My Childhood Home

Wallace · **Posted:** Mon Jan 05, 2015 12:50 pm **(#1)**

I was looking for images of my home town, (grymes hill staten island) this morning. When I came upon a website displaying a photo of my Childhood Home.
Boy was I surprised to find this and they say "You Can't Go Home Again".

It's just as I remember it, except for that AC sticking out up top of the home's facade.
I have many fond memories of living here and never thought it would ever be featured anywhere. :jumpclap

http://forgotten-ny.com/2009/08/grymes- ... en-island/

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Awesome Wallace!
Your mind must be flooded now with memories from the childhood.

My childhood home was demolished, and the only picture of it is somewhere in the basement. :roll:

Wallace · **Posted:** Mon Jan 05, 2015 1:06 pm **(#3)**

K1TesseraEna wrote:

Awesome Wallace!
Your mind must be flooded now with memories from the childhood.

My childhood home was demolished, and the only picture of it is somewhere in the basement. :roll:

Yes you're right.
The area I lived in back then was and still is a historical neighborhood. The homes there will never be torn down, my childhood home included. Most of the other homes in this area date back a 100 years or more. I look at it now and feel that I was very fortunate to be able to live there. When I think back about how it was to live there, it was the perfect "Norman Rockwell" type existence.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Very cool Wallace, I guess you would be very surprised to see your home featured in a magazine. Looks like an interesting place.

Wallace · **Posted:** Mon Jan 05, 2015 1:40 pm **(#5)**

molly wrote:

Very cool Wallace, I guess you would be very surprised to see your home featured in a magazine. Looks like an interesting place.

Yes! For my childhood home to be featured in a magazine would be a huge surprise, let alone what I found this morning on the web. :jumpclap

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Sat Jun 04, 2016 4:18 pm **(#6)**

I'm originally from Northern Jersey and now live down the Jersey Shore. The real Jersey Shore, not the Snooki crowd Jersey Shore. The quiet homey areas, many of which got trashed in Sandy. You lived in a what looks like a peaceful part of NY!

Wallace · **Posted:** Sat Jun 04, 2016 6:49 pm **(#7)**

PhotoMaster wrote:

I'm originally from Northern Jersey and now live down the Jersey Shore.
The real Jersey Shore, not the Snooki crowd Jersey Shore.
The quiet homey areas,
many of which got trashed in Sandy.
You lived in a what looks like a peaceful part of NY!

Yes it was quite peaceful and kid friendly,
back when I was growing up.
Life for me as a child was simple.
I didn't know how well off I was.

2-ton · **Posted:** Sat Jun 04, 2016 7:48 pm **(#8)**

After reading this, I decided to google some of my homes from childhood. The first two actually are very recognizable, the pretty much look the same, even the landscaping isn't much different. Then I looked up my grandma's house, as we spent as much time there as at home, and what a shock! It looks like so many of the one story bungalows have been torn down and rebuilt as two story houses. Ugly houses, most of them! The internet sure can be an interesting place!

Wallace · **Posted:** Sat Jun 04, 2016 8:16 pm **(#9)**

2-ton wrote:

After reading this, I decided to google some of my homes from childhood.
The first two actually are very recognizable,
the pretty much look the same,
even the landscaping isn't much different.
Then I looked up my grandma's house,
as we spent as much time there as at home,
and what a shock!
It looks like so many of the one story bungalows have been torn down and rebuilt as two story houses.
Ugly houses, most of them!
The internet sure can be an interesting place!

Yes,
unfortunately this is the case for most neighborhoods.
What was know as the "downtown" area of my home town has drastically changes,
but for the better.
The area I lived in as a child.
Is considered a "historical" neighborhood,
which is preserved by the town's civic association.
The neighborhood hasn't changes in over 200 years and will forever remain the same.
Of course I didn't have any knowledge of this while growing up.

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Sun Jun 05, 2016 2:31 pm **(#10)**

I'm kind of ashamed to admit that the apartment building that I grew up in, was bought out by some twenty-somethings that were into flipping rental properties and turned the building into a small brothel. My mom was still living in the town and sent me the newspaper clippings about it when they got busted. Happily the town cleaned that up real quick!

Wallace · **Posted:** Sun Jun 05, 2016 2:49 pm **(#11)**

PhotoMaster wrote:

I'm kind of ashamed to admit that the apartment building that I grew up in, was bought out by some twenty-somethings that were into flipping rental properties and turned the building into a small brothel. My mom was still living in the town and sent me the newspaper clippings about it when they got busted. Happily the town cleaned that up real quick!

Wow!
That is a really drastic change.
I guess it must have been quite supersizing to find out that the building was a brothel.