Welcome
to Lunch Time! Your summary of good things to eat when you were a kid at
Hammond High School!
It all began in the
HHS Cafeteria. For four long years we watched the morning clock
awaiting our lunch break. Confined to the school over the lunch
hour, the selection, quality and quantity of selected food stuff
that was rationed to the line of hungry students, was in the
hands of Marion Dobrzynski, Isabel Adoba, Cecelia Fabiyanic, Mary
Zurawec, Rose Balog, Rose Horvat, Mary Muellter, Laura Mears.
Standing: Geneva Boyd and Julia Femiak. The ethnic orientation of
this group explains why we always had Polish keilbasa
and the never had pizza or tacos for lunch!
Now
you can return to those
wonderful days of
high school and enjoy making your own
Maid-Rite hamburgers
at home with this recipe!
Check it out!
!
Click on Logo for Recipe!
Buy
'em by the Sack!
The cheapest and best way to satisfy your teenage hunger
was to head north on Calumet Avenue to find the
White Castle Hamburger stand. Known as the
"Slyder",
this 3" square of grease fortified hamburger patty
was consumed in a single bite! Hence you had to
"Buy 'em by the Sack!".
Members of the HHS football team would often stop by
after
a game and clean out the ground beef reserves of the
local
restaurant.
To a kid growing up in Hammond,
Indiana, Mace's wasn't a department store.
They never had a Thanksgiving Day parade and there were no
giant cartoon character balloons floating down Ridge Road and
Calumet Avenue.
Mace's was one of the typical drive-in restaurants in the Region,
where kids would go to hang-out,
be with their friends, and find a date for Saturday night.
The
second McDonald's restaurant in the national chain open
in Hammond on
Indianapolis Boulevard.
It was the home of the
15 cent hamburger,
15 cent french fries, and the
25 cent milk shake!
(Click on Logo for Visit)
The
Fat Boy Drive-In on Indianapolis Boulevard was a haven
for HHS students seeking to overdose on mounds of
french-fries. For 35-cents you could have the Chef
convert a 10-pound sack of Idaho potatoes to your evening
snack. Even today, cardiologists from all over the United
States are freeing clogged arteries with remnants of
french-fries consumed at
the Fat Boy Drive-In
The Red Rooster
was within walking distance of HHS. Students would often
gather there before class, escape over to the Red Rooster
over the noon hour, and then stop again on the way home.
The cigarette smoke flavored the "Delicious
Hamburgers" and students carried that greasy smell
with them throughout the day.
"Y'
comin' over to the Red Rooster tomorrow night after your
date?" Flick asked me. The Red Rooster was where
everyone who was with it went after a big night."
from Jean
Shepherd's book,
Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memoriesand Other
Disasters",
New York: Broadway Books,
1966, p. 189
You may have treated yourself to
ice cream from Dietrich's on Hohman Avenue.
You could stop for ice cream at their soda fountain restaurant or take it home
in this bright blue container! Ymmm!
When Lunch is over,
you may leave if you clean up your plate,
(there are still starving children in Africa, don't you know!)
then it is time to return to...
