I quit the team that year, I was a junior - wish I had stuck it out even though it was a terrible year. Luketic's last season as head coach.
@boomfiechat22 күн бұрын
I was in the last class to graduate from EC Velt, in 1986 it was shut down the very next year!! Proud to be an alum of prbly the best HS ever in my opinion!! We had so much fun and comradery.
@TheTwd1211Ай бұрын
Remember watching these games every Saturday on WTTV out of Indianapolis. Loved my MW Pioneers! What a great team that was!
@ChristineDuran-oz8oq2 ай бұрын
HAMMOND INDIANA WAS THERE ITHE 60S. I WAS A TECH TIGER 🐯 MOVED AWAY TO COLORADO IN81
@joelsandler11192 ай бұрын
Good memories of downtown Hammond by Goldblatt's dept store.
@georgebudimir78013 ай бұрын
Background music too loud. Trouble hearing narration.
@silveryote16 ай бұрын
This is 1978 and i have been looking for this !!! :)
@KFC89226 ай бұрын
Thank you. My whole family is still in Hammond , my grandmother still lives in same house my mother was born in. Appreciate this. Looked this up while researching my ancestors 🤍
@thomasallen87287 ай бұрын
My stepdad, Ray Leaver retired from 3 O.H. I retired from 80 in Hot strip/3CS in 2003
@elizabethwagner94798 ай бұрын
12/20/23 - just saw this today. 1) I think the room with the slide was the kindergarten room, if I remember right. 2) It would be interesting to see if the houses /buildings are still standing. If someone could make a video of same shots, compare buildings. Thank you!
@mikesmith387311 ай бұрын
I wouldn’t raise my dog there. And yet some ppl are still raising their kids there even tho they were born a raised there themselves, sad for their kids
@carlreichelt87242 ай бұрын
Your clueless..let me know in 20 years where your dog, with your white picket fence and your soccer mom van in the driveway got u.. most likely with kids that don't even know what gender they are sitting in the house playing Xbox all day eating boneless chicken tenders..and not having a clue what culture is..and products of the indoctrinated state. With no survival skills in the real world whatsoever.. That's my guess Anyway hope it goes well for you
@beergeek12311 ай бұрын
It's doing better than Gary...for now.
@hiyathere599 Жыл бұрын
Born and raised in Hammond. Seems like a lifetime ago
@BarberDoll Жыл бұрын
My grandmother attended this school in 1953. Went on to become a Nurse
@pmsfar-outgrooviness8025 Жыл бұрын
6:01 Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! Hey Hey!
@JohnHolton Жыл бұрын
These were the days before they retired any numbers, so Ron Santo's #10 was Dave Kingman and Billy Williams's #26 was Larry Biitner...
@daschundloverable Жыл бұрын
kind sounds like hall and oates.
@Local1Laborer Жыл бұрын
6:53 You can hear Pat Piper in the background.
@SaturnV2000 Жыл бұрын
The eerie music and somber narrator makes this out more like a nuclear apocalypse
@fjccommish Жыл бұрын
Baseball is now dead - it's antiseptic. There are no more arguments. Everything is quiet and calm, like a library.
@scottdavidson9963 Жыл бұрын
Agreed
@norm2264 Жыл бұрын
Where is Lightfoot when we need her
@DuffMiver7380 Жыл бұрын
You had to have Cragar rims to be cool.
@careywilliamson4709 Жыл бұрын
Hammond was my home town
@careywilliamson4709 Жыл бұрын
Love your memories
@careywilliamson4709 Жыл бұрын
How about Nelson Brothers commercial
@careywilliamson4709 Жыл бұрын
I loved Superior Bakery and wish I had the recipe for their French Fruit Slices
@careywilliamson4709 Жыл бұрын
I was born in 1959 at St Catherine’s hospital in east Chicago. This video is about me too! I left Hammond in 1980! My brother still lived in the house we grew up in until last year. I was South Hammond by St John Bosco Church
@bser3973 Жыл бұрын
It was a great time to be alive.
@Hugh_Manitee Жыл бұрын
Now it's a indoor soccer complex. Well at least it was 3 years ago. Shame.
