09-10-2009
( Reply#: 3768 ) |
S C Jones |
Several years ago, I ran across a dish that was made for feeding a baby with Metz Furniture, Hammond, Indiana stamped on it. Of course I bought it. Today, I found the following online:
http://www.iswonline.com/ArticleLanding/tabid/67/Default.aspx?tid=2&heading=Jerry%20Metz%20Award%20Archive&modid=506&ContentID=1689
Actually I just googled the following and found the above: Hammond Indiana furniture makers.
I also found and purchased a piece of furniture that was made by Hammond Furniture Co., Hammond, Indiana---but have not found anything about that company.
BTW--both items I found were in antique malls in Nashville, TN. |
09-10-2009
( Reply#: 3769 ) |
BobK |
Cool S C. Metz rings a bell in my sad memory but I can't place their location.
Bob
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rkekeis/Bob1.jpg[/img] |
09-10-2009
( Reply#: 3770 ) |
tom w |
Bob;
Metz was one block south of Conkey, west of the tracks and east of Hohman Ave. I think. A long grey building. Oh, and Clara's Cottage on Calumet was in front of Mill's Electric. I worked for the Mills for a few years at that location before I got an offer from Standard
Equipment that I should have Ignored. LOL Tom W |
09-10-2009
( Reply#: 3772 ) |
BobK |
Thanks Tom, I can picture it now. Looking at Google Earth it looks like the building is still there next to the Monon tracks.
Yep, Mill's Electric. Had a friend that worked there in the early 90s.
Bob
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rkekeis/Bob1.jpg[/img] |
09-10-2009
( Reply#: 3773 ) |
duane |
I have a couple of yard sticks and nail aprons from Calumet Lumber (on Chicago Avenue in EC).
I've got a first aid kit from Union Carbide (My Dad was a security guard there after he retired from the EC Police Dept) and I worked there one summer loading full bottles of Prestone onto trucks and railroad cars.
My biggest prize (but not memorabilia) is a workbench that was brought home from Union Carbide when the plant shut down. I use that worktable for many of my projects. I almost had an oak drafting table, but my mom wouldn't let my dad bring it home....she didn't want that darned thing in her basement....dang!
I've got a bank with Sparkle plenty on top and Dick Tracy, BO Plenty, and Gravel Girty on the sides...it was put out by the Chicago Tribune in some promotion for their Sunday Comic section. For years when I was a kid, that bank sat upon our old Kelvinator refrigerator, and now that my folks are gone, it has a place of prominence in my home. |
08-14-2010
( Reply#: 6015 ) |
tom w |
Bob; Was or is that pencil from Electric Supply white with a reddish top that has a ball on it? If so I had one too. They gave them away one year for Christmas. The red ball was for dialing the phone! Remember dialing the phone? Tom Dubya |
08-14-2010
( Reply#: 6016 ) |
BobK |
Yes, Tom. My sister-in-law and her first husband worked there.
Bob
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rkekeis/Bob1.jpg[/img] |
08-14-2010
( Reply#: 6017 ) |
Paddy |
[quote]Originally posted by tom w
Remember dialing the phone? /quote]How about picking up the receiver, waiting for an operator to come on and giving her the phone number you want to call? That's how our first phone worked on Beech Street in the 40's. |
08-14-2010
( Reply#: 6018 ) |
Paddy |
I have a brass switch key from when I worked on the IHB while I was attending Purdue Calumet. Switch keys have a unique design, and my wife made a necklace out of it. |
08-14-2010
( Reply#: 6019 ) |
tom w |
Paddy
My gramma that lived by Harrison park, her number was Sheffield 5114. We didnt have a phone till much later. I think the prefixes were Sheffield, Russel, Tilden and then Westmore. My in-laws in Chicago still have their original number (Viking xxxx) prefaced by an area code. Tom Dubya |
08-21-2010
( Reply#: 6022 ) |
RichK |
What in interesting forum. I have a few things from Paxton Lumber. The old clock that hung in the office, calendars and some signs. My grandfather owned the lumberyard. I think he bought it in the 30s and ran it until 1993.
[IMG]http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j126/billduck/IMG_2731.jpg[/IMG] |
08-21-2010
( Reply#: 6023 ) |
Tom J |
Welcome, Rich! Thanks for contributing to the Hammond forum.
I'll be looking forward to your future posts.
How about a little introduction? How old are you, what part of Hammond did you grow up in, what schools did you go to, and stuff like that?
Tom
A 1967 Graduate of Hammond High who cherishes his memories of growing up in the Hammond of the 1950's and 1960's. Bring back those days!
[IMG]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y145/tsjay/Tom%20and%20Georgeann/img014.jpg[/IMG] |
08-21-2010
( Reply#: 6024 ) |
Jim Plummer |
I have a gold plated ruler from the Calumet News Agency. They distributed all of the Chicago papers. It was a Christmas present one year to all of us carriers. I had two routes so I got two. I kept one and gave my mother the other one. |
08-21-2010
( Reply#: 6025 ) |
Roger D |
Welcome Rich! I bought a window for my Hessville home at Paxton Lumber in the late 80's. I loved their personal touch. They made there customers feel important.
As for as memorabilia I have several items that were given away at the Inland Twenty Five Year Picnics. The oldest item being a tape measure given away in 1960!!
