Dude, I'm a Hobart, Gary & Portage native. I left that crumbling dope infested area 22yrs ago. I love your videos because they remind me of all the good times & bad but... the good times always outweigh the bad✊️. Thanks for the vids & keep up the good work
Thank you puffy cat top dog I really appreciate that. It sounds like we are from the same areas. I also left the area 15 years ago but ended up coming back because of family and I understand exactly what you are saying. The reason I do these is for one. The people from the area have so many good memories. It was a wonderful place to grow up along time ago. I also agree with you about the dope infested population that it is now I understand that all the people in Gary Are like that, but it looks like the majority of dope heads have taken over and ransacked the area but they could never take away our good childhood memories. I want you to know I really appreciate your encouraging words and I will always keep doing what I do as long as I have a good people like yourself supporting the channel. I appreciate you very much. 💯🫵😎🫵⛈️‼️
Grew up in Gary on 36th and Delaware. Graduated from Lew Wallace high school. You brought back so many great memories. I use to go to Harvey's and load up on candy. Thank you!
I can guarantee we almost know the same amount of people growing up. We grew up on 35th and Delaware and went to Wallace also. I appreciate you letting me know your enjoying the videos and thank you for your membership. I really appreciate you.
You are very welcome Nina and I apologize that I just now seen your message and comment. I appreciate you so much and it was nice having you along for the ride. ❤️🌸😉⛈️
Storm thanks for the video. You are still showing everyone that Gary is full of life. I love this channel I’m proud to be a member I love the steel city storm and I love Gary Indiana
Zachary I want you to know that you just made my day young brother ‼️💯⛈️ Just know that it’s the good people like you that make me feel I am appreciated for doing this! God bless you I love these kind of inspirational messages! ⛈️🫵😎🫵⛈️💯‼️
Everything you say are my sentiments exactly! In either case, my aunt and family ran the Original Merrillville Bakery. Spent many weekends and summers there off of Broadway and 73rd. It was owned by my aunt but so many in the family worked there. We were there for 25 years but was sold in 1988. Ahhhh…the memories. 🍩🍰🍪
It’s good to hear from you region rat I’m glad to know you are still keeping up with the channel that means a lot to me and best wishes right back to you. I really appreciate you taking the time to let me know you are enjoying the channel still. 🫵💯😎⛈️
We moved to Gary in 1957 from Huntsville, Alabama (I was 7 years old). Lots of good memories. State and Palace Theater, Flamingos Pizza on 5th Ave, The Copper Kettle, The Lure, Tri-City Plaza, etc.. I was looking to see (on this video) if the old Piatek Meats building was still there .. but it’s gone. I remember reading about the owners son being murdered, in the store, in 2013. Thanks for letting me see so much of Gary because I’ve lived in Alabama since 1996.
Your the first person I have seen mention the Copper Kettle. My mom worked there in the mid 50's.She also worked at the Flamingo on 5th Avenue downtown.We saw the old Gary back in the day.😮
@@USHighway66 Did you go to school in Gary? I went to Jefferson from Kindergarten to 3rd and then moved to East Gary till graduation in 69. Yes to the Flamingo pizza when they made it in the window on 5th and Adams?
Wow so much has changed. I grew up in Merrillville and graduated from MHS in 75. The KFC at 68th and Broadway is gone, so is the y&w, Mcdonalds and burger king where we cruised Broadway many a night!!! I assume the Westlake mall was called Century Mall prior to the name change??? Broadway in Merrillville looks way different now than it did in the late 70's before I left da region in 1980.
You have a lot of the same memories that I do as far as cruising Broadway I remember all those places you were talking about and yes, Westlake Mall was called the Century Mall when they opened it and as a matter fact, one of the residents told me the Jacksons performed there when it opened. Glad you enjoyed the video Mark and I hope to hear more memories from you soon. Thank you for sharing your memories with us and cruising Broadway days. We had so much fun, cruising Broadway and stopping at the Coney King or going to the golf range across the street from the Y&W.
Those potholes are no joke. I occasionally grab White Castle on my way home from work and made the mistake of driving thru the Century Mall parking lot at night. 😬
Nice video ,I remember taken the Crown Point bus downtown to the Palace theater , I lived in Calumet township , Gary will be back one day location ,location ! will be
I appreciate you letting me know you enjoyed the video and hope to hear more from you soon. My mom was just talking about taking the bus down to the palace and how fun it was to be down there with the hat store across the street.
