Above is the first home I ever owned, bought in 1970, payments were 109.00 and we had trouble paying it. 3 BR 1 Bath... The white wall was not there, that was a carport.
Photos are all Snipped from Google Earth, all in Savannah, GA
I love visiting places from the past on Google Maps.
Do you visit places from the past on Google Earth? Or places you want to see?
I LOVE Google Earth. Yet another reason I love internet.
Second home purchased in 1976. 3 BR 1 Bath, but bigger than the other.
3rd home purchased 1978, this homes back yard backed up to the 2nd home backyard. My friends lived there and had to move. It had 4 BR and 1 full bath and Master 1/2 bath.
Above is my Aunts home, my first cousin lives in it now. It was there when I was born in 1944, we moved from an apartment in downtown Savannah, into the renovated Chicken coop in the back yard when I was a toddler. the roof of the building behind it, is where the coop was. Don't fret, we were below the poverty line most of my life, but the coop had 2 bedrooms 1 bath living room and kitchen, with vinyl linoleum on the floor. The house to the left is the one my uncle built for my cousin, the pecan trees behind that chimney are shading the house, my uncle built for us to live in, in 1952. No photos, the government took it and tore it down to build a road.
22 comments:
I LOVE this!!!! I have pictures of all the houses I have ever lived in, too! Just waiting to post it at some point. WAIT, you don't show your current house! In fact, I don't ever remember seeing the entire outside of the front. Of these, I think the second one is my favorite. Kind of charming.
The first two are very similar to our first two and around the same time. They are good shots from google earth. We sometimes have a poke around google earth.
What lovely homes, I'm sure each has their own set of memories as well. Google Earth is such a great tool, I'm not as adept as you are but I do browse around every so often.
Yes, I have researched some of our childhood homes!! Amazing, isn't it? I didn't have a clue this even existed until a blog friend of mine sent me a pic she had found for me in my research in writing my book.
Yeah, I say what Ginny did....what about your current home?
I am still traveling and don't have fast Internet in these motels so I'm playing catch up in my reading. I have missed you!
Hari Om
Sandra, we are such kindred spirits! Nowadays, as am much less travelling, I love Google maps/earth. I also use it when am planning visits, as the "street walking" tool is fantabulous.
Interesting that 'breadline' thing. Despite good jobs and adequate living, I too always fell below the number the govt considered 'poor'. Compared to many, my life has been luxury... YAM xx
Good morning, I do use Google maps and Google earth. Hubby and I recently looked up the first house we lived in, it was a town house in a very crowded area. They are all nice houses.
What a fun look at the homes you've lived in. I'll have to go take a look at google earth and check out the ones I've lived in and see what they look like today.
Fun to be able to see your former homes, Brings back lots of memories for you. I can look on Google and see how much Alpharetta, GA has changed in the 28 years I have been gone.
It's pretty cool that you can document all of this. There was a historic house from the 1800s in my family that the govt took to build a road too. :(
What a great idea, Sandra! Google Earth, hmmm? I want to do this, too! My personal favorite is #2, probably on account of that cute mailbox.
PS - I'd love to see the inside of #4 … I'm all about fireplaces.
LOL I think I heard the Google Earth Drone doing a fly by here.
Too funny
Hugs Cecilia
It's good that you have been able to make a record some of the homes you lived in. I've only just started looking back at the homes I've lived in firstly as a child, teenager and then when married. My daughter has taken me to see some of the old family houses when I've been in my home town. Google Earth is a good tool for looking at places from your armchair.
Well I never thought to google earth my older homes! Guess what I will be doing later! Haha...you wild woman!
How fun to go back see your old houses. I have done that too, although I've lived in the house I'm in now almost 40 years and it's the only one I've ever owned, I go back and look at the two houses I lived in when I was growing up.
The early houses you lived in look so similar to the ones I did.
When we were first married we drove to the house I grew up in and said we would never go back and look at it again. It was scary and a complete dump. How people can let their homes go like that I'll never know.
The apartment we lived in when first married had to be torn down. It had come off it's foundation in the earthquake of 1987. This was in San Francisco and was a 4 story walk up. We had moved from there long before that happened.
Think it's time to go back on google earth and check things out. Thanks for the prod...
How cool! Now I'm off to see if I can find my old houses on Google Earth!!
I enjoyed seeing the houses you have lived in. I too like Google Earth and go touring now and then. :) Interesting post sweet Sandra you are great at thinking of subjects to post about. Hugs
These are great! Isn’t technology amazing that we can visit the homes we used to live in? A few months back I checked out the one I lived in from the age of five to fifteen.
Thanks for this tour of your previous homes, Sandra. I am going to check out Google Earth this week for some of my/our former residences. And it is great that we can travel back in time on the Internet.
I have done this since 2010. It is fun to see how old neighborhoods are changing.
YEs, Yes YESSSSS...I spend hours on Google Earth...both looking at places I have been and looking at places i want to go. I hate that they have changed the way the photos are...I have found places we have gone just by looking at photos on there. And then a lot of photos are gone, and a lot of photos are not in the right spot...
That has slowed down my looking, but I still do get on and look.
I love Google Maps. It is amazing! Thanks for sharing your homes and your aunts home.
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