I was sitting in the bar at the Holiday Inn in Key West in the early seventies, enjoying a conversation between a semi-inibriated sailor (is that redundant?) and an older couple, who turned out to live in the Woodmar section of Hammond. When they left, the sailor and I continued to talk. Turns out he was from the St. Louis area and knew one of my roommates from Murray State in Kentucky. I mentioned that my roomie had some Ike and Tina Turner albums, and the sailor said his step-father ran the club in St. Louis where they were "discovered." Small world!!!

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In visiting with our fellow classmates, I've been hearing stories of our HHS'59 grads running into each other as some sort of "Close Encounter of the 59th Kind!" If you have a story to share about meeting a fellow classmate, or running into someone from Hammond, Indiana in some strange encounter, please let us know.




It is a small world afterall!

The "Small World After All" story about the bar in Key West was my contribution. Wayne Lander

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I was sitting in the bar at the Holiday Inn in Key West in the early seventies, enjoying a conversation between a semi-inibriated sailor (is that redundant?) and an older couple, who turned out to live in the Woodmar section of Hammond. When they left, the sailor and I continued to talk. Turns out he was from the St. Louis area and knew one of my roommates from Murray State in Kentucky. I mentioned that my roomie had some Ike and Tina Turner albums, and the sailor said his step-father ran the club in St. Louis where they were "discovered." Small world!!!

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In visiting with our fellow classmates, I've been hearing stories of our HHS'59 grads running into each other as some sort of "Close Encounter of the 59th Kind!" If you have a story to share about meeting a fellow classmate, or running into someone from Hammond, Indiana in some strange encounter, please let us know.




It is a small world afterall!