Grown In Gary

There’s a growing movement in Gary, Indiana!

[Grown In Gary @GaryAREA]

The Gary Anthology, available at https://t.co/EkKKqbgW0S

Photos + signs by @Decay_Devils

[Grown In Gary @GaryAREA]

@Sean_W_Anderson I almost died last week… 100% agree with this

[Grown In Gary @GaryAREA]

@BaseCardsRule @Royals I think every pack of 1981 Donruss came with at least 3 Wathans

[RegionLife💙💛☮️ @LifeIntheRegion]

Former MLB stars return home to give back. East Chicago's own, Kenny Lofton, and Gary's own, LaTroy Hawkins. FREE youth baseball & softball clinic.
#KennyMan #LaTroy #DoingGoodWork #WeGotNext #PlayBall #Gary #EC #Region

[Grown In Gary @GaryAREA]

@NathanIndiana1 Guessing they live in the woods around Meyer’s Castle. Fascinating history there, one of the biggest distributors of herbs in the early 20th century.

[Grown In Gary @GaryAREA]

@TigerMSU @Super70sSports Alice Cooper

[RegionLife💙💛☮️ @LifeIntheRegion]

@thekhemistlives @GaryMillrat @GaryAREA @BLMGary @capitalb_gary @TalentfromGary @AmericanLotus29 I am so excited about the resurgence of my beloved hometown. Growing up in Gary, we always had parades, carnivals, etc. Ok! I see ya 🥳‼️🤭❤️

[The Khemist - WLTH 1370AM/92.7FM @thekhemistlives]

Come out & join us at the City of Gary Independence Day Parade on Thursday @ 5PM.

Ya boy's gonna be in the parade!!!
@GaryMillrat @GaryAREA @BLMGary @capitalb_gary @TalentfromGary @LifeIntheRegion @AmericanLotus29

[Grown In Gary @GaryAREA]

@BadLikeNicki @GaryMillrat Saw the story! Congrats!

[Grown In Gary @GaryAREA]

@LifeIntheRegion I feel like I was a decade late to the party, as fun as it was to be a kid in the 80s

[Grown In Gary @GaryAREA]

@LifeIntheRegion I was only 3 then, but wow am I jealous now 😉

[Grown In Gary @GaryAREA]

@LifeIntheRegion Awesome that you were there!!! Did you know it was being recorded for an album?

And yes, RIP to them both

[Grown In Gary @GaryAREA]

@MoundLore I am of the idea that the meadows & black oak savannas of my Calumet Region were maintained landscapes of the pre-Settler populations. Have I any evidence? I’m not even sure what the evidence would be.

[Grown In Gary @GaryAREA]

@infantrydort I watched a group of artists and activists pull this same shit where I’m at. For the same reasons you state

[Grown In Gary @GaryAREA]

@BaseCardsRule That 1987 card scared me when I first pulled it. He looks ancient!

[Grown In Gary @GaryAREA]

@peterawolf Kid you not, my former neighbor in Chicago

[Grown In Gary @GaryAREA]

@Chicago_History @JamUSA @LiveNationIL @TheVicChicago The Cramps, with Rancid a close second

[Grown In Gary @GaryAREA]

And today the crushed Carrara marble lines this ditch along the 12900 block of Calumet Avenue in Hammond.

[Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard]

A very expensive example of the design penalty of large, detached commercial buildings is Standard Oil’s Chicago headquarters, which cost $120 million in 1974 (about $816 million today). Its architects clad the tower in nearly 6,000 tons of Italian Carrara marble (super fancy, stone Michelangelo used for David).

The marble was cut into ~44,000 veneer panels attached them across all four enormous elevations of the tower.

Within about 15 years, Chicago’s extreme temperature cycles wrecked the panels. Panels were actually detaching from the building.

The owner eventually had to remove every panel and reclad the entire tower in North Carolina granite. The repair cost $80 million at the time (roughly $200 million today) and required reinforcing parts of the structure to carry the heavier replacement stone. Owner then sued the architects, general contractor, marble installer, and Italian supplier!

The lesson is that the detached tower is extra exposed. Every elevation must withstand sun, wind, rain, thermal cycling, and decades of maintenance. Very expensive, very fragile design.

[Grown In Gary @GaryAREA]

@TheGhostSleepi1 Lots of BIRGing with those people. I remember a young commie, with complete conviction, shouting “We brought down the czar, man!” In 2014.

[Grown In Gary @GaryAREA]

@ChiSoxFanMike I’ve been listening to him since I got into baseball in 1984 and last night might have been the most spectacular thing I’ve ever heard him call