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#289639 - 06/25/18 03:24 PM Show Off Your Hometown
Jeanette_Isabelle Offline
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Registered: 11/13/06
Posts: 2980
Loc: Nacogdoches, Texas
Comments in my previous thread, "What's the Earliest News Event You Remember?" inspired this thread. It is my hope that whatever you share captures what it was like to grow up in your hometown.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/101743839570/permalink/10155590424799571/

Most of the pictures were taken before I was born; many of those buildings are still up as of 2014. I've never been inside the Bronco Bowl; I heard so many good stories that it's almost as if I was there.

Jeanette Isabelle
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#289645 - 06/26/18 12:29 AM Re: Show Off Your Hometown [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
UncleGoo Offline
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Registered: 12/06/06
Posts: 390
Loc: CT
Insert generic photo of US Army housing here. Location: between Schofield Barracks, Oahu and Warner Kaserne, Munich.
Someone--can't remember who--said that military children have three hometowns: their place of birth, their mother's hometown, and their father's hometown. I would opine that they also latch onto another place along the way. So, in no particular order: Ft. Lauderdale,FL, Kent, CT, Jeff' City, MO, and Marietta, OH.

THE most indelible image from my childhood, is of our group of neighborhood kids standing at attention, at the edge of the parade ground, as the band practiced the national anthem, or as a group of soldiers marched by with Old Glory. That happened at every post, at every age, in every kind of weather.
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#289646 - 06/26/18 12:31 AM Re: Show Off Your Hometown [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
Phaedrus Offline
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Registered: 04/28/10
Posts: 3162
Loc: Big Sky Country
I don't have any pictures of my home town. Left when I got the chance 25 years ago and never looked back.
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#289647 - 06/26/18 12:46 AM Re: Show Off Your Hometown [Re: Phaedrus]
Jeanette_Isabelle Offline
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Registered: 11/13/06
Posts: 2980
Loc: Nacogdoches, Texas
Originally Posted By: Phaedrus
I don't have any pictures of my home town. Left when I got the chance 25 years ago and never looked back.

It's unfortunate that you did not have a place in your childhood to build positive memories. I can't imagine what that's like to live in that situation.

Jeanette Isabelle
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I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism. -- Wednesday Adams, Wednesday

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#289648 - 06/26/18 01:14 AM Re: Show Off Your Hometown [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
haertig Offline
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Registered: 03/13/05
Posts: 2322
Loc: Colorado
Although I wasn't born in this town, it is where I grew up. My house was in the upper left of this picture. The road-cut cliffs in the lower left ... we used to rappel down those things before the bridge was built (pretty crumbly rock - helmets mandatory!)


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#289649 - 06/26/18 02:06 AM Re: Show Off Your Hometown [Re: haertig]
hikermor Offline
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Registered: 08/26/06
Posts: 7705
Loc: southern Cal
Growing up, I lived in a succession of towns in Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan, Mississippi, and Texas (Big "D"). I realized I had found my hometown at last when I arrived in Tucson, AZ for college. I have lived in southern California for more than thirty years, but I am still an Arizonan at heart.
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#289650 - 06/26/18 02:13 AM Re: Show Off Your Hometown [Re: hikermor]
Jeanette_Isabelle Offline
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Registered: 11/13/06
Posts: 2980
Loc: Nacogdoches, Texas
I visited Phinex, AZ once as a teenager. It's a beautiful place and pleasant.

Jeanette Isabelle
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I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism. -- Wednesday Adams, Wednesday

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#289654 - 06/26/18 07:29 AM Re: Show Off Your Hometown [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
Phaedrus Offline
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Registered: 04/28/10
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Loc: Big Sky Country
Originally Posted By: Jeanette_Isabelle
Originally Posted By: Phaedrus
I don't have any pictures of my home town. Left when I got the chance 25 years ago and never looked back.

It's unfortunate that you did not have a place in your childhood to build positive memories. I can't imagine what that's like to live in that situation.

Jeanette Isabelle


It was a fine place to be a child but a poor place to be a man.
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#289673 - 06/28/18 01:39 AM Re: Show Off Your Hometown [Re: Phaedrus]
Jeanette_Isabelle Offline
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Registered: 11/13/06
Posts: 2980
Loc: Nacogdoches, Texas
Originally Posted By: Phaedrus
It was a fine place to be a child but a poor place to be a man.

Given that I don't know what it is like to be a man, I can't process that information.

Jeanette Isabelle
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I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism. -- Wednesday Adams, Wednesday

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#289674 - 06/28/18 05:36 AM Re: Show Off Your Hometown [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
Phaedrus Offline
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Registered: 04/28/10
Posts: 3162
Loc: Big Sky Country
Originally Posted By: Jeanette_Isabelle
Originally Posted By: Phaedrus
It was a fine place to be a child but a poor place to be a man.

Given that I don't know what it is like to be a man, I can't process that information.

Jeanette Isabelle


Haha! grin That's a perfectly good response! To put it another way I suppose I chafed greatly at small town life. Plus I don't own a cowboy hat so I had to buy one or leave town. smirk
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