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Post by kiev4a on Jun 23, 2006 21:30:03 GMT -5
On Memorial Day my mate and I went to my hometown to put flowers on my parents' graves. As we were leaving we passed by our first house, where we lived from 1967 to 1970. On a whim we stopped and introduced ourselves to the present owner. She took us on a tour of the house, one of the oldest in the town. Then I gave her my camera and she shot a photo of us in front of it (I'm the one with the gut). I paid $7,200 for the house, complete with furnishings. The present owner paid $100,000 for it two years ago.
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Post by kamera on Jun 24, 2006 18:40:24 GMT -5
Wayne,
How much has it been physically changed sinced you lived there?? We have driven by some of our past homes and were disappointed in the way they had been remodeled. It was not the same at all. But of course, the new owners did what they wanted and could do.
Just kind of took some of the old memories away.
Ron Head Kalamazoo, MI
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Post by kiev4a on Jun 24, 2006 18:48:24 GMT -5
Ron:
The house was a rental for a number of years so the interior got banged up and there now is vinyl siding on the outside. But most of the plumbing fixtures inside are still there--the wood floors need refinishing. The woman who bought it, however, want to restore the interior--I even gave her some photos of what it looked like 40 years ago. She had even researed and new we had bought the house from the estate of the original owners!. Like you, most of our previous houses have gone downhill since we left. Nice to see that the oldest is now owned by someone who really cares about the history of the place.
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Post by kiev4a on Jun 24, 2006 19:01:53 GMT -5
Ron: The first photo below was taken about 1969 when we lived in the house. The second photo, which was in a trunck in the house when we bought it, was probably taken about the time it was built--the mide nineteen teens. We watched the first moonwalk on the screened porch on our 19-inch Magnavox TV.
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Post by Randy on Jun 24, 2006 22:31:16 GMT -5
Got that Prairie Home look to it. Me and Freda are still in our first house, we're becoming part of the fixtures.
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Post by kiev4a on Jun 24, 2006 22:43:25 GMT -5
We've had five and the one we're in now actually will be paid for next year!!!!
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Post by John Parry on Jun 25, 2006 5:42:34 GMT -5
I like the original boxes at the side of the steps leading up to the stoep, rather than the handrails. What does the current owner have there?
Regards - John
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Post by GeneW on Jun 25, 2006 6:48:18 GMT -5
I particularly like the VW in the background of the 1969 shot! Didn't we all have a Beetle back then? Quite a trip down memory lane, Wayne.
Gene
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Post by kiev4a on Jun 25, 2006 9:24:03 GMT -5
That was our '67 Beetle -- one of the best models made IMO. The front steps are still concrete with handrails. I imagine the original woodens steps eventually fell apart and were replaced with concrete before we arrived on the scene. We still have some furniture from the house--a pie cabinet and a couple of dressers.
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