Ever wondererd What the inside of your house looked like in 1953? I Keep thinking about that all the time and i wonder wht it looked like in here and who lived here.

It looked like nothing cause It wasnt built yet... :lol: :p ;)

Originally posted by MaRtInA_GuRL
It looked like nothing cause It wasnt built yet... :lol: :p ;) Yah ditto. My house was 5 years old when we bought it and that was like 6 years ago...

:lol: We built our house ;)

we were the 1st ppl to live in our house. it was built like 8 years ago...feels like i havent lived in this house for that long.

Originally posted by T.a.T.u Gurl18
:lol: We built our house ;)
my great grampa built his own house outta rocks 1 time. we have pictures of it, he did a good job but its pretty small lol.

My house was built in 1976.

Ok Ok, The Land your house is on :lol:

gah i bet it was weird this house was built in '53 and it has been remodeled a bunch of times. i hate our basement cause it used to be a daycare when it was first built and its just creepy to think about a bunch of little kids running around down there.

Originally posted by Chad Doody
Ok Ok, The Land your house is on :lol:

From the pictures I have seen, it was basically dirt. :lol: My family moved in the house after it was first built in 1985.

I have, in a way. At the near-by college, there is an aerial pic of the street my house is on before it was built. Just an open lot, no trees or anything. I would like to see a view from the ground. My house is almost 37 years old.

Originally posted by Chad Doody
Ever wondererd What the inside of your house looked like in 1953? I Keep thinking about that all the time and i wonder wht it looked like in here and who lived here.

nope, i can't. my house was built in 1993. before it was built, it was empty land.

Originally posted by MaRtInA_GuRL
It looked like nothing cause It wasnt built yet... :lol: :p ;)

We built our house too, and before that this land was pasture land. 50 years ago it was probably just woods, it'd be cool to look at it though.

Originally posted by MaRtInA_GuRL
It looked like nothing cause It wasnt built yet... :lol: