Mentioned the impending demolition yesterday … went by a few minutes ago and the teardown was in full swing. Always amazing to see how little time it takes to bring down these old wood-frame homes (this one was built in 1918). A few more teardown pix, and our rambling digression:
Not that we’re saying all these old wood-frame homes should just be preserved and allowed to rot. But the first photo of the next 4 makes us a little misty – that was somebody’s room once. You see, we live in a “warbox” which would also take about 15 minutes to tear down. The first year we lived in our house, one of its builder’s sons came by on a visit from California, found us out in the yard, and told us his story. Our house took 6 months to build, from September 1941 to March 1942, because Pearl Harbor kind of interrupted things. The builder’s son went on to tell us about he and his mom and his siblings all living in the little 2 bedroom/1 bath house while Dad was away at war. But we digress. Here are those other 3726 Beach Drive photos:
Next up, of course, townhouses. Where someone else will, of course, make new memories. And someone else will, maybe, come by to document a teardown around, say, 2048 or so.
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