Your childhood house...

[homie]

Have you ever typed your childhood address into Google. I just entered my wife's for a good laugh. You might be surprised at what was ye old homestead and how it looks today Aw that Saginaw Michigan living, property tax - 36 bucks a year.

Who's on the porch of her old house and what's happening in the crack house across the street
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.402831, ... uWXBvQ!2e0

Link yours if you have no shame.... here is mine. Wichita Kansas, I remember being taller than that tree 5 kids in 1000 square feet, I need to tie my kid to a chair and make him stare at this for an hour, they have no idea do they?
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.647116, ... e0!6m1!1e1

We all live better than Kings in the Bible, did you know it took 400 to 500 hundred slaves to prepare one meal for a King. Now we have that many waiting on us 24-7... gas stations, convenient stores, clothing and apparel, fast food, every widget we could care to purchase within walking distance.

[JohnL]

This used to be my childhood home, a 3 bedroom wooden house next door to a woodyard, with a park across the street where I played football with my mates.

We used to play cowboys and indians in the woodyard, hiding behind hessian bags of firewood stacked up as high as the roof. I shot my mate in the leg with a Daisy air rifle, his Mum wasn't impressed and my bum was sore for a week afterwards. It was his fault, I told him not to attack me in the fort

The park is still there but the street has factories completely down one side now.

Guess I'm lucky, the memories of my childhood there are still strong as ever

https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/3+ ... 424f30cf30

[homie]

Sorry to see progress has washed out the old homestead for you John... but after looking at what happened to mine it would be merciful.

[Mel46]

I looked at my grandmother's house, or what was once her house. The street use to have some fine old mansions on it, with plowed fields behind my grandmother that were leased from her. Then everything changed in the early 1960's and the entire town turned into a slum. Everyone who was anyone moved across the river. My grandmother's place, with 20 acres and a lot of street front was sold for pennies on the dollar. Families that had been there since the Civil War moved. Now there is a big school where the plowed fields were, and her house and ours, as well as my aunt's house are all slum boarding houses. Progress. But that was their own faults. It was Virginia and intergration was a hard pill for them to swallow back then. I had moved to Nebraska before all of this happened, and my father was in the military, so I had no idea why people couldn't just get along. Even now there are still places in the South that don't want change. I still don't understand it.

[you you]

This used to be my childhood home, a 3 bedroom wooden house next door to a woodyard, with a park across the street where I played football with my mates.

We used to play cowboys and indians in the woodyard, hiding behind hessian bags of firewood stacked up as high as the roof. I shot my mate in the leg with a Daisy air rifle, his Mum wasn't impressed and my bum was sore for a week afterwards. It was his fault, I told him not to attack me in the fort

The park is still there but the street has factories completely down one side now.

Guess I'm lucky, the memories of my childhood there are still strong as ever

https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/3+ ... 424f30cf30

Was it a Daisy Red Ryder...

[Steph]

I use to live on the water. Boats were my thing.

http://www.google.com/maps/place/7268+R ... 42.6292297

[SECoda]

Two million dollar houses on two and a half acre lots where my house was. It was always a nice neighborhood. Burr Ridge/Hinsdale, IL near Chicago.

[homie]

Two million dollar houses on two and a half acre lots where my house was. It was always a nice neighborhood. Burr Ridge/Hinsdale, IL near Chicago.

yea that's probably still looking good bout 15 miles from me.

[SECoda]

Hinsdale Central High School! 1975

6425 S. Elm Burr Ridge

Two million dollar houses on two and a half acre lots where my house was. It was always a nice neighborhood. Burr Ridge/Hinsdale, IL near Chicago.

yea that's probably still looking good bout 15 miles from me.

[JohnL]

Was it a Daisy Red Ryder...[/quote]

Could have been, I bought it Mail Order from a magazine, didn't tell my Mum, then told her I didn't know where it came from.
Another sore bum

I just realised from posting on this forum what a s--t of a kid i was!!

I've changed now, much bigger

[you you]

Was it a Daisy Red Ryder...

Could have been, I bought it Mail Order from a magazine, didn't tell my Mum, then told her I didn't know where it came from.
Another sore bum

I just realised from posting on this forum what a s--t of a kid i was!!

I've changed now, much bigger [/quote]


Ditto

[homie]

Still have one, still use it to keep the skunks moving... and yes I'm still a *^#!

[you you]

Still have one, still use it to keep the skunks moving... and yes I'm still a *^#!

That's the one. I've just inherited my dads too. They are great fun

No compass in the stock tho...