Where did you grow up?

[yvr girl]

For the most part, I grew up in a small town - Cranbrook, BC.

This is the street where I lived. My house has the white car parked in front.

[babylonsister]

1. Well, that narrows it down, yvr girl! And how come

there're hardly any trees/shrubs? :shrug: Is that because of winter?
I grew up in a place called Oak Beach, Long Island, NY. Loved the place, hated the winters.

[yvr girl]

2. The car is almost dead centre of the picture

There was lots of grass and bushes etc. There aren't that many trees on my side of the street. In a previous time, it had been a slaughter yard - maybe they cleared all the trees. There was a 'forest' at the top of the hill, I didn't feel deprived.

[Jara sang]

3. There are trees, Top left corner, conifers.

[GOPisEvil]

4. All over. Dad was a military man.

Born in Athens, Greece.
Moved to Fulda Germany, then to Blytheville, AR, then to O'Fallon, IL, then to Chanute AFB, IL, then to Hickam AFB, HI, then to Randolph AFB, TX. All those moves until age 12. From 12-18, I lived in the same house. My parents still live there.

[A HERETIC I AM]

73. You sound like me. Dad was CIA. Born in Arlington, Va., then Saipan,

Then Falls Church, VA, Miami Fl, Athens Greece, Gaithersburg MD, Alice Springs, Australia and back to Miami, all by the time i was 15.

[Pool Hall Ace]

96. Oh wow, I'm from the D.C. area, too.

And I used to live in Gaithersburg. :hi:

[Jara sang]

5. Virginia Beach, Va

One mile away from the Atlantic Ocean. I gots salt water coursing through my veins.

[yvr girl]

6. Me too

I'm know as Draqua to a few friends.

[BroadwayBrat]

7. I am a Jersey Girl....Always and forever

I was born in Perth Amboy NJ and was raised in Brick, NJ till I was ten (only 15 minutes from Seaside Heights) - Granted I live in PA now, i am always going to the shore!

[LiberalEsto]

15. Jersey Girl #2

Born in Brooklyn but raised in Red Bank, Paterson, and Wayne NJ. Moved to Maryland 15 years ago but part of my heart is still in NJ.

[name not needed]

56. I came back up from Toms River today, actually.

Lived in Ewing till I was 7, now I live in Bridgewater.

[Neshanic]

87. Jersey guy...google my screen name.

Never can forget New Jersey. Quite a wonderfull place to grow up.

[bridgit]

8. sac delta...

[Tektonik]

9. Either in the San Fernando or Antelope Valley, CA

I was born in France, then my mother moved to LA (SF Valley). I've lived in Winnetka, Tarzana, Northridge, then we moved to the Antelope Valley. We lived in Palmdale for about 6 years, then we moved to Lancaster, and then my family became broke for a few months, so we moved in with my sister and her husband, and then moved back to the Vallley. We lived in Canoga Park, then Chatsworth. My mother still lives in Chatsworth, and since my parents have separated, my father lives in Reseda. I'm a Valley boy. :P

[Heidi]

10. Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain . . . (nt)

[BuddhaGirl]

11. Huntington Beach, CA

aka "Surf City"

[Deja Q]

12. Suburbia... about 1/2 mile north from hell. Just like you had!

:evilgrin:

[expatriot]

13. Sigourney, Iowa....

From the age of 3 to the age of 18 I lived in the small Iowa town of Sigourney which has the distinction of being the only settlement in the entire nation of the United States - probably the entire world - That is named Sigourney. The town was named after a nineteenth century transcendantalist poetess, Lydia Huntley Sigourney - read more about her here - http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/sigourney/bio.html


The 1980 census said that 2,300 people lived in Sigourney. The 1990 census put the number at about 2,100 and the 2000 census put the numbger closer to 1,900. The population of the town in 1920? 5,000. When they built the new high school in 1960, it was on the edge of town. It is further out of town now. Sigourney is the county seat of Keokuk county which can be easily found on a map of Iowa by going three counties up from the Missouri border and three counties west of the Mississippi. Sigourney is by far the largest town in Keokuk county but the county is dotted with numerous other even smaller towns to make the population of the county around ten to eleven thousand. You have to drive out of the county, about thirty miles to get to the nearest 24 hour convenience store, a fast food joint (there are only small town cafes in Keokuk County), a movie theater or a Wal-Mart.

There is a weekly newspaper that informs people who went over to whose house for dinner last week and when summer vacation bible school begins. It is owned and operated by the father of my very good friend and classmate (class of 1995) who hanged himself last year. He was working in Sigourney at the only thriving industry left in the county. .. he was a certified nurse at one of the town's two nursing homes. Think about it. A town not large enough to support a 24 hour convenience store but that has 2 fairly large nursing homes. Sal si puede.... Get it out if you can.

