Nostalgia: Our Old House

markrhunter (62)in #history • 2 days ago

Some photos today, thanks to the nostalgia that hit when my childhood home went up for sale last year.

1963 has the record for the number of days when the temperature got below zero in northeast Indiana. I was born the previous July, which would have put me at about six months old.

Maybe that explains why I'm so cold sensitive, especially since at the time our house was heated with coal. I remember as a kid sitting with my back against the chimney, which ran along a wall in my room. It was the warmest place in the house.

We didn't have air conditioning either, but I don't remember the heat ever bothering me. These days I'm pretty happy with just "warm".

(The house pictured is where I grew up; it's changed a LOT, although I used to play under the tree to the left. I got the picture when the place went up for sale last year.)

Jeff and me with short sleeves--it must have been summer.

Winter? Let's see: long sleeve flannel shirts and, oh yeah, a Christmas tree. Mom probably took the picture.

Mom and Dad at ... our house? That's not where I remember the phone being.

This photo is from the real estate website. Right at about the midpoint in this image is where our antenna pole stood: If we left it pointing one way, we could pick up three or four Fort Wayne channels. If we twisted it until the second mark lined up, we could pull in three South Bend area channels.

Just for fun, this is the house my father grew up in: It's in a holler' in southeast Kentucky, Knott County. Mama and Papa raised nine kids there! The house to my left is where Uncle Paul and Aunt Jewel built their own home.

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