@MsKsei Жыл бұрын
I so wish I was a teen in these times- i was not born till the 70's
@Hugh_Manitee Жыл бұрын
When Hammond was prosperous and a wonderful place to be. What a shame how it ended up in the toilet.
@garciadavid582 Жыл бұрын
Wow Super cool and Rare to see this ..I grew up in 1980s right before they tore down these schools and many buildings 😑 I grew up on Magoun 3 blocks from Roselvelt. I hope to find more videos or pictures of EC especially by Harrison elementary where once stood House's my Neighborhood. THANKS for posting this video 👍..I actually had the chance to go in this school while it was being torn down.The fireworks they had in the football fields what memories 1980s for me😌
@boomfiechat22 күн бұрын
I lived on Indianapolis Blvd while going to West Side until graduating from the Velt. Haven't been home in years, soo many good memories growing up in EC!!
@garciadavid58222 күн бұрын
@@boomfiechat I still go back 1-2 month visit family...So much has changed people gone 🙏..
@trollgod7565 Жыл бұрын
Now it’s a ghetto hell hole
@m.j.biittner2989 Жыл бұрын
First clip in montage is my uncle Larry “Butch” Biittner hitting an opening day walk off homer. Pretty damn cool. RIP uncle Butch!
@scottdavidson9963 Жыл бұрын
Glad u could enjoy the moment. RIP LB.
@danv42535 ай бұрын
Larry Biittner was great. And, very friendly. Saw him at the Cubs Convention before.
@sqlcomp Жыл бұрын
I was eight back then and lived on Osborn.
@sqlcomp Жыл бұрын
Hey I remember this it was right before we moved to TX .
@sqlcomp Жыл бұрын
1967 born in Hammond IN - Texan now!
@jeffreywincell3677 Жыл бұрын
They show the White Sox and Cubs classic home uniforms. These should be their retro home uniforms.
@talented1617 Жыл бұрын
Before the other element move in and fucked it up!
@DuffMiver7380 Жыл бұрын
Pretty much all of Lake Co.
@trollndatrollaz9743 Жыл бұрын
Yup meth addict white folks....
@rogerborroel47072 жыл бұрын
Yes, that bank building is still there, and looks rather well too. Just think, most of those kids are probably dead, or getting to it. And who's left is probably living in Crown Point!
@rogerborroel47072 жыл бұрын
Hammond was very busy in the 50s & 60s and even 70s. However, if one notices the surrounding buildings in the clip, they WERE OLD THEN, as now. Around the city busy centers, were hoods ALREADY in decade. Many of those old buildings are gone, and the better for it.
@daschundloverable2 жыл бұрын
where is the film of Paul Newman and Bobby Kennedy on Hohman Ave., downtown. I just saw it on FB 2 hrs ago and have been looking for it. It won't attach to send out in email. thank you.
@ginnybaumeister95612 жыл бұрын
Born here...cool to see how my parents saw it...too bad it's a complete slum now... Purdy sad
@lenburleson48752 жыл бұрын
Frances Burleson work as Secretary of the Hessville Businessman Associations in the early 70's. She help organize some of the events like the parade and Little Red School House. Thank you for sharing the film. Leonard Burleson
@igabm32yt2 жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday Larry Biitner - July 27th. RIP.
@jerryvan-hees71302 жыл бұрын
And to think WWII broke out two months later.
@Kreb992 жыл бұрын
I went there for my 7th and 8th grade years, 1967, 1968. My brother graduated there in 1963 and my sister in 1966.
@michaelstanich702 жыл бұрын
thanks for posting.
@pattyh9562 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Hammond in the 70's on Detroit St. I went to Kenwood school. Downtown Hammond was a blast especially sidewalk days. Miss it how it was. My mom waitressed at Demars and the Manhattan restaurant for years. So much fun hanging out there
@ltpls12 жыл бұрын
Worked in the 80” mill summer of 1969. The cattle trucks moving 1000’s of workers around the plant was always interesting. Furnace labor was always tough duty as well as pulling bands on down turns. The good old days actually were good after all.
@thomasallen87287 ай бұрын
I remember summer help at the 80 in HS in the early 70's