10/29/1999 - The Sanibel Captiva Islander - Obituary
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Flicks Tap |
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Cleveland Street |
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Cleveland Street light, turn
right at this light and you will be about 7 house from the Shepherd
home, follow this street down the block and you will dead end into the
Warren G. Harding School. |
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Harding Elementary School |
Far right side main entance |
Front of the school |
Far left side |
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Shep's Sanibel Florida Home |
Front left side, above this garage is
where I spotted the computer, I believe this was Leigh's
office as Shep's was in the back. |
Right side of house |
Back right corner of the house, screened
lanai |
Shep's ham radio antenna |
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Downtown Hammond |
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Downtown Hammond, Hohman
Avenue, picture taken from where Goldblatts once stood. As you can see
not much here anymore. This was once a thriving business area that had
hometown charm. If you look closely in the third picture you can see the
LaSalle Hotel. This is one of the last remaining business' that still
stands from the 40's downtown Hammond |
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Hohman Avenue |
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Hohman Avenue Street
Sign. Hohman as we all know was the so-called fictional town where his
stories originated from. |
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Hammond High School |
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HHS "Wildcat" logo |
HHS football field: Where Shep marched during band practice, wailing
away on his sousaphone or was it really a kazoo? |
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Front of HHS, if you look close you
can spot the Calumet Ave street sign. Shep spoke frequently of
Calumet Ave. |
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Introduction to Radio |
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The 1st radio station
Shep ever worked at...our local NW Indiana institution, 1230AM WJOB.
picture of the transmitter which sits in the back. |
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2907 Cleveland Street |
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The Shepherd house on
Cleveland St. 3 shots in all the 1st shot was taken from a circular
portion of Cleveland St. No doubt a few feet from where I took this
shot, Lud Kissel ignited his dago bomb.
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"Emde's
Folly" to the left behind the stop sign.) |
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Cleveland St sign... I wonder what it would take to get
one of these signs?
(A screwdriver would be useful!) |
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Shep's home in color and maybe as
we should see it...in B&W. The home is in need of much repair. Sad
thing is it looks like what the Bumpus house looked like in My
Summer Story. Scattered in the lawn are bikes, various kids toys
etc. You can see the steps need painting and the bushes need to be
trimmed. The back yard which is accessible via an alley is really
bad. A blue mini van (with it's door torn off and front end smashed
in) actually sits in the backyard with a small pop-up camper. As you
have to respect the people that live here part of me wants to knock
on the door and help them clean up the property. I have heard that
the owner of the home has lived here for some 23 years and knew
Randy Shepherd very well. |
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"The Bluebird" |
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The Hessville VFW on
Kennedy Avenue...why these 2 shots? Well this building was once known as
"The Bluebird!" |
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Another Kid On The Block |
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3 doors down and across
the street from Shep's house is the home my Father and his 3 brothers
grew up in. The house has a ton of family history behind it. My
Grandmother raised all 4 boys by herself here for many years. My oldest
2 uncles were 9 & 7 when Shep was still here and attending Hammond High.
Shep left Hammond in the early 40's but his kid brother Randy along with
Shep's Mom lived there for quite sometime. My Mom & Dad married in 64
and actually moved back into this house! My Grandmother rented out the
apartment (upstairs) to them and I recently found out I was conceived
there! So as my Father can tell me he grew up on Cleveland St and
attended Warren G. Harding I can at least tell my 1st born..."I was the
kid you see...conceived on Cleveland St!" |
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