🤣😉😂 I agree with you. I’ve never heard of called monkey wards before but that is pretty damn funny. I’ll have to give you that one. You did make me laugh, Billy. I agree with you the Southlake Mall was where was that back in the day I hardly ever went to this one.
Always enjoy your video's. Still trying to watch them all. Definitely enjoyed this drive and talk with us look forward to your upcoming live streams I'm definitely gonna make sure to try and be there for that. Thanks for everything you do and share with us here in the 219.
It’s gonna be a long time do you can catch up on all the videos but I definitely want you to know. I appreciate your unwavering support. You are very welcome and thank you for always taking out the time to leave a comment. I enjoy reading them very much. ❤️🫵😉⛈️‼️
@@TheSteelCityStorm oh I know it will definitely take me along time to get thru all your videos but it's nice to know you and your brother film around the 219. So thanks again for what both of you do
The last couple of times I’ve been in Gary this year it looks like several new businesses have popped up along broadway. Also I know someone cleaned out the inside but the outside of Union Station looks a lot cleaner too.
I grew up on 34th Delaware in the 60's. Moved to Portage in 1972. We probably knew some of the same people in the 33rd-37th ave from Broadway to Georgia. Keep up the good work!
You are very welcome. I really appreciate you letting me know that you enjoyed the memories. That’s what it’s all about to me too. I appreciate you taking the time to let me know you enjoyed the video and hope to hear more from you soon.
Heather, you are exactly right the van is a big part of the team. I really enjoyed reading this comment you made me laugh and I appreciate that very much. Hope you are enjoying the channel and content and I look forward to seeing more comments from you soon. 🚐💯⛈️‼️❤️
I enjoyed watching and listening. You made me think of my dad when you said you had a Gremlin. He had a brown one in the late 70's early 80's. I remember riding in it with him. So many great memories. Love the video!
Thank you so much Carrie . I am sorry that I just now seen your message. It’s always nice to know that you are enjoying the videos and having memories of better days gone by with our parents when we were young it’s an awesome way to be. Hopefully we can run each other again soon. It’s been a while it’s about that time 😉 happy Thanksgiving and I am sorry once again that I just now read your message. 🌸🫵😉❤️
I am glad you are enjoying the videos, Michael. I really appreciate you. letting me know do you enjoy watching them. So many memories of better days gone by is exactly what I go for when I shoot these videos. I grew up on 35th and Connecticut and Aetna. I’ll be 59 in January. 🫵💯😎⛈️‼️
@@TheSteelCityStorm I Seen the video of Riley Grade School I went to that Grade School it's truly a shame what's happened to Gary when the Steel Mills went down Joe and Dan Please went to school with me back then
..... And EVERYTHING you just said I agree 100% with! This is my first van ride btw and I loved it. I'll tell you what though, nothing is the way it used to be and maybe now and then that's ok but mostly it's not ok. I know that some great relationships have come out of online dating but there's nothing like that feeling you get inside when someone asks you out in person on your very first date. I can't understand how someone can fall in love with a person they never met and only ever talked to through a machine. I don't think you can really get to know the person that way. I never thought I'd see a day like that come, but here we are. I feel sorry for old people who didn't grow up with this stuff. The world now can feel pretty intimidating to them. How about these older people who may suffer a job loss. They can't just walk in somewhere like the old days and apply. Everything is done online, and God forbid you don't have a resume, geesh. I remember the days when you not only walked in and applied with pen and paper, but you also got interviewed on the spot and knew if you had the job or not before you even walked out the door. Now you have to go through at least three interviews on three separate days and then still wait weeks to find out if they will hire you. It's ridiculous. It doesn't even matter what kind of job you're applying for it's still a lengthy and complicated process. That's why when I lost my job in August I just decided to retire. The world is too complicated for my brain these days. I was trying to hang on for 18 months longer for my full retirement age, and after a 25-year career with my company, they pulled a fast one on me and decided to eliminate my position. They saved themselves by offering me the same position I had at a store an hour away from my house. I only drove 6 minutes to the current one. There's no way I would take that position that far away from home. With winter coming and bad weather on the horizon plus it's starting to get dark early now, it could take me hours to get home on a bad day. Companies don't value long term employees anymore. I do believe they just wanted me out of there to move someone younger and cheaper in. I saw them do that exact same thing to someone else I worked with a few years earlier, and he had been working for them for forty years! It's ok though, it was a blessing in disguise for me, because if I were still working, I wouldn't have met you and your brother that day in Portage. Wow, I really rambled here, sorry lol. There's just some things that I wished would never have changed. Loved the ride, let's do it again soon!! Take care!
