ken,
I'll start with the easy part---Crossing Kennedy Avenue at (guessing, 165th or 172nd) after school (because jackets in hand, most are smiling. I see what might be the school of music in the background(I thought at first it was a funeral home, but the sign begins with a W, I think.) Also see a State Farm Sign way down the line. The guy in a plaid shirt pushing a bike closest to the crossing guard's left hand and nearest the camera, looks like Stan Mize.
Do I sound completely in the dark? I don't remember the shoe store sign--wasn't there a Thom McAnn shoe store on Kennedy? [:(] |
01-27-2009
( Reply#: 2705 ) |
seejay2 |
DIG IT, SC!! I love the pic!! This is at the intersection of Kennedy & 171st, looking northwest. If the photographer were to turn 90 degrees to the right, you would see Virgil Huber Funeral home.
In the center of the pic is Bocken Funeral Home and that is the white limo ready for service.
My guess is school let out from OLPH and all the kiddies are heading home. I forgot all about that shoe store being there.
You can't even buy two decent laces for $5......Cj |
01-27-2009
( Reply#: 2706 ) |
S C Jones |
Seejay,
I was going to ask if that was Bocken Funeral home, but the sign seems to start with a W and the place everyone took accordian lessons started with a W. It was at 171st that I and my fellow neighborhooders crossed Kennedy--I just had the number wrong.
[8D]
quote:
Originally posted by seejay2
DIG IT, SC!! I love the pic!! This is at the intersection of Kennedy & 171st, looking northwest. If the photographer were to turn 90 degrees to the right, you would see Virgil Huber Funeral home.
In the center of the pic is Bocken Funeral Home and that is the white limo ready for service.
My guess is school let out from OLPH and all the kiddies are heading home. I forgot all about that shoe store being there.
You can't even buy two decent laces for $5......Cj
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01-27-2009
( Reply#: 2707 ) |
wvcogs |
Way to go, Cj. I guess the only thing missing is that the photographer was standing in front of Artim Trucking. Also, according to the city directory, Homer Croffoot owned a gas station on the southwest corner. Do you have a guess about the year based on the cars? I don't have any idea about that.
Ken... |
01-28-2009
( Reply#: 2708 ) |
seejay2 |
Rather than start yet another short term topic, I'll just put this here.
I got this email from a former classmate.
"For those fellow classmates who attended Harding, I am sorry to advise you that Mr. Dan Gyure passed away on Tuesday, January 27, 2009, at the age of 76. Mr Gyure was our gym teacher and basketball coach at Harding who later became the principal of the Morton Grade school. He was a great guy who helped many of us out through the years. He will be greatly missed. It is my understanding that the wake is this Friday from 3 to 7 PM and that the funeral is Saturday but I do not know where the services are being held."
I did not know Dan Gyure......Cj |
01-28-2009
( Reply#: 2709 ) |
wvcogs |
The Purdue Calumet Library photo archives includes this picture of a house on the southeast corner of 165th Street and Carolina Avenue in Hessville. Why would a collection like the archives include a shot of someone's house? Apparently there was another reason for including the picture. I had no idea until I sent a few of the pictures to some of my 1960 MHS classmates.
This information was provided by classmate Joel Smolen, whose family moved to 3023 165th Street in 1946. The house was moved to 165th and Carolina from near the corner of 165th and Kennedy, about across the street from the American Legion. After the house was moved, the area on Kennedy was a large vacant lot for many years. The Post Office is located there now.
Joel was about 6 years old when the house was moved down 165th to it's current location. He remembers seeing it being moved along the street. Joel said he and some friends played in the sand under the house while it was still up on blocks until it was lowered onto the foundation. The weather was warm when the move occurred, so he thinks the time was June-September in 1948 or 1949.
Ken...
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/HessvilleHouse.jpg[/img] |
03-04-2009
( Reply#: 2806 ) |
Annelee |
Back to that crossing guard - I actually remember her! How strange to see her face after all these years. I crossed there at 171st & Kennedy going to/from OLPH from '63 - '67. But I sure do not remember a shoe store at that corner - maybe before my time. I know a bank was there in the later 60's. I think the "W" that SC sees on that sign is actually a fancy "B." The rest of the letters would fit with Bocken.
Annelee - a 1971 grad of MHS |
03-07-2009
( Reply#: 2810 ) |
seejay2 |
Trust me, it is Bocken. I was just in there two weeks ago....Cj |
04-24-2009
( Reply#: 2990 ) |
Jim R |
Remember pennants? Here are the ones I still have.
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/effenger/Harding.jpg
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/effenger/Brookview.jpg
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/effenger/LincolnPark.jpg
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/effenger/Dunes.jpg
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/effenger/RoadsideAmerica.jpg
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/effenger/Allentown.jpg
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee288/effenger/CadallacMI.jpg
Harding K thru 7
Morton 8 thru 12 |
05-03-2009
( Reply#: 3038 ) |
wvcogs |
Purdue Calumet library archives has posted more of its special collection photographs online. Many of the photos that were available earlier have appeared in this thread as well as elsewhere on Sheptalk. Instead of putting the pictures here, I am entering the names with links to the Purdue archives' address. While you're on the Purdue site, you may want to look through some of the other photos. Just click on "Back to Page" at the bottom to go to a page of 12 thumbnails. Then, you can click on "Next Page" or "Previous Page" to navigate through the site. If you happen to get back to the photo gallery main page, the center list, those with the SCP prefix, are the ones that probably will interest you most -- except Tom J and a few others may be interested in the other photos since their subject is Purdue Calumet. The SCP photos also have pictures of Munster, East Chicago, Woodmar, Gary, Calumet City, Lansing, and some other areas. There are a few of the big snow of 1967.
By the way, many of the dates you will see at the tops of the pictures are way off. For example, one of the pictures in the archives has a 1962 Chevy in a picture dated 1951. Also, a picture of the 1959-60 Morton band says that it is the 1951 band. Oh well...
Enough of that. Here are the links to the pictures.
Ken...
[url="http://library.calumet.purdue.edu/Archhtmlfin/SC_Photos/SCP_362.htm"]Dunkenburger on Kennedy Avenue[/url]
[url="http://library.calumet.purdue.edu/Archhtmlfin/SC_Photos/SCP_364.htm"]Fifield Pharmacy[/url]
[url="http://library.calumet.purdue.edu/Archhtmlfin/SC_Photos/SCP_365.htm"]Mr. Fifield[/url]
[url="http://library.calumet.purdue.edu/Archhtmlfin/SC_Photos/SCP_372.htm"]Byer's Heating[/url]
[url="http://library.calumet.purdue.edu/Archhtmlfin/SC_Photos/SCP_373.htm"]First United Presbyterian Church Choir[/url]
[url="http://library.calumet.purdue.edu/Archhtmlfin/SC_Photos/SCP_386.htm"]Sinclair Station 169th and Kennedy[/url]
[url="http://library.calumet.purdue.edu/Archhtmlfin/SC_Photos/SCP_392.htm"]Line at Ace Theater[/url]
[url="http://library.calumet.purdue.edu/Archhtmlfin/SC_Photos/SCP_431.htm"]Marble tournament winner 1962[/url]
[url="http://library.calumet.purdue.edu/Archhtmlfin/SC_Photos/SCP_459.htm"]Hessville Adult Band Members[/url]
[url="http://library.calumet.purdue.edu/Archhtmlfin/SC_Photos/SCP_460.htm"]Kathy Cunningham and Karen Lepucke and snowman, 1960[/url] |
05-03-2009
( Reply#: 3039 ) |
wvcogs |
Does anyone recognize this place? The Purdue Calumet archives says it's on Kennedy Avenue. Any clues??? Again, click on the image name to go to the picture on the archives site.
Thanks. Ken...
[url="http://library.calumet.purdue.edu/Archhtmlfin/SC_Photos/SCP_368.htm"]Supermarket on Kennedy Avenue (?)[/url] |
05-03-2009
( Reply#: 3042 ) |
S C Jones |
Ken, I don't recognize that supermarket--could it be or have been in E.C. or Griffith? or at least South of 173rd, or North of 165th?
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Originally posted by wvcogs
Does anyone recognize this place? The Purdue Calumet archives says it's on Kennedy Avenue. Any clues??? Again, click on the image name to go to the picture on the archives site.
Thanks. Ken...
[url="http://library.calumet.purdue.edu/Archhtmlfin/SC_Photos/SCP_368.htm"]Supermarket on Kennedy Avenue (?)[/url]
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05-03-2009
( Reply#: 3043 ) |
wvcogs |
Based upon the cars, the picture was taken in the early to middle 1950s; but it certainly wasn't on Kennedy Avenue in Hessville. I have the Kennedy Avenue pages of the City Directory from 1948, 1952, 1954, and 1956. The only "super market" listed is A & P across the street from the Ace Theater. That was before A & P moved to 165th Street. It just seemed like they were saying it was in Hessville because of the location in the archives.
Thanks.
Ken.. |
05-04-2009
( Reply#: 3044 ) |
S C Jones |
I went to the Purdue listing you supplied and plowed through all of the pics. There were a couple Hessville pics mixed in with the Griffith, Highland, Dyer, etc. pics.
And, to prove your point that the referencing isn't very reliable, in one picture (of a license bureau) a woman is holding a license plate with the date clearly readable as a given year and the description of the pic. states another decade.
I also searched on a 50s supermarket site to see if I could find the GIANT self-serve brand. It seems there were no GIANT food stores in the Chicago area----however, that site may not be entirely reliable either. Back in the 70's there was a GIANT pack-your- own groceries, here in TN. But it was in a huge warehouse type building, not a small mom and pop kinda place like that on pictured on Purdue's site.
quote:
Originally posted by wvcogs
Based upon the cars, the picture was taken in the early to middle 1950s; but it certainly wasn't on Kennedy Avenue in Hessville. I have the Kennedy Avenue pages of the City Directory from 1948, 1952, 1954, and 1956. The only "super market" listed is A & P across the street from the Ace Theater. That was before A & P moved to 165th Street. It just seemed like they were saying it was in Hessville because of the location in the archives.
Thanks.
Ken..
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05-18-2009
( Reply#: 3082 ) |
linbu |
I believe the patrol lady in the above pic, at 171st and Kennedy, was Mrs. Wagner. I remember the shoe store too. I begged my mom for a purse in the window and finally got that big ugly thing. |
05-18-2009
( Reply#: 3083 ) |
linbu |
I believe that grocery store was at the nw corner of 173rd and kennedy. It was later an IGA then a home remodeling or windows place. |
05-19-2009
( Reply#: 3084 ) |
wvcogs |
Hello Linda - Welcome to the forum. It's good to have another former Governor aboard.
I forgot about Gregory's, but don't really think that's it. Even though it's not a close up take a look at this photo, the building looks somewhat different to me. What do you think SVEA? This is another photo from the Purdue Archives.
Ken
MHS 1960
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/SCP411KennedyAveand173rdSt1951.jpg[/img] |
05-19-2009
( Reply#: 3085 ) |
linbu |
Good Lord! This is all so interesting. I'm on a quest now. I have to go to dad's and go through all his pictures. Surely they have some good ones. They lived in Hessville, in the same house, since right after the war till 2000. |
05-19-2009
( Reply#: 3086 ) |
wvcogs |
Linda - When you find those pictures let us know if you need any information about how to post them to the list.
Ken...
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/MortonHS.jpg[/img] |
05-19-2009
( Reply#: 3087 ) |
linbu |
Somewhere, in this house, I have a couple bricks and the clock from the gym of that beautiful building. |
05-22-2009
( Reply#: 3095 ) |
seejay2 |
Hey 'linbu'
I believe I remember you. I am another 'Johnson' who is related to no one on this board. I do remember Tommy and the 'Walter' story does ring a bit familiar to me. I walked in '67. If you are who I think you are, didn't you pal around with a "Mardy" for a while?
