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John Bailey - 2007-05-10 02:42:13
Search my memory as I may, I can't recollect much in the way of house building back when I was a sprog, Doug. Nowadays they're building on every corner, so it seems. Thanks for your memories... :-)
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Jim - 2007-05-10 14:39:58
I grew up in an old city (celebrated the 300th anniversary of its royal charter when I was in grade school) and most of the houses in my neighborhood dated to the late 19th century. And most places I lived in my adult life were in more settled areas without new home construction. When we moved here to Rhode Island we were almost at the end of our street. There was one more house and a hundred feet or so past that house the street went from paved to dirt and then ended. Since then we got to see new houses built and the street extended and paved and then more and more new houses. The final new house was built last year, no more open building lots left in this neighborhood, but for a decade or so we got to see lots of construction -- Nancy and I loved to walk through the partially build houses when the interior walls were just open 2x4 studs and try to guess what the house would be like.
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