Ain't gonna need this house

[WuzzFuzz]

Rummaging thru some old photos, this might give some idea of what the old house looked like when I speak of some of the times in that old house as I was growing up.

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My Great Grandfather sitting...His wife had died, and he never re-married. The little girl to the right was my Grandmother, the one that could make the chicken and dumplings to die for...The older women in the photo I can't tell you. This would have been around the turn of the century.

But that's the house I grew up in. The top window in the photo was my sisters. The one on the other side was my brother and mine.

However, the ole house was tore down a number of years back.

SO......[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nstn4Wscl1w[/ame]


WuzzFuzz

 

[Jack Flash]

"What have they done to the old home place,
Why did they have to tear it down?
And why did I leave my plow in the field
To look for a job in town?"



[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK0iMLvCfFM[/ame]

 

[ordy]

I love pictures like this...a real window into the past. What people looked like...how they dressed, etc. Is the barrel to catch rain water coming off the valley of the roof? How 'bout the extension coming off the back of the house? Maybe a kitchen? Oh, and Rosemary Clooney was a babe!

 

[WuzzFuzz]

I love pictures like this...a real window into the past. What people looked like...how they dressed, etc. Is the barrel to catch rain water coming off the valley of the roof? How 'bout the extension coming off the back of the house? Maybe a kitchen? Oh, and Rosemary Clooney was a babe!

On the side of the house, was the porch...When I lived in the house the porch had been enclosed with screen. As you entered the porch was the floor door down to the cellar.. You can't see it in that picture, but the ole pump is sort of behind my grand mother. There was a cistern just to the right side of the porch.

The barrel, I can't say if it was a rain barrel or not. I'm like you I'd guess it was.

Now, my Great Grandfather sitting in the photo was a painter by trade. His brother was a Circuit riding preacher.

I'll have to get with our other Old Timer here on the forum, (Shouldazagged) to see if his kin lived on the other side of the hill there in Clay County Kentucky..Way back when..that I can prove 1790 Clay County was my Great Great Grandfather was born. Great Great grandfather born in Clay County in 1815.


I'll have to dig around some more of the old photos I have of my Great Grandfather, flat footing..One of his sons is on a banjo, the other on the fiddle...That Grandfather was also a fiddle player. Sister playing a piano..



Going back before Kentucky became a state and was a part of Virginia, I've tracked down some more kin, but I can't prove YET.. Worked in the salt mines, and later in the coal mines.

Got to know where you came from, to know where you're going...


WuzzFuzz

 

[pawngal]

The house looks like the farm house my older sisters grew up in. In later years there was a real bathroom, dining room, and bedroom added on.
I lived in the house in the late 1970's early 80's. Even then the only heat was a propane space heater in the living room. The house is still in use but not lived in. The family who purchased the farm has a band and it is used for band practice & hanging out.

The reason I didn't grow up in that house was WWii, there were no single hired men available for farm work so my parents built themselves a new house, 2 story, 4 bedroom colonial for the princely sum of $4200. The "old house" was then for married hired man and his family.

 

[pawngal]

My favorite style of old farmhouse isn't as old. The Four Square houses are still very common in rural Iowa. The one on another of the family farms has been restored by the new owners along with the hip roof barn.

The house was and is just like this, exception, some of the window placement is different

 

[kimporter]

"What have they done to the old home place,
Why did they have to tear it down?
And why did I leave my plow in the field
To look for a job in town?"



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK0iMLvCfFM

best bluegrass band around,JD Crowe & The New South

 

[the ringo kid]

Rummaging thru some old photos, this might give some idea of what the old house looked like when I speak of some of the times in that old house as I was growing up.
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My Great Grandfather sitting...His wife had died, and he never re-married. The little girl to the right was my Grandmother, the one that could make the chicken and dumplings to die for...The older women in the photo I can't tell you. This would have been around the turn of the century.

But that's the house I grew up in. The top window in the photo was my sisters. The one on the other side was my brother and mine.

However, the ole house was tore down a number of years back.

SO......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nstn4Wscl1w


WuzzFuzz

Nice house.It looks alot like my grandmothers house in Houston.

 

[the ringo kid]

Speaking of remembering when.If you can find the SONG AS SUNG BY ROSEMARY CLOONEY? IT would be appropriate for this thread. Sorry for the caps,im too lazy to correct due to hitting my head on a fence this morning while going to buy ammo.

 

[rog8732]

Speaking of remembering when.If you can find the SONG AS SUNG BY ROSEMARY CLOONEY? IT would be appropriate for this thread. Sorry for the caps,im too lazy to correct DUE TO HITTING MY HEAD on a fence this morning while going to buy ammo.

Well dang Ringo, I thought you just had some kind of fancy radar units transplanted into your noggin.
Oughten to be "banging" em around like that; you might get "dis-orientated" and go to SELLING ammo instead of buying.

Thanks for the vintage pictures WuzzFuzz, and the remembrances of the kinder and sweeter times you bring up.

 

[the ringo kid]

Well dang Ringo, I thought you just had some kind of fancy radar units transplanted into your noggin.
Oughten to be "banging" em around like that; you might get "dis-orientated" and go to SELLING ammo instead of buying.

Thanks for the vintage pictures WuzzFuzz, and the remembrances of the kinder and sweeter times you bring up.

Heh heh,thats what I get for trying to take ashort cut to Academy.However,I did manage so snag a brick of twenty two.