I had Jancich(?) only for one class in my final year and Wally Ruff for a couple of detention sessions.
I only remember Mae Virden (I think she was about a hundred years old then)for one thing: she grabbed some really big dude (maybe Dennis Yuhasz)by the ear and lead him out of a study hall period or assembly for some kind of cutting up.
I am really looking forward to your pix.......Cj |
05-22-2009
( Reply#: 3096 ) |
seejay2 |
quote:
Originally posted by wvcogs
Based upon the cars, the picture was taken in the early to middle 1950s; but it certainly wasn't on Kennedy Avenue in Hessville. I have the Kennedy Avenue pages of the City Directory from 1948, 1952, 1954, and 1956. The only "super market" listed is A & P across the street from the Ace Theater. That was before A & P moved to 165th Street. It just seemed like they were saying it was in Hessville because of the location in the archives.
Thanks.
Ken..
I have to agree with Ken on this one. The car in front is a '49 Ford; I had one just like it--I gave all of $50 for that tank.
We moved here in '54. Mom remembers that being an A&P until it became something else, but "Giant" never entered into the game...Cj |
05-23-2009
( Reply#: 3099 ) |
linbu |
seejay, Mardy and I have been friends since we were born, 8 days apart, 5 houses down. She lives in Illinois now. I haven't seen her since my moms funeral 2 years ao, but we always exchange birthday cards and keep in touch. I'm amazed anyone remembers me, lol. I was just about the most unpopular gal in school. I'm not related to any other Johnsons either. |
05-23-2009
( Reply#: 3100 ) |
seejay2 |
quote:
Originally posted by linbu
seejay, Mardy and I have been friends since we were born, 8 days apart, 5 houses down. She lives in Illinois now. I haven't seen her since my moms funeral 2 years ao, but we always exchange birthday cards and keep in touch. I'm amazed anyone remembers me, lol. I was just about the most unpopular gal in school.
Oh man! Don't ever think like that. Someone will always remember you. The first posting you made, I had a feeling that's who it was...Cj
I'm not related to any other Johnsons either.
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06-16-2009
( Reply#: 3215 ) |
Pro2am |
Yep, that's Gregory's. Kennedy Ave. and 173rd St. Looking north up Kennedy. Just this side of Gregory's - on the SW corner - is Shutko's Gulf station. Across Kennedy is - or would one day be - Hessville Park. And closer on the right - where that whitle vehicle is parked - was where Bert's Shell station would someday be built.
Mike Rapchak Jr.
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quote:
Originally posted by wvcogs
Hello Linda - Welcome to the forum. It's good to have another former Governor aboard.
I forgot about Gregory's, but don't really think that's it. Even though it's not a close up take a look at this photo, the building looks somewhat different to me. What do you think SVEA? This is another photo from the Purdue Archives.
Ken
MHS 1960
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/SCP411KennedyAveand173rdSt1951.jpg[/img]
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01-19-2010
( Reply#: 4771 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
Just discovered this thread and the picture above; like my (late) big brother Mike said, that is definitely THE Gregory's grocery store at 173rd and Kennedy; no doubt about it. It's just a bit disorienting to see the street without Bert's Shell station across the street (on the right).
LR |
01-21-2010
( Reply#: 4798 ) |
nitti |
quote:
Originally posted by Annelee
Back to that crossing guard - I actually remember her! How strange to see her face after all these years. I crossed there at 171st & Kennedy going to/from OLPH from '63 - '67. But I sure do not remember a shoe store at that corner - maybe before my time. I know a bank was there in the later 60's. I think the "W" that SC sees on that sign is actually a fancy "B." The rest of the letters would fit with Bocken.
Annelee - a 1971 grad of MHS
Don't know the name, but it was a general merchandise discount store.They held going out of business sales for years - I used to get paid to hand out the flyers.It finally actually went out of business and Bill Christy and Paul Hric bought it when they created Lake Federal Savings and Loan. |
04-11-2010
( Reply#: 5312 ) |
wvcogs |
Here is a picture posted especially for Mr. Razz. It's a photo of Tim's older brother, David, that must have been taken during the 1963 Christmas season. I found this while going through some of our old photo albums. Mr. Razz, I hope you're still around.
[url="http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/DavidR.jpg"]Just click here to see the PhotoBucket image.[/url]
Ken
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04-12-2010
( Reply#: 5317 ) |
Bill Bucko |
quote:
Originally posted by wvcogs
Here is a picture posted especially for Mr. Razz. It's a photo of Tim's older brother, David, that must have been taken during the 1963 Christmas season. I found this while going through some of our old photo albums. Mr. Razz, I hope you're still around.
[url="http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/DavidR.jpg"]Just click here to see the PhotoBucket image.[/url]
Ken
Yep, that's Dave! At first I wasn't sure--I knew him when he was a couple of years older--but a closer look convinces me it's Dave. I can see a resemblance to his father, our revered biology teacher Mr. Julian Rasmussen. Both really great guys.
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
04-12-2010
( Reply#: 5318 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
No kidding---Mr. Rasmussen was one of my all-time favorite teachers. I took biology in the Fall of '68 at Morton. Boy, we sure made a mess of that miniature shark, trying to dissect him just right, under the watchful (but very forgiving) eye of Mr. R. I remember that he offered to give us extra credit if we could extract some part of the shark's brain without destroying it.....oops..darn! Well, maybe next time...
Mr. R was a great supporter of the school musicals; if I had a late-night rehearsal, he'd let me skip his first-period class the next day, as long as I kept up with the material. He used to record the shows himself, and he had the only recording in existence of the '68 spring musical "Finian's Rainbow", in which I played one of the leads. I saw him for YEARS after I graduated--I was always running into him at the store, etc---and he always said he'd dig out the tape and make me a copy. Last time I talked to him, he said he thought he had it in his garage somewhere; never managed to get it, though.
I remember a time in the mid-80's when my wife and I went to the old Ponderosa steak house in Munster on Ridge Road, and there was Julian, sitting by himself. I said hello to him, and he said that he had just moved his wife into a nursing home, as I recall. We felt really bad for him and invited him to join us for dinner, which he did. I could tell he appreciated it.
A good guy.
[IMG]http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af12/HassoBenSoba/MrRaz0001.jpg[/IMG]
And here is Mr. Rasmussen himself, hard at work on some grotesque thing or other..but obviously enjoying it (from Morton Top-Hat, 1968-69).
Larry r |
04-12-2010
( Reply#: 5321 ) |
Jim Plummer |
Larry, guess who else has a copy of that tape. Me! Mr. R was so excited he talked me into seeing it. And he made me a copy of the tape recording. I should still have it and I have an open reel recorder that I think still functions. What do you remember about the leading lady? I think she had an amazing voice.quote:
Originally posted by HassoBenSoba
No kidding---Mr. Rasmussen was one of my all-time favorite teachers. I took biology in the Fall of '68 at Morton. Boy, we sure made a mess of that miniature shark, trying to dissect him just right, under the watchful (but very forgiving) eye of Mr. R. I remember that he offered to give us extra credit if we could extract some part of the shark's brain without destroying it.....oops..darn..well, we tried.
Mr. R was a great supporter of the school musicals; if I had a late-night rehearsal, he'd let me skip his first-period class the next day, as long as I kept up with the material. He used to record the shows himself, and he had the only recording in existence of the '68 spring musical "Finian's Rainbow", in which I played one of the leads. I saw him for YEARS after I graduated--I was always running into him at the store, etc---and he always said he'd dig out the tape and make me a copy. Last time I talked to him, he said he thought he had it in his garage somewhere; never managed to get it, though.
I remember a time in the mid-80's when my wife and I went to the old Ponderosa steak house in Munster on Ridge Road, and there was Julian, sitting by himself. I said hello to him, and he said that he had just moved his wife into a nursing home, as I recall. We felt really bad for him and invited him to join us for dinner, which he did. I could tell he appreciated it.
A good guy.
Larry r
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04-12-2010
( Reply#: 5332 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
JIM--
HOLY S____! I can't believe that you remember "Finian's Rainbow" at Morton H.S. in April of 1968--and that you have a copy of the Tape! We must talk.......
I played the role of OG, the Leprechaun who is gradually turning human. Here are two actual shots taken during one of the performances.
http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af12/HassoBenSoba/NewhartTV0002.jpg
http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af12/HassoBenSoba/FINIAN30001.jpg
The first shows me with the leading lady you mentioned, Sandy Snyder; yes, she was a real talent. Her father was the well-respected minister of the church by the library behind the Old Dime Store on 167th. Her mother, Connie, contributed a column to the Times' religion section until recently. The next year ('69) Sandy and I starred in the musical "Carnival" at Morton; the role she played had several off-color/suggestive lyrics, which she was always changing and "cleaning up". The director, Donn Edwards, who used to sit out in the theater during rehearsals with a bull-horn, finally decided that he had had enough. "Sandy Snyder" (his voice bellowed out of the darkness), "if you don't change those lyrics back you will NOT be performing on this stage!" She pleaded her case, saying that her father's congregation members would be coming to the show, and that it would be bad for his reputation if his daughter was up there singing these slightly risque words in public. I forget who won the battle, even though I was onstage with her during the scene. (I DO have a tape of "Carnival", but no reel-to-reel to play it on).
In the "Finian's pictures, you will notice my funky green costume, with cardboard top hat adorned with two pheasant feathers, latex Spock ears, and a prominent run in my green nylon; ah, the theater.....
Second pic is me and a bunch of kids searching for something...I forget what. These photos were prints made from SLIDES (they acquired their over-exposed look during the transfer) which were originally taken from the audience by Sandy Snyder's father.
Let me know if you find that tape of the show. Boy, this thread proves that you NEVER know what you might find on Sheptalk!
Larry r |
04-14-2010
( Reply#: 5348 ) |
Jim Plummer |
Larry, Do you have access to an open reel tape recorder? I know what that box looks like but, as usual I have to locate it. Yesterday while out in the garage I found some copies of the Mortonite circa 61 and 62. You never know what you will find out there. |
04-14-2010
( Reply#: 5355 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
Jim--
I don't own a reel-to-reel.....but if I could get hold of a copy of a "Finian's Rainbow" tape, I'd find a way to get it transferred.
Larry |
04-15-2010
( Reply#: 5356 ) |
Bill Bucko |
Larry, you've earned an A+ in music; but I'm afraid we have to grade you down in biology. Those were the shark's semicircular canals, of course--thin, fragile, nearly transparent tubes at right angles to each other, on either side of the brain, very hard to expose without damaging them! Maybe we ought to sentence you to another semester of smelling that delightful formaldehyde? [8D]
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
04-15-2010
( Reply#: 5357 ) |
LegulusQ |
I also have reel-to-reel copies of Finian's Rainbow, Carnival, and Camelot, as I served as the sound man for all Morton's plays/musicals from 1968-1970. At some point, I am pretty sure I transferred some or all of them to cassette format for someone else who wanted a copy. I'll have to do some deep digging in a closet that is stacked with junk from floor to ceiling - you know, the closet for things that you rarely ever pull out but just can't stand to get rid of!
I remember staying up almost all night on school nights, doing elaborate mix-downs of sound effects. I often needed to combine sounds from different sources, but we didn't have a multi-track facility and the sound system in the theater was mono. So I would use two stereo reel-to-reel units to record four tracks of sound effects, then mix that down to a third stereo reel-to-reel to get to two tracks, and then mix that down with a Y-adapter onto the school's Wollensak mono tape recorder to actually plug into the sound board offstage.
We sometimes did shows with rapid fire, multiple cues for sound effects, so I would have the individual effects separated on the tape by only a second or two, and use the pause button to be ready right away for the next cue (oh, to have had digital capabilities back then!). I'll never forget one night at dress rehearsal, I was ready for my visual cue for the actress onstage to begin plucking an otherwise invisible harp. Unfortunately, I had paused the tape a second early at the conclusion of the previous effect, which had been a car crash! So as the actress brings her hands down to begin her lovely harp solo, there is suddenly a cacophonous crash of metal on metal prior to the harp beginning! Within seconds, I heard Mr. Edwards' voice in my ear through my headphones, intoning the immortal words: "Heads will roll!" But I could hear the amusement in his voice, and luckily we got it right during the actual performances. Working on those productions was certainly a highlight of my high school experience at MHS!
LegulusQ |
04-15-2010
( Reply#: 5359 ) |
Jim Plummer |
One way or the other. I will start to looking for that box of tapes in the garage and I see we have another source so i think this could be your lucky day! This whole thing got me thinking yesterday that I had never seen the film Ferry Cross The Mersy with Gerry and The Pacemakers. So yesterday I found someone on the internet who would sell it to me cheap. quote:
Originally posted by HassoBenSoba
Jim--
I don't own a reel-to-reel.....but if I could get hold of a copy of a "Finian's Rainbow" tape, I'd find a way to get it transferred.
Larry
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04-16-2010
( Reply#: 5361 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
I just checked the identity of LegulusQ---and, as I thought from reading the long post--it's Craig Lannin, whom I remember very well from Morton and OLPH; can you beat that?!
Craig, I remember your audio work from the musicals and band/choral concerts; I also remember your father, one of the nicest people I've ever met, who used to serve as a commentator at OLPH church (you guys lived right across the street and down a bit to the south on Arizona, right?--- near the Gardena's, I think).
Anyway, it's great to hear from you...and yes, if you happen to have a "Finian's" tape in some currently playable format, I would love a copy, since I've never heard the thing since we performed it. That would also save Jim Plummer a lot of trouble with his open-reel situation.
Boy, this Sheptalk thing is really cool!
Larry r |
04-16-2010
( Reply#: 5362 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
quote:
Originally posted by Bill Bucko
Larry, you've earned an A+ in music; but I'm afraid we have to grade you down in biology. Those were the shark's semicircular canals, of course--thin, fragile, nearly transparent tubes at right angles to each other, on either side of the brain, very hard to expose without damaging them! Maybe we ought to sentence you to another semester of smelling that delightful formaldehyde? [8D]
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63
Bill,
Actually, it was Zoology--- but you're right; if it hadn't been for the consideration of Mr. Rasmussen, I'm sure my grade would have been lower than it was.
Yeah, that formaldehyde was pretty wretched, especially first thing in the morning. We'd all go up to the front of the room, put on these rubber gloves, open the big plastic storage tank--where all the shark specimens were jumbled together in the formaldehyde---and pick through them, to identify which one we had been working on ("Here's mine---I recognize the hack job I did on his head..", etc, etc). Then there was the cute little fetal pigs that we had to butcher...and the live frogs that had to be decapitated so that we could hook their leg muscles up to the electrodes and watch them dance around when the juice was turned on.
Great way to start the day.
Larry R |
04-16-2010
( Reply#: 5363 ) |
LegulusQ |
Hi, Larry,
My parents still live in the same house on Arizona Ave., the second house from the corner of Orchard Drive (it was still Black Oak Road to us). The Gardenas lived next door to Dr. Ramker, directly across the street from the old church. My dad is now 88 and my mom 86. They have definitely slowed down quite a bit, but I'm very grateful to still have them with us. Thanks for your kind comments about my dad. He is a special man and always loved activities at the church and at his beloved Little Red Schoolhouse.
I have lived in Redding in far northern California for 20 years. I can see Mt. Shasta from my deck. I still get back to Hammond at least once or twice a year. In fact, I plan to be there in August for the Class of 70's 40-year reunion.
I think I am going to try to re-copy the tapes through my sound card onto my computer and then burn them onto CD-ROM's. At our last reunion, several of my classmates asked me for copies, so this way I will be able to mass produce them. It may take me awhile, but if you can wait until August (what the heck, you've waited for 42 years, what's another 3-4 months?!), I'll be sure to bring you a copy.
I have a vivid memory of you teaching yourself to play the marimba in about 20 minutes in Mr. Edwards' classroom at Morton during one of the productions. That was amazing! I would love to hear you conduct your orchestra one of these days. Perhaps we could arrange for you to come out to Redding/Chico and guest conduct the North State Symphony?!
By the way, the nickname LegulusQ was given to me by my brother back in the 70's, and it stuck. I have had people ask me if it was related to the character Legolas from the Lord of the Rings, but it actually "stemmed" [:D] from my height. I think the Q was just appended because it sounded like an appropriate middle initial for Legulus!
I've enjoyed reading all the posts archived over the past several years. I actually found the site a couple of years ago, but for reasons unknown I never thought to post anything until drifting back to the site this week, after a lapse of six months or so. I'd also like to express belated condolences to you after losing your brother Mike. I was very saddened to hear that news. It's great to hear from you again.
Best wishes, Craig |
04-16-2010
( Reply#: 5364 ) |
Joel357 |
Larry and Craig,
Since you are Morton alums, do remember Ron Dietrich? His were friends of my family. His dad was a Hammond cop and his mom worked at Orchard Park Elementary as a secretary.
Joel
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04-22-2010
( Reply#: 5388 ) |
LegulusQ |
Hi, Joel. The name rings a bell, but I don't actually think I've met Ron. Do you know what year he graduated? Craig
LegulusQ |
04-22-2010
( Reply#: 5394 ) |
Joel357 |
Craig,
Ron Dietrich would have graduated from Morton in 1970 but his dad retired from Hammond PD in 1968 and got a job in 1968 with the state department's AID program. He helped set up the Ryhad(sp?), Saudia Arab finger printing department. Ron ended up graduating from American Community School in Beirut in 1970. They lived east of where the Lutheran church is now and a stone throws away from Carney's. The Dietrichs were old family friends and we used to go camping with them back in the 1960s.
Joel |
04-23-2010
( Reply#: 5434 ) |
nitti |
quote:
Originally posted by LegulusQ
Hi, Joel. The name rings a bell, but I don't actually think I've met Ron. Do you know what year he graduated? Craig
LegulusQ
Yo LegulusQ - just found an old framed picture. Do you remember the B-League Braves in Lost park? I'm pretty sure that's Mr.Olsen on your left and me on your right. |
04-23-2010
( Reply#: 5443 ) |
LegulusQ |
Hi, Frank! I remember the B League Braves very well! However, I'm not seeing the picture or a link to it. Could you try re-uploading it? Thanks. Craig
LegulusQ |
04-24-2010
( Reply#: 5450 ) |
LegulusQ |
[IMG]http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz230/LegulusQ/Hessville_Park.jpg[/IMG]
Hey Larry, after you mentioned your good friend Charlie Harvey, I wondered if you had seen this photo from Purdue Cal's archives showing Charlie rocking the trampoline at Hessville Park? I also see Tom Kocur, Jackie White (RIP), and several others whose faces I know but whose names don't immediately come to mind but that I know are buried somewhere deep in my cortex.
This was taken during the summer rec program at the park. Who doesn't remember playing box hockey, washers, loop tennis, ping pong, and other assorted games during hot, muggy, summer days, either at Hessville Park as in this picture or at Lost Park and other Hammond Parks?
I remember re-enacting (even before it was made!) the Lifebuoy scene from A Christmas Story one summer after spending time with the "big kids" at the park and then coming home and dropping the F-Bomb on my mom, having no idea what it was I was saying! Ahhh, those were the days!
LegulusQ |
04-24-2010
( Reply#: 5451 ) |
nitti |
quote:
Originally posted by LegulusQ
Hi, Frank! I remember the B League Braves very well! However, I'm not seeing the picture or a link to it. Could you try re-uploading it? Thanks. Craig
LegulusQ
LegulusQ - give me a day or two.Im going out of town for a wedding and am a bit of a luddite - my son will have to upload it and for some reason the site won't let him join. |
04-24-2010
( Reply#: 5461 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
Craig,
Somewhere in the dim, dark past I remember seeing this picture...sometime after I was "banned" from hanging around with Charlie (in late 1964--for reasons I'd rather not disclose). I'd guess the pic was taken around 1968. I also recognize a lot of the faces from OLPH; and there's the old Hessville Park Shelter House, and the swings and pool barely visible through it's "portals".
Charlie was a special guy; he really brought me out of my "shell" and (whether he intended to or not), turned me into a real looney. He reminded me of a combination of Ed Norton and Soupy Sales (both of whom, incidentally, had their very sensitive side). Charlie and I spent almost every day together--from spring of '62 to fall of '64--and I could fill PAGES with my memories of our exploits. Our friendship was, in a word, unique. We rarely saw each other after my parents forced the "split"; the last time was in the early '80's, when I ran into Charlie at Fabulous Hot Dog on 169th & Kennedy (during one of my frequent taco runs). We ate and talked, but he seemed totally subdued--very serious. I always felt that he had a deep and thoughtful side that he masked with his own special brand of wackiness. Anyway, I hope he's well and that we will meet up some time.
Thanks for posting the pic.
Larry |
04-24-2010
( Reply#: 5464 ) |
wvcogs |
Larry,
That picture was in the 1966 PR booklet published by the Chamber of Commerce trying to get businesses to move back into or to stay in Hammond. That's the same booklet that had the picture of Art's Drive In and color pictures of State Street at night, the front of Minas, and of Karline House, as well as maybe a couple dozen other shots. Look closely at it and you can see the dot pattern from the printing process.
Ken |
10-23-2010
( Reply#: 6181 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
To "SECOND SON", the new guy on Sheptalk.
This thread, "Photo Album", is a great example of a topic that contains a LOT of great info and (obviously) photos, many of which deal with Hessville.
The problem is that many of these threads go off in different directions, leading us into all sorts of unrelated (but very cool) stuff. I often find myself totally UNABLE to remember where I saw or read something interesting, and often give up trying to find it.
There's a photo and commentary here about everybody's favorite zoology teacher from Morton H.S., Mr. Julian Rasmussen. As you explore further on Sheptalk, you will also come across a thread entitled "Mr. RAZZ"....which is entirely about the same man! But when I posted my picture here on "PHOTO ALBUM", I had no idea that the "Mr. Razz" thread was a tribute to Mr. Rasmussen, so we end up with the info split up between two different topics/threads.
Someday, Tom J, our moderator will, I'm sure, spend weeks and months cataloguing all of the info here on Sheptalk and creating an alphabetical INDEX, which will allow us to track down the great variety of topics discussed here (just kidding, Tom).
LR |
10-26-2010
( Reply#: 6203 ) |
LegulusQ |
[IMG]http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz230/LegulusQ/1963HessvilleLLBLeagueBraves.jpg[/IMG]
Hey, Nitti, here is the photo you mentioned above. This is the 1963 Hessville LL B League Braves. My Dad actually wrote down the team stats on the back of the photo. You had a very respectable .454 batting average for the season, second only to Bill Brownewell's .534!
Here is the rogues' gallery, er I mean roster, of the team.
Front row, L to R:
George Bocken, Jay Zaremba, Mark Joseph, Ron Reczek, Pat Higgins, Bill Brownewell, Phil Goginski, and Bruce Lauer.
Back row, L to R:
Coach Stan Reczek, Bob Corey, Rick Tomich, Larry Oller, Larry Winninger, Jim Brown, Frank Mosca, Craig Lannin, and Manager Bill Olson.
The photo was taken at Lost (please, no Gibson!) Park.
LegulusQ |
10-26-2010
( Reply#: 6207 ) |
TestPattern |
Hey LegulusQ -
Back then you didn't have the "legs" that you have now! Young Frank was taller than you.
TestPattern
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10-26-2010
( Reply#: 6208 ) |
LegulusQ |
Well, at that time Nitti was 12 and I was only 11. But you're right, I didn't really start my major growth surge until I was about 14 or 15.
LegulusQ |
12-17-2010
( Reply#: 6297 ) |
Bill Bucko |
I recently bought a couple of Morton Top Hat year books on E-Bay, for 1963 and 1965.
