Pretty cool thing happened today... Reply #15 – July 10, 2007, 01:39:05 PM My grandma has a picture of her house and the surrounding area (taken from the hill above it) from I think about 1920 or so...and it's amazing the kind of differences that are in the picture.In the old picture, there's almost no trees on the hill behind her house (it's entirely wooded now). The railroad ran through right across the creek from her house (now gone, the tracks were torn up when I was about 7 or 8 but had been unused for 20 years before then), and there was a stockyard, piles of logs, a watering tower and a small switching yard where there now sits a small general store.I like that kind of old stuff. Quote Selected
Pretty cool thing happened today... Reply #16 – July 10, 2007, 01:46:53 PM Quote from: Jim_Miller;159977lol and THIS is what you remember from it some 17 years later (give or take a few)? Must have been traumatic!17 years? Try more like... um... born in late 1971, started school in '77, trip would have happened in late spring of 1983... we're talking 24 years later. And yes, it was that traumatic :hick: Quote Selected
Pretty cool thing happened today... Reply #17 – July 10, 2007, 02:27:00 PM 6th grade= 9 or 11 or so... 37-10=... Opps, yup I lost ya about 10 there didn’t I? That’s what I get for adding off the top of my head, lol I should know better than that. especially these days Quote Selected
Pretty cool thing happened today... Reply #18 – July 10, 2007, 04:18:53 PM Wow, that's neat. My mom lives in a town called Milford in Massachusetts, and they found out the house they live on was the first one on the block and was actually a farm. The funny thing was that the barn was later converted to a house and is just down the street on the corner, it's crazy because it had this wierd sort of tower built into it that was built to overlook all the farm land and keep an eye on the property, but they left that in there when they converted it. Oh and also her house was built in like 1883, so I thought that was really cool that it's still standing strong. Quote Selected
Pretty cool thing happened today... Reply #19 – July 10, 2007, 05:25:51 PM Ok, I couldn't wait until fall, so I walked up the hill with the camera. I couldn't get to the exact place the pic was taken from because of a row of spruce trees, but I got as close as I could. You can see the vantage point is different because you can't even see the part of my house that holds the kitchen and office (you can see it in the 1932 pic though).You can also see that summer foliage was an issue, so I will end up going up that hill in fall anyway, but the pics do show a considerable change. The middle pic is of the area that used to be a pond Quote Selected
Pretty cool thing happened today... Reply #20 – July 11, 2007, 12:47:23 AM i bet ghost hunters would want to check your jail out thinking there might be some ghost or something there... its always jails and places like that that supposedly has ghosts roaming in them... Quote Selected
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