He told me once by phone that he worked the graveyard shift. His main responsibility was to check the vitals of those on deathwatch and then after the county coroner did the officiating, he would cart them out.

I could write more but I am depressing myself.

[Joe Power]

14. Toledo, Ohio

Go Rockets!!!

http://www.toledorocketfans.com/

[MissHoneychurch]

16. In East Germany

the former German Democratic (*what a joke*) Republic. In a small town called Jena. It is a University town. Small but fine :)

[da_chimperor]

60. An Ossi, eh?

:silly:

One of my friends at uni is from east Berlin. Cool guy, works in a bar, etc.

[Parrcrow]

17. Hamilton, Ontario CANADA

Oskee-wee-wee!!

[DBoon]

18. San Pedro CA - the LA waterfront

You could smell it when the tuna fleet came in. There were some mean public housing projects just down the street from our middle-class enclave. The San Pedro News Pilot was the local "fishwrapper", and made themselves unpopular with the ILWU by attacking Harry Bridges as a communist during the 1971 strike.

Sadly, the canneries are all gone now. The public housing is now a mass of condos. The San Pedro News Pilot was swallowed by one of those media chains. Harry Bridges is long dead and the ILWU's influence is fading.

Highly idealized picture:

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

19. Newport News, VA (otherwise known as Newport Blues)

Birthplace of Ella Fitzgerald, Pearl Bailey and William Styron, and where Wolfman Jack (Robert Weston Smith) got his start.

<snip>

http://www.wolfmanjack.org/wolfhistory.htm

His first professional radio job was at WYOUAM, Newport News, Virigina where Bob took his first air name --
Daddy Jules -- paying homage to the strong influence black DJs had on his early years. His natural style and energy led to a large following of listeners and soon, Daddy Jules was a popular attraction at local teen dances.

Remembering the success of Alan Freed's shows in New York, Bob thought he could create a venue for rhythm & blues in the Newport News area, so he opened a dance club. The integrated club -- not especially popular in 1961 -- got the attention of the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan and threats were made, ending in a crossburning on the lawn of his house. But even Virginia was just a stop on the road to fame.

<snip>

[RandomKoolzip]

20. Wow...no wonder you called yourself "D. Boon."

I had no idea you were from Pedro! Did you know any of the Minutemen?

[DBoon]

23. No

1. I am a couple of years older than they are - they would not have been in my class. I think I would have been 2 years ahead of them. High scholl seniors don't typically hang out with sophomores.

2. My parents sent me to a Catholic High school - not to San Pedro High. A bad mistake on their part, for more reasons than not being able to make the acquaintence of those guys.

I was kind of an electronics geek, so I vaguely recall ads for "SST" in various magazines (maybe QST, Popular Electronics, etc.). That was Greg Ginn's high school business venture, selling "solid state transformers". Some day I will go through the pile of old magazines at my Mom's house and see if I can find this.

[RandomKoolzip]

25. Huh...oh well.

Funny how SCRUBDASHRUB replied to you that he grew up in Newport News, seeing as that's where Mike Watt spent HIS childhood, before his family moved to Pedro.

Cool, huh? What a co-inky dink.

[enigmatic]

41. Home of my hero Charles Bukowski...

In his last years....

[graywarrior]

21. Wish I could say I grew up.

[deadparrot]

22. St. Louis, MO.

More specifically, the 'burbs.

[Fuzz]

24. CT, VA, WI, back to CT, now NJ as an adult.

Dad was/is a preacher who liked to start churches, so we moved around a bit.

[Nikia]

26. A large town in Ohio

Or would it be considered a small town or small city? I guess that it depends on who is sizing it. The college guide books describing the envirnoment of the college that is there say "large town".
I might have mentioned its name once or twice, but sometimes get paraniod about naming it to protect my anonymity.
It's in the NW quadrant of the state. It was once a prosperous town with a successful history. Now for pretty much my entire life, it has been in decline economically due to globalization and corporate streamlining. Although the county generally goes red during presidential elections, it also has a strong local Democratic party (at least it did when I was still there 8 years ago).

[kittenpants]

51. Bowling Green?

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. Coastal Maine

This is the town next to mine.

[GirlinContempt]

28. Link to pic

Winnipeg, MB
This was my neighbourhood
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=river+%26+osborne&ll=49.874057,-97.152132&sll=49.891235,-97.153690&spn=0.005547,0.007703&sspn=45.439453,63.105469&t=k&hl=en

[Zuni]

29. I grew up in suburban Maryland

roughly halfway between Baltimore and Washington DC---a hamlet known as Crofton

[u4ic]

30. Mississauga, Ontario

Yet another suburban wasteland...