From the 1963 ads section, here's a photo of Dairy Queen (with everyone's favorite biology teacher, Mr. R, standing in front):
[IMG]http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w292/billbucko/DairyQueen1963.jpg[/IMG]
There's also an interior photo of Pin Bowl lanes, where Shep worked; but it's so obviously modernized, with automatic machines instead of pin boys, that I don't think there'd be any interest in posting it.
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
12-17-2010
( Reply#: 6298 ) |
Bill Bucko |
There are also interesting facts in the Faculty section, disclosing never-suspected info about some of our favorite (or not so favorite) teachers:
English teacher Mabel Hunter (nicknamed "The Great White Hunter"):
Played piano for silent movies.
Math teacher Hans Moll:
Is an avid Mickey Mouse fan.
Social studies teacher Roy Moorehead:
Has a private flying license.
Latin teacher Walter P. Ruff:
"There will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth."
biology teacher Julian H. Rasmussen:
Works each summer on city mosquito abatement project.
Phys ed teacher Maury Zlotnik:
Attends professional football games.
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
12-17-2010
( Reply#: 6299 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
How about one for Miss Mae Virden---"sits home at night dreaming up ways to make her student's lives a living hell?" I couldn't stand the old biddy. Mable Hunter, on the other hand, was COOL personified.
Nice '63 Dairy Queen pic; I guess Mr. R and the students couldn't wait for warm weather before starting in on the ice cream.
LR |
12-17-2010
( Reply#: 6300 ) |
Roger D |
That looks like Lannie Barnet in the DQ ad. I worked with his dad at Inland. |
12-17-2010
( Reply#: 6301 ) |
seejay2 |
As long as we are on the DQ pic, here is a hot trivia item:
CJ lived in that first house north of DQ for a few months, in '71, after bailing out of the Army. How's 'bout dat!!...Cj |
12-17-2010
( Reply#: 6302 ) |
Tom J |
I'm lovin' this discussion, even though I am not a Hessville-ite. You guys are talking about the same times when I was in high school at Hammond High, so I can relate to a lot of the stuff you are saying.
Where was the DQ? On Kennedy? Which side of the street? Is that house in the background of the DQ picture the one you lived in for a while, Chris?
Tom |
12-17-2010
( Reply#: 6303 ) |
wvcogs |
quote:
Originally posted by Tom J
Where was the DQ? On Kennedy? Which side of the street? Is that house in the background of the DQ picture the one you lived in for a while, Chris?
Tom
Tom, DQ was located NW corner of Kennedy and 167th.
Is it still there, anyone?
Ken |
12-17-2010
( Reply#: 6304 ) |
S C Jones |
Yep, The Dairy Queen is still on the corner of 167th and Kennedy according to the street view on Google.
However, what I remember about Del's Dairy Queen is that it was closed from about September until.... Del may have been a snowbird. Anyway, the pic from the
yearbook may mean it was open during the winter after my time (I graduated Morton in 1958.)
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12-18-2010
( Reply#: 6305 ) |
Bill Bucko |
I too recall the Dairy Queen usually being closed, winters.
The photo caption says 'M.Olsen, Mr. "R" and Jerry Farster'.
May Virden, English Dept.:
"Is a member of the Civic Little Theater."
Here's an embarrassing one:
James E. McNabney, English, Speech Depts.:
"Was a cheerleader at Hammond High."
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
12-18-2010
( Reply#: 6306 ) |
seejay2 |
quote:
Originally posted by Tom J
I'm lovin' this discussion, even though I am not a Hessville-ite. You guys are talking about the same times when I was in high school at Hammond High, so I can relate to a lot of the stuff you are saying.
Where was the DQ? On Kennedy? Which side of the street?
Hey Tom. The DQ was on the NW corner of Kennedy & 167th. Right across the street (on Kennedy)was Dog & Suds, later to become Loomis Cycle Sales. He sold those Kawasaki rice rockets.
Is that house in the background of the DQ picture the one you lived in for a while, Chris?
Yes it is. It was bought by Bryant Bros Construction. The place was big enough to cut up into 5 apartment units. I had the biggest one. Dig this: rent there was $85 @ month. This included water and heat. For an extra $5 you got a garage in back. Incidentally, Ken (WVGOGS)lived right across the alley from this place on Marshall street at one point...Cj
Tom
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12-18-2010
( Reply#: 6307 ) |
wvcogs |
Yep, for a while my folks rented a place on the corner of 167th and Marshall next door to Del's house.
Ken |
12-18-2010
( Reply#: 6308 ) |
Roger D |
I lived just two blocks from the DQ for 17 years. Bought a house in the 6600 block of Alexander in '76 and sold it in '93 when I retired. |
12-18-2010
( Reply#: 6310 ) |
Jim Plummer |
Is part of that photo cut-off on the right side? Last time I was home I got a shake there but it wasn't as thick as in the old days. I did get some fish at Jack's Carry Out which was exactly as I knew it would be! |
12-18-2010
( Reply#: 6311 ) |
Jim Plummer |
Hey, does anyone remember what Mrs. Del's name was. I think she had short red hair. She was a nice lady. The milk shakes came in two sizes 30 cents and 40 cents and you could get them extra thick. |
12-18-2010
( Reply#: 6312 ) |
S C Jones |
I don't know Del's wife's name, but I do remember the 25 cent cones that wer humongous and the fresh strawberry sundaes that were available for only a short time--my favorite sundae was the HOT FUDGE which was really Fudgey tasting not the chocolate goo they call hot fudge today.
Cj and Wvcogs, we (I lived between Ferris Standard Service Station and the POWWOW Drive-in on 169th in a rental house) lived where we could find affordable rent and were business district dwellers before it was PR'd as "cool"--now my fair city's government movers and shakers in TN have made a play for the suburbs to come back to town by helping investors (tax write-offs) build highrise condo buildings that no one but investor groups can afford to rent, let alone buy.
Sorry, got off track from pleasant memories to blunt reality...
Sure would like to have a 25 cent vanilla cone from Del's Dairy Queen even with the temperature here 32 and holding.
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12-18-2010
( Reply#: 6313 ) |
seejay2 |
40 sunny degrees in Murray, KY!! Where in TN are you, SC?...Cj |
12-18-2010
( Reply#: 6314 ) |
wvcogs |
What was Del's last name? That's one of the many things I'm have trouble remembering. The last time I heard it was from you, Cj, just a few years ago.
Thanks, Ken. |
12-18-2010
( Reply#: 6315 ) |
S C Jones |
quote:
Originally posted by seejay2
40 sunny degrees in Murray, KY!! Where in TN are you, SC?...Cj
CJ, I'm just a stone throw away from you now--Nashville. Well, maybe if you were Goliath.
It did get warmer than 32 today--the sun was shining all day and we had a fantastic salmon pink and aqua blue sunset just about an hour ago now (it is 5:45 or so now.)
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12-19-2010
( Reply#: 6316 ) |
Bill Bucko |
quote:
Originally posted by Jim Plummer
Is part of that photo cut-off on the right side? Last time I was home I got a shake there but it wasn't as thick as in the old days. I did get some fish at Jack's Carry Out which was exactly as I knew it would be!
No, I posted the complete photo; it is not cut off.
From the yearbooks, I do have a photo of Howell Hardware, across the street. And I have the logo (not a photo, but the logo) of Dogs and Suds, showing the character who looks almost like Disney's Goofy. Also Cande's Pizza at their second location, on 165th; Lindy's Hardware; Lelito's Hardware. Ask, and you shall receive.
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
12-19-2010
( Reply#: 6317 ) |
seejay2 |
quote:
Originally posted by S C Jones
quote:
Originally posted by seejay2
40 sunny degrees in Murray, KY!! Where in TN are you, SC?...Cj
CJ, I'm just a stone throw away from you now--Nashville. Well, maybe if you were Goliath.
It did get warmer than 32 today--the sun was shining all day and we had a fantastic salmon pink and aqua blue sunset just about an hour ago now (it is 5:45 or so now.)
The thermometer hit 40 at one point. I talked to my brother yesterday who still lives in Lowell. He asked how the weather is. When I told him 40, he responded "40!?!? You are getting that?? We got killed with snow and it is in the teens."
"That's why I moved here, bro!"
Which brings up another point:
Virtually everyone I talk to down here, who is not native to the area, came from either the Chicago area or St. Louis. Likewise, those who have moved out have all gone to Nashville...Cj
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12-19-2010
( Reply#: 6318 ) |
Tom J |
There were quite a few families in Hammond with Kentucky roots. People moved from KY to The Region because of the plentiful jobs back in the good old days.
Are some of those Chicago area people that you mentioned just moving to KY because of family ties to the area?
Tom |
12-19-2010
( Reply#: 6319 ) |
seejay2 |
It's about a 50/50 mix. I just talked to a couple (from St. Louis) in Hazel that are looking to move into the Murray area because they heard it was a nice place to be. We talked about what was what around here and I gave them my ph number in case I could be of assistance---no charge!...Cj |
12-19-2010
( Reply#: 6320 ) |
Tom J |
I do believe Murray is listed in the top ten or twenty places in the U.S. to retire.
Tomster |
12-19-2010
( Reply#: 6321 ) |
S C Jones |
My Kentucky (through my Dad) roots are London, Ky--where I lived from ages 7–12, having been born in Hammond and my mother was 1st generation Russian American. . My move to Tn came as a college student. After graduation, a job opened here and the sun was shining (literally) much more brightly here than in Da Region at the time, so here I stayed--with a side trip of living in El Paso, Texas and then another side trip to living about 18 mi. north of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
I would guess that KY and TN will find populations exploding in the near future. That is good and bad. People bring baggage as well as potential for progress.
Sorry, I am a realist and do not see all good or all bad in much of anything, it is all a mixed bag in the big scheme of things.
quote:
Originally posted by Tom J
There were quite a families in Hammond with Kentucky roots. People moved from KY to The Region because of the plentiful jobs back in the good old days.
Are some of those Chicago area people that you mentioned just moving to KY because of family ties to the area?
Tom
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12-20-2010
( Reply#: 6322 ) |
seejay2 |
Absolutely!! Somebody coined the phrase "ya gotta take the good with the bad" for a reason. That's level headed thinking.
Everywhere you go is going to have some kind of crime, but I must say that the worse I read about here is some kind of theft related crimes. There have been a couple of murders. Either somebody beat the crap out of somebody and carried it too far or, like one, it was a murder/suicide---someone got caught cheating. I don't see any gangs, crack houses (although some places look like one) or people killing someone for a starter jacket.
I have caught a sniff of pot wafting by from somewhere a time or two.
On the other side, I have never seen as many car accidents as I do here. Every day!!! It's like a demolition derby with new cars. But like one woman summed it up for me: "We just don't know how to drive around here".
Also:
As far as being a 'native' is concerned, it seems like there is some tough criteria involved here. Just last week, I was going thru the Murray paper and I noticed an obituary for a woman in her upper 80's who had passed. In the obit it commented that she was not native to Murray because she came here when she was 3 months old, but spent the rest of her life here. Talk about zero tolerance!...Cj |
12-21-2010
( Reply#: 6323 ) |
S C Jones |
CJ,
As a child, living in the back country of Laurel County, KY, I was with family all of whom were native Kentuckians, so I was accepted as one, especially since my Dad was born in KY. also, and the presumption always was that he would return to KY when he had accumulated enough to return where he could have a hard-scrabble farm to eke out a living as the others were doing.
When I was a college student in Jefferson City, TN, arriving there from Hammond, IN, I had dorm mates from Georgia. It was then I learned that the Civil War left great scars. The GA. girls called me a yankee--and, while we had a good rapport with lots of kidding and no rancor, I came to realize how deeply engrained the "divide of north and south" had been. The GA. "brigade" in my dorm room were perhaps finding their first encounter with a yankee they could relate to and like.
