Yup....most of my schools have been shut down and/or bulldozed....the old neighborhood is behind the Sea Tac airport fence......
Ever go visit where you grew up and just...remembered?
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I live about 2 miles from where I was raised. We still own the house that my Dad built. All rural area. Life is good.
BigBill
Absent Comrade
Born in Westwood, New Jersey awesome clean town. Been back there still the same. It's twenty minutes from New York city. Westwood home of John Travolta, James Garafino.
I still live there. I don't aim to leave, this late in the game.
ky wonder
US Veteran
I went back yesterday:
to the place where I was raised.
looked out over fields:
where as a child I used to play.
I 've come home, I've come home
there is no other place,
on Gods green earth I'd rather be
than here at home!
many of the old folks:
have now passed on, you see
but they forever dwell
in my memories!
here at home, this old home
there is no other place on Gods green earth
I'd rather be than here at home
home is the place, where as a child I used to play
the people there loved me and I knew it every day
home is where I learned to work, and stand up like a man
and be my on, I learned at home,
there no other place on Gods green earth
I'd rather be ,than here at home
to the place where I was raised.
looked out over fields:
where as a child I used to play.
I 've come home, I've come home
there is no other place,
on Gods green earth I'd rather be
than here at home!
many of the old folks:
have now passed on, you see
but they forever dwell
in my memories!
here at home, this old home
there is no other place on Gods green earth
I'd rather be than here at home
home is the place, where as a child I used to play
the people there loved me and I knew it every day
home is where I learned to work, and stand up like a man
and be my on, I learned at home,
there no other place on Gods green earth
I'd rather be ,than here at home
Rick_A
Member
Last time there the neighborhood was gone and it was an industrial parkway. I just Google mapped it and that's been nuked and the neighborhood is back. 
The best part of my life happened there. You are only innocent and young for so long.
The best part of my life happened there. You are only innocent and young for so long.
SmokeStack Lightning
Member
I grew up on a small 80 acre farm which has 50 BIG houses in it's place now.
Last time I visited, I couldn't locate where the old farmhouse used to stand.
Last time I visited, I couldn't locate where the old farmhouse used to stand.
I still live where I was born(at home) 77 years ago. In a newer house but I still think of the old house I grew up in. The neighborhood is slightly changed but I hope to spend my remaining time here. I love KY.
I'm 10 miles west on Rt 3 from the Lincoln Tunnel. Left 36 years ago, been back maybe half a dozen times. Most of my "crowd" is dead or gone somewhere else. Still have a couple friends there, they visit me here. Family also is gone si I have no plans to go back. I'd go for my 50th HS reunion but nobody I hung with was there at 25 (1996). Joe
NO!!!!!!!!!!
I'M going to be the sergeant!
I'M going to be the sergeant!
Frank46
US Veteran
You go back to my old home you'd be better carrying a baseball bat and speak at least three languages. That's one of the reasons we left. Frank
.455_Hunter
Member
In 2013/2014, my family renovated and moved into the mountain house my father built and I grew up in. Hopefully, we can keep it in the family for a few more generations (forest fires willing). My kids will attend the same HS that my brother and I attended, but the elementary is now a pre-school and the jr high is the local "alternative" HS for the burnouts and wasteoids.
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HOUSTON RICK
Member
All the homes that I lived in as a child, Fort Wachuka, Fort Dix, Yuma Test Station, Cincinnati are all still there with new families making their memories in them.
The suburban neighborhood became home to islanders trying to find a place to live while the thugs fought pretty much among themselves over turf during the 80's.
The area that stretched to the canal at the county line and west to St. Rd. 817 and seemed as big as all outdoors to boys age 8 to 12, with a seasonal supply of fresh water, coconuts, loquats and wild oranges along with chickens and rabbits is now developed with houses, park and a football stadium.
I haven't been back there in at least 10 years.
The area that stretched to the canal at the county line and west to St. Rd. 817 and seemed as big as all outdoors to boys age 8 to 12, with a seasonal supply of fresh water, coconuts, loquats and wild oranges along with chickens and rabbits is now developed with houses, park and a football stadium.
I haven't been back there in at least 10 years.
Not really a growing up location, but yesterday I was in Dayton, OH. I figured I was close enough to Cincinnati, so stopped by the range where I used to shoot for almost 20 years when I lived there. The RSO on duty is a good friend, so I hung around a while before heading home. It was the best part of the trip, I miss the place.
Interesting observation: Cincinnati is further south than Dayton, but the Cincinnati to Lafayette leg is shorter than Lafayette to Dayton.
Interesting observation: Cincinnati is further south than Dayton, but the Cincinnati to Lafayette leg is shorter than Lafayette to Dayton.
I did once. It broke my heart that the fields that were our playgrounds and ball fields now consist of 1/4 acre plots crammed with houses that all look the same and the woods which once held bountiful populations of rabbit & squirrel are now condos. Urban sprawl, ugh. Never again.
SW MP15
Member
I drive by mine almost daily. I only live 3-4 streets over from where I was raised. My wife was raised only 5-6 streets from where we currently live.
Yes I do and it's always fun to go back. Did it once and an older lady that remembered me from long ago (I had moved away) asked me if I was memory shopping. 
