A pic of the house I was born and raised in

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

Courtesy Google Earth Pro.

It may not seem like much, but that little smattering of buildings at a rural crossroads has a history. At one time it was a productive little town- it began as a logging town in years gone by. There was a blacksmith shop, a barber shop, a church, and a general store. The large building immediately south of my house was at one time a two-room school. During the years I lived there it was a storage garage. It has an old-style slate roof. The general store, owned and operated by Mae (we all called her Aunt Mae), is on the southeast corner of the crossroads. It closed in the sixties, and Mae passed on after going through three husbands. Art Cook was her last one- he survived her. Their house was across the street, immediately north. The store building was converted into storage, and at one time there was a bee honey extraction operation inside it.

All the land to the southwest of the crossroads is now a golf course. It was all cattle grazing land when I lived there.



Show us YOUR home!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Prisoner_Number_Six.........

I only have this pic of my home........Enjoy! I love your view of yours, though......that is very special, and the history is wonderful...

[Floogeldy]

2. Have you ever thought about being a hypnotist?

Because you definitely just put me to sleep.

:boring:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

3. Sorry, I forgot- you have no personal history to look back upon.

Must be rough. :shrug:

[Floogeldy]

6. Yow, I have no history.

;)

[RetroLounge]

4. But you were awake enough to post this?

:shrug:

RL

[Floogeldy]

7. No. I posted that in my sleep.

[RetroLounge]

12. Wow, that is a rare talent

:D

:hi:

RL

[Haole Girl]

5. Well, then, by all means...

...go to bed!

[Floogeldy]

8. I'd tell you the same . . .

. . . but I figure you've had too much caffeine. ;)

[Haole Girl]

9. None tonight, I'm afraid

Maybe that's one reason I feel like shit...I don't know! Good night!

[Floogeldy]

10. Sweet dreams

;)

[RetroLounge]

11. I lived in this house from age 3 to 20

8321 N. Milwaukee Avenue,
Niles IL 60648
(312)-Yorktown5-8498

25 years ago, we sold it.
The zip code has since been changed.
Obviously the phone too. and the exchange. Remember when there were letters in the phone number?
They put a fence up around the backyard, blocking access to the grass alley we always played in as kids.
They knocked out the interior wall between the living room and my bedroom, making it a larger livingroom.
and they cut down 7 black walnut trees along the side of the house and a maple tree from the front lawn that we planted when we were kids.
The grass in the foreground was always gravel, and we parked cars there, along Milwaukee ave., which was 4 lanes. and busy.
My friend Tom's parent built the first house in the neighborhood. They are still there, the last family from childhood.
Our grammar school, Oak School, built in the late 50's was a block away. It has since been torn down and I can find no photos of it on the web. Like it never existed.
2 houses to the left is where my best friend lived. We've been friends now for 42 years.
2 houses to the right was where one of my first girlfriends lived. She was HAWT!
Next door to the right was a family of freaks, most who died or went to jail. The dad ran for mayor as a Communist in the 60's.

Sigh. You can never go home again...

RL

[BrotherBuzz]

13. My house was between the pine and cypresss tree under the pointy tree

The pointy tree wasn't there when I was a kid so you could see the house 50 years ago. Sorry, it's the best I can do. :shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Tiburon?

Nice. :thumbsup:

[BrotherBuzz]

17. This side of Richardson Bay

Nicer! But don't tell TomInTib that. ;)

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

16. Hey, I see it!

It's the one with the roof, right?

[BrotherBuzz]

18. Pointy roof under pointy tree, yes...

But you can't see my house anymore because of the damn tree. :shrug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. This is the house I was raised in Union City, NJ

It was a 2 family brownstone with an attached embroidery factory (my grandparents buisiness). My grandparents lived in the upstairs apartment and my parents rented their downstairs apartment. We used to play on the roof of our building or in the concrete courtyard behind it. In the summer, we'd bust open the fire hydrant down the block and play in that.



It's in pretty sharp contrast to where I am now, a mere 30 miles away. My house is where the pushpin is in the bottom right corner.