When WWII was won and sons and fathers returned home to the south, many had to leave home again, though some took their families with them to places like Hammond, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Gary, Detroit, to get work. But home was where the heart was and is---Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
The lack of industry in the south was a blessing in that the home places remained the same when their sons and daughters returned for vacation and each return set up that longing for the day when they could return for good, build a nice house and sit on the porch in the evening surveying what plot of land one had in the "serene" countryside.
So, when we Yanks come south, we are foreigners to what the natives remember.
It may be kinda like we Sheptalkers who have certain memories of DA REGION. Newbies, even younger region-borns do not have the memories we have.
So, CJ settle in, enjoy the open air, the dust of an occasional country road, the local barber shop, (Does Murray have a square with some benches to sit on? Get a knife and a stick and whittle. Let the natives come to you; let them regale you with their memories of what it was like. Seems as though there is always something to learn from those who have experienced life in a different way/time/circumstance.
When it gets to be fishing time up there, invite all of us displaced Sheptalkers to come for a weekend of camping out and fishing. You, Tom J, Roger D, ought to be able to find a great camping spot --please find one near enough to a cabin I can stay in : )
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12-21-2010
( Reply#: 6324 ) |
Tom J |
Wouldn't THAT be fun? Great idea, SC! A little Region Rat Reunion! |
12-21-2010
( Reply#: 6325 ) |
seejay2 |
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!
Waddya mean cabin? You gotta build a shelter and fire like the rest of us or risk getting voted off the island.
But if it comes to a cabin, do we have to keep the toilet seat down?...Cj |
12-21-2010
( Reply#: 6326 ) |
S C Jones |
Wull....IF I let you use the facilities, yes. [:)]
And, I'll help with the building of a shelter and a fire for the rest of you. I think Wvcogs would be interested in coming over
from his haven to join us, too.
quote:
Originally posted by seejay2
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!
Waddya mean cabin? You gotta build a shelter and fire like the rest of us or risk getting voted off the island.
But if it comes to a cabin, do we have to keep the toilet seat down?...Cj
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12-21-2010
( Reply#: 6327 ) |
Tom J |
Oh, man, it would be cool if Ken could come over!
Why don't we try to do this next spring or summer?????
Tomster |
12-21-2010
( Reply#: 6328 ) |
seejay2 |
I'm starting to like this idea...
Where does Roger D live anyway? I know he is in KY, but there?
Also:
I will need someone the boat who knows how to fish crappie.
SC...
"So, CJ settle in, enjoy the open air, the dust of an occasional country road, the local barber shop, (Does Murray have a square with some benches to sit on? Get a knife and a stick and whittle. Let the natives come to you; let them regale you with their memories of what it was like. Seems as though there is always something to learn from those who have experienced life in a different way/time/circumstance.
"
That's pretty much the way things have been flowing. I'm not sure about the benches in a square or whittlin' on a stick, but I did sit on the tailgate of my truck and discuss with another guy about hacking up some trees with a chain saw. Does that count?...Cj |
12-21-2010
( Reply#: 6329 ) |
S C Jones |
That's pretty much the way things have been flowing. I'm not sure about the benches in a square or whittlin' on a stick, but I did sit on the tailgate of my truck and discuss with another guy about hacking up some trees with a chain saw. Does that count?...Cj
In men-speak, I guess it would be equivalent, but not in my book. By whittling on a stick, you might become an artist or a storyteller (an art, too) but you can't do that over the roar of a chainsaw. Though, I am glad to hear you are conversing with some of the residents of Murray.
And Tom, be sure to bring a dawg or two. Now, the dogs can sleep in my cabin, if they need to be corralled at night.
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12-21-2010
( Reply#: 6330 ) |
Tom J |
Chris:
Roger lives at Dunmor, just 20 or 25 miles south of me. He works part time at the WalMart in Central City, and we have hooked up for breakfast a few times on the days that he has to work.
Tomster |
12-21-2010
( Reply#: 6331 ) |
Roger D |
Hey Tom my address is Greenville just like yours. But I do live closer to Dunmor. |
12-21-2010
( Reply#: 6332 ) |
Roger D |
CJ, Blood River Bay on Ky. Lake is the crappie fishing place. Starting in March and going to the middle of May. Go on line to find guide reports on Ky. Lake. There you will find daily and weekly reports. Blood River is about two hours from me, I try to get over there two or three times in the spring. I fish with a friend from here using my boat one time and his the next. |
12-22-2010
( Reply#: 6333 ) |
seejay2 |
We didn't move here until June of this year and I have never done any crappie fishing, per se. We were always big into coho fishing on Lake Michigan (remember that place?).
Our house is within walking distance of Blood River, although we either drive a golf cart or car to the slip where we have our boat. We always read the crappie reports, but as hot as it was this past spring and summer, I just didn't get into it like some of the people around here. There is a guy at the marina here (Water's Edge---right across from Wildcat) who sets out brush piles and has given us tips on 'what and where', but it's just not the same as going out with someone who has the experience...Cj |
12-22-2010
( Reply#: 6334 ) |
Roger D |
Cj-
I am sure you will be able to hook up (pun intended)with a local who will gladly show you the ropes. |
12-22-2010
( Reply#: 6335 ) |
wvcogs |
You folks say when and where and I'll be headed west on I-64.
Ken... |
12-22-2010
( Reply#: 6336 ) |
Tom J |
Super, Ken! Man, I hope this really does happen!
Tomster |
12-22-2010
( Reply#: 6337 ) |
seejay2 |
Hey Roger, who are you, really? I can only think of two 'Region Rat' Rogers that I knew and both of those guys are up north. Do I know you and when do you come down this way?
Ken, Keep your bags packed and by the door just in case...Cj |
12-23-2010
( Reply#: 6338 ) |
Jim Plummer |
Ken, make sure you bring your Speed Graphic and take lots of photos.
What sort of a fish is a Crappie? |
12-23-2010
( Reply#: 6340 ) |
wvcogs |
quote:
Originally posted by Jim Plummer
Ken, make sure you bring your Speed Graphic and take lots of photos.
What sort of a fish is a Crappie?
Jim, I will if I can find some 4 x 5 sheet film and #25 flash bulbs.
Ken |
12-23-2010
( Reply#: 6342 ) |
Roger D |
CJ -
I don't believe we know each other. I graduated from Morton in '63, worked at Inland until Sept. '93, retired, then moved to Ky.
Roger Dukes |
12-23-2010
( Reply#: 6343 ) |
seejay2 |
No, I guess not. I did work at Inland for a while at #2&2A Bloomer and Billet Mill, but graduated in '67. Did you know Henry Kras? He walked in '64...Cj |
12-23-2010
( Reply#: 6344 ) |
Roger D |
JIM
A crappie is one of the best eating fish there is. There are two kinds, the "white" crappie is just that, white, and the "black" crappie is speckeled with black spots. Both spawn in the spring with the black spawning earlier than the white. They can be caught all year round, if you can find them. They are fished for mostly in the spring when spawning on minnows or jigs. I prefer to catch them on jigs using an ultra lite rod with 6# line. A two pound plus crappie is a trophy. A 4lb.14oz. 21 1/2in. long is the Ky. state record. A lady caught it on Mother's Day in '05 |
12-23-2010
( Reply#: 6345 ) |
Roger D |
I didn't know Henry. I worked closed to where you were. I was in the 44" Hot Strip. |
12-23-2010
( Reply#: 6349 ) |
duane |
quote:
Originally posted by Jim Plummer
Ken, make sure you bring your Speed Graphic and take lots of photos.
What sort of a fish is a Crappie?
Jean Shepherd called them "speckled beauties" so they must have been black crappies. And according to Shep, they liked oily water because when the Sinclair Refinery closed down, the water became too clean and the crappies quit biting!
Here are a couple links to My Summer Story - the sequel to the Christmas Story.
The crappie story starts at 3 minutes 36 seconds in on this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV5Jx1Kgnyk
And on this one a further crappie story starts at about 1 minute 10 seconds in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttMiEHlyJGg&feature=related |
12-24-2010
( Reply#: 6352 ) |
Jim Plummer |
The knowlege around here is amazing. I'll bet nobody in here can find any flashbulbs for Ken! I understand that they are so rare now that in period films, flashbulbs are inserted with a computer! |
12-25-2010
( Reply#: 6371 ) |
wvcogs |
Believe it or not, Jim, I have a full package of twelve press 25 bulbs in the closet. If I tried to use them, they probably would explode though. [:D]
Ken |
12-25-2010
( Reply#: 6373 ) |
S C Jones |
I wonder if Bob K, who is a snowbird, would like to join the camping/fishing gathering and we could let his return trip from the "tropics" give us a date to set for that Region Rat Reunion?
Anyone heard from him lately?
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12-25-2010
( Reply#: 6374 ) |
Tom J |
quote:
Originally posted by S C Jones
I wonder if Bob K, who is a snowbird, would like to join the camping/fishing gathering and we could let his return trip from the "tropics" give us a date to set for that Region Rat Reunion?
Anyone heard from him lately?
He's real active on Planet Hammond (Facebook). |
12-27-2010
( Reply#: 6379 ) |
Jim Plummer |
Ken,
I'll bet those are worth some money but I wouldn't sell them if I had them.
quote:
Originally posted by wvcogs
Believe it or not, Jim, I have a full package of twelve press 25 bulbs in the closet. If I tried to use them, they probably would explode though. [:D]
Ken
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01-04-2011
( Reply#: 6388 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
quote:
Originally posted by S C Jones
Yep, The Dairy Queen is still on the corner of 167th and Kennedy according to the street view on Google.
However, what I remember about Del's Dairy Queen is that it was closed from about September until.... Del may have been a snowbird. Anyway, the pic from the
yearbook may mean it was open during the winter after my time (I graduated Morton in 1958.)
I'm wading my way through the black crappies here trying to find my way back to the Hessville Dairy Queen dicussion a while back. I drove by the building a few nights ago; yep, it's still there and has been operating. However, the signs outside looked like they might be coming down sometime soon. There was only a single word posted on their main sign: "CLOSED"---not a "Closed for the Winter; see you in Spring" kind of thing--just CLOSED. So it might be out of business. We'll see later this year.
Back in summer of '65, when I had just graduated OLPH 8th grade, I used to visit that DQ almost every day (that's when "Mr Misty" was brand new). A few doors south on Kennedy was a bakery-- the building with the lengthwise concrete ramp that led up to its front door that's now a plumbing business. The family that owned the bakery was part of the Verbick family (who had built the new house right across the street from OLPH); they had four lovely daughters that worked behind the counter, and I somehow managed to find myself at the DQ and then wandering back to the bakery almost every day that summer (good thing I never put on any weight back in those days, with my steady diet of pastry and Mr Misty). I was in "young love" with three out of the four Verbick girls, and I spent many hours in their bakery that summer trying (unsuccessfully) not to make an idiot out of myself.
LR |
01-04-2011
( Reply#: 6390 ) |
seejay2 |
That was Solina's, Hasso. Here, have a laugh on me:
While you were up front hitting on the Verbick girls, I was in back cleaning all those huge filthy delivery pans and scraping up dried dough from the floor. All this, and more, for 60 cents an hour. No insurance or retirement option either...Cj |
01-04-2011
( Reply#: 6394 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
CJ--
No kidding! Small world. So you were slaving away for the Verbick clan in '65 summer? I can imagine worse fates...(I remember an older girl who was always there at the bakery and was the one actually in charge).
Mary Ann V. was my age and graduated with me, Patty was 2 years younger (I hung around with her throughout high school years), and Debby was 3 years younger than me. In May of '65, I was asked to accompany (on the piano) the "3 Singing Verbick Sisters" at the OLPH talent show in the old church annex building; they wore matching red dresses and head scarves and sang "Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen" from the Danny Kaye Hans Christian Anderson film in beautiful 3-part harmony. Man, did I fall that day...like a ton of bricks; I couldn't decide which of the sisters I was more infatuated with. We did two performances, afternoon and evening, and I was crushed when the day ended. Later that week I turned 14 years old. It all seems pretty cool, looking back through "rose-colored glasses", but....I would never want to go back to that time of my life. The geekiness was really a drag.
