Relay, tell us anything you know about the church. Age, religion, any historical events that might have taken place there, etc.
Ruffio, another desert rat!!
Do you plan to return to Tucson after college?
I get back at least once a year to visit my brother who isn't in very good health. I love to get back to the mountains and to roam in the desert around the city.
There is a problem though, that you wouldn't have: sometimes it is painful to be old enough to remember what it used to look like. The development over the past 40 years has ripped up the desert and left it with ticky tacky houses. Quite often, there is a ring of pollution around the city and there aren't as many saguaros due to the pollution and building. I remember it when it was pristine; still, I love it and always look forward to returning for a visit.
Born in Oakland. Spent three years in Portland, OR. Moved back to CA, lived in Fremont for the next 16 years. Moved to Lawrence, KS, and have been living here in the KC Metro for the past 11 years.
I probably will come back, since I've got a job (internship, sort of, but with money) here that looks like it might work out for a while and I will probably have an apartment here eventually. I love the snow in Iowa, but I really prefer the desert and the mountains to the cornfeilds. It's a shame Summerhaven burned down. But I have no idea what I'm doing after college, so I couldn't say for certain.
Great thread ! Posters here from Iceland to Mexico, and Austrailia! Great photos too. Thanks.
Born in Michigan and raised mostly in Washington D.C. Lived variously in Annapolis MD; Pensacola and Jacksonville Fla.;Kingsville Texas; Carmel Calif.; Virginia Beach Va.; Madrid (a great year); San Francisco Calif.; Yakima Wash,; Denver Co.; and now back in the suburbs of Washington in Potomic MD. Roots (such as they are) are in northern California to which I will soon return.
Aha, northern california!!
Born in Sacramento, California, but was interred at Tule Lake concentration camp in Northern California for four years during WWII. Returned to Sacramento, but left home at age 17 to finish high school by myself in Oakland. Lived in Chicago for a couple of years, then returned to California to enlist in the US Air Force. Was sent to Parks AFB in Pleasanton for basic training, then was transferred to Travis AFB for about 18 months. Spent one year in Morocco, about 30 miles north of Marrakech. Returned to Walker AFB in New Mexico for another 18 months before I got my discharge, then moved back to Chicago. After another couple of years, I returned to Sacramento. Subsequently lived in Oakland, Berkeley, Fremont, Naperville (IL), and Sunnyvale, where we have lived since 1970. Will organize some photos and post them later.
Good, CI, I'd like to see those...
ossobuco wrote:Aha, northern california!!
Well, San Francisco - not as far North as Eureka.
Still, a fine place, George..
This is our first home we bought in Fremont, California, while I was attending Cal State University in Hayward. Probably around 1962-63.
This is the home we had built in Napeville, Illinois, when I got a promotion to audit manager with Florsheim Shoe Company. This was around 1966-67.
This has been our home since 1971. I keep asking my wife when we'll be moving to another home, perhaps in the Sacramento Valley, but she won't make any committment. I think we're going to stay here for a few more years.
I enjoy seeing the pictures, CI!
When we first returned to California from Illinois, I wanted to buy our home in Los Altos, because I knew that their home values would increase much faster, but I have always let my wife pick our home. We could have bought a new home in Los Altos for $80,000. We bought our home in Sunnyvale for $50,000. The homes in Los Altos now sell for about $1.5 million, and our home is now worth about $700,000. Oh, well.......
Now how could I miss this thread? Thanks you all for bringing it up again!
Relay, if you are still there somewhere - I've been to Växjö once. It is a lovely city! My husband is from Göteborg and we were just driving around a bit one summer...
I come from a small village in the south of Germany called Winterlingen.
urs53,
Welcome. I like your signature line - a favorite line from Longfellow
Thanks, georgeob. I found it in a book by Anthony Bourdain - of all places... :-)
It's lovely, isn't it!
(I just remember Longfellow from my English lessons at school as one of the worst examples of sentimental pieces. - But we were living in another time, then :wink: )
Much of his work is very sentimental, however it still attracts an audience. The poem from which URS 53's signature line is taken is one of the most sentimental - but the closing stanza remains quite beautiful.
was born here in the centre of England - there are only a few of these very old corners left
then Gibraltar
I lived in Cornwall for quite a few years
