The house I grew up in in Chicago.
By The Horse
@TheHorse (216607)
Walnut Creek, California
May 27, 2024 10:42am CST
Here's a photo I took the other day of the house I grew up in in Chicago. My bedroom looked out to the back yard, where I would watch sparrows, robins, and cardinals play. I put my desk at the window, as it is here, so I could look outside as I studied. My parakeet would fly over and sit on my shoulder, or make nests in my hair, as I worked.
On the street in front of that house, the neighborhood kids would play four square, free elimination, and touch football. I enjoyed my time there.
I'm going to see how much that ol' Brownstone is worth now. I think my parents bought it for less that $100,000 in the 1960s. I bet it's worth more than a million right now. Location location location. Hyde Park is a lovely neighborhood, with the University of Chicago as its focus.
Do you have a house in your past that reminds you of happy and innocent childhood days?
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@AmbiePam (90723)
• United States
27 May
Hyde Park? Heck, even I know about that place. It certainly looks beautiful.
I saw the house I grew up in a couple years ago. It made me cry. I missed the world my mom created for us, and I missed being a family of four. But it also reminded me of the life outside of it, and I didn’t miss that at all.
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@snowy22315 (178806)
• United States
27 May
Yes, I was 9 when we moved to the house where my parents live now.so I guess you might say I grew up there. My nephew just moved to a Chicago burb about six months ago.
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@snowy22315 (178806)
• United States
27 May
@TheHorse I remember leaving Chicago once on Amtrak for a trip out west..Miles and Miles and miles of immaculately groomed ballfields.
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@TheHorse (216607)
• Walnut Creek, California
27 May
@snowy22315 Baseball fields? Or farming land?
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@FourWalls (66720)
• United States
27 May
No, we moved way too much for me to have a solid, one-house happy spot. I had lots of good childhood memories, though.
By the way, did you have a Jackson Browne flashback when taking the picture?
Well, I looked into a house I once lived in
Around the time I first went on my own
When the roads were as many as the places I had dreamed of
And my friends and I were one
Now the distance is done and the search has begun
I've come to see where my beginnings have gone
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@FourWalls (66720)
• United States
27 May
@TheHorse — “Looking Into You,” side two, song three, Jackson Browne, 1972. Right before “Rock Me on the Water.”
Not that I had the album or anything….
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@TheHorse (216607)
• Walnut Creek, California
27 May
@FourWalls In don't think I had that one! But I do have some later ones.
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@RasmaSandra (78786)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
27 May
That is a nice looking house, That was nice that you could look out into the backyard, I have a strange history I think. Up until I left with my mom for Latvia in 1994 I lived on the same block all my life except changed apartment buildings once. We lived on Ovington Avenue in Bay Ridge Brooklyn NY. First after I was born we lived at 237 Ovington Avenue in a huge apartment house with two sides to it and a courtyard. We lived in apartment 5 B when my dad had health issues he could not walk up the five flights of stairs so we switched up the block to 267 Ovington Ave with a much smaller six floor apartment house with an elevator. That is a photo of the last building I lived in,
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@RasmaSandra (78786)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
28 May
@TheHorse this is the apartment house with the elevator and has 6 floors. I don't know about today but in those days 5 floor apartment buildings like our previous one down the block I'll show you was in the rules that with 5 floors no elevator starting from 6 with elevator,
@1creekgirl (41236)
• United States
27 May
What a lovely place to spend part of your childhood. I have happy memories of a neighborhood in Portsmouth, VA with three other little girls. One of them turned out to be our neighbor here and we're best friends again.
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@1creekgirl (41236)
• United States
28 May
@TheHorse She and I lost touch when I changed schools in the third grade, then found each other again forty years later. And at first we didn't even recognize each other, but her mom had moved to NC into the house next door!
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@TheHorse (216607)
• Walnut Creek, California
28 May
@1creekgirl That's pretty wild!
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@GardenGerty (160242)
• United States
28 May
That is a very handsome house. I remember the "old home place" where my grandparents lived. In my mind I always told myself that if I needed a safe place to go I could go there. We had some good family times there. Played cards, or dominoes under a yellow lightbulb, out on the porch as they did not even have a swamp cooler in those days.
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@celticeagle (164984)
• Boise, Idaho
27 May
That is a cool place. My grandparent's house was that for me. It was sold and remodeled. I was invited to go look at it after they were done. I couldn't. I'd rather remember it as it was when I was a child.
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@celticeagle (164984)
• Boise, Idaho
28 May
@TheHorse .......Yeah, see they had changed it all. I couldn't go see it.
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@psanasangma (7278)
• India
28 May
Childhood days and houses and the environment we experiences are always packages of nostalgia.
We can't go back but cheerfulness when we remember all.
Your childhood house is really beautiful and I love the window's design
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@sallypup (60386)
• Centralia, Washington
27 May
That;s a huge and lovely house. I have lived in several houses. The Farm House was razed several years ago and so was its barn. I still see it in my dreams- four bedrooms upstairs and one downstairs. Unfinished basement. And on I go, walking that house in dreams and short stories.
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@JamesHxstatic (29412)
• Eugene, Oregon
28 May
Nice place. We were renters, moved many times. I want to five elementary schools, so I really have no great memories of anywhere I lived as a kid.
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@just4him (317022)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
28 May
@TheHorse I'm glad it was cool, and you had a lot of kids to play with. Did you get into sports with the kids in the neighborhood? I remember playing football, yes me, with my cousins and their friends. It was fun, but I'm sure I wasn't that great at it.
@MarieCoyle (35720)
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27 May
What a really beautiful home that is, and so nice it's the same outside, with the memories safe inside of you. My family moved a lot for my Dad's work. My 'go-to' home was my grandparent's little house. It was an older home when they bought it, and it's gone now--nothing is there but an empty lot and all of my memories. You are so lucky to get this good picture, a truly wonderful home.
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@MarieCoyle (35720)
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28 May
@TheHorse
It belonged to my grandparents.but I always considered that our real home. It was just a plain little home, but it was old. So old that it didn’t even have a bathroom in it when they bought it,they had one put in and I wasn’t born yet. So I shouldn’t have been surprised that it had to come down, but I was.
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@wolfgirl569 (104153)
• Marion, Ohio
27 May
I live next door to the one I grew up in.
That is a huge house
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@wolfgirl569 (104153)
• Marion, Ohio
27 May
@TheHorse Around 35,000. I live out in the country.
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@Hannihar (130222)
• Israel
28 May
@TheHorse
I wish I had a picture of the house to show you where I grew up in in Minneapolis. Thank you for sharing about the house you grew up in in Chicago. It is very nice. Did you have siblings besides your parents in other rooms of the house. It is a nice picture. I love to stare out the window too.
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@LindaOHio (174650)
• United States
28 May
Living at home was OK until I started dating in earnest. Have a good week.
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@zhangxueying (3342)
• China
27 May
This is a great house, it looks good in terms of environment and location
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