[Karenca]

19. The light beige brick building

[pitohui]

20. that's so cool

the house my husband was born and raised in was destroyed by katrina as was the entire zip code

:-(

i was born in a hospital, myself -- ok, kidding -- but i don't know the house my parents lived in when i was born so that's kind of weird

maybe it says on my birth certificate, i'll have to check it out sometime!

[zonkers]

21. Cool, I feel like I'm on an airplane. I love farm country. Despite being

a city guy born and raised. My grandparents were farmers.

[vickitulsa]

22. If I showed you all the homes I was raised in...

I'd have to embed about 20 houses in my post! Dad was a State Trooper and they got transferred a lot as rookies; then after he didn't have to move anymore, his natural ramblin' feet kept us moving all the time anyway. Sometimes if we weren't changing towns, he'd just sell our house and buy another one in the same town, across the way....

And I haven't even learned to embed ONE photo in a post yet, so how'm I gonna embed 20? :D

I swear, I KNOW it can't be that difficult, but I keep trying and all I get is links to photos, which sometimes work and sometimes don't.

I'll keep trying, though. Until someone takes pity on me or gets tired of clicking links to see my photos and tells me what I'm doing wrong....

Love seeing all your pics, though ... Peggy, your CA home looks lovely! Makes me wish I were there. I did spend one summer, the one when I turned 15, in Escondido with my "twin cousin." (Mom's twin sister's daughter close to my age.)

I wonder if that home is still there? It was way cool, had fenced pastures around it, a horse barn in back (they raised Welsh ponies), a long terraced front view, and a trampoline set into the ground -- way back in 19-mumbledymumble when no one I knew had their OWN trampoline!

What I remember more vividly than anything else were the "iceplants" that covered their yard and the fact that snails and slugs would crawl all over the cement walkways around the house. One night when it was Star's little sister Gayla's turn to feed the horses in the evening, Star and I collected a whole buncha slugs and put them on the path to the barn. We knew Gayla didn't use a flashlight to go to the barn and always went barefoot ... and YES, our miserable little trick worked! She stepped right in them and came squealing back to the house.

Of course we got in trouble (as we should have); but the worst part was just having to listen to Gayla squeal! Man, if there was a need for a sound that could penetrate walls and eardrums, an eight-year-old girl's high-pitched squeals would surely work.... :crazy:

[driver8]

25. My father was career military. I cannot count how many houses I lived in

as a child.

[Skittles]

23. I envy you

I moved constanty during my childhood as a GI brat

[datasuspect]

24. 2249 w. cullerton street, chicago, illinois

address on my birth certificate



google earth is wrong here, we lived in the black pitched roof building (mid block) across the street from where the address and finder box are on the google earth image.

[driver8]

26. Here is our neighborhood in Adak, Alaska.

Our house got cut off at the bottom of the picture --we were right up against the hill that this picture was taken from. The houses are all the same, so I guess it doesn't matter if you can see it, anyhow.

[trof]

27. How did you do the screen shot?

Thanks.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

28. Simple

Press your PrintScreen button on your keyboard. Then open your image editing program, open a NEW blank project, go to EDIT, then PASTE.

There are also various screenshot programs available, but I don't use 'em so I can't tell you what they are.

[Ptah]

29. Here are two pictures of my grandparents homestead.

And a tune to remember.




You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we walk in fields of gold
So she took her love for to gaze awhile
Upon the fields of barley
In his arms she fell as her hair came down
Among the fields of gold

Will you stay with me, will you be my love
Among the fields of barley?
We'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we lie in fields of gold
See the west wind move like a lover so
Upon the fields of barley
Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth
Among the fields of gold

I never made promises lightly
And there have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We'll walk in fields of gold
We'll walk in fields of gold

Many years have passed since those summer days
Among the fields of barley
See the children run as the sun goes down
Among the fields of gold
You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky
When we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold

[Left Is Write]

30. Here's the house I grew up in...

[Call Me Wesley]

31. Here's mine: