If you're from IN, list your hometown here...
- Thread starter Cleanface
- Start date
We lovingly referred to that course as "The Goat Ranch" since the fairways were clumpy grass and barre spots by mid July. The owners built a significantly nicer course on 135 a half mile West of Trafalgar called Tameka Woods. I don't think the Goat Ranch is open any longer. It may actually be a goat ranch though!
PHHS is on US 20 in LaGrange county. NECC conference. Angola, Eastside, West Noble and Lakeland are a few of the schools in the conference. A few small towns and lots of lakes feed into PHHS. I'm old enough that when I played it was still one class in basketball so we played some bigger schools in season and in sectionals. Hamilton is much smaller enrollment and draws from Hamilton and some lakes in the area.
Grew up in Mulberry. Graduated from Clinton Prairie high school 1965, joined the Navy and wound up in Illinois since 1970 . In grade school before Mulberry consolidated Oscar Robinson was at our basketball banquet had his autograph but lost years ago. He was still at Crispus Attucks at that time
You do know there are at least two Mulberrie's in Indiana don't you. One in Grant County.
don't think so there's a Mathews in Grant county but no Mulberry unless its a subdivision or something
Yeah, I've known of those schools for years. Hamilton has a smaller enrollment than Prairie Heights? That's surprising to me.
Gary. Then CP.
Dr Ess, great memories of what may be the greatest year in Region Hoops that I recall,1978.
Gary Roosevelt with Jon Hegwood, who went to U of San Francisco with Wallace Bryant, upset Bryant's Emerson squad on Friday night in Gary sectional. Merrillville won at Calumet. Your Noll Warriors came out of EC.
(Crown Point, Calumet, Munster, and both EC teams were also strong that year up here).
At Gary Regional, most thought it would be Jerry King's Bishop Noll team advancing. Merrillville with Jelesky and Seneff pulled the big upset.
Great memories.
Dr Ess, great memories of what may be the greatest year in Region Hoops that I recall,1978.
Gary Roosevelt with Jon Hegwood, who went to U of San Francisco with Wallace Bryant, upset Bryant's Emerson squad on Friday night in Gary sectional. Merrillville won at Calumet. Your Noll Warriors came out of EC.
(Crown Point, Calumet, Munster, and both EC teams were also strong that year up here).
At Gary Regional, most thought it would be Jerry King's Bishop Noll team advancing. Merrillville with Jelesky and Seneff pulled the big upset.
Great memories.
Opie and Arnold fooled Goober for awhile with that dog,didnt they?Goober did good imitations of Cary Grant,Edward G Robinson,and Chester,didnt he?
My family moved to the Fort from Germany in 1845 and has been there ever since. Until me. I've lived in the MW, TX, PA, and now NH.
Last edited:
There is a town known as Mulberry where 26 intersects with old US 35. It's been known as Trask (Historic marker) was known as New Mulberry and now is simply known as Mulberry by the locals. I doubt you can find it on a map, but the good thing it leads to Ivanhoe's in Upland.
Are you trying to be the cool non-conformist or did you just not grow up in the state of Indiana?
I graduated in '92 and 46 kids in my class. At the time it was the 6th smallest public school in the state. Current class sizes are in the 20's now and just heard they are closing the school down in a year or two. School fits a geographic niche and has been there over 100 years. My dad graduated from there. Not surprised it is finally shuttering the doors, but sad to hear. Some of those kids are going to have a helluva buss ride to neighboring schools.
We had to put up with a lot of IU fans down there....
You a NE Dubois grad? My dad was there for years.
Sorry to hear about it closing. We recently moved back to the Fort from living in Iowa and Illinois for 15 years. Raised our boys in those 2 states and they haven't done the consolidation like Indiana did. Lots of small schools there and it reminded me of the pre-consolidation days that my Dad described in Indiana. Rivalries were great with schools being so close to each other and the kids knowing each other so well. Great small gym atmospheres packed to the rafters on a Friday or Saturday night! Good God I'm getting old!!!
Bristol. Elkhart Central grad. Used to mow Shawn Kemp's lawn in Bristol at the estate he bought for his mom after his first year in the NBA. He paid $10/hour which was big money for a 13 year old in 1989!
Did Bobby Smith go there? I can't recall, but was thinking he might have graduated from Prairie?
between Tipton and Kokomo...little town called Sharpsville...where 1969 Golden Girl Selita (Smith) Rechart (Red Gold) lived. 72-76 Purdue
