Sentimental Journey Part II
Jul. 18th, 2009 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotNow, one thing about moving is where you had been up to then. This afternoon, I GoogleEarth'ed one place I hadn't physically been in thirty years--the town and neighborhood in suburban Pittsburgh I called "home" for the years of 1976 to 1979. Saw a couple really glaring changes.
"Fawn Haven III" has added a new neighborhood where the farm used to be to the north. A road that had been a dead end just west of our street was extended and that whole area cleared and new streets added. But thanks to the end of the housing bubble, the land hadn't been built up much when the satellite took the shots of the area. I guess if I wanted to live there again, I wouldn't have to buy an older house--I could just have a new one built within walking distance.
Looks like a Wal*Mart went up behind the shopping plaza where the Woolwooth used to be. I think the movie theater where I saw Star Wars and half a dozen Ray Harryhausen movies was there too, but my folks aren't sure they agree with me.
I think my folks want to go north again this fall...and perhaps I'll go with them. But I want us to spend a day in Allison Park. It may not mean as much to them as it does to me, but it is a part of who I am.
"Fawn Haven III" has added a new neighborhood where the farm used to be to the north. A road that had been a dead end just west of our street was extended and that whole area cleared and new streets added. But thanks to the end of the housing bubble, the land hadn't been built up much when the satellite took the shots of the area. I guess if I wanted to live there again, I wouldn't have to buy an older house--I could just have a new one built within walking distance.
Looks like a Wal*Mart went up behind the shopping plaza where the Woolwooth used to be. I think the movie theater where I saw Star Wars and half a dozen Ray Harryhausen movies was there too, but my folks aren't sure they agree with me.
I think my folks want to go north again this fall...and perhaps I'll go with them. But I want us to spend a day in Allison Park. It may not mean as much to them as it does to me, but it is a part of who I am.
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