Jesse, I've done that - parked across the street from my grandparents home. I'm still building up my nerve to knock on the door and see if they'll give me a tour. My dad said they'd done it up real nice and kept the essence of it which I really want to see. When I was a kid, the kitchen was still the 1930s kitchen my grandmother loved and would not change. I wonder if it is still the same.
Weird love's better than no love.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
bennett - May 21, 2019 8:58:26 am PDT #7966 of 30019
-t - May 21, 2019 9:41:39 am PDT #7967 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The house my mom lived in when she went to high school is still there. Every once in a while when we are over that way my dad will suggest driving by, mom usually doesn't want to but we have a few times, I think. I certainly get earfuls about how the streets around there have changed (spoiler: everything that used to be fields pretty much is not anymore, but the lakes my dad used to ride his bike to are now in a park so that's nice). The house my dad lived in at the same time isn't there anymore but he has pointed out the spot. And I don't think the famous house in Oakland that my grandmother painted pink after she got tired of their neighbors copying her paint choices every year is still there but I have seen where it was. IIRC a fence my grandfather put up *is* still there.
My mom has tracked down, she thinks, the house my great grandparents lived in Reno when my grandfather wandered down to the creek as a toddler and caused a panic. And the location of my great-great grandfather's blacksmith shop in Orange - there's a building there that may very well be the actual smithy. I haven't seen either in person, but pictures. Pretty neat.
Theodosia - May 21, 2019 10:03:45 am PDT #7968 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
There's such a thing as 'house genealogy' where you track down through property records and Census data who was living in your house (or owned the property where your present house is located). Or else track down where your family lived back through the generations!
Jesse - May 21, 2019 10:07:50 am PDT #7969 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I've done that a little, too!
Jessica - May 21, 2019 10:21:56 am PDT #7970 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
FB is once again reminding me that a high school classmate of mine (with whom I am otherwise not in touch but FB likes to tell me about birthdays and anniversaries, so) married a man named Dick Wang which is a very immature thing to be giggling about but my sense of humor HAS NOT EVOLVED SINCE PUBERTY apparently.
-t - May 21, 2019 10:36:28 am PDT #7971 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's a name that takes balls to carry off.
Jesse - May 21, 2019 10:40:37 am PDT #7972 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ba-dum-bump-chhhh!
msbelle - May 21, 2019 10:46:51 am PDT #7973 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Hope there's a brother Harry.
Jessica - May 21, 2019 10:47:26 am PDT #7974 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
You guys get me.
Amy - May 21, 2019 12:08:29 pm PDT #7975 of 30019
Because books.
::applauds::