Going Home: Part 4

Going Home Norfolk

This has been a week of discovery. I have been able to do in one week what I had not succeeded in doing in the last 5 years. It is really amazing how one Internet app can accomplish.

But with all the excitement I drifted off my original direction. Well, time to get back on course. I had been looking at a specific neighborhood that I lived in during my very early years. Ordinarily that would not be very interesting. In this case however, it was quite a few years ago and looking at the surrounding neighborhood, these three houses are an island of little change versus the surrounding area.

Looking at my house there was a two story house next door which was built in the 1800's. It is clearly the last of it's kind within miles. I best remember it because of a 10 year girl who lived there named "Patty." I don't think that I ever knew her last name and I probably only remember her because she was so much older than me at the time. I do remember she had a birthday party that I attended and that her room was on the second floor over looking the front yard, which their front yard was far deeper then. They also had a huge tree in the front yard that has been removed to make way for the expansion of Lafayette Blvd.

It just amazes me that this house still stands pretty much unchanged even though it is no doubt lacking the modern layout. It is a typical representation of the row style houses of the era. Narrow in width and long in depth. Which prefectly matches the narrow lot it sits on. In my days on that street, the owners of that house did not own an automobile, even though they were a fairly young family and cars were pretty common. But of course the city bus and taxis were plenitful. The property also lacked any provisions to store a car and parking on the street (Lafayette Blvd) was prohibited.

So after so many years it is amazing to still see this house virtually unchanged.

Posts to come

• Going Home Series (Norfolk) continued


• Going Home Series (Newport News)


• Going Home Series (Alameda)


• Going Home Series (Menriv)


• Going Home Series (North Carolina)


• Proctor Street Move


• North Carolina Trip


• Virtual Trips, Paris, Madrid & Brisbane


• Camp Dodge, Naval Training


• Teaching Postion


• Mini Mac Invades Proctor Street