01-10-2010
( Reply#: 4624 ) |
Jay |
Who can identify the buildings in this photograph?
[url]http://www.familyoldphotos.com/8c/2h/hammond_block_hammond_indiana.htm[/url] |
01-10-2010
( Reply#: 4625 ) |
Jay |
[url]http://hhs59.com/state_street.htm[/url] |
01-10-2010
( Reply#: 4626 ) |
Jay |
[url]http://hhs59.com/hammondtrains.htm[/url] |
01-10-2010
( Reply#: 4627 ) |
BobK |
I remember going to the Orpheum Theatre once before it was torn down. I was so young, my memory placed it on the north side of the street. |
01-10-2010
( Reply#: 4628 ) |
wvcogs |
quote:
Originally posted by Jay
Who can identify the buildings in this photograph?
[url]http://www.familyoldphotos.com/8c/2h/hammond_block_hammond_indiana.htm[/url]
Here's the information about the building on the right:
Central School- Once one of Hammond's Original permanent school buildings built in 1881 at the southeast corner of Hohman and Fayette. Later moved to Russell Street in 1924 to become Technical-Vocational High School, then demolished when "Tech High School" moves to Sohl Avenue.
And the link is [url]http://www.hammondindiana.com/history/school.htm[/url] |
01-10-2010
( Reply#: 4629 ) |
EastHammondBoomer |
Jay,
Thanks for dedicating and posting this new thread. I know the photos I am posting may be duplicates of past posts or links but I wanted to also share some of the surviving Hammond photos I have.
NONE of these are my personal photos - I have downloaded all these from the web.
Thanks,
Dave G
In no particular order:
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/2001-0015.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/2001-0022.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/2001-0028.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/2001-0029.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/Centennial-Main11.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/Centennial-Main2-thumb.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/DAV.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/Gerins_Front.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/Henderson.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/LibertyHouse.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/Sweethearts2.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/calrv_bridge013.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/lincoln.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/pginccd.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/werths-1.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/2001-0010.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/Centennial-Main3.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/DN-0084663.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/statestr1-1.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/HammondState-1.jpg[/IMG] |
01-11-2010
( Reply#: 4633 ) |
Tom J |
Thanks for the pics Jay and Dave.
Dave, you can edit your post with the three pictures and delete two of them if you want to. That little pencil icon is the edit button.
Tom |
01-11-2010
( Reply#: 4634 ) |
BobK |
The photo of the building being demolished that housed the A Schulte Cigar store is in the background of a photo that I have of the 1941 celebration of Hammond Tech winning the state basketball championship. What corner is that building on? I see the Kresge building next door and I was thinking that the Kresge store was just south of State St and unitl seeing this picture I had thought the location of the A Shulte building was on the SE corner of Sibley. Wasn't it the Kresge store that in later years became the Jupitor store? Please help my mind. |
01-11-2010
( Reply#: 4635 ) |
EastHammondBoomer |
Thanks, Tom!quote:
Originally posted by Tom J
Thanks for the pics Jay and Dave.
Dave, you can edit your post with the three pictures and delete two of them if you want to. That little pencil icon is the edit button.
Tom
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01-11-2010
( Reply#: 4636 ) |
EastHammondBoomer |
Bob,
I believe that's on the SE corner of State & Hohman. I think years later a shoe store (Mary Jane?) took up that spot. And, yes, you're correct about the Kresge store becoming the Jupitor store. I miss those days of Downtown Hammond of the 60's & 70's!
Dave Gquote:
Originally posted by BobK
The photo of the building being demolished that housed the A Schulte Cigar store is in the background of a photo that I have of the 1941 celebration of Hammond Tech winning the state basketball championship. What corner is that building on? I see the Kresge building next door and I was thinking that the Kresge store was just south of State St and unitl seeing this picture I had thought the location of the A Shulte building was on the SE corner of Sibley. Wasn't it the Kresge store that in later years became the Jupitor store? Please help my mind.
