Your Childhood Home?........... Here's Mine!
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A great idea for a thread, TG!
This was the house I grew up in.
This was my first school and attached church....note the stocks
The town center....
...and the surrounding countryside, where we used to spend a lot of our free time
wrote on 24 Feb 2025, 14:22 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Your Childhood Home?........... Here's Mine!:
Now you're just showing off! Beautiful.
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wrote on 24 Feb 2025, 14:26 last edited by 89th
Here's the house I grew up in. Family of 7, I always shared a bedroom with a brother. The small tree on the left we planted when my brother was born, the mangled tree on the right used to be massive and healthy, my initials are carved near the top, down the right hill was a dogwood tree, on the far left is a cherry tree. Endless memories... lived there from ages 1-18.
I'm unexpectedly and viscerally sad looking at this photo right now for some reason. I think maybe, as a kid, your house and yard is your whole world. To you, the house is massive, the hills are endless, and the trees are immortal. I miss the spring mornings listening to cardinals singing and watching the sun light bounce off the house across the way. Sometimes I'd just sit there with the window open and watch cars until I saw a "cool" car go by. Ugh, childhood... where's rosebud?
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wrote on 24 Feb 2025, 14:40 last edited by Copper
Church & school
I attended a lot of funerals here
6 children lived here - 12 in the house across the street
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wrote on 24 Feb 2025, 14:59 last edited by jon-nyc
When I moved here at 18 months of age the address was ‘Rural Route 4, box 286’.
A few years later it got a street name and an address. 934 Biddle Rd, Galion OH.
A 1575 sq ft house with three bedrooms and 1.5 baths. My sisters shared a room.
To the right was a retired guy who had a sizeable garden and when I was maybe 5 he gave me a small plot to plant my own corn and tomatoes with his supervision. This guy was a surrogate grandfather to me - he’s even the one who taught me to ride a bike as my dad traveled extensively in this part of his career (cue Chapin’s Cats in the Cradle)
At age 9 we moved to a 4 br house in Florida that has been in a state of abandonment for well over a decade. This is what it looks like today:
It has/had a screened-in pool in back and a large corner lot. At the time it had 13 orange trees and two grapefruit trees, all of which produced.
At 14 we moved to this house in the Rochester area. It looks nicer now then we lived in it.
Three very different eras in my life as you can imagine.
My current house cost more than the Zillow estimate of all three of those combined though it’s not quite as large as the upstate NY house (last shown). Here it’s easy to forget that there are places with nice houses that don’t cost a million bucks.
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wrote on 24 Feb 2025, 15:05 last edited by Mik
This is the house I lived in from 0-3. It was one story then. I was surprised to see it was added on to.
We rented a couple different houses when we moved from Detroit to Lebanon OH. This was the one I would buy today if it came up.
This is the house we built and I lived in from 5 to 16.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/361-Hoffmann-Ave-Lebanon-OH-45036/35620994_zpid/
We lived in a nicer house in Springfield, but all pictures of it are obscured by a tree.
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wrote on 24 Feb 2025, 15:06 last edited by jon-nyc
Wait - you and copper lived in the same house?
ETA: You fixed the link.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Your Childhood Home?........... Here's Mine!:
Now you're just showing off! Beautiful.
wrote on 24 Feb 2025, 15:23 last edited by Doctor Phibes@89th said in Your Childhood Home?........... Here's Mine!:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Your Childhood Home?........... Here's Mine!:
Now you're just showing off! Beautiful.
Yes, rural Lancashire really is something else. You don't fully appreciate it until you leave, of course.
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When I moved here at 18 months of age the address was ‘Rural Route 4, box 286’.
A few years later it got a street name and an address. 934 Biddle Rd, Galion OH.
A 1575 sq ft house with three bedrooms and 1.5 baths. My sisters shared a room.
To the right was a retired guy who had a sizeable garden and when I was maybe 5 he gave me a small plot to plant my own corn and tomatoes with his supervision. This guy was a surrogate grandfather to me - he’s even the one who taught me to ride a bike as my dad traveled extensively in this part of his career (cue Chapin’s Cats in the Cradle)
At age 9 we moved to a 4 br house in Florida that has been in a state of abandonment for well over a decade. This is what it looks like today:
It has/had a screened-in pool in back and a large corner lot. At the time it had 13 orange trees and two grapefruit trees, all of which produced.
At 14 we moved to this house in the Rochester area. It looks nicer now then we lived in it.
Three very different eras in my life as you can imagine.
My current house cost more than the Zillow estimate of all three of those combined though it’s not quite as large as the upstate NY house (last shown). Here it’s easy to forget that there are places with nice houses that don’t cost a million bucks.
wrote on 24 Feb 2025, 15:31 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Your Childhood Home?........... Here's Mine!:
At age 9 we moved to a 4 br house in Florida that has been in a state of abandonment for well over a decade.
This is not where I grew up, but his the house where my late grandfather lived in Rockingham, NC during the latter years of his life. He's my dad's dad who abandoned him as a child (my dad grew up with his uncle), but in the later years my dad still took care of him.
It's funny, summer heat didn't seem to bother me as a kid as much as it does an adult. Looking at this photo it reminds me of the summers (probably ages 8-12 for me) that my dad would pack me and my brothers up and drive the 8+ hours down to here to help work on my grandpa's house. No A/C, I remember it being very, very, warm, the sound of cicadas, the nearby railroad, and us boys chipping away at old paint to try and fix up rooms. The yard was a mess too... my grandpa was an alcoholic veteran who eventually moved into a VA hospital after a "friend" hit him with a hammer over a drunken bet. What a story...
Anyway, looked up the street view here. Looks like our yardwork was not repeated... I bet inside the house is still stale, musty, with creaky floors, and a kitchen with an unplugged fridge. Likely vacant.
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wrote on 24 Feb 2025, 22:10 last edited by
Been through Rockingham many times going from Charlotte to Pinehurst.
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wrote on 25 Feb 2025, 02:23 last edited by
@Horace Glad you turned out okay.
@Doctor-Phibes what a pretty area! Hope you didn't have any experience with the stocks!!
@89th A pretty common style of old time houses. I was from a village (Nan Kun Sheng) which is actually pretty close to Tainan city. About maybe 45 minutes via the new express road.
Your house looks very "Americana". (PS. Wise words about childhood!)
@copper. What an impressive church!! (and a nice house)
@jon-nyc @Mik Thanks for the memories!
