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[sunshine45]

i dont need to......i actually LIVE in my childhood home.

the one from the time i was 8+.

i dont live far from my childhood homes prior to that.

[Snowpuppy]

I found an old listing on Zillow of my grandparents home where I grew up. My grandfather and great grandfather built it. Amazing that at 1250 sq ft it towers over other homes on the street! 😁

I downloaded the pic of the dining room. It has a window seat flanked by leaded glass china cabinets. I remember my Gram's china and stemware sparkling from the sunlight.

It amazes me, the love that 2 men had for the women in their lives that they would go to that much spectacular detail to make them happy.

[We rescue cats]

@monicakm No, but we lived in too many cities and states, I don't know the addresses other than my grandma's house. My dad was military so we moved every couple of years and lived on base most of the time. Wish I had that history!

[monicakm]

@bmorechick 

I don't know how neighborhoods were able to have block parties because an entire block would be blocked off. The activities and games and whatever else we did was literally done in the street. This was in the Dallas area in the '70s.  Lining the sides of the street, was tables with every iconic'70s dish you could think of plus dessert.

My brother and I and our friends would crawl under the streets and catch crawdads. I don't think you could pay me enough now to hold a live crawdad. I saw the yard that I used to play football in. That house had five boys in it. I'm pretty sure I was the only girl that played football with the boys. I was a 1970s version of Kansas City Chiefs Isaac Pacheco. If you know you know... at least that's how I remember it (g).

There's no one left in my immediate family that can add to my memories 😔.  My memory is not so great but when I looked up the houses I lived in with my parents, memories started coming back little by little but there are holes I will never be able to fill because no one's left. Well dad is still here and if he could verbalize I think he could remember quite a bit but he doesn't say much of anything.  What I would give to go to one more football game with him.

[monicakm]

@haddon9 

We used to have ice cream trucks too. There was even an ice cream truck in the small town I live in now. Life was so so different growing up in the suburbs of a large city and then at 13 moving to a small town of 2000.

[monicakm]

@bmorechick 

My memory lane is mostly a ghost town  but I've somehow managed to pull up memories I thought were long gone. I just wish I still had family here that I could talk to.   

I like to watch Real Estate shows. I've seen a lot of row houses. They are interesting. I was at a dinner table with a California real estate agent during a cruise. When I found out he was a real estate agent I was so excited to get an answer to a burning question I'd had for years. I've seen houses in California that I wouldn't make my dog live in that would sell for a million dollars. I had to ask him WHY!!!  Two words. The land.  DUH!

[monicakm]

@JoyFilled Warrior 

I'm going to go back to Google Maps and see if the elementary school is still where it used to be. My brother and I would walk to school go through a park with a nice pond. The school was on the other side. I love playing around with Google Maps.

[monicakm]

@LTT1 

Yes we do live in extraordinary times and we're lucky that we can utilize it. I'm wondering what will come along in the next few years that I won't be able to learn/grasp😒

[monicakm]

@sunshine45 

Cool!  My daughter lives in my parents' house. They haven't lived there all her life but it's probably the one she has most memories in.

[monicakm]

@Snowpuppy 

What a wonderful memory as a testament of love between your grandparents and great-grandparents 🥰