I really enjoyed reading all this. Your memories are awesome and I’m glad you were listening to what to what I was talking about. You are spot on about the online stuff. Winter is always a hibernation season for me, but I understand this the earths way of cleansing itself with all the freeze. Hopefully we can get together and do something again soon. I really enjoyed spending time with you and your sister was awesome. Needing good people like you and knowing that others out there feel the way I do really makes it more comfortable for me to do these videos and I really want to thank you and let you know how much I appreciate, you taking the time to leave your long and detailed comment it was very nice to read and I could tell you put your heart into it. Thank you so much. ❤️‼️😉🫵🌸
There has been some improvement of course there still remains work to be done from where you started still quite a number of those space available stores but if they could at least hold their own middway through the route and don't let any more slip away there could be success. I see I could even cash a check at BMO. This is a big thing in Milwaukee in that it's more check cashing places than banks in the Inner City and people lose a lot of money at these predatory lenders. Also last weekend they opened a food store at 64th and Silver Spring in Milwaukee and if it wasn't there it's probably a 5 plus mile radius to any other full-size grocery store. It's a small chain that has been contracting over the years so hopefully they don't get plowed under
Dude, I'm a Hobart, Gary & Portage native. I left that crumbling dope infested area 22yrs ago. I love your videos because they remind me of all the good times & bad but... the good times always outweigh the bad✊️. Thanks for the vids & keep up the good work
Thank you puffy cat top dog I really appreciate that. It sounds like we are from the same areas. I also left the area 15 years ago but ended up coming back because of family and I understand exactly what you are saying. The reason I do these is for one. The people from the area have so many good memories. It was a wonderful place to grow up along time ago. I also agree with you about the dope infested population that it is now I understand that all the people in Gary Are like that, but it looks like the majority of dope heads have taken over and ransacked the area but they could never take away our good childhood memories. I want you to know I really appreciate your encouraging words and I will always keep doing what I do as long as I have a good people like yourself supporting the channel. I appreciate you very much.
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Grew up in Gary on 36th and Delaware. Graduated from Lew Wallace high school. You brought back so many great memories. I use to go to Harvey's and load up on candy. Thank you!
I can guarantee we almost know the same amount of people growing up. We grew up on 35th and Delaware and went to Wallace also. I appreciate you letting me know your enjoying the videos and thank you for your membership. I really appreciate you.
Steel City Storm! I'm writing a business plan now and decided to take a break and ride shotgun with you. Thank you for taking me along!
You are very welcome Nina and I apologize that I just now seen your message and comment. I appreciate you so much and it was nice having you along for the ride.
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Storm thanks for the video. You are still showing everyone that Gary is full of life. I love this channel I’m proud to be a member I love the steel city storm and I love Gary Indiana
Zachary I want you to know that you just made my day young brother ‼️💯⛈️
Just know that it’s the good people like you that make me feel I am appreciated for doing this!
God bless you I love these kind of inspirational messages!
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Everything you say are my sentiments exactly! In either case, my aunt and family ran the Original Merrillville Bakery. Spent many weekends and summers there off of Broadway and 73rd. It was owned by my aunt but so many in the family worked there. We were there for 25 years but was sold in 1988. Ahhhh…the memories. 🍩🍰🍪
Storm, its been a while, still love watching your documentaries of our Home. Keep it up and keep the faith!!! Best Always Jersey Region Rat!!!
It’s good to hear from you region rat I’m glad to know you are still keeping up with the channel that means a lot to me and best wishes right back to you. I really appreciate you taking the time to let me know you are enjoying the channel still.
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We moved to Gary in 1957 from Huntsville, Alabama (I was 7 years old). Lots of good memories. State and Palace Theater, Flamingos Pizza on 5th Ave, The Copper Kettle, The Lure, Tri-City Plaza, etc.. I was looking to see (on this video) if the old Piatek Meats building was still there .. but it’s gone. I remember reading about the owners son being murdered, in the store, in 2013. Thanks for letting me see so much of Gary because I’ve lived in Alabama since 1996.
