• Re: tempted to knock on t

    From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Sun Jul 7 19:36:00 2019
    Quoting August Abolins to Nancy Backus on 07-01-19 01:08 <=-

    My experience has been that most people are quite willing to let a
    former resident, or descendent of a former owner/resident, see what
    it's become.... they like the connection to the past through a real
    person, too... ;)
    One time, (about 20 years ago now) my mother and I drove by her first family home, the home were I was raised up until age 9. We stopped
    along the side of the street to have a good look at the house. We
    sat silently as many memories flooded back. Then she suggested we
    knock on the door and see if we can get a look inside. I thought
    this idea was a bit untoward or a weird idea to say the least.

    It is a sort of weird idea, in some ways.... but quite understandable in
    other ways... :)

    I resisted, but she decided to go for it. I stayed in the car, but
    she stepped out to see if anyone was home and would let her in for a
    tour. About thirty minutes later, she came back with quite a story
    of a wonderful visit.
    I regretted not going along when I had the chance!

    I'm glad I didn't resist my mother-in-law's suggestion to knock on the
    door of a house that had been built by my great-grandfather for his
    family (eight daughters, the oldest of which was my grandmother)... it
    had been turned into a duplex, but we were able to see the inside of the
    one half... truly a remarkable experience.... :) Mom and I were doing
    a genealogy trip together, this time focusing on where my grandmother's
    line had lived, worked and died... :)

    More recently, my sister knocked on the door of the house that we had
    grown up in... after my parents moved in with another sister, someone in
    the neighborhood had offered to buy it... and he'd fixed it up and sold
    it.... She was invited in, and had a lovely time seeing how the house
    had been fixed up... and there on the mantlepiece, was a picture of our
    family, put there by the guy that had first bought the house, and kept
    there by the second family... They thought it was wonderful to meet
    someone from the picture... Daddy had bought the house in 1965, my
    parents moved out about 40 years later....

    A few years after that, I was able to "visit" the house with google street-view and noticed how it had changed once again.

    That happens....

    And now only a few weeks ago, google street-view revealed that the
    house does not exist anymore. But I digress..

    That's sad, though....

    ttyl neb

    ... If all is not lost, then where is it?

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  • From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to JOE MACKEY on Sun Jul 7 20:28:00 2019
    Quoting Joe Mackey to August Abolins on 07-01-19 07:07 <=-
    August wrote to Nancy --

    I stayed in the car, but she stepped out to see if anyone was home
    and would let her in for a tour. About thirty minutes later, she came back with quite a story of a wonderful visit.

    I imagine most people would be more willing to let in a little old
    lady than an strange male.

    Possibly.... but I'm sure you could look harmless enough... ;)

    I regretted not going along when I had the chance!

    I should have at least tried anyway...
    That is a small town anyway.

    That's my take on it anyway... :) No harm in trying.... :)

    And now only a few weeks ago, google street-view revealed that the
    house does not exist anymore. But I digress..

    Many of the places I've lived are no longer around for any number of reasons. I keep thinking how with it gone people are losing money on tours once I become rich and famous (or infamous) with signs I once
    lived there. :) Joe

    If you become famous or infamous enough, they'll put up plaques/signs on
    the road marking the place even without the building there... :) Never
    fear, they'll find a way to make money off you... <G>

    ttyl neb

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