LR |
01-05-2011
( Reply#: 6395 ) |
seejay2 |
The older girl's name was Linda Foss. She was the sister of Ken Foss (Ken passed away in 2008 at age 59). Ken was the one who put me onto the job. Mrs. Solina told him he couldn't quit until he found a replacement. Either he had admirable respect for the old gal or she had something on him, big time.
Mary Ann Verbick is the other girl I remember up front. Also there was that little bitty older woman who worked in there also, but I can't remember her name. Maybe it was Mrs. Uriss. For her size, she could bark out orders like a German general.
My tenure there was in '66 ..Cj |
01-05-2011
( Reply#: 6397 ) |
Jim Plummer |
There was also a son, Tommy who was a couple of years behind me at OLPH. I remember they had the best sweet rolls at 7 cents each; two or three would fill you up nicely. There was a large photo on the wall from the wedding of one of the girls-it was the bride and groom cutting into a giant Solina wedding cake! |
01-05-2011
( Reply#: 6398 ) |
seejay2 |
I'm glad you mentioned Tommy's name. I've been beating my head trying to remember what his name was.
I believe the little woman behind the counter was named 'Marge', but I'm not going to bet the farm on it. Joe and Mary Solina were the owners and, as I mentioned before, CJ was the drudge who hid in the back. Kinda like the bell ringer of Notre Dame.
7 cents a roll! Yes, I remember that now. I went to St. Catherine school and if you went to Communion at morning mass, for the 7 cents and a bit more for the milk, you scarfed up on the rolls...Cj |
01-05-2011
( Reply#: 6399 ) |
TestPattern |
quote:
Originally posted by seejay2
Kinda like the bell ringer of Notre Dame.
Since you mentioned the word bell, I now recall they had a bell atop their glass case. If no one was in the store behind the counter, you rang the bell and someone would come out from the back room. |
01-06-2011
( Reply#: 6401 ) |
Bill Bucko |
Some kind person has posted two 1960 snapshots of the old wooden Harding portable, on Classmates.com.
If no one does it first, I'll post them here when I have time. (I have only a slow dial-up connection.)
Classmates' yearbook collection is growing. They now have 1956, 1957, 1964, and 1968 Morton Top Hats. No provision for downloading, but you can do as I did, do an Alt+PrintScreen for each spread, and paste it into Microsoft Paint. Since I have an old version of Adobe Acrobat, I can also assemble the images into a single .pdf file.
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
01-06-2011
( Reply#: 6402 ) |
wvcogs |
Where did Classmates.com find Top Hat yearbooks without autographs in them?
I have scanned and created Facebook photo albums of the 1954 (the first one), 1957, 1959, and 1960 Top Hats, and am currently working on the 1958 book. They are available to "everyone" through Facebook. If you would like to look at them, email me through Shep and I will send you the link. If you would like copies for yourself, I could send them on CD. In order to post the images to Facebook, they had to be .jpg files.
Ken |
01-12-2011
( Reply#: 6413 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
Just drove by the Kennedy Ave/Hessville Dairy Queen tonight; the OTHER side of the big sign out front says: "See you in February"...so it sounds like they WILL be back this year.
LR |
07-29-2011
( Reply#: 6750 ) |
tommy51 |
quote:
Originally posted by HassoBenSoba
Just drove by the Kennedy Ave/Hessville Dairy Queen tonight; the OTHER side of the big sign out front says: "See you in February"...so it sounds like they WILL be back this year.
LR
A while back I ordered some neat stuff from the '50-'60s online. They have people bring them warehouse finds; boxes of old labels, toys, etc., and resell them wholesale.
Anyway, I couldn't resist a small handful of original, paper-wrapped, heavy paper milkshake straws from Dairy Queen, circa mid-60s. These were from the Chicago Region, too! I nearly freaked when I saw the picture. Immediately, like an acid-flashback (never had one actually); let's call it a DQ flashback, I could taste the straw like yesterday. When the shake was gone, one could just chew on the straw for awhile.
Anyone remember those paper straws with the blue and red ink?
Tommy |
07-30-2011
( Reply#: 6752 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
Definitely; weren't those straws partially made of wax (like the cups), which made them so heavy?
I remember around 1956-57, with the many gimmicky things available for kids, you could buy straws that contained a tiny, flat square of some sort of hard chocolate/candy that dissolved in milk...the chocolate was actually manufactured inside the straw....so when you stuck it in your glass of white milk and waited for a while, you'd supposedly end up with chocolate milk. Like most of this stuff, it was a pretty lame idea that disappeared quickly. I'm sure there was also a strawberry version. I think my parents bought one box of these straws, and that was it.
LR |
07-30-2011
( Reply#: 6755 ) |
tommy51 |
[quote]Definitely; weren't those straws partially made of wax (like the cups), which made them so heavy?
I remember around 1956-57, with the many gimmicky things available for kids, you could buy straws that contained a tiny, flat square of some sort of hard chocolate/candy that dissolved in milk...the chocolate was actually manufactured inside the straw....so when you stuck it in your glass of white milk and waited for a while, you'd supposedly end up with chocolate milk. [quote]
Yeah, the DQ straws were coated with something and in 10 years, I'll have remembered the name of the other product.
; }
Tommy
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07-31-2011
( Reply#: 6761 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
HEY----
If you guys want to see an amazing website (speaking of old 50's-'60's products for kids), check out the link below:
http://theimaginaryworld.com/page4.html
If the link doesn't work, Google: Tick-Tock Toys Gallery.
You'll love it (my brother Mike introduced me to it).
Report back here!
LR |
07-31-2011
( Reply#: 6763 ) |
Tom J |
Thanks for the link, Larry. I spent some time there and it is pretty cool. There's lots more stuff that I didn't get to yet.
Tom |
08-01-2011
( Reply#: 6766 ) |
Bill Bucko |
Oh my, yes! I stumbled upon Imaginary World a few years ago, and discovered the first photos I'd ever seen of my Miller stegosaurus and alien from Neptune. Wonderful photos of old cereal boxes, too!
You can find some of this stuff for sale on Ebay, for instance under Cereal Premiums. Thanks to them, I own a battery of 3 little Cheerios guided missiles from the 1950s!
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
08-02-2011
( Reply#: 6768 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
Bill--
For anyone interested, here's a pic of 3 of the cool wax Dinosaurs made by the Miller company of (Itasca?) Illinois in 1957. The middle one is the stego--NOT the super-size one that you have described in the past, but the standard version (if you go to "The Original Hammond Dinosaur Kids" thread here on Sheptalk, you'll see a Miller stego in my hand in the Hammond Times pic).
[IMG]http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af12/HassoBenSoba/MillerDinos2.jpg[/IMG]
And here's your NEPTUNE alien, also made by Miller, in 1958.
[IMG]http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af12/HassoBenSoba/millerNep.jpg[/IMG]
The TOY STORE video I posted on Sheptalk includes a section on these great Miller toys--it's in Part 3 (I think) on the JJ Newberry's store in the Woodmar Shopping Center. I believe the video shows ALL of the Miller Aliens (the pics above are from E-Bay several years ago).
LR |
08-02-2011
( Reply#: 6769 ) |
Bill Bucko |
Thanks for the beautiful photos. For those not in the know, the Miller Company made these figures out of a peculiar, proprietary waxy plastic that melts easily (e.g. if left out in the sun). Hence these 25 cent figures are scarce, and command high prices today. A Miller man from Neptune was auctioned on Ebay several years ago; but it went for $ 365 -- well out of my price range!
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
08-16-2011
( Reply#: 6842 ) |
Mrs Bears |
You are talking about my area of the country. My parents moved here (Hamlin, KY) back in '83. Dad was from Hessville, but we lived in Griffith. If you hear of anyone wanting to move close to the lake let me know. My husband and I want to move to WI where his family lives. quote:
Originally posted by Roger D
CJ, Blood River Bay on Ky. Lake is the crappie fishing place. Starting in March and going to the middle of May. Go on line to find guide reports on Ky. Lake. There you will find daily and weekly reports. Blood River is about two hours from me, I try to get over there two or three times in the spring. I fish with a friend from here using my boat one time and his the next.
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08-16-2011
( Reply#: 6843 ) |
Mrs Bears |
One of our neighbors is known for his crappie fishing on KY Lake. We live just south of Blood River. He fishes year round, but catches the best crappie in the winter. The most crappie during the spawn. I actually prefer red ear. They are large, easy to filet and tasty. quote:
Originally posted by seejay2
We didn't move here until June of this year and I have never done any crappie fishing, per se. We were always big into coho fishing on Lake Michigan (remember that place?).
Our house is within walking distance of Blood River, although we either drive a golf cart or car to the slip where we have our boat. We always read the crappie reports, but as hot as it was this past spring and summer, I just didn't get into it like some of the people around here. There is a guy at the marina here (Water's Edge---right across from Wildcat) who sets out brush piles and has given us tips on 'what and where', but it's just not the same as going out with someone who has the experience...Cj
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08-16-2011
( Reply#: 6845 ) |
Dan |
After looking at all these photos of your wonderful town I wish I grew up in Indiana!
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08-16-2011
( Reply#: 6846 ) |
S C Jones |
Thank you, Dan. The town of our 40's, 50's, 60's, and 70's child/teenhood is worth celebrating and remembering--idyllic in many respects because it was our most care-and exploration-free time of life.
quote:
Originally posted by Dan
After looking at all these photos of your wonderful town I wish I grew up in Indiana!
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08-17-2011
( Reply#: 6851 ) |
seejay2 |
quote:
Originally posted by Mrs Bears
You are talking about my area of the country. My parents moved here (Hamlin, KY) back in '83. Dad was from Hessville, but we lived in Griffith. If you hear of anyone wanting to move close to the lake let me know. My husband and I want to move to WI where his family lives.
Yeah, you are right across the lake from me. There is a spot across the lake we go to we call 'Blue Gill Bay'. My grandson named it that 'cuz he hammered the blue gills there on his first visit here. We usually do pretty good there. You could access it from 444.
Tom Johnson does some ram-rodding around with a tricked out Jeep in Turkey Bay, too.
Where in Wisconsin? My dad's family was from up there. Ashland. Right off the tip of Superior. Entirely too cold for me up there. In fact I'd rather see milder winters here even, but I've only been here a year now...Cj |
08-17-2011
( Reply#: 6854 ) |
Dan |
quote:
Originally posted by S C Jones
Thank you, Dan. The town of our 40's, 50's, 60's, and 70's child/teenhood is worth celebrating and remembering--idyllic in many respects because it was our most care-and exploration-free time of life.
quote:
Originally posted by Dan
After looking at all these photos of your wonderful town I wish I grew up in Indiana!
I grew up in Brooklyn, NY in the 1960s. Our neighborhood was nice, we had a nice house (not all NYC people live in apartments). Brooklyn then really was like a collection of small towns but it got worse as time went on. But I think those Indiana winters would have got to me! |
08-17-2011
( Reply#: 6856 ) |
Mrs Bears |
My husband is from Bloomington, WI in the South Western Corner not too far from Iowa and IL. We are going up to Sturgeon Bay soon for a Wedding. I have never been that far north. Funny thing about WI, I grew up in Griffith IN with relatives in northern IL we visited often, but I never was in WI until my husband and I married 9 years ago. Now I can't wait to move there. The town he is from is still small and reminds me of life as it used to be when I was little.
