My Homes, Old and New

For some reason I started thinking about all the homes I've lived in--a few new, mostly old.

My first five years were in a home owned by my grandparents in South Pasadena, CA. It was during the depression and my dad didn't have a job. Myy grandfather worked for the railroad and had another home. This was a fairly new house at the time. .




My dad became employed as a plumber and my parents bought a new two-bedroom one bath home in Los Angeles in a part conisdered to be Eagle Rock but closer to Glendale. I lived here all grammar school and high school. It was a great home. My sister and I shared a room. No picture of this home because the Glendale Freeway took it.




When I married my husband in 1951, I moved back East to be with him, and lived in his aunts' and grandmother's home in Cambridge, MD--a 3 bedrrom one bath home--and it was old.  During that same period, we also lived in a basement apartment in an old house in Norfolk VA. For a short time we shared a home with another couple in another olf house in Norfolk. (This is not the actual home but same floor plan--the porch was not screened in. 

Expecting my first child, I moved back to Cambridge and lived in a 2nd story apartment over an abandoned house--old. 

With our first child at about 4 months old, we moved back to my parents' home in L.A. Hubby went overseas, and I stayed with my folks and worked for the phone company. When he came home we lived in a half Quonset Hut on the Port Hueneme Seabee base. We had another child, hubby was deployed again and I went back home, though lived for awhile in a tiney little house with my 2 kids. 

Next I joined hubby again, this time in Little Creek VA--in a fairly new apartment complex. Can't remember much about it--except if you wanted to be able to hang up your laundry, you needed to get to the clothes lines quickly. Lots of families with babies and diapers. 

We lived in Oxnard next, first an old rental house, same floor plan as my grandparents' home only much smaller. We added a child to our family here.

It has changed a lot this is how it looks now.

Next, our first and only new house, 3 bedrooms and 2 baths--$100 down. Wonderful house only a block from the Seabee base. We eventually added a big family room and a sunporch/laundry room. And two more kids joined our family. We lived here the remainder of hubby's long Naval career. We celebrated four of our children's weddings here as well as many other special occasions.

You can't see the two houses, but they are back there. TheTule River is down in back.

And now we're in an old house in Springville CA. We've been here since 1981. When we bought it, it was a licensed residential care facility and we took over the business which we loved. When both my husband and son were stricken with cancer, we gave up the women we cared for, but continued to live in our home.  Husband recovered, but we lost our son.  We added onto the living room and an upstairs bed and bathroom.

We've had many celebrations here, my mom's 80th birthday with 100 people in attendance, wedding receptions, and lots of kids' birthdy parties.

Because it's such a big house over the years we've had many relatives living with us: various grandchildren, including newly weds. And now we share our home with a granddaughter her husband and three girls. We also have a guest house right next door where our other son and wife live, but various others relatives have lived there too, including my parents. It's been a great home.

Marilyn



Comments

Elaine Cantrell said…
This is so interesting. We've lived in 5 different houses over the years. It's nice to look back.

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