Photo History of HHS

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Early photo of Central High School at Fayette & Hohman. The photographer appears to have left his camera bag on the corner before he
walked to the middle of the intersection to set up his tripod and camera. It is autumn. Leaves have left the trees and the house on the far left
has a fire in the furnace to ward off the chilly morning air. The direction of the smoke shows the wind is out of the north.

The City of Hammond built Central High School in 1905. It was located on the southeast corner of Hohman Avenue and Fayette Street, just across the street from the downtown courthouse. It was in the busy commercial district also across from Goldblatt's Department store (then Kaufman and Wolfe, or was it Lyons Department Store?)

  

The present Hammond High School building was constructed in the 1914 and was known as the Industrial High School on Calumet Avenue. It was built west of Maywood Park and now sits across the street from Hammond's City Hall.

This photo appeared in the 1921 yearbook
edition of The Dunes

 

  
1922 Dunes Photo  
     

 
This 1923 photo of HHS appeared in the '23 issue of The Dunes. It was taken by O.W. Bodie and published in black and white. When the 1923 photo appeared on this postcard, artists colored in image and removed Bodie's logo in the lower left of the original. Sky looks better, too!  
     
Originally Hammond High School looked east upon an undeveloped Maywood Park. This setting was an attractive one for the Industrial High School in Hammond  
To the right, an aerial view of Hammond High School (to the right of the oval track) across Calumet Avenue to Maywood Park, before the City built City Hall.
Looking northeast...

Below, an aerial view of HHS circa 1940

  

This is the more classic photo used to represent Hammond High School during the 1950s and 1960s. Most HHS grads can still pick out sections of windows and remember which classes were held in that particular room.
This is Hammond High School that we knew in 1959.
We came from all neighborhoods in Hammond and Munster, a rich mixture of social and ethnic backgrounds that prepared us for dealing with a complex world.