It seems like the winters here in KY are getting colder with more ice and snow and the summers are hotter. The humidity is always too much for me, but others love it. I also notice that the weather cycles here and we are do for a mild dry winter, but we will need to wait and see. I moved here in '84 and have seen lots of changes in the area. Most are for the good with better roads, emergency help and services. I think the bad I see now is the same problems seem everywhere in the country. You need to join us at Martha's Restaurant in the mornings. We are there most mornings from 8-10. We sit in the first row. Just ask for Peggy. Good way to meet lots of people from the area and those of us know as "Yankees"
quote:
Originally posted by seejay2
quote:
Originally posted by Mrs Bears
You are talking about my area of the country. My parents moved here (Hamlin, KY) back in '83. Dad was from Hessville, but we lived in Griffith. If you hear of anyone wanting to move close to the lake let me know. My husband and I want to move to WI where his family lives.
Yeah, you are right across the lake from me. There is a spot across the lake we go to we call 'Blue Gill Bay'. My grandson named it that 'cuz he hammered the blue gills there on his first visit here. We usually do pretty good there. You could access it from 444.
Tom Johnson does some ram-rodding around with a tricked out Jeep in Turkey Bay, too.
Where in Wisconsin? My dad's family was from up there. Ashland. Right off the tip of Superior. Entirely too cold for me up there. In fact I'd rather see milder winters here even, but I've only been here a year now...Cj
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08-17-2011
( Reply#: 6857 ) |
seejay2 |
Is this a Martha's in Hamlin? I know there is one in Murray...Cj
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08-17-2011
( Reply#: 6858 ) |
Mrs Bears |
Murray quote:
Originally posted by seejay2
Is this a Martha's in Hamlin? I know there is one in Murray...Cj
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08-17-2011
( Reply#: 6859 ) |
seejay2 |
So you come all the way to Murray for breakfast every morning? It must be remarkable food. Do you know for sure when you will be there? You know how life is on the lake. I have such a busy, hectic schedule, I'm not sure when I can do things...Cj |
08-17-2011
( Reply#: 6860 ) |
Mrs Bears |
I know we will be there tomorrow (Thursday). Friday we will also be there but have an appointment at 9:30, so we will leave by 9:15. Same on Monday....appointment at 9:30. Don't have any idea about the weekend. Sometimes one or the other stays home. We go into town mostly because my parents are both in a nursing home in town. The appointments we have deal with them. We go to the restaurant because we like the people and the food isn't bad. Once we meet, I am sure the others will let you sit with them even if we are not there. Some of the guys worked in IN and IL. One guy is from Milwaukee, WI. Some are still working, others do various jobs or just putz around. Sometimes I am the only woman in the group, other times I am not. People come and go at various times. We use it as our social outlet. We have made good friends there and have also lost many good friends. Two of our friends passed in the last two weeks, but life goes on....and we make new friends. quote:
Originally posted by seejay2
So you come all the way to Murray for breakfast every morning? It must be remarkable food. Do you know for sure when you will be there? You know how life is on the lake. I have such a busy, hectic schedule, I'm not sure when I can do things...Cj
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08-18-2011
( Reply#: 6861 ) |
seejay2 |
We met with Peggy and had breakfast and a very nice talk. It's good to have another 'homie' when you have relocated.
Peg, here is the paperdog I told you about...Cj
http://s170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/seejay2_photos/?action=view¤t=DSC_0301.mp4
Remember: "Planet Hammond" |
08-18-2011
( Reply#: 6862 ) |
Mrs Bears |
Nice meeting this morning with Cj and his wife. The link does not work for me because it is private. Thanks for the Planet Hammond reminder, I have been trying to remember the first word all afternoon.quote:
Originally posted by seejay2
We met with Peggy and had breakfast and a very nice talk. It's good to have another 'homie' when you have relocated.
Peg, here is the paperdog I told you about...Cj
http://s170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/seejay2_photos/?action=view¤t=DSC_0301.mp4
Remember: "Planet Hammond"
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08-18-2011
( Reply#: 6865 ) |
Tom J |
It's so cool that you guys hooked up!
Tom |
08-18-2011
( Reply#: 6866 ) |
Mrs Bears |
It was nice, unfortunately the area where I usually sit was full, so they didn't meet any of my friends. My husband did not move over with us, because he had some friends just arrive that he needed to talk some business with this morning. Maybe next time they will meet more people. quote:
Originally posted by Tom J
It's so cool that you guys hooked up!
Tom
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08-18-2011
( Reply#: 6867 ) |
Tom J |
Roger D and I hook up fairly often for breakfast. He works two or three days a week at Walmart and we meet at 6:00 AM at a donut place sometimes on the days when he has to be at work at 7:00 AM. We usually part company about 6:30 AM to go to our respective jobs.
Roger and I didn't really know one another very well in Hammond since he is five years older, but our moms were in the same birthday club and were pretty good friends.
Oh, when I say that Roger is five years older, I mean that literally. He is five years older TO THE DAY! Yep, we were both born on June 2nd! 1944 for Roger and 1949 for me.
Tom |
08-18-2011
( Reply#: 6868 ) |
seejay2 |
quote:
Originally posted by Mrs Bears
It was nice, unfortunately the area where I usually sit was full, so they didn't meet any of my friends. My husband did not move over with us, because he had some friends just arrive that he needed to talk some business with this morning. Maybe next time they will meet more people. quote:
Originally posted by Tom J
It's so cool that you guys hooked up!
Tom
It wasn't any kind of disaster. Next time we do it better, that's all.
I'm really surprised that the place let us sit there as long as we did and just take up space. Not too many places tolerate that...Cj
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02-19-2012
( Reply#: 8100 ) |
wvcogs |
This is a photo of a bunch of MHS friends at a party in the spring of 1959. Both I and the young lady who became my wife four year later are in the picture. I'm on the left in the back row; and Judy is the third girl from the left. It may look like it, but I really am not wearing that lamp shade for a hat.
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/High%20School%20Memories/MHSparty1.jpg[/img]
I just received the photo from the person who hosted the party, the daughter of a man who taught math and English at Morton junior high school.
Ken |
02-19-2012
( Reply#: 8103 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
KEN--
In other words, the party had not yet progressed to the point where you were wearing the lamp-shade as a hat...
I bet it gave you a real jolt to see see this pic, 52 years later. Do you remember where the photo was taken? I'd swear I recognize a few of these folks in the back row, though I was only 8 at the time.
I sometimes wonder how many old photos are out there floating around that I'm in and that I'll never see---
and which capture moments that I probably don't even remember.
Larry |
02-19-2012
( Reply#: 8104 ) |
Little Stevie |
What a great era
to be a teenager! Girls in skirts, dresses! Boys all dressed up in suits or coats!
Notice how the only boy not looking at the camera is wearing a sweater? Not a coat or suit?
LS |
02-19-2012
( Reply#: 8105 ) |
wvcogs |
quote:
Originally posted by HassoBenSoba
KEN--
Do you remember where the photo was taken? I'd swear I recognize a few of these folks in the back row, though I was only 8 at the time.
Larry
I don't remember ever going to that person's house, and was surprised to receive this picture. I checked my 1970 directory and couldn't believe I had a friend who lived in that fancy neighborhood.
The other boys in the back row are: Jim Soltau, Richard Austin, Ron Klindt, and Jim Hayden. I think Jim Soltau attended church at OLPH. At one time he was considering attending seminary. I'm not sure if he did.
About that lamp shade... Our drink of choice was the 10 ounce bottle of Pepsi Cola! [:)] Any Pepsi salesman would be proud to hear that.
Ken |
02-19-2012
( Reply#: 8106 ) |
Little Stevie |
You're darn tootin' he'd be!
LS |
02-20-2012
( Reply#: 8115 ) |
TestPattern |
quote:
Originally posted by wvcogs
[quote]Originally posted by HassoBenSoba
The other boys in the back row are: Jim Soltau, Richard Austin, Ron Klindt, and Jim Hayden.
Ken
My goodness, I think I know the Richard Austin you show in your copy of the old photo. He beacame a pharmacist and is still in the region, last I heard. |
02-20-2012
( Reply#: 8116 ) |
S C Jones |
Ken,
I remember Ron Klindt (remembered his first name, but not last) and I remember
the face of the girl on Judy's left, want to say her name was Judy, too--but not sure about that.
Great picture. Thanks for sharing.
BTW: did you get snow on Sunday? |
02-20-2012
( Reply#: 8117 ) |
wvcogs |
I'm sure that's the same Richard Austin. The last I heard, which was three years ago, he lived in Whiting.
Ken |
02-20-2012
( Reply#: 8118 ) |
TestPattern |
quote:
Originally posted by wvcogs
I'm sure that's the same Richard Austin. The last I heard, which was three years ago, he lived in Whiting.
Ken
DITTO! |
02-20-2012
( Reply#: 8119 ) |
S C Jones |
Ken,
The site, "Indiana, Oh Indiana" that is the site of John Bollinger, writer, former student and teacher at OPMHS. On the right side of the page, he has photos. One of the pics of a school hallway looks to my memory (which, of course could be wrong after 54 years) to be the 1st floor of OPMHS looking North.
Would you be so kind as to go to that site and check it out? The pic is
copiable, but I don't have the know how to transport it to this site.
Thanks, should you choose to explore that.
SC
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02-20-2012
( Reply#: 8121 ) |
wvcogs |
quote:
Originally posted by S C Jones
Ken,
I remember Ron Klindt (remembered his first name, but not last) and I remember the face of the girl on Judy's left, want to say her name was Judy, too--but not sure about that.
Great picture. Thanks for sharing.
BTW: did you get snow on Sunday?
The girl on Judy's left in the plaid skirt is Pat Bloom. Judy Marley is behind Pat in the white blouse.
We had winter weather advisories all day Saturday and until 10:00am Sunday when we were notified they were cancelled. All the snow went south of us. There was not a single flake of snow in beautiful downtown Hurricane, WV.
Ken |
02-20-2012
( Reply#: 8122 ) |
wvcogs |
quote:
Originally posted by S C Jones
Ken,
The site, "Indiana, Oh Indiana" that is the site of John Bollinger, writer, former student and teacher at OPMHS.
Can you send me the link to the site?
Thanks,
Ken |
02-20-2012
( Reply#: 8123 ) |
S C Jones |
quote:
Originally posted by S C Jones
Ken,
The site, "Indiana, Oh Indiana" that is the site of John Bollinger, writer, former student and teacher at OPMHS.
Can you send me the link to the site?
---------------------------------------
Ken,
TRY THIS:
indianaohindiana.blogspot.com/ |
02-20-2012
( Reply#: 8124 ) |
S C Jones |
We had winter weather advisories all day Saturday and until 10:00am Sunday when we were notified they were cancelled. All the snow went south of us. There was not a single flake of snow in beautiful downtown Hurricane, WV.
Ken
What a shame; you could have gone sledding. We got "snain" that snuddled at the bottom of my drive and in other low spots. (my terms of heavy, heavy snow flakes that became water before dropping) We did get some nice big snow
flurries that were beautiful, but no sticking beyond a dusting on the lawns.
Sue |
02-20-2012
( Reply#: 8125 ) |
wvcogs |
quote:
Originally posted by S C Jones
Ken,
The site, "Indiana, Oh Indiana" that is the site of John Bollinger, writer, former student and teacher at OPMHS. On the right side of the page, he has photos. One of the pics of a school hallway looks to my memory (which, of course could be wrong after 54 years) to be the 1st floor of OPMHS looking North. Would you be so kind as to go to that site and check it out?
SC
The picture is so small it's hard to tell positively; but, for a number of reasons, I'm almost certain this is not a picture of the 7040 building. I magnified it 4x, compared it to some pictures in old yearbooks, and found too many differences. Maybe someone else has a different opinion.
Ken...
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/High%20School%20Memories/Hallway.jpg[/img] |
02-21-2012
( Reply#: 8126 ) |
Roger D |
That pic is NOT the old Morton. Possibly the new? |
02-21-2012
( Reply#: 8127 ) |
TestPattern |
From the John Bollinger site, "Indiana, Oh Indiana" this photo sure brings back a memory of swimming classes at the Hessville Park Pool:
[IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/54wsjb.jpg[/IMG]
I can remember sitting on the edge of that shallow end and hearing the life guard instruct "Kick, kick!"
