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Covering 74 years, 12 cities, 6 states and 1 US possession , 9 of 30 places are gone.
1 became a Church's Fried Chicken, 2 trailers replaced by apt buildings, 1 housing project became a high school, 1 replaced by new house, 2 still empty lots. The US possession was a military base on an island that was later bulldozed flat.
I'm curious. I graduated HS when my family was living on an island that's a "US possession". Shortly after I graduated more than one base closed. I'm thinking you may be discussing the same one I'm thinking of...
Covering 74 years, 12 cities, 6 states and 1 US possession , 9 of 30 places are gone.
1 became a Church's Fried Chicken, 2 trailers replaced by apt buildings, 1 housing project became a high school, 1 replaced by new house, 2 still empty lots. The US possession was a military base on an island that was later bulldozed flat.
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Originally Posted by BOS2IAD
I'm curious. I graduated HS when my family was living on an island that's a "US possession". Shortly after I graduated more than one base closed. I'm thinking you may be discussing the same one I'm thinking of...
Sorry but not likely. Johnston Island in the Pacific 800 miles SW of Hawaii never had dependents after about 1930. I was there in 1968.
Not counting rented college houses, I have lived in eleven primary residents and had four “second” homes. Only one of the primary homes has been demolished, and that was a result of a fire. Two of the second homes were razed by the new owners to be replaced with very nice retirement homes.
One. It was a beach town "cottage" that consisted of three rooms: tiny kitchen with a room on each side and a bathroom added on later to the side of the kitchen. It was heated by a propane stove in one of the rooms off the kitchen. There were NO closets, and all of the walls were paneled in dark, mismatched cheap wood paneling. The windows had bars on them, which gave the house a charming, jail-like ambiance. I was out of work when I was renting this awful place, and it was the most depressing house I ever lived in. Knocking it down was a real boon for the neighborhood, because even a vacant lot looked better than that little squat monstrosity of a house.
Seattle, now skyscrapers there.
Baton Rouge, downtown urban renewal
Milwaukee, condemned for freeway that never got built, now a corporate parking lot.
Huntsville AL, strip mall
Falmouth ME, was mobile home park, now yuppified.
The childhood home I lived in from 1st grade on is still standing and my mother still lives there. The two prior to that and all of my grandparent's homes that were a part of my childhood have been demolished for one reason or another. Mainly just because they were old and the next person wanted something new.
On the flip side the 100+ year old home we currently live in we bought from a man in his 70's that had lived there since he was 2. With some repairs and improvements we've done I hope it stands for another 100 years.
Two of the homes I lived in earlier in my marriage have been demolished. The entire subdivision where I lived from 1971 till 1986 has been obliterated.
Back in '70 and '72, I was the last tenant in two houses, one torn down for an overpass and one torn down for a doctor's office. The farm house my parents bought when I was 3 is still standing, but you wouldn't recognize it. The barn blew over in '62. I was always sad about that. It was a great barn, but not tied to the foundation. 140 mph wind blew it away.
Childhood home scheduled to be demo'd when it sells. KCMO. Intermediate homes- Indiana, Navy Base GTMO, demo'd. Some of the other homes/trailers.apts......lost to Katrina.
This one the someday to be ex bought, in 2010...needs to be demo'd Substandard housing.
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