solman98

I was telling a coworker about the house I grew up in. It's in a small town outside of Augusta GA. House was torn down in the late 70"s due to termites. I'ave always wanted to visit the house as an adult just to see if it was as big as I remember as a child. Well we looked on online and guess what, I found it. It even has the Mercury wagon (with wood paneling) in the side drive way that almost cost me my life as a toddler when we were in a head on crash with a drunk driver.

Photo was taken 1967.

http://dbs.galib.uga.edu/cgi-bin/ult...Ahbo0070&_cc=1

teech

Who.....what.....why?

How in the world did that picture end up on the internet?

MrVette

Funny, I was wondering the same thing!

solman98

I have no clue. I'm going to forward it ot my oldest brother and see if he know why it was taken. It looks like it was the reason for the photo.

But it was cool to see the old house. Behind it was my fathers TV repair business. I was hoping that would be there also, then maybe it would have the 57 Mercury and/or the 56 Panel we had. Both of those were not sold until the late 70's also.

And that was not a sunroom, it was my bedroom....

betterof2evils4

It looks as though somebody back in the day at the University of Georgia went around taking photos of what he thought was historic architecture. Hubert B. Owens collection, box 45. Property of a library....
Pretty cool...
Aren't sunrooms usually all windows? There must have been little to no privacy

solman98

There were blinds on all the windows.

I'm real curious to who/what/why the photo was taken.

SandyBeach

That is an amazing house! Look how it dwarfs the 2-story next to it. Great southern porches, big windows, and spire. You were so lucky to grow up there!

mitzkity

It's amazing! You can type in fragments from an expression your great step uncle used to use, and THERE it will be on the internet. Whatever evils it has brought into some lives, the net has shown us how small our world really is.

solman98

I talked to my father the other day and asked when they bought the house, it was the early 50's and they paid $12K for it. Not bad for 6,000 square feet.

House was built in 1903.