The pool was a "cool" experience for one thin dime including basket rental.
Who else is an alum of the swimming classes? |
02-21-2012
( Reply#: 8128 ) |
S C Jones |
quote:
Originally posted by Roger D
That pic is NOT the old Morton. Possibly the new?
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02-21-2012
( Reply#: 8129 ) |
S C Jones |
quote:
Originally posted by S C Jones
quote:
Originally posted by Roger D
That pic is NOT the old Morton. Possibly the new?
Roger, you are probably correct. I don't know the dates of the new Morton, but
it was in the 60's and I think that man taught there rather than at the original building. Oh well, just wanted to check it out.
Ken,
Thank you. |
02-21-2012
( Reply#: 8130 ) |
TestPattern |
quote:
Originally posted by S C Jones
Roger, you are probably correct. I don't know the dates of the new Morton, but
it was in the 60's and I think that man taught there rather than at the original building. Oh well, just wanted to check it out.
Ken,
Thank you.
The new MHS on 169th & Grand opened for the school year 1967-1968. |
02-21-2012
( Reply#: 8131 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
The photo above of a school hallway from Bollinger's site is NOT the new Morton either.
Some of the photos on the right-hand site of his blog are taken from the familiar Purdue Archive internet files,
including, I believe, the Hessville pool swim class shot (where you can view a larger version of the pic).
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Who else is an alum of the swimming classes?
MARK-- since you asked.....
My brother Mike and I were signed up (against our will) for these classes in the summer of '59. I hated it. On the very first day, we all lay in the water (shallow end of the pool), hung onto the side and kicked our feet; this took the better part of an hour. At the end of six weeks, we were supposedly ready to swim the length of the pool.
For some reason (possibly due to our resentment of the whole thing), Mike and I just couldn't get the hang of it. So, on the BIG FINAL DAY...with all of the proud mothers sitting and watching on the sidelines outside the fence, the entire class swam back and forth from end-to-end in the pool, to great acclaim of all present. The entire class, that is....except for Mike Rapchak, his dorky brother, and one other boy.
So while the entire rest of the class was excitedly, gleefully...JOYOUSLY..swimming back and forth, churning up the water in torrents all around us, the instructor comes over to us three losers and says "Uhh..you three guys better just stay over here on the side and practice your kicking." Pretty embarassing.
I remember seeing my mother, mortified, sitting on the bench on the south side of the pool, sandwiched in between the other mothers, who were all BEAMING with pride at their kid's accomplishment (I'm sure that Claudia and Lynn Sandors from Magoun Ave were in this class).
My attitude, though, was..."sorry, mom...that's what happens when you force us to do this crap that we had no interest in..."(though I never would have said anything like that to her..but I was thinking it).
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POSTSCRIPT--
When we moved to Hessville, we again took the same course (summer of '62) and did much better; Mike, in fact, became one of the star pupils and absolutely LOVED the high-dive.
LR |
03-23-2012
( Reply#: 8285 ) |
wvcogs |
I acquired this original 8" x 10" print from a vendor on eBay; it's not one I took. The picture is of the 1961 Morton High School debating team after it had just won the Individual Suburban Debating Tournament at Navy Pier. Coach Ellis Hays is at right. Teams members are Carolyn Reichardt and (l. to r.) Stuart Lewin, Paul Stivers, and Gary Werskey. Carolyn, Stuart, and Paul graduated in 1962. Gary was in the class of 1961. This same team won the Indiana state championship and finished in third place at a national competition.
Ken
This is a Sun-Times photo from January 7, 1961
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/Morton/Debate-1.jpg[/img] |
03-23-2012
( Reply#: 8288 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
The Best and Brightest of Morton H.S.; I wonder how they all made out in life.
I like group pics like this that are taken from a side angle, with the subjects focused on another camera;
they are often the best-looking and most engaging photos.
LR |
03-23-2012
( Reply#: 8294 ) |
wvcogs |
Frequently I asked subjects to look at other objects so the photos would look similar to this one. That's like TV reporters these days asking those being interviewed to look at them instead of looking at the cameras. I'm very impressed with the quality of this print.
The 1962 class is having a 50th reunion this year. I'll try see if Linda has any information about the three who graduated that year, and maybe pass it on without connecting to a particular individual.
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/MHS_Logo.jpg[/img]
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03-23-2012
( Reply#: 8295 ) |
wvcogs |
Click on this link to see a view of MHS that you have never seen before.
[url="http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/Morton/MHS-School-WithoutAddition.jpg"]The school at 7040 Marshall Avenue before the addition.[/url]
This link goes to the Morton page of research work on the WPA construction projects. Strangely enough, the second and third paragraphs of their page are from the web page I put online for our class of 1960 50th year class reunion.
[url="http://livingnewdeal.berkeley.edu/map/view.php?&l=1249"]WPA Project[/url]
Ken |
03-24-2012
( Reply#: 8298 ) |
Roger D |
Hey Ken ! Great pics and discription of "ol' Oliver P".
Roger, class of '63 |
03-31-2012
( Reply#: 8332 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
HEY, GUYS.....
Here's a pic I came across of 171st Street alongside (south) of the original Morton H.S.
[IMG]http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af12/HassoBenSoba/171stMorton.jpg[/IMG]
Nice day, nice cars, nice time (probably '55-56).
And here's the same view today, almost 60 years later--
[IMG]http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af12/HassoBenSoba/StreetStuff025.jpg[/IMG]
Re: the house on the right edge of the pic--on a Saturday evening in May of '66,
Mike and I and our polka band played a post-wedding party there. The white windows in the middle
of the house are the breezeway that connected the back of the house to the garage, and that's where we
set up and played. The bar was set up in the garage, so as the folks got hammered, they'd file into the
tiny, cramped breezeway and "dance" to our music. At least one of the drunks came crashing head-first into
our music stands as we kept crankin' out "We Like Pierogi" from memory...since our sheet music had flown
across the room upon impact. (Our former Sheptalk pal NITTI was the bass player in this illustrious band;
too bad he doesn't check in these days; he'd remember the incident).
Then the newly married bride and groom (who were in their 40's, I think) started a huge screaming match
and threatened each other with divorce---mere hours after tying the knot. So the band called a break
and Mike and I went outside.
As we were standing right there along 171st, this punky smart-mouth kid that I had known at OLPH (and who
was a few years younger than me) showed up and actually started insulting Mike and me by making fun of
our last name. Mike listened for about two seconds and then flung his beer right into the kid's face, totally
shocking him. The little jerk burst into tears and ran off.
And those are my fond memories of the house across from Morton.
LR |
03-31-2012
( Reply#: 8341 ) |
wvcogs |
quote:
Originally posted by HassoBenSoba
HEY, GUYS.....
Here's a pic I came across of 171st Street alongside (south) of the original Morton H.S.
LR
A pic from my years at ol' Oliver P. !!!
Thanks.
Ken |
04-29-2012
( Reply#: 8407 ) |
Thawk9632 |
Does anyone remember the resturant between Fifield and ACE Theater, we used to hang out there after school we went to Hammond Tech,and kids from Morton High School,from the late 50's |
02-16-2013
( Reply#: 8868 ) |
wvcogs |
Here's a special photo for our Magoun Avenue friend and Pepsi man, Little Stevie.
This note appears on the bottles: "Limited Edition: This collector's item has been produced by your Pepsi-Cola bottler to commemorate our nation's bicentennial year."
They're not shown here, but each bottle has a different item of interest pertaining to the State of West Virginia printed on it. My neighbor found this carton at a local weekend auction.
Ken
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/Hammond/Pepsi.jpg[/img] |
02-16-2013
( Reply#: 8869 ) |
Little Stevie |
Pretty darn cool!
Ken! Those bring back memories . . . or shall I say "nightmares"?
The Midwest Pepsi plants sold the 16 oz. returnable bottle in 8 paks not 6 paks as was done in West Virginnie.
There were 3 8 packs in a wooden yellow case, known in the industry as "shells". The combined weight of a case was 57 lbs.
Stacked 5 cases high, you then "scooped" them onto a hand truck, and wheeled them into the store, to the beverage aisle or display area, pulled the handtruck out from underneath and proceeded to fill the shelf/display.
I spent many, many, many hours doing the above. Then, going to the "bottle shed" to collect the "empties" that were returned. Threw them on the truck to take back to the plant for refilling.
In the early 70's I worked the VanTil route in Hessville.
We would leave VanTil's around 10 PM on the Friday of a sale week, loading up the stockroom with Saturday's stock and extra product and take out all the empties.
On Monday, there would be in excess of 400 cases of empties in their basement. All from Saturday's business.
LS |
02-17-2013
( Reply#: 8871 ) |
wvcogs |
With a workout on the job like that, who needs a gym! Thanks for keeping the grocer's shelves full of America's favorite cola drink.
This six pack has seen better days. The back appears to have been attacked by mice. Evidence of the damage is on the left side of the carton in this photo. I keep a Post-It Note on it with the message, "Lift By Bottom Only."
Ken... |
06-05-2013
( Reply#: 8901 ) |
wvcogs |
Let's add another photo to the picture book. Here's one I located of the First United Presbyterian Church -- later Covenant Presbyterian -- that was taken on January 27, 1958. The name change took effect later that year because of a merger of two national Presbyterian churches.
I attended this church while in high school; and Judy and I were married here in 1963.
No, I did not take the picture, but I do have the original 8" x 10" print where I added the identifying information after scanning.
Ken...
(Personal note: S C -- Please send me an email. Thanks)
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/UnitedPresbyterianHessville-001.jpg[/img] |
07-04-2013
( Reply#: 8904 ) |
tom w |
Can we still send e-mails? I sent one to Bob K and don't think he got it. Thanks. Tom W |
07-04-2013
( Reply#: 8905 ) |
Tom J |
I don't know if that feature is working or not. Try to send me an Email and I'll let you know if I get it.
Tom |
07-04-2013
( Reply#: 8906 ) |
tom w |
Thanks, Tom. You should have it by now. Hows the wife now? Tom |
07-04-2013
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Tom J |
quote:
Originally posted by tom w
Thanks, Tom. You should have it by now. Hows the wife now? Tom
Well, I didn't get it so I guess our Email feature is not working. I have an Email address for Bob and I can let him know you are trying to reach him but I don't know if I have your Email or not. I can't remember if we have ever exchanged Emails in the past.
Thanks for asking about Georgeann. She suffers a lot with her arthritis but we are still getting nothing but good reports on her cancer check-ups. We thank God for those good check-ups. It has now been three years since her surgery.
Tom |
07-04-2013
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Tom J |
OK, I found your Email address, Tom W, and I have passed it along to Bob.
Tom |
07-04-2013
( Reply#: 8909 ) |
tom w |
Thanks for the assist Tom. We now know only too well, how it feels to go thru a crisis with a loved one. Carol was operated on last week for a re=appearance of cancer. She went thru it about ten years ago as well. When you get up into our age group, it seems as though you just muddle from day to day and spend too much time reflecting on your non acomplishments. anyhow, bless you guys and be of good health. You can pull this note off if you like. Tom |
07-04-2013
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Tom J |
I just sent up a prayer for Carol, Tom. Let us know how things go.
Tom |
07-09-2013
( Reply#: 8911 ) |
BobK |
Sorry Tom, I never look at my Gmail account and since Shep Talk isn't very active I only check it maybe once a week.
By the way, I received 3 emails from Tom J and 0 from Tom W. Tom W, I think you have my other email address. Prayers and best wishes for your wife.
Bob
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07-09-2013
( Reply#: 8912 ) |
Tom J |
Bob, whatever Email address you registered with is where your Sheptalk private messages go.
Did you get the Email I sent you with Tom W's Email address?
Tom |
07-10-2013
( Reply#: 8913 ) |
BobK |
yes I did, Tom.
Bob
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