The Orpheum Theater
- in Local Hammond
The Hammond Times, March 1952 The lights are out and the asbestos curtain has been lowered for the last time in the Orpheum theater on State street, where the four Marx brothers, Fred Allen and…
Category: Local Hammond
Roby Speedway
- in Local Hammond
Description Located between 108th and 112th Streets just west of Indianapolis Blvd. One-mile dirt track. Operated from about 1920 through 1936. Backstretch ran parallel with State Line Road., probably only a 100 feet or so…
G. H. Hammond Meat Packing
- in Local Hammond
Description In 1868, George Hammond was living in Detroit and working with Marcus Towle. Mr. Towle was the first to use chipped ice from the Great Lakes to ship frozen processed beef by rail to…