Oh my gosh…so remember Piatek’s as a kid. So sorry to here about his son.😢
The Lure was the bomb. I remember Tri-City Plaza and fotomat
Your the first person I have seen mention the Copper Kettle. My mom worked there in the mid 50's.She also worked at the Flamingo on 5th Avenue downtown.We saw the old Gary back in the day.😮
@@oldgoat50 Great memories! I still think the pizza, from Flamingo’s on 5th Ave., was the best I’ve ever had!
@@USHighway66 Did you go to school in Gary? I went to Jefferson from Kindergarten to 3rd and then moved to East Gary till graduation in 69. Yes to the Flamingo pizza when they made it in the window on 5th and Adams?
Wow so much has changed. I grew up in Merrillville and graduated from MHS in 75. The KFC at 68th and Broadway is gone, so is the y&w, Mcdonalds and burger king where we cruised Broadway many a night!!! I assume the Westlake mall was called Century Mall prior to the name change??? Broadway in Merrillville looks way different now than it did in the late 70's before I left da region in 1980.
You have a lot of the same memories that I do as far as cruising Broadway I remember all those places you were talking about and yes, Westlake Mall was called the Century Mall when they opened it and as a matter fact, one of the residents told me the Jacksons performed there when it opened. Glad you enjoyed the video Mark and I hope to hear more memories from you soon. Thank you for sharing your memories with us and cruising Broadway days. We had so much fun, cruising Broadway and stopping at the Coney King or going to the golf range across the street from the Y&W.
Those potholes are no joke. I occasionally grab White Castle on my way home from work and made the mistake of driving thru the Century Mall parking lot at night. 😬
Nice video ,I remember taken the Crown Point bus downtown to the Palace theater , I lived in Calumet township , Gary will be back one day location ,location ! will be
I appreciate you letting me know you enjoyed the video and hope to hear more from you soon. My mom was just talking about taking the bus down to the palace and how fun it was to be down there with the hat store across the street.
WLTH/Warren Frieberg! Ma had the clock radio in the kitchen on every morning as I was getting ready for school.
Originally the Century Mall
We called it the dead mall from the beginning
Monkey wards was the main store
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I agree with you. I’ve never heard of called monkey wards before but that is pretty damn funny. I’ll have to give you that one. You did make me laugh, Billy. I agree with you the Southlake Mall was where was that back in the day I hardly ever went to this one.
Always enjoy your video's. Still trying to watch them all. Definitely enjoyed this drive and talk with us look forward to your upcoming live streams I'm definitely gonna make sure to try and be there for that. Thanks for everything you do and share with us here in the 219.
It’s gonna be a long time do you can catch up on all the videos but I definitely want you to know. I appreciate your unwavering support. You are very welcome and thank you for always taking out the time to leave a comment. I enjoy reading them very much.
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@@TheSteelCityStorm oh I know it will definitely take me along time to get thru all your videos but it's nice to know you and your brother film around the 219. So thanks again for what both of you do
The last couple of times I’ve been in Gary this year it looks like several new businesses have popped up along broadway. Also I know someone cleaned out the inside but the outside of Union Station looks a lot cleaner too.
Lived up at US30 dragstrip back in the 70’s.
I grew up on 34th Delaware in the 60's. Moved to Portage in 1972. We probably knew some of the same people in the 33rd-37th ave from Broadway to Georgia. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for the memories down Broadway. Proud graduate of Andrean. Miss the Region but understand the issues. Visit family twice a year back home.
You are very welcome. I really appreciate you letting me know that you enjoyed the memories. That’s what it’s all about to me too. I appreciate you taking the time to let me know you enjoyed the video and hope to hear more from you soon.
Borned in Gary
Borned in Gary. Died somewhere else.
that gas station on 21st and Broadway so many memories
Thanks for another van ride. I feel like the van is it's own team member, sort of like it was on The A Team😀
Heather, you are exactly right the van is a big part of the team. I really enjoyed reading this comment you made me laugh and I appreciate that very much. Hope you are enjoying the channel and content and I look forward to seeing more comments from you soon.
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I enjoyed watching and listening. You made me think of my dad when you said you had a Gremlin. He had a brown one in the late 70's early 80's. I remember riding in it with him. So many great memories. Love the video!
Thank you so much Carrie . I am sorry that I just now seen your message. It’s always nice to know that you are enjoying the videos and having memories of better days gone by with our parents when we were young it’s an awesome way to be. Hopefully we can run each other again soon. It’s been a while it’s about that time 😉 happy Thanksgiving and I am sorry once again that I just now read your message.
