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Post by librarylady on May 27, 2024 14:56:51 GMT
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Post by malibou on May 27, 2024 16:11:50 GMT
I was born in Gary, though we lived in the adjacent town of East Gary. We moved from there when I was about 3.5. My older sisters remember living there, but I have always thought I didn't have any real memory of it. Seeing the pictures of the City Methodist Church and the Palace Theater have brought memories forward. I just called my mom, and yes indeed I was baptized in that church at age 3 and I had been in the theater as well. I also had heard stories of the imaginary friend I had during that time, but I personally have very few memories of her. I now know, today, that Candy also went to the Palace Theater with me. 😁 And I will bet my bottom dollar that right near that theater there was a department store where patent leather shoes were purchased. I'm remembering getting in trouble for insisting that Candy needed yellow patent leather shoes. I can't wait to ask my sisters more about this.
What a trip.
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Post by tmarschall on May 27, 2024 16:57:29 GMT
I was born in Gary, though we lived in the adjacent town of East Gary. We moved from there when I was about 3.5. My older sisters remember living there, but I have always thought I didn't have any real memory of it. Seeing the pictures of the City Methodist Church and the Palace Theater have brought memories forward. I just called my mom, and yes indeed I was baptized in that church at age 3 and I had been in the theater as well. I also had heard stories of the imaginary friend I had during that time, but I personally have very few memories of her. I now know, today, that Candy also went to the Palace Theater with me. 😁 And I will bet my bottom dollar that right near that theater there was a department store where patent leather shoes were purchased. I'm remembering getting in trouble for insisting that Candy needed yellow patent leather shoes. I can't wait to ask my sisters more about this. What a trip. I was baptized at City Methodist too. I grew up in Gary and lived there til I went to college. I shared in Indianapolis for mosy of the next 25+ years. Six years ago I moved back to the NW Indiana region. We live in Hobart now. But if we could have found a house in my old neighborhood we would have moved back in a heartbeat. Gary gets a bad rap. Just like Detroit, when you take the jobs out of a company town, what do you expect? |
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Post by peasapie on May 27, 2024 17:26:04 GMT
That's sad. We are a society that consumes and discards.
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Post by valincal on May 27, 2024 18:13:11 GMT
Although I didn’t know much about the US when I was a teenager, I knew that the Jackson 5 were from Gary Indiana. I must have read about it in Tiger Beat! 😊
Sad to see that beautiful church in disrepair. Hopefully they can revitalize it.
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Post by malibou on May 28, 2024 5:21:31 GMT
I was born in Gary, though we lived in the adjacent town of East Gary. We moved from there when I was about 3.5. My older sisters remember living there, but I have always thought I didn't have any real memory of it. Seeing the pictures of the City Methodist Church and the Palace Theater have brought memories forward. I just called my mom, and yes indeed I was baptized in that church at age 3 and I had been in the theater as well. I also had heard stories of the imaginary friend I had during that time, but I personally have very few memories of her. I now know, today, that Candy also went to the Palace Theater with me. 😁 And I will bet my bottom dollar that right near that theater there was a department store where patent leather shoes were purchased. I'm remembering getting in trouble for insisting that Candy needed yellow patent leather shoes. I can't wait to ask my sisters more about this. What a trip. I was baptized at City Methodist too. I grew up in Gary and lived there til I went to college. I shared in Indianapolis for mosy of the next 25+ years. Six years ago I moved back to the NW Indiana region. We live in Hobart now. But if we could have found a house in my old neighborhood we would have moved back in a heartbeat. Gary gets a bad rap. Just like Detroit, when you take the jobs out of a company town, what do you expect? We lived in Hobart for a short bit while our house in Portage was being built. We moved from there, when I was 9, to Oregon. As adults my parents and all 4 of my siblings moved back to Indiana, landing in Indianapolis and Peru. |
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Post by rymeswithpurple on May 28, 2024 15:38:05 GMT
We thought we were moving to NE Indiana when DH had his interview in January. It would've been a change from where we are now (northern VA), but we're also both from SW PA, so maybe not too big a change from that.
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