This is so strange in that today is the 59th anniversary of the big explosion at Standard Oil (now BP) in 1955. We talked about it a bunch on the show today. NWI Times sportswriter Al Hamnik was in studio and said he was thrown from his bed to the wooden floor when he was only six-years-old. For Al, the day turned especially scary since his dad was at work at the Sinclair refinery and for a long time no one really knew which refinery had blown up.
My mom, who passed a long time ago, told me about the explosion and the chaos that followed when she showed up at Hammond High for school...