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@@TheSteelCityStorm Happy Thanksgiving!!
Another Great Ride !!!
Thank you brother Tim. I’m glad you enjoyed it my man.!
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Beautiful day
Yes it is. I love the fall season.
I really enjoy your videos I loved on 43rd and Vermont Ct. I'll be 63 in March moved to Lowell in 1976
I am glad you are enjoying the videos, Michael. I really appreciate you. letting me know do you enjoy watching them. So many memories of better days gone by is exactly what I go for when I shoot these videos. I grew up on 35th and Connecticut and Aetna. I’ll be 59 in January.
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@@TheSteelCityStorm I Seen the video of Riley Grade School I went to that Grade School it's truly a shame what's happened to Gary when the Steel Mills went down Joe and Dan Please went to school with me back then
Great drive and dialogue Storm.
I really appreciate that. My good man, Big J.!
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The Old village
We used to go to first church of god in Gary,In on i think 36th and Broadway
..... And EVERYTHING you just said I agree 100% with! This is my first van ride btw and I loved it. I'll tell you what though, nothing is the way it used to be and maybe now and then that's ok but mostly it's not ok. I know that some great relationships have come out of online dating but there's nothing like that feeling you get inside when someone asks you out in person on your very first date. I can't understand how someone can fall in love with a person they never met and only ever talked to through a machine. I don't think you can really get to know the person that way. I never thought I'd see a day like that come, but here we are. I feel sorry for old people who didn't grow up with this stuff. The world now can feel pretty intimidating to them. How about these older people who may suffer a job loss. They can't just walk in somewhere like the old days and apply. Everything is done online, and God forbid you don't have a resume, geesh. I remember the days when you not only walked in and applied with pen and paper, but you also got interviewed on the spot and knew if you had the job or not before you even walked out the door. Now you have to go through at least three interviews on three separate days and then still wait weeks to find out if they will hire you. It's ridiculous. It doesn't even matter what kind of job you're applying for it's still a lengthy and complicated process. That's why when I lost my job in August I just decided to retire. The world is too complicated for my brain these days. I was trying to hang on for 18 months longer for my full retirement age, and after a 25-year career with my company, they pulled a fast one on me and decided to eliminate my position. They saved themselves by offering me the same position I had at a store an hour away from my house. I only drove 6 minutes to the current one. There's no way I would take that position that far away from home. With winter coming and bad weather on the horizon plus it's starting to get dark early now, it could take me hours to get home on a bad day. Companies don't value long term employees anymore. I do believe they just wanted me out of there to move someone younger and cheaper in. I saw them do that exact same thing to someone else I worked with a few years earlier, and he had been working for them for forty years! It's ok though, it was a blessing in disguise for me, because if I were still working, I wouldn't have met you and your brother that day in Portage. Wow, I really rambled here, sorry lol. There's just some things that I wished would never have changed. Loved the ride, let's do it again soon!! Take care!
I really enjoyed reading all this. Your memories are awesome and I’m glad you were listening to what to what I was talking about. You are spot on about the online stuff. Winter is always a hibernation season for me, but I understand this the earths way of cleansing itself with all the freeze. Hopefully we can get together and do something again soon. I really enjoyed spending time with you and your sister was awesome. Needing good people like you and knowing that others out there feel the way I do really makes it more comfortable for me to do these videos and I really want to thank you and let you know how much I appreciate, you taking the time to leave your long and detailed comment it was very nice to read and I could tell you put your heart into it. Thank you so much.
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Goldblatt s!
Yep 👍
There has been some improvement of course there still remains work to be done from where you started still quite a number of those space available stores but if they could at least hold their own middway through the route and don't let any more slip away there could be success. I see I could even cash a check at BMO. This is a big thing in Milwaukee in that it's more check cashing places than banks in the Inner City and people lose a lot of money at these predatory lenders. Also last weekend they opened a food store at 64th and Silver Spring in Milwaukee and if it wasn't there it's probably a 5 plus mile radius to any other full-size grocery store. It's a small chain that has been contracting over the years so hopefully they don't get plowed under
Did yous guys know any of the Lawler’s?!!!!
I cannot think of any first names off the top of my head, but the last name definitely rings a bell 🛎️
How about Joe, Marguerite.. known as Maggie.., Loretta, Jack, Mary or Evelyn .. known as Tiny.. lol..
How about Maggie’s Bar or something like that…