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01-11-2010
( Reply#: 4637 ) |
BobK |
Thanks Dave. When I get back home to Indiana I can put the two photos together. |
01-11-2010
( Reply#: 4638 ) |
BobK |
Here's the link to the other photo and it was 1940 not 41.
http://www.sheptalk.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=475&SearchTerms=Championship |
01-11-2010
( Reply#: 4639 ) |
Tom J |
Cousins Jewelry ended up on that site or right next to it.
Tom |
01-11-2010
( Reply#: 4640 ) |
EastHammondBoomer |
Bob,
I'm guessing you attended Hammond Tech. This is probably old news to you but I found a link for Tech alumni at: http://hammondtech.com/
I always wanted to visit the Calumet Room at the main branch of the Hammond Public Library. I think they cahnged the name of that room in honor of the nice lady who oversaw that room after she passed away. I can only imagine the treasure chest of Hammond history in there (photos, documents, tapes, newspapers, etc.)
Dave G |
01-11-2010
( Reply#: 4641 ) |
EastHammondBoomer |
I remember Cousins always had these cool mechanical advertisment in their window. I remember one had a stagecoach or something like that.
A while back, I purchased a VHS video labeled "This Is Hammond 1967". There is a clip showing all the downtown businesses closing up, moving out and liquidating inventory. One interesting image is where Cousins put a poster in their wind which says they are moving to the new location at Woodmar Mall... quote:
Originally posted by Tom J
Cousins Jewelry ended up on that site or right next to it.
Tom
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01-11-2010
( Reply#: 4642 ) |
wvcogs |
quote:
Originally posted by EastHammondBoomer
I always wanted to visit the Calumet Room at the main branch of the Hammond Public Library. I think they cahnged the name of that room in honor of the nice lady who oversaw that room after she passed away. I can only imagine the treasure chest of Hammond history in there (photos, documents, tapes, newspapers, etc.)
I also would like very much to spend a lot of time at that room in the library. Now it is called the Suzanne G. Long Local History Room. Mr. Richard Lytle, the local history librarian, has been very helpful in fulfilling requests that I have submitted by email.
Ken
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01-11-2010
( Reply#: 4643 ) |
EastHammondBoomer |
Bob,
I guess I should have done a little more research. I see you're an HHS Grad (like me!).
Dave Gquote:
Originally posted by BobK
Here's the link to the other photo and it was 1940 not 41.
http://www.sheptalk.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=475&SearchTerms=Championship
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01-11-2010
( Reply#: 4644 ) |
BobK |
Yes Dave, the class of 60. My mother and all her sisters and brothers went to HHS so I was expected to also attend. My father went to tech, the old one, and my two brothers went to Tech and Clark, so much for tradition. As mechanically inclined as I am I would have probably done better at Tech.
Ah yes, Cousin's Jewelery. |
01-12-2010
( Reply#: 4664 ) |
EastHammondBoomer |
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/Woolworths1.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/Woolworths2.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/Woolworths4-1.jpg[/IMG]
I know there are a lot of other vintage and current pics of the beloved Woolworths 5 & dime but I wanted to post a few photos which may or may not have already appeared here. Tom J: I think you wrote that you remember the creaking floors - that sparked my memories of the same thing. I remember they sold canaries and parakeets upstairs, maybe even those little turtles which came with a circular plastic container (even with a little island and palm tree). I wish I could see what it was like inside back when these pictures where shot. I think that building first housed a bank.
Dave G |
01-12-2010
( Reply#: 4665 ) |
Tom J |
Check out the building that would become Goldblatt's. It had not had the top floor added yet when that picture was taken.
Tom |
01-12-2010
( Reply#: 4670 ) |
BobK |
That was the Lion's Department store and I think it was demolished for Goldblatt's. |
01-12-2010
( Reply#: 4673 ) |
Tom J |
quote:
Originally posted by BobK
That was the Lion's Department store and I think it was demolished for Goldblatt's.
Bob, I have read somewhere on the Internet that a new upper floor was added to that building. I wish I could remember where. If I find it, I will post a link.
Tom |
01-12-2010
( Reply#: 4674 ) |
BobK |
If they did Tom they must have changed the whole outside of the building. |
01-12-2010
( Reply#: 4675 ) |
BobK |
quote:
Originally posted by BobK
If they did Tom they must have changed the whole outside of the building.
