This is a journey of finding yourself and how your loved ones see you in their eyes. Further, this can be online and carried forward to share, if you wish, to future generations.
This is a journey of finding yourself and how your loved ones see you in their eyes. Further, this can be online and carried forward to share, if you wish, to future generations. - See more at: http://joannfitz.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/the-book-of-me-written-by-you-topic-1.html#sthash.2TuO2bVu.dpuf
This is a journey of finding yourself and how your loved ones see you in their eyes. Further, this can be online and carried forward to share, if you wish, to future generations. - See more at: http://joannfitz.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/the-book-of-me-written-by-you-topic-1.html#sthash.2TuO2bVu.dpuf
The prompt for the week is:
Addresses and Locations
The Brief:
- Are there addresses and locations from your childhood you can recall?
- Can you remember your next door neighbours?
- Their name
- What they looked like
- What car they drove (if any)
- Addresses of family and friends
- Describe the houses
- Shops
- Clubs
- Do you have any pictures - houses, street signs etc
Locations:
I can recall most of the places I've lived which is quite a few since my mother - for some unknown reason - loves to move about every 3-5 years. She always gives great excuses, but its a pattern that I'm not sure why she got into as everyone else in her family stays at locations for years.
We've stayed in the following places:
- Newburgh
- Walden
- Maybrook
- Montgomery
- Lyon Mountain
Neighbours:
I do still remember some neighbours. These are:
- The trailer park - I used to go and talk to another little girl in one of the houses behind and another who visited her grandparents who lived next our trailer.
- South Montgomery Street, Walden - I still talk to one of the families that lived first in front and then behind the places we rented
- Capron Street, Walden - the sister/brother who lived across the street
- Next to Jim Brady's/White Rabbit Inn in Montgomery (going towards Walden) - I still talk to a few of the people I hung out there with
- And the other places, I didn't really get to know the neighbours - usually because we didn't speak to each other.
Picture Recall:
Some pictures I do have of where we lived and others are at my mothers in photo albums. I will put a few of the pictures up that I do have. Further, I've been looking up our old houses in Google Earth and then taking a "snapshot" of the buildings now if I could. As there are many addresses, I will pick only some to do.
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| Birth - late 1970s - Newburgh (that's me with the puppies) |
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| Same house taken from Google Earth 2013 |
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| 1970s. We stayed here (bottom) when my mother left my father for a short time |
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| 1970s. We then stayed on Walnut Street (the weird shaped building was the elementary school) for a bit |
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| 1970s. We then moved to get a bigger place when my sister came to visit (above the agency) |
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| 1980s. This was the trailer park. We lived in the most back corner with the loop - away from everyone. |
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| 1980s. We then moved into the this lane (middle of page) We stayed at the 3rd house (with tree) and then moved to the top house |
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| About 1988. The house we lived at in Lyon Mountain. We rented the back and my sister rented the front. |
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| 1988-191This changed ALOT. When we lived here, by Jim Brady's, it was a duplex with 2 steps leading up into the house. We lived closest to the telephone pole. |
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| 1989-1991 lived on first level (my car is in the front!) |
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| 1991-1997 we lived on the top part (the yellow boards with fire escape) |
Hope you liked the picture list.
Check back for the continuation of "The Book of me, Written by You" series.
