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I've looked up my childhood home in Southside Birmingham AL a few times, but not lately. Afraid I might see it's on the market and then I'll get depressed because we're stuck here in Northern VA. My parents bought it in 1973 for $39,000 and the last time I looked it up, it was worth $450K. The subsequent owners did a lot of renovations on it, and the neighborhood is super gentrified and trendy now. It really is true you can't go home again. I still have dreams about that house!
Not only have I looked up the house I grew up in, I have driven by the home every so often. I have friends on that street still. In fact, listed is the very house that I grew up in:
The home with the camping trailer is the one I grew up in. My parents owned it for almost 40 years. The lawn used to be beautiful. In California though, many have stopped watering the lawns because of the drought.
Grew up in Jamaica Queens in what look like row-houses and they're brick... so it looks exactly the same.
Next house also looks exactly the same from 10 years ago. Still has the driveway with the cracked curb and depression all the way up where the wheels track.
I grew up in an 1880s farmhouse and I loved that house. My family life was chaotic with very little love or kindness, so the house kind of became my family. I miss it desperately and wish I could own it. I don't live in the area anymore so that's not an option. I found the current owner and looked up their Facebook so I could see some recent interior photos...
I grew up in an 1880s farmhouse and I loved that house. My family life was chaotic with very little love or kindness, so the house kind of became my family. I miss it desperately and wish I could own it. I don't live in the area anymore so that's not an option. I found the current owner and looked up their Facebook so I could see some recent interior photos...
That is a nice memory of your house. I wish you could own it too. I understand about family issues. Sorry you faced that.
That would make me sad too, to have past homes torn down. As for small places... It seems like as kids places were bigger than we thought! Maybe that is what being a kid is- everything is bigger than we we're!
The garage sounded lovely; sorry it is gone. So much of looking back include loss. : - (
Speaking of beams, when i was six, I would look at the wooden beams in my house and pretend I was walking them across the room. Just lay on my back and pretend.
I will add that recently home was sold for $180,000.
Buyers don't know that in 1946 when my brother came home from service he pushed the old 1925 Maxwell into old cellar of burned down home,reason,vehicle had been vandalized for metal,it was used to plow our field.
I have picture of my sister and I on hood.
In our 63 years of marriage we have had probably 16 homes.
I will add that recently home was sold for $180,000.
Buyers don't know that in 1946 when my brother came home from service he pushed the old 1925 Maxwell into old cellar of burned down home,reason,vehicle had been vandalized for metal,it was used to plow our field.
I have picture of my sister and I on hood.
In our 63 years of marriage we have had probably 16 homes.
Thank you all for contributing the history of your homes and lives to this thread. It is really fun to learn about members here. Keep them coming.
Below is a link to the little trailer my 3 Sisters myself and my mom lived in when I was in 6th grade. It is small! Although it's probably no longer there. This picture was taken 10 years after my high school graduation. Which means it was proximately 13 years after we lived in it.
My mom must have felt bad that we had to stay in such a small space. But as kids we didn't care and we were more flexible to be able to live there. I really would like to know if it was it is gone; it's been so long it has to be gone.
These are great stories and pictures of poster's childhood homes.
It got me looking and lo and behold my childhood is for sale right now. I've been very lucky to have grown up in some really nice homes, a couple of '50s ranch homes in the bay area and the valley but when we moved up to the foothills in 1970 for $27k fully furnished with antiques (some are still present in the pictures) this home was really something to behold and us boys thought we died and went to heaven.
I certainly didn't have nine bedrooms and eight baths when we lived there! It has been a Bed & Breakfast for many years and the owners have cannibalized several areas- mainly the over 2000 s.f. basement and the sunporch to add rooms to. And the gardens have also been heavily upgraded and developed since we were there. When we lived there it had four rooms upstairs with one bath and a master bedroom downstairs with a hall bath and the huge basement had a 1/2 bath. It was a wonderful house and town to grow up in. The coolest thing about the house is that it had a turntable in the basement a la The Bat-cave, so that one would not have to back up out of the narrow driveway. And that turntable was built for Model T's! We used to play ball tag in the huge basement. It was build for the superintendent of a lumber mill down the hill and they used massive 12 x 12 old growth redwood columns for the framing in the basement for the levels above.
The other cool house that I lived in for a while right after high school was in Hollywood CA, my dad bought it to renovate and I helped him with the yard and demolition. It had cool Morrish architecture but I remember thinking that it was crazy to buy a house for I think $150k at the time, 1979. We developed an unfinished lower level to add a family room, bedroom and bath along with a sauna (so '70s) and used windows found in old carriage doors on the property for the front of the lower level. What was kinda cool about that house and so Hollywood was that at the time Candy Clark of American Graffiti fame lived across the street and Chuck Berry two doors down. It also had an exceptionally deep swimming pool, must have been 10', and we used to (stupidly) dive off the top of the chimney at the back into it.
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I looked at Zillow on this house and amazingly it sold only a month after we bought ours in 1996 for $190k, about $12k more than when we bought our similarly architecturally styled and vintage but 2000 s.f. smaller house in San Diego and it is now worth $2M MORE than our house today, $3.2M!
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Real estate prices in SoCa are hard to fathom sometimes
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Good for you and your wife!
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