Looking at this it looks like Lion redid the building. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/ImageArchive/Hammond/HammondImagesBusinesses.htm |
01-27-2010
( Reply#: 4845 ) |
EastHammondBoomer |
I'm not sure if any of the three adjacent buildings in the first photo below are still standing, but I saw a vintage photo of the building on the right end. I used to walk past these "ruins" on State Street as I treked to Downtown Hammond. Did anyone here ever shop at the Oltz Electric store?
Dave G
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/701256-south_side_looking_east-Hamm.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae306/EastHammondBoomer/HammondIndiana-OltzElectric-circa19.jpg[/IMG] |
01-29-2010
( Reply#: 4847 ) |
Jim Plummer |
Anybody know when the Orpheum was closed and torn down. I once asked my mother what the theater looking facade was between Minas' and the railroad tracks on state st. was and she said it was the Orpheum theater where they showed westerns.quote:
Originally posted by BobK
I remember going to the Orpheum Theatre once before it was torn down. I was so young, my memory placed it on the north side of the street.
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01-29-2010
( Reply#: 4848 ) |
EastHammondBoomer |
Jim,
I think someone else may have already posted these links but there are these and others which give some history about it. I wish I could have been around when that theater was open.
http://cinematreasures.org/theater/4266/
http://www.hammondindiana.com/arch03.htm
http://www.hammondindiana.com/November2002news.pdf
http://www.hhs59.com/orpheum.htm
Dave Gquote:
Originally posted by Jim Plummer
Anybody know when the Orpheum was closed and torn down. I once asked my mother what the theater looking facade was between Minas' and the railroad tracks on state st. was and she said it was the Orpheum theater where they showed westerns.quote:
Originally posted by BobK
I remember going to the Orpheum Theatre once before it was torn down. I was so young, my memory placed it on the north side of the street.
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01-29-2010
( Reply#: 4849 ) |
BobK |
I can remember going to the Orpheum only one time and that was before I was 10 years old in 1952.
My Mother worked at the Hohman theater before I was born. I kinda remember it but never went to a movie there before it was torn down.
Bob
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rkekeis/Bob1.jpg[/img] |
01-29-2010
( Reply#: 4856 ) |
Jay |
I just found a great site with old photographs of the neighbors in East Chicago. Check out [url]http://www.marktown.org/pdf/east_chicago_historic_structures.pdf[/url] |
01-29-2010
( Reply#: 4859 ) |
Bill Bucko |
quote:
Originally posted by Jay
I just found a great site with old photographs of the neighbors in East Chicago. Check out [url]http://www.marktown.org/pdf/east_chicago_historic_structures.pdf[/url]
Very nice pictures! (accompanied by specious propaganda about "historic preservation," big government style. In Ft. Wayne, Indiana, where I lived for several years, the city government actually asked homeowners to spy on each other and inform on any neighbor who dared to make a repair or change the govt. hadn't approved.)
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
01-30-2010
( Reply#: 4862 ) |
Jim Plummer |
Dave G.,
Thanks for the info. I have a copy of the movie page for the friday before I was born[no Times on Sat.] and there's a Hopalong Cassidy western at the Orpheum on Saturday!. The day of my birth[11-19-44] we sunk a jap submarine on the front page of the Times.
Thanks again for the infoquote:
Originally posted by EastHammondBoomer
Jim,
I think someone else may have already posted these links but there are these and others which give some history about it. I wish I could have been around when that theater was open.
http://cinematreasures.org/theater/4266/
http://www.hammondindiana.com/arch03.htm
http://www.hammondindiana.com/November2002news.pdf
http://www.hhs59.com/orpheum.htm
Dave Gquote:
Originally posted by Jim Plummer
Anybody know when the Orpheum was closed and torn down. I once asked my mother what the theater looking facade was between Minas' and the railroad tracks on state st. was and she said it was the Orpheum theater where they showed westerns.quote:
Originally posted by BobK
I remember going to the Orpheum Theatre once before it was torn down. I was so young, my memory placed it on the north side of the street.
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