Text 9893, 84 rader
Skriven 2014-02-14 14:27:30 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 9759 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
Ärende: Re: Houses
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 11 Feb 14  07:50:08 <=-

 NB>> I did take a peek.  It looks quite similar on the outside (except
 NB>> for the full porch) as our next-door neighbor's house.  Hers also
 NB>> has the three bedrooms and bath upstairs and the living
 NB>> room/dining/kitchen downstairs with the wide archways to living and
 NB>> dining rooms... but arranged a little differently.  I don't know if
 NB>> hers was a Sears house, or just a nice example of an American

 DD> Probably might have been a Sears - I sorted through a lot of pictures 
 DD> and floor plans on a number of sites before I found the exact one that
 DD> my grandparents had. There are a lot of minor variations with
 DD> different  names.  Bv)=

The builder might have used the plans... as I understand it, though, it
was a father and son that were both builders in the area, and built
their own houses next door to each other on what then was one plot of
land... the larger house on the other side was the son's, the foursquare
was the father's... they shared a driveway between the houses, and a
garage at the end of it... Needless to say, that has caused some grief
now that the two are on separate plots and owned/sold independently...
the lot line goes down the middle of the garage...  ;)  Or, more
precisely, down the middle of the son's side of the garage... the
driveway is mostly on the father's side... but there are easements to
either side for use...  :)

 NB>> Four-Square.  It was built very early 1900's.  Most of the other
 NB>> houses on our block are quite different from hers, too.  From what
 NB>> I've read, the Sears houses were quite popular in the mid-west...
 NB>> maybe not so much here in the east...  :)

 DD> Well, freight from Chicago to central Illinois was probably a lot less
 DD> than freight to Outstate New York. And Sears was a Chicago company

Quite.

 DD> until K-Mart bought them. Their main competitor was Montgomery Ward -
 DD> also a Chicago firm until they went totally tits-up.

I remember the catalogs for both being in our house, growing up... 

 DD> When they built our maul on the outskirts of town Monkey Wards
 DD> anchored one end and Serious and Blowback the other. Wards is long
 DD> gone and their auto-service centre is currently a Longhorn Steak
 DD> House. Seriously Getback still has the north end of the building ...
 DD> for now. K-Mart is making noise about building a Meijer-style Super
 DD> K-Mart across the street from the mall. Which will close one Big
 DD> K-Mart and move the Sears operations into the resulting operation.
 DD> We'll see what eventuates. 

The changing scene of business...  :)   So far Sears is still anchoring
all the local malls, I think... their original location in the city has
long been used for other things... although it was still Sears when I
was in high school just down the road..  :)  People still refer to it as
the Sears building, of course...  ;)

 NB>  DD>> Almost - I dated one of the daughters until her brothers
 NB>  DD>> ratted me out.
 NB>  NB>> Because they didn't think you good enough for them...?  Too
 NB>  NB>> bad for them... ;0
 NB>  DD> Wrong religion. Her family was very stiff-necked religious of
 NB>  DD> the German Catholic persuasion and (at the time) I was a pretty
 NB>  DD> relaxed low-church Episcopalian.
 NB> Ah.  Probably even high-church Episcopalian/Anglican wouldn't have
 NB> met their qualifications, although that might have almost... ;)  I
 NB> know, back then the lines were strongly drawn.  I remember the
 NB> hassle my Latin teacher had to take her (Protestant) class to a
 NB> Latin mass, just so that we could hear it actually spoken/chanted...
 NB> :)

 DD> I was an altar boy in a high church Episcopal (St. Paul's Cathedral) 
 DD> congregation -- if you can picture me as wearing a red cassock and
 DD> white surplice -- but, the incense literally turned my stomach ... so
 DD> I gave that up.

It takes a little imagination...  ;)  But not much to believe that the
incense turned your stomach... that can be quite strong...  Don't blame
you for giving that up... :)

ttyl      neb

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