This is how we looked in 1958. When we needed to go places we got up and walked, when we needed to play we found things to do. There was no bus to church or to the shopping center. There were repaired bikes and walking. Sort of a 1986 “Stand by Me” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092005/ mentality. We [...]
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August 11, 2008
First History Story by jpr
November 1956 the builder gave us a house to live in on Helm road because our house was not ready yet. We had moved a long way from southern Illinois just so we could own our own home in Meadowdale. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpentersville,_Illinois)
My mother and father were proud of there new home purchase and we went often [...]