[warrens]

31. Westbrook, Maine and Berlin, NH, mainly

Some time in Scotland, Wisconsin and Connecticut too.

[Gormy Cuss]

100. Whoa, Westbrook + Berlin, NH suggests

Franco-American mill workers.

And your screen name reminds me of the name of the big stinky Westbrook institution S. D. Warren and the rare days when the wind shifted the smell towards Portland....

I hear Westbrook is quite the burb of Portland these days.

[tjwmason]

32. A few places

Until the age of 1 Ipswich in Suffolk, from then until 8 the very northern most tip of Derbyshire, 8-11 Sheffield (only about half an hour from the previous place) S. Yorkshire, 12-21 Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, 21-present Beaconsfield (still in Bucks.).

[maveric]

33. Lawrence MA. The nations 1st planned industrial city.

Once a burgeoning industrial town, leading the world in Textile, Shoe and later on , Plastics production. Now its a burned out, depressed war-zone, high in crime, unemployment and quite possibly the Heroin capital of the US.
There were 37 different languages spoken in Lawrence from 1910-50.

[RandomKoolzip]

34. Branford, CT.

Right here:

http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?addr=120+Short+Beach+Rd&city=Branford&state=CT&zip=06405-4485

[peekaloo]

35. Florida

in the middle.

[lady lib]

36. Nassau County Long Island and Queens, NY

eom

[yvr girl]

37. Notice the HOCKEY GAME in the bottom right-hand corner

Pretty Canadian, eh?

(In the picture in the OP)

[barb162]

38. Chicago

[kanrok]

79. Where?

25th and Sacramento here.

[barb162]

85. no kidding

22nd place and Rockwell

[kanrok]

93. I went to St. Casimir's

It's now called something else.

[barb162]

94. I went to Assumption on 24th and Marshall Blvd when they still

had a grammar school. MANY years ago. Casimir's was on Cermak Between California and Kedzie, right?

[kanrok]

95. Yep.

I graduated in 1970. It was a beautiful church. Last time I was there was over 10 years ago for my gradmother's funeral. While we were out in our cars, outside the church, waiting to drive to the cemetary a couple of prostitutes went knocking on the car windows. Pretty classy move, if you ask me. I played baseball at Douglas Park, and went to movies at the theater on Cermak and Marshall Blvd. I cannot remember the name of it though. I have great memories of the "old neighborhood".

[barb162]

97. When I was there it was called the Marshall Square theater.

There was another smaller show called the West on Cermak right around Fairfield. I liked Douglas Park, it really was a beautiful park at one time. I wonder if it still is. I haven't been back to the neighborhood in years, probably back last in the late 1980s.

[kanrok]

101. I drove through Douglas Park this winter

The city made some cosmetic changes, and it still looks nice. But I wouldn't go there for recreation on a bet.

[barb162]

102. bwaha. I went to Garfield Park Conservatory last winter and

only after my friend told me it was safe. There is a lot of police presence and park cops around there. I hadn't been there in a million years and it was pleasant.

And I can't imagine being propositioned at a funeral procession in front of a Catholic Church. Utterly mind-boggling.

Oh I did go to a concert at a church on Paulina and 23rd a few years ago, Grant Park Orchestra. The church with the two really high steeples you can see from really far away

[enigmatic]

39. On The Road

[Arugula Latte]

40. S.F. Bay Area

[sundog]

42. in md... 20 minutes outside of dc

[skygazer]

43. I'm a country girl from Vermont

We lived in several little towns but always out in the rural parts, not right in town. The nearest store was usually about ten miles away and my school bus route was always the first one cancelled in a snow storm. :)

This is me at 3 years old at one of those places, South Dorset, Vermont.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

44. South Kingstown, R.I.

[Lady Effingbroke]

45. Houston, TX.

[rndmprsn]

46. multiple places...army brat

predominantly in rural OH and suburban VA and MD...now in baltimore MD.

[I Have A Dream]

47. Carlisle PA

[amandabeech]

48. That's a very pretty little town.

[amandabeech]

50. An itty, bitty little town in western lower Michigan.

It's very close to Lake Michigan, and going back to see the folks in the summer is a pleasure in more ways than one!

[maveric]

53. Carylisle PA is in Michigan?

[amandabeech]

57. No, but I used to live near Carlisle, PA.

I grew up in Michigan. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

[I Have A Dream]

68. It IS very pretty but...

most of the downtown is filled with empty storefronts. It's so sad...

I just came back from there today (after visiting for the Memorial Day weekend), and it made me wonder what can be done to restore downtown areas in small towns.

