I wish I could dive into this video like a time machine and run straight home to my house in east Glen Park and see all my family again when they were alive and stay there with them forever.

From the 1920s - 1960s Gary was an amazing place to live

When I was a kid ...my friend and I would take the bus from meadowdale...and go shopping at the Village

This is an awesome video. I’m from Gary and I recall going to the village with my grandparents during the late 80’s. Even then, it was so much better than what it is now. I eventually moved to Merrillville, then on to Fort Wayne. I can’t believe how run down Gary has become. If only I had the money; I’d buy as much real estate as I could, starting with downtown and push out the corruption and revitalize the city inside out.

Those were the days. I was born in Gary at Gary Methodist. Lived there until ‘76. Great memories. I am a proud Hoosier.

Back when I grew up, Gary was a striving, beautiful city. My mother worked for Gary Redevelopment, and also the Civic Center. I hate how it has become.

I lived directly across the street.The 36th amd Grant St enterance to the Village.the house and the one next door were moved when purchased by a bank. Santa would arrive via helicopter. So many good childhood memories.

Wowee! I remember as a little girl. Gary was very cool and pretty. Beautiful homes and shopping centers. Thanks for the nostalgic post!

The stealmill was the saving grace of Gary Indiana, a blue collar middle class town. I do so weep at it's nearly desolate and mere existence today, mere shadow of what was imaginable and what she could have become for of it's Citizen's and not merely a few.

This was what both of my grandfather's returned home to after WWII, and shortly afterwards my uncle's and father would have headed to North Korea and subsequently Vietnam. And as for myself, I am a veteran of Desert Storm 1990-94.

The Village is a empty building of a few stores but I miss those days of going to JCPenneys, Hallmark, Kresges and even Goldblatts

Never knew this Gary, must be nice.

The men dressed so well back then, they all look like 007.

Anybody recall a shoe store where the Children's department was on a "raised platform"??. #TBT..😁

Worked at the Kroger store and my dad was the manager!

Bob I had a lot of family living in Glen Park, once I get my hands on a time machine, I will let you know.

Chicagoans use to ride the train to Gary to shop and walk Boadway..such a shame..corruption not only in Gary, almost any large metropolitan area..

Look at all the people, dressed so beautifully & happy. I can't imagine the people who grew up here & have these memories, and what it is today....is this where the Jackson kids performed?

I was born in 1956 , I remember the Village. Fantastic piece you chose for the music .

I remember the Village before they enclosed it.

Nice video it reminds me of how beautiful Gary use to be. I was raised in Black Oak on the Westside and moved 30 minutes South in the late 90s. My cousin lives in Gary off Grant St in brand new apartments. I'd love to see them bulldoze the abandoned buildings and restore Gary. It's one of a kind , but a sad and violent city.

Thanks for uploading this video! I am not from the region, but these steel belt cities are fascinating. It’s sad to think about how people worked and were able to provide for their families and community was a way of life.

Yesterday May 25th, 2019, I drove my 2018 made Dodge Journey Crossroad on the Broadway. No traffic, no pollution, no people. YAYYYYY LOL

I was there when they opened. My mother had a paint and walper and decorating store. Every store opened on the same day and every store opened noon to 9Pm M-F. 9am-6pm Sat and every store was CLOSED on Sunday

I lived in Gary in the mid nineties . I used to go to the village regularly. Sad what has become of Gary.

Those were the days! I grew up a couple blocks away and remember when it was built and spent many hours just hanging out there as a youngster. Hard to believe but in addition to Title's and Kroger, there was an A &P Grocery a block north on Grant. 3 grocery stores...Thanks for the flashback to a better time. D.A.

I remember picking up my grandmother from work at The Village. She used to sew draperies for J.C. Penney in a huge workroom behind the complex's southwest juncture. My brother and I would get those great hot dogs from the stand, then go to Kresge for malts. This was around 1970-the last days, so to speak.

We lived right around the corner, I spent most of my allowance at Mr Grillo's toy store and later worked in the paint department in the Montgomery Wards.

I love to look at cities in their prime most of the Midwest cities like Gary and Detroit really thrived in the time period.

Born and raised in Gary, spent a big part of my childhood in the village shopping center, my second job was at jc penny’s, dad worked at wards as a second job, those hotdogs were amazing, rexall drugs and there lunch counter with real cherry cokes, the good old days, left gary in 1978, and never looked back, mom and dad never left, dad retired after 35 yrs at u.s. steel, couldn’t get them to move to valpo!😢

Gary sure has come a long way, great place to raise a family these days.

About a minute into it, it reminded me of watching old episodes of Mr. Rogers lol..if you watched it growing up, you'd know what i mean

Hey Buddy great video bring back the memories. I remember they had a little hot dog stand there out front now it's inside I think that's the only original thing that's still there, just a lot of empty space now. years ago when it was new the place was packed I can remember it was fields all over there we used to go down 35th to the West and there used to be a farm where you could pick your vegetables and stuff used to go back there with some of the neighbors back when Gary was a nice place now I don't know what's left of it looks like Beirut Lebanon anymore, like a war zone what's left of it.

