The class picture on the ground was from the year I graduated, 2008. I could see myself sitting on the front row.

There was no shooting at commencement "outside the auditorium" in 1997. Commencement took place at the Genesis Center. I was teaching at Lew Wallace at the time.

Dad graduated from Wallace in 1942. He told me on homecoming night, Hank Stram ran back the opening kickoff for a touchdown. It was the only points scored in the game. Dad said Hank wasn't a big guy but he was built really solid. Dad was lab partners with that Fischer guy who found the sunken ship with all the gold.

As an avid bookworm with a nice small library of my own, it makes me sad to see all those books and magazines just left to rot. Fascinating video though as I enjoy abandoned places.

Graduated in 1964. Thank you for the memories.

This is my favorite explanation channel it's nice to see the beginning and the end of the building

The ending montage is incredibly bitter sweet, very well done.

Me and a couple of buddies just explored it and RVERYTHING was left in there it is huge I've never been in such a cool building every door you open another is awaiting

Omg I graduated from there class of 2011 thats when it became the stem academy wow crazy to see my school like this.

Great content I graduated in 2000 thanks for memories and r.i.p to neal and Kelly

school and racism is such an upsetting topic, cannot belive this was a thing.

Interesting song choice at the end lol thank you for all the before and after pictures. Really enjoyed!

I explored it back in 2017 and left with some treasures. Nice video! Funny you should mention Bill because I tried to explore places in Gary with him.

Wow! Amazing how this place has changed over time!😶

My mom is 88yo and grew up in Glen Park during its grandeur and graduated from Lew Wallace in 1952, as did my Dad. She was a cheerleader and my Dad was a captain of the football and basketball team, and apparently was a local football legend. I am disgusted at what happened to this school and wish I could’ve gone there before it was destroyed to get some items for my mom as keep sakes. Who does this sort of stuff? Why do kids vandalize? Boredom? I am I’ll watching this while looking at my mom’s old yearbook and how beautiful the school once was.

Could the city leaders not at least secure the school to stop the affects of weather and vandalism? Incompetence at its best.

What a mess. Sure didn't take long for this building to fall apart since it closed in 2014

Once again, awesome video 💯%

Your videos rock. Great job finding the historical information and presenting it. You are the only ones I know that take the time to do that and it adds immensely to your credibility. Your views are way too low...I wish more people knew about your channel. Keep up the good work and thanks!

The fact that there were no photos of any of the all black student classes is WILD!

Very interesting video. I love how you put in clips of how this school looked originally and what it looked like before being demolished. Great Job! I read all about the Paula Cooper case and the lady that she and three other girls murdered. I know Paula was the ring leader in that case. Does anyone know what happened to the other girls (women) now? Where are they now? Paula is dead I realize that.

Such a tragedy, Rip Lew Wallace 💔

The story of the demise of most abandoned places is sad....this one definitely falls in that category.

It's sad to see that what was left inside wasn't salvaged. Gary had such beautiful architectural schools. Why something couldn't have been done other than demolish them is horrible.

So tragic it's gone now 😢

Yes 😊😊😊

Weird to think about how still things stay. Those books on the floor at 3:14 and the knocked over bookshelf are from me and my friend making a mess back in 2016, I have a video of it somewhere. Crazy to think that 5 years later, things are next to exactly the way we left it. Really liked the parts where you edited in videos of what it used to look like and showed them side by side, really gives a sense of how much things have decayed.

I'm glad u got in before it's demolished

Ruin Road please do Gary Roosevelt and Bailey

I graduated from this school. It used to be a beautiful old building, however, the entire city traded.

Damn I miss my school. CO 04!

Anybody know what the song is at the end of the video?

Sure went downhill fast, looked like a nice modern school too.

What a troubled past 😔

Sad to say this school is currently being demolished

grew up in gary went to wallace

For anyone wondering the whole building has been completely demolished as of atleast 2022.

How do you guys get in that place? It was pretty sealed up with boards for the past year, and also the police were keeping a good eye on it. I heard police were arresting people who were caught trespassing. So how long ago was this exploration? Also, this is probably one of the best put together videos done on Lew Wallace. Great job guys!

Its a shame the population treated all of gary with such abandonment,no cares but your own. Shameful that whether the daddies are all in Indiana State Prison or oded, that I went to school late 60s early 70s and I know alot of Moms,Aunts, and Grannies that would have burnt the hide of dem azzs for destroying what they couldn't pay for. Them women didn't laugh about that. Shameful What a WASTE.

It wouldn’t be Gary In,with out spray paint on the walls

We all know what happened to Gary I grew up there. Sadly, Lew Wallace was at one time still in the “good part of town”. The demographic poison must’ve finally reached at too. I was a boy when bussing & forced integration occurred. In video after video similar to this whether it is Edison middle school or Brunswick school the result in that idiotic policy is evident. What is nearly as incredible is the corruption and the stupidity of city officials that simply closed the doors in a school like this doing nothing to secure it and then wash their hands of the responsibility. No different than a Third World sub-Saharan country

Heard LW was knocked down recently? Was here over a year ago but didn't get a chance to go in far, just down a hallway regretfully. I like the history and news clippings inserted in the video. Almost shocking to see it was a majority White class at one time.

EL DUB

I guess they just took it down

I am from Gary and a former police officer you are wrong about Lew Wallace in 1975 Muhammad Ali was never booed off stage.

Great job showing the before and after as the graffiti is atrocious 🙄. Shocked to see all of those nonfiction books left behind as that’s only what I like to read. 😢

project zorgo is always watching

It went down hill from there.

You never mention the gun range.

Thanks for showing the pictures of the school when it was at its finest.........all white.