The Home you grew up in:

[Poohbear123]

Is it still there? MINE isn't!:( :( I went by my OLD neighborhood where I grew up, and found an Empty Lot!:eek: :eek: Also, the street seemed shorter, and the other houses next to mine, where also GONE!:confused: How depressing!:(

[ead79]

Yes, both of the houses I grew up in are still there. One of the neighborhoods has gone down a bit though since we lived there about 20 years ago. The other neighborhood is still alive and thriving. :)

[Rajah]

Dunno and, oddly, don't care.

I care more about the second house we were in than I do about the first, and the most important one is the one my parents are in now. :)

Actually, I care more about my grandparent's house. That's one that I don't want to lose.

[nativetxn]

All of our different houses both in Texas and Arizona are still there. They look so small now, probably because the trees etc are so much larger and so am I.

[Blondie]

We moved around quite a bit until I was 8 years old, then we settled down and my Dad retired from the Navy.

My parents still live in that house.

[Serena]

The home I grew up in is still standing and my dad still lives there. It's a mile from me. He wants me to have it, later.

[DonnaS]

Yes, one of my brother's bought the other siblings out when my parents passed away. Now two of my brothers live there.

[janette]

The house I grew up in is gone, my parents moved and the person who bought it tore it down to rebuild and never did so it's still an empty lot now.

[Erika Sanderson]

What a neat question and one I hadn't put much thought into until now.
Yes. All are still standing and are looking great. (added on to, renovated, updated and all that)
Fun memories with this thread. Thankyou :)

[catsrule]

yes, mom still lives there.:D

[preshi]

Mine is... it looks like a flower store threw up outside... there are statues and millions of flowers and flags and crap everywhere... hideous!

[glo]

We have no idea if the house I spent the first 4 years of my life is still standing as it is in Havana, Cuba. Hopefully someday, I will be able to go there and find out. The two houses I grew up in after that A triple decker and my parents first home are both still standing. As a matter of fact I drove my children to see the neighborhood I grew up in and scared them to death...lol. They could not believe I lived on the third floor of a triple decker. My parents still live in their home, and my kids visit their all the time.

[CyranoJones]

I grew up in a tenement next to the housing projects. I hope it's not still there. Probably shouldn't have been there then either.

[CamColt]

Yes! My uncle still lives on that street and I do drive by there from time to time. I recently noticed they added a big picture window to the living room. It sems so weird to be able to see inside it and not go in. Id love to see it now. I lived there for the first 15 years of my life. About 5 years ago while working in a bank I had to enter some info for new accounts. I came across an account where the people lived in that house! It was so weird to type it out with someone elses name. :(

[helenabear]

All three homes I lived in as a child are still there as well as are the towns. All towns remain relatively unchanged as well.

[ASFCurly]

yep, and my Dad still lives there, it is about 10 minutes away from where I live.

[WDWfanatic288]

mine is! all of them are...espically the one I live in now...:p

[EROS]

It's still up........in San Francisco.........though my folks just lost part of their ROOF in a monster rainstorm out here last week:eek: :eek: :eek:. The house has endured 80 years of S.F. earthquakes with only mild damage...:D

[C.Ann]

I live in the house I grew up in!! This is the first house that my dad ever built for my Mom - way back in 1941.. It's still pretty much the same - I don't have the heart to make any drastic changes to it..

I have to say, it may not be terribly big - or terribly fancy - but it sure feels like "home"..... ;)

[MaryAnnDVC]

The house I grew up in is still standing. The house my father grew up in in Cliffside Park, NJ, was demolished several months ago after my aunt, who continued to live there, died last year at age 90. My father watched the George Washington Bridge being built from his bedroom window (he would have been 87 this year).

[paras4ri]

My mom still lives in the house....she and my dad built it in 1948.

[sue Z]

The house that I grew up in is still standing and my parents and I still live there!! As a matter of fact we are only the 3rd owners of the house! the only thing that has changed is the neigbors is a few of the houses.
all but one of the houses that my parents lived in growing up is still standing. One of the houses that my dad lived in is now a nursing home in Hingham. the house that my mom spent most of here youth and teen yrs now has someone else living in it as of about a yr ago. Although my grandfather still owns it he just can't live there by himself.