Damn Glen Park didn't even exist right across the street back then. 😲

This was before the Steel Industry left. Before they elected their first black major. Before white flight. In fact, whites were the majority back in the 60's.

I remember buying a Gap Band album here in 1982.

Enjoyed the music

i was born in Gary(many yrs ago) in ST Marys Hospital)when it was own and run by the Catholic Church. check what it likes now!!!We moved shortly after to Chicago and moved as a teenager to Southern California,and still there.We have our problems like very place in this country! But its the best place not only in this country but the whole world when you look at not only the weather,employment,homes etc,etc!!! If you have a better place let me know? Thanks

delightful! thanks for sharing

Very cool trip back in time!!

I grew up near there in the 79s-80s. By that time, steel mill jobs were drying up, & white flight had already happened in Gary, for the most part, as the work dried up. Many Black Americans from the south moved up to northwest Indiana hoping for better prospects, & less harassment. Neither happened, as overt racism, & redlining was prevalent, as were sundowner towns. I lived in a town built for steel mill workers- white steel mill workers. There were no Black people in the town I grew up in. With insufficient tax dollars to maintain the city, as more & more residents left for a chance of better opportunities , Gary fell into decline. And it became a very dangerous place in many parts, for quite a few years. It was named the murder capital of the country in the 80s I believe. Now yo see it as a near ghost town is weird

Dang, Gary had a Kroger?

Damn...I was there last month to get a Polish!

Damn, now instead of Gary Indiana, it’s Scary Indiana

When I was a kid we would ride our bikes on the roof of Tittles.

Hi, what is the music in the background , please? Very nice. I've been working in Gary lately, fascinating and mortifying. place. Sad really.

Rest in pieces Gary last cool thing there was Roy Boys Badlands smh. Why the destruction why didn't they pick up where it was left off still had the mills no excuse to ruin a awesome place that once was. Could of been a great place if it was taken care of with love and inspiration.

I lived over by Lew Wallace..walked to or rode bike to Village

I used to live right across the street in the late sixties, moved in 70. Little house right on Grant St, next to McAnary Ford. Some good times hanging out at the Village as a kid.

I love this!!!

This absolutely amazing smh Woooooow It's just sad that The Village is now a shell of what it once was but thank u for this amazing visual

Thank you!

Do you have footage of downtown Gary...I'm looking for old footage of GARY CAMERA AND VIDEO.

What great music...sounds like a Horace Silver arranged for big band.....

I recently had some 8mm home movies transferred to DVD. About 30sec of the video was shot outside The Village in 1965.

dunno the place, tho very interesting, thnx 4 sharing👍

Outside the building the corner of Wards had one of those twisted mirrors that would distort everything. As little kids we had a lot of fun looking at it. I remember a different goldblatts Thay we're two buildings with en enclosed walkway on the second floor. The walkway was not level. You had to walk up hill through the walkway then down the other side

Great footage. Also the song credit? Amazing job with this!

Yeah back when Judge Gary was in effect now it's a wrap. That ship has sailed, let the good times roll on by.

What year is this? 1956?

Walter, what is the Soundtrack for this great Video? Can you tell me? I love it! :)

Timeless video

Very sad it's like watching person dying .What year did the shops open.

Gary used to be so beautiful

What year did it open? I remember it. I lived in Gary from 1957 (my birth) until 1965.

Who's the music by? It's amazing. Thanks

amazing

I guess I got the short end of the Gary stick being born in 1985 huh smh

Mind blown

@2:27 they had Kroger

We don’t go on the side of the tracks no more

This is great. Walter do you still live in Gary?

100× Better than 2020

56!? Is that what year this was?

A big American dream that turned to nothing.

Nice music. Who is this?

Keep telling me America has "progressed" since then.

Gary is a classic case of political, geographic and functional fragmentation. eroding tax bases that strained city services and their budgets. It's too bad. My parents grew up there and I spent part of my youth there as well.

Back before America turned into a third world country.

Down the street from family home 12 and 20 in Miller.

Year of opening? Year of closing?

What is that lady smuggling in her shirt @ 1:35 ? 🧐

People who built this are all gone. Gary died when they were run out by crime and violence; same as everywhere in USA 🇺🇸 today .

I was always a Woodmar mall man myself.

Did any of you online know the Jacksons/Jackson 5 while you were growing up in Gary??..I mean, knew them personally.

People in the 50s really had it all. And they seem to never care about any other generation moving forward. The beginnings of the end of strong family. They retired way too early. They could have worked for their future generations. The generations today are in a world of hurt. Upsets me how the one generation that had it all is the generation that'll be the first to say how entitled and spoiled we are today. Bullocks

Montgomery Wards took the space that had been Kresge’s or Penneys at some point...probably in the early 70’s

Hard to believe people got all dressed up to go shopping back then. Thought they were all dressed up to go to church on Sunday.

Back when three sisters was only one sister. ;)

so they ruined crops for shopping

The greatest entertainer of all time was born in 1950s, Michae Jackson.