[Mrs_Beastman]

49. Newark, Ohio

[kittenpants]

52. rural, northern Ohio

just south of Lake Erie

[Beware the Beast Man]

76. Astabula?

[Beam Me Up]

54. Nabb, Indiana

On Edit: In fact I was raised right across the road from where this historical marker has now been placed. It wasn't there when I was growing up.

John Kimberlin Farm marker dedication on September 24, 2001 in Nabb, Scott County, Indiana.

The descendants of John Kimberlin, a Revolutionary War veteran and the first person to purchase land in what in now Scott County in 1804, attended the dedication.

[sniffa]

55. i grew up here

it used to be dumpy project; now it's Luxury condos.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

58. I hail from a 'burb of LA

Our community was just north of Hansen Lake.

[Kurovski]

59. "The Bush" in South Chicago.

Steel mill area.

Also a Fort Bragg Army brat.

[da_chimperor]

61. Lake Tahoe. I'm damn good at shoveling snow after years of practice.

My parents would send me out to shovel while they sat inside drinking coffee. Bastids! But they usually make it up to me at x-mas.

[b-ballgurl]

62. I'm still growing up.

:D

[leftofthedial]

63. I didn't

[supernova]

64. Durham, North Carolina

Here's the Durham Bulls' Athelethic Park with the Bull in the background:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

65. Cambridge, MA

[Lumily]

66. Graham, North Carolina.

:)

[joneschick]

67. Germantown, Wisconsin

we were still surrouded by cornfields. Those are all gone now. My dad was a farmboy driving city bus in Milwaukee and he hated the city. I think he was afraid of it actually.

[fudge stripe cookays]

69. Austin, Texas...

with a miserable 3 years in San Antonio for the end of high school and first year of college.

FSC

[Nevernose]

70. A small town in East Texas

Somedays I really miss it. Other days, I thank God I escaped. Also, except for Steve Earle and Willie nelson, I don't think I've listened to country music since I left.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

71. I grew up in 3 communities:

Evanston, Illinois; Richland, Washington; and San Jose, California.

[nickgutierrez]

72. Immokalee, FL

A small town in the southwest part of the state. I'll try and see if I can find a good picture, but I doubt I'll be able to.

[LincolnMcGrath]

74. Grow Up?

Never!

[Olney Blue]

75. Northern Alabama, outside Huntsville

My parents were the only people in town who didn't vote for George C. Wallace!

[Orsino]

77. Southern VA...

...on a small college campus.

[The Flaming Red Head]

78. Lousy-ana

My best friend is from Missis-sloppy and I currently reside in Arkan-sucks

[HEyHEY]

80. I was almost raised in Cranbrook too YVR

When I was a kid driving through with my Dad, he pointed out a little spread just outside of town he and my mom thought of buying but didn't. It's funny, about 18 years later, I'm driving through and remembered that little spot perfectly, no question in my mind it was the spot dad showed me years earlier.

[yvr girl]

88. When my dad finished his teaching degree, there was a hiring fair

My dad got in the 3 shortest line-ups. Surrey, Quesnel and Cranbrook. He got job offers in all 3 of them. He and my mom decided that Surrey was too close to the family. They looked on the map and found Quesnel and Cranbrook. Cranbrook looked to be the better option.

[Redstone]

81. Lunenburg, Vermont.

Redstone

[nevergiveup]

82. A tiny Illinois town across the river

from Hannibal Missouri.

[SarahB]

83. Omaha, Nebraska

[jukes]

84. dogtown

neighborhood, So St. Louis, MO.


working-class semi-slum. i was a rudeboi...



ttp://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/dogtown/dogtown.html

[scarlet_owl]

86. St. Louis, MO and Champaign, IL.

[bertha katzenengel]

89. Huntington Beach, California n/t

[Aristus]

90. I grew up in a small town called the U.S. Army.

Any service brat could probably understand that comparison. Living on post was very much like living in a small town. You had a department store, (the PX), a grocery store, (the Commissary), a movie theater that usually only screened one film or so every week but had rock-bottom ticket prices. The neighborhoods were quiet, the streets were safe, and everyone knew everyone else.

Fort Sam Houston, TX
Edwards Housing, Frankfurt, Germany
Fort Polk, LA
Fort Huachuca, AZ
Fort Knox, KY
Fort Lewis, WA, where my dad retired; we live in the Pacific Northwest to this day.

[movie_girl99]

91. i grew up in Dallas

still live in the vicinity to this day.

[RebelOne]

92. Born in Philadelphia

From age 4, grew up in Miami, Florida

[driver8]

98. Navy brat -- grew up in Maine, Scotland, Panama, Virginia,...

...Guam, and Adak Alaska. I spent my high school years in upstate NY.

[Kathleen04]

99. Riverside, CA

Good sized Southern California city..90 minutes from LA.