If anyone has one or some of these items I would love to have them. |
08-21-2010
( Reply#: 6026 ) |
wvcogs |
This watch was my father-in-law's 25 year award from Inland Steel. It was presented sometime around 1960; I'm not sure of the exact year. The watch still keeps accurate time.
Ken
[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/wvcogs72/Inland_Watch.jpg[/img] |
08-22-2010
( Reply#: 6029 ) |
Roger D |
Great pic Ken . I also have my Inland Twenty Five Year pocket watch.
we had several different watches/clocks to choose from. I chose the pocket watch so it would not be worn every day (dress only). Mine is engraved with my name and year of presentation, 1988. |
08-22-2010
( Reply#: 6033 ) |
wvcogs |
quote:
Originally posted by Roger D
Great pic Ken . I also have my Inland Twenty Five Year pocket watch.
we had several different watches/clocks to choose from. I chose the pocket watch so it would not be worn every day (dress only). Mine is engraved with my name and year of presentation, 1988.
It looks like this one was used very little because there are no scratches at all on the crystal. His name and "Inland Steel 25 Year Club," but not the year, are engraved on the back.
Ken |
08-22-2010
( Reply#: 6034 ) |
Tom J |
Let me tell you guys about my 25 year watch and how it was presented. I think it is a perfect example of how things have changed for the worse in our society.
Years ago, the company would have awards banquets every two years. They would actually shut down the plant if they were unable to schedule the banquet during a normal down time. Awards were given to people who had reached five year milestones in their careers, like five years of service, ten years of service, etc. An employee would be called to the front of the room, and his boss would present his award, thank him for his service, and shake his hand.
They stopped having the banquets several years ago, and they began giving the awards to people individually. They were extremely lax in keeping up with who was eligible for what, and it was really more or less up to the employee to tell the human resource manager that he was due for an award. That is SAD!
Even if a person told the HR Department that he was due for an award, that did not necessarily mean that the award would be issued in any kind of timely manner. I had worked for almost 29 years before getting my 25 year watch! I had to keep bugging them or I wouldn't have gotten in then!
The watch was presented in a very classy way. I found it in my chair at my desk when I got back from lunch one day.
There is no inscription on the watch, nothing to identify the watch with my company or with my 25 years of service. It could be anybody's watch.
Tom
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08-22-2010
( Reply#: 6035 ) |
wvcogs |
That's real class, Tom. My 25 year watch was presented the old fashioned way, at a luncheon. It's one of those new-fangled, battery operated quartz wrist watches with the school logo on the face; but no inscription -- name, date, occasion, whatever -- on the back. Of course, anyone could go downstairs to the bookstore and buy the exact same thing for about 50 bucks.
Ken |
08-22-2010
( Reply#: 6036 ) |
Roger D |
I know what you are saying. At Inland the norm was for your department super. to present you with your watch, shake your hand and have a picture taken. I got mine, along with some other guys when our foreman walked in the lunch room, sled them across the table and walked out. No thanks, congrats or kiss my butt. REAL CLASS!! |
08-23-2010
( Reply#: 6039 ) |
seejay2 |
A watch!?!? For my 29 years at LTV they took away my job, my insurance and my pension.
I guess a watch would have been a more positive thing...Cj |
08-23-2010
( Reply#: 6040 ) |
Tom J |
quote:
Originally posted by seejay2
A watch!?!? For my 29 years at LTV they took away my job, my insurance and my pension.
I guess a watch would have been a more positive thing...Cj
That truly SUCKS, CJ. My cousin suffered the same fate after all of his many, many years of work at Youngstown and LTV.
Tom
P.S.
I now have 36 years invested at the paper mill where I work. I sure hope my pension is secure! I guess I will have at least 40 years of service when I retire. |
08-23-2010
( Reply#: 6041 ) |
tom w |
Sadly enough, it's the same all over. After my first year with the government, they gave me my first-year pin. Fifteen years later they had a meeting and presented me with another one-year pin.
The worst part was the flower fund for funerals where they collected money for flowers and a card. They completely passed me by three times in one year. My mother, father and brother. When I returned from my brothers funeral my boss said "So, how was the vacation?" I thought that was kind of cold. (this is kind of off subject for this venue, sorry) Tom W |
08-23-2010
( Reply#: 6043 ) |
Jay |
Reading the postings here about watches being presented marking 25 years of employment to a single employer reminded me of an unpleasant memory.
A close friend of mine received a statue for 25 years of loyal service to the same company. Reading the accompanying letter affirmed the fact that this employee was an important and valuable asset to the company. Then one month later, he was terminated. Although he had his pension, his health insurance terminated with his employment. And he was only 52.
As for memorabilia, I used to have a full-size engine bell from a locomotive. My dad mounted it in our garage with a drop down rope so that we could ring it now and then. But after my dad passed away, I ended up selling it to a railroad memorabilia collector. However, I still have some of his IHB switch keys and lanterns. |
08-24-2010
( Reply#: 6044 ) |
tom w |
Ken
I have to mention what an absolutely pristine job you did with that picture. Its so good it makes my screen come alive. Tom W |
08-24-2010
( Reply#: 6046 ) |
Jim Plummer |
Guys, its like that all over now. I have a ten years of good service award from the Studio Drive-in, in Culver City, Ca only because I kept asking the manager about one. I received it one payday along with my paycheck and one sentence in the company newsletter. |
