Tag: geographical region
No Interest in Seeing Our City Progress
"Why don’t you come to Gary and see what Gary really is?" https://youtu.be/YPOfcFVlWx4 Transcript for No Interest in Seeing Our City Progress You know—city services are based on tax revenue and if you don’t have enough people who are paying...
Should Play Nicer
"Don’t give me this disillusioned, glossy effect of who we are. This is who we really are." https://youtu.be/Q7R6SHcvsR8 Transcript for Should Play Nicer Good neighbors. That’s an oxymoron, isn’t it? I think it is. All the counties in Northwest...
Hold the Line
“These were good people who honestly believed that there was a real problem in terms of the difference between the races.”
Edited by Rebecca Werner. Transcript for Title of Story Well, at the...
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
"The guy who was over the department...said that I might have some problems because they had never had anybody black in the office." https://youtu.be/qKy4UZsE6vw Transcript for Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained When I graduated from high school, I got a job...
The Strike at Froebel
"We were in school one day, the next day when we went back, the entire white population of students were gone." https://youtu.be/YDhAJ6NxNC8 Transcript for The Strike at Froebel I was totally shocked when I moved to Gary. For the simple...
Remember Where You Came From
"You can never forget who you are." https://youtu.be/FYjndEmJH4c Transcript for Remember Where You Came From I say to my grandkids all the time, you can never forget who you are, but you have to remember where you come from. You...
Back Then, It Mattered
"So these are things that I kind of learned that I didn’t realize I was learning." https://youtu.be/LNAsOt9SGPA Transcript for Back Then, It Mattered I’m Croatian. And when I was a kid, it mattered. My dad was Croatian, my grandfather, George...
How I Tried to Leave
"My mother said, ‘Always leave a job to where maybe you could go back to it.'" https://youtu.be/vOA-j4N2EmE Transcript for How I Tried to Leave My mother said, “Always leave a job to where maybe you could go back to it.”...
Bigger Forces Swirling
"I realized that my little Wonder Bread existence in Miller was not quite what I thought it was." https://youtu.be/FJ-Upndyw_g Transcript for Bigger Forces Swirling I grew up in the Miller section of Gary in the late 1960s through the ‘70s,...