This is a house* about 10 houses from mine, in the original section of the neighborhood. Back in the mid 60’s those couple of streets were that year’s Parade of Homes featured neighborhood. The following youtube video is interesting to me and the only interest to any of you might be the building materials the builders were so proud of. Start at about minute 6:23
* The Bigfoot by the front door is reversible, either black or white. It stays there year round and is always outfitted with seasonally appropriate accessories. For instance Santa hat at Christmas, bunny ears at Easter . . . .
As an aside part 1 at the 5:23 minute mark is our first home in the neighborhood. We bought it when I was 23, from the original owners. When we had outgrown that house, we literally moved 3 streets away. I really do like living here in this hood and we like the house we are in now other than the fact that there are too many doors.
This will not be our last home. In a few years it will be time for us to scale down and we will move across town closer to where Son2 and DIL2 live. It will be different for me because I have lived in this area forever, but life changes doesn't it?
Yes, life does change for us at times. Such neat videos! I like the way the house is decorated too with the spiders. That is cute the way they change Bigfoot with the current season.
ReplyDeleteThey, whoever they are, say the only constant in life is change
Deletethat top photo is one creepy house! Love it!
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They do the same thing every year and I am always glad when October 1st get here. The man who lives there gets out early in the morning and has it completed by the time kids are getting home from school.
DeleteHow lovely to have memories imortalised on screen!
ReplyDeleteThose are not my memories but it is kind of fun to look back at the beginnings of the neighborhood. Some of the houses they were featuring still look much the same. Even though it is the current trend, not many of the current owners (mostly young families) have painted the brick
DeleteI watched the videos with my husband and we found the construction interesting. Do you have a Quiet House?
ReplyDeleteOur first house in this neighborhood was a quiet home, but we did not know it was. The house we are in now was built several decades later and honestly the workmanship is not as good as the older house.
DeleteI suppose my current house (completed 2022) is a “quiet house,” but with the exception of one interior wall, that wasn’t deliberate. In order to meet the state energy code, we had triple wrap the exterior walls with insulation. (Or put in solar panels, which I wanted, but that’s another story.) We also put triple wrap “soundproofing “ insulation on the wall dividing the master bedroom and family bedroom. Believe me, my home is quiet as a result! One October I had two friends over, and we were visiting in the sunroom. Friend 1 went out to the patio to smoke, and came back in with her hair all blown out and pieces of leaves in it! When we asked what happened she said Your house is effing soundproof, it’s like a typhoon out there!” I don’t even notice the growlers when they fly over. Our farmhouse, however, wasn’t as well built. The wind would shake the walls. I must say, though, it was a cozy feeling!
DeleteI enjoyed that parade of homes, and even chuckled at the narrator saying “like many of the homes in this year’s parade, it has central air conditioning.” My how times change.
-Meg B
Out current home (built decades later than our first home is this particular neighborhood) is definitely not a quiet home. I guess sometimes you don't realize what you had until you no longer have it.
DeleteLove the houses you have shown! Cute neighborhood! Cindy in the South
ReplyDeleteWe have really enjoyed living here. When we first moved into the neighborhood, we were the youngest couple here. Now we are not the oldest, but we are definitely in the older group of folks who live here.
DeleteI enjoyed the videos. Thank you for sharing. I like the Spider House almost as much as I liked the Skeleton House. :)
ReplyDeleteI look forward to the spider house every year. He decorates in every October 1st.
DeleteSo interesting!!
ReplyDeleteInteresting in kind of a strange way. It is kind of fun to watch the video then ride through the neighborhood looking at how the houses have changed with age (for the most part other than having lawns and mature shrubbery the changes are very minor)
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Love the Halloween house! We've discussed downsizing as well, but are definitely not there yet - still have plenty of people at our house on breaks, summers, etc. We shall see. - Hawaii Planner
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