Though he never met his grandfather, Eddie Sahm grew up hearing stories about the great William S. Sahm. Friends called him Hoss because he was the spitting image of Hoss Cartwright from
Bonanza a big, gregarious man who served as the executive director of the Indianapolis Catholic Youth Organization from 1954 to 1973, taught speech at Marian College, was active in the civil rights movement, and once stood mere feet from John F. Kennedy. People wanted him to run for mayor, but he was a family man a father of nine who guzzled Tab and smoked cigarettes, and whose memory endures at the 85-acre William S. Sahm Park and Golf Course near Castleton, dedicated a few years after he died … too young, at the age of 45. “He was this guy that everyone wanted to be around,” Eddie Sahm says of his father’s father. “And to me, that’s what a restaurant is like. It’s a place where everyone wants to be.”