Reviews
Indiana Harbor Author Writer Recalls His Time at WHS
Let's Go Home to Indiana Harbor is a highly nostalgic look about life in East Chicago, at Washington High School and growing up in the Harbor in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The author is Warren G. Landrum, Jr., who currently resides in Grand Prairie, Texas.
My experiences in the Harbor were from the 1940s to the 1970s, but Warren's runs through a later era, from the 1960s through the 1980s. I found it interesting that uch of his experience in this later era was much the same as the experience of most people who grew up in Indiana Harbor in earlier decades. His book is also a little different from what many of us have read about in that he goes into a lot of detail about life in the neighborhoods around Carey Street, Deodar Street, Block and Peensy, and Canal Port.
Like the Anvil, he includes written experiences from other of his era in his book. Dozens of letters (emails actually) carry the remembrances of others who grew up around the same time as Warren.
I really enjoyed reading it and I think he did a super job in capturing the essence of the experiences of most people who lived in "da Harbor" during those years. It's another "can't put it down" kind of living history of Indiana Harbor.
Bill Leavitt
WHS Class of 1959
Editor of the Anvil
Valparaiso, Indiana
submitted November 2010