It's so strange going by it everyday and seeing lights on and now christmas decorations in the windows. Especially knowing that I will probably never step foot in that house again!

[Krisu]

My mom still lives in mine, and we now live where DH grew up. After living 10 years in another house we then moved here.

[Tony-NJ]

It's still there - but we sold it after my Dad passed away. I drive by maybe once a year and it's just so different now. It's amazing - you take down ONE tree and the whole house looks different. I wanted to go knock on the door and yell at the new owners!!! LOL

[kylara]

Still there and mom still lives there.

[Poohbear123]

for your replies. About 22 years ago, the house was still there, and painted a different color. It sat in a neighborhood, that of course now, is not too safe to live in. It was a Wood Frame house, and was built by HAND around the 40's. I lived in that house from age 3, after my Father died, until I was 16. The rent at that time was 70.00 a month and it was a 3 bedroom 1 bath home. The landlady sold the property the houses sat on, in 1975 and we moved to the second house I stayed in till I was 22. That house never had that much meaning as the first house did.:( It was very strange to go by that area, and NOT SEE ANY of the 3 wood frame houses that had been there standing. Very sad too.:(

[shep]

Mom & Dad still live there..:)

[SeaSpray]

My parents bought the house that I grew up in when it was brand new, about 48 years ago, and they still live there today :)

There's something really nice about still being able to go "home" for a visit once in a while :)

[snoopy]

Yep, mine is still there. In fact, I went over to my old neighborhood not long ago with my boys and went up and knocked on the door and asked the people if I could come in and look around. :eek:

They were very gracious and said yes. It was great looking around in that old row house, I was amazed that 11 people could have fit in that house! My room, that I shared with my sister, looked soooooooooo tiny!

The house is still in excellent shape, but it is a well built house. If I still lived in Baltimore I'd try to buy it back in the family.

[Disney Doll]

Yes, and my parents still live in it!!!:)

[Chattyaholic]

Well, the first FIVE apartments I lived in as a child are still standing but they really don't have any meaning for me. Then we moved to a mobile home park where I lived 8 years and I really have no attachment there either. But I DO feel a lot of attachment to the house by the lake where my grandparents lived. I have SO MANY WONDERFUL MEMORIES of that house. For several years, after they moved to a senior citizien apartment building, I didn't want to drive up there and see the house for fear the new owners had made changes but one summer we did drive up and look, after being assured by my Mom that no changes had been made. It was neat seeing the house again, and I took more pictures. Then a couple summers ago we went back up once more, and the little house was gone and a two-story house was in its place....how sad. :( My grandpa's work shop was still in the back though. :)

My Mom recently did as Snoopy did. She was walking by the house where she grew up (Grandpa built the house) and knocked on the door, told the lady she used to live there as a little girl back in the 40's and wondered if she could come in and look around. The lady allowed her to do that and Mom cried when she went into each room, especially when she turned the knob (original knob) to the stairway door to go up to her old bedroom.....

My DH lives in the house where he grew up! We lived in another house from '75 to '80 but then moved back here so have been here 22 years! :D

[Pin Wizard]

A classmate of mine bought my parents' house a few years ago. It was weird to have a childhood friend buy it! :earseek:

[rbuzzotta]

My parents still live in the second home I grew up in (3rd grade until 26 yrs.). The first house is still there tooo......my girls can't believe I lived there!!!

We just moved into our new home and we did tear down a small cottage type home to build ours. I have wondered about the people that did live here and their children (it was the childrrren that sold the home)........the lot is totally different!

[Poohbear123]

I feel the same way, for some reason, its as if I didn't exist.:(

[Diane]

It's still here and I own it (half of it, anyway) and live in it.

[honeywolf7]

The one that I spent most of my childhood in (age 6 to 18) is the house that my parents still live in. The one that's more important to me (the one that my dad built out in Colorado) is also still there. It sold about 10 years ago for $200,000 and my dad was pretty proud since he built the entire thing by himself.

[judi]

We bought the house I grew up in after my parents passed away. We've lived here for 16 years now. There are a lot of kids I grew up with in this neighborhood who have come back to live in there old homes or ones in the area.