Community Chat

[monicakm]

...to find your old childhood homes? I remember the addresses of both the homes I lived in in Texas before moving to the town we're in now.  It's fun to see how things have changed, how the house has changed the yards, trees.  Remembering the kids that lived in your neighborhood. Block parties.  The tree that I fell out of landing on my lower back, is gone 🤨 I don't blame the homeowners, it was a Mesquite tree. The thorns on those trees can be 2in long. The first neighborhood we lived in actually looks better than the newer, second neighborhood.  Did you have block parties in your neighborhood? Did you decorate your bikes for the block party?

[Kachina624]

@monicakm. Yes, ive looked up past homes, those of grandparents, even the house in which my parents were married and the one they lived in when I was born.

[Tinkrbl44]

What a good idea!  

[beckyb1012]

I keep the link of the home my mom built for us in 1970.  The people she sold it to when we outgrew it sold it about 10 years ago.  The listing is still up so I can go back through our rooms when I am missing them all. 

I also google map to see the outside of places to find out what they are close to and it helps in locating a business or a home along with the written directions.

[kaydee50]

Yes, I check on the house where I grew up occasionally.  Last time I looked that house that my mother sold in 2003 for $320,000 sold in 2019 for $675,000.

I also "google" people from my past.  I just found out that both my godmother (91) and my godson (63) both died last year within 6 weeks of each other.  Hadn't been in touch with either for quite awhile but this came as a big shock to me especially my godson.

[bmorechick]

@monicakm  When my now deceased dad moved into his senior apartment 5 years ago, we sold the home I grew up in in Baltimore City.  It was nice to have it way into adulthood.  When we would visit my dad,  we would stay in the house.  Still had all my mom's stuff in there.

Both grandparent's rowhomes are in what is now Inner Harbor and they sold decades ago before it was Inner Harbor.  We went to real estate tours on both homes.  Totally transformed inside to unrecognizable...beautiful, but lost the early 1900's charm.  I have used google to look up relatives homes that have sold...some look good and some sadly, not so much.

No block parties in the city because we didn't have a yard so that would have been a street party!   We decorated our bikes all the time with playing cards in the spokes held on with clothespins and paper streamers on the handlebars😆.

[haddon9]

I lived in an apartment building in Brooklyn, a small house that my parents paid $21K in 1964 that goes for over 1 million today in Queens and a house in south Jersey where I went to Jr high & high school.

I have looked up all of those places including the duplex that my grandparents had when they lived in Brooklyn. 

I Google mapped the walk from the apartment, past Brooklyn college to my old elementary school which looks radically different now.

I can remember the ice cream truck and a few other trucks coming around every day in the summer when we lived in Brooklyn....it was a big deal then to get something from the truck!

[bmorechick]

@haddon9  Yes, my grandmother's tiny little 10 foot wide, 90 foot long row house sold for over half a million...unbelievable but it's because of where it is.

Yeah I remember the Good Humor Man, the Mr. Twistie soft ice cream man, the street vendors in a horse drawn cart selling their fruits and veggies, and so many other wonderful childhood memories. 

@monicakm  You got us going down memory lane 💜

[JoyFilled Warrior]

Hi  @monicakm  

I've Google Earth'd (& YouTube'd) some of my old homes/schools/haunts every few years.  Some still there, some gone.

     'Causes me to have a mixed bag of feelings.

Broke my heart, that my large brick Elementary School was torn down, replaced with some small,  little nondescript house. 

But honestly, Im not really too surprised. 

When I was attending there, the old, rich, varnished, glowing wood & desks were worn, but well kept.   (Our Principal make sure of it!)

     And the gorgeous White Marble stairs inside, were so worn, at the time,  dipped out so deeply, from so many years of busy little feet   -

  -And not surprised with this wear & tear, cause I think that Elementary School was build   .. just about the time the Dinosaur's roamed.

[LTT1]

@monicakm 

I have taken several trips back in time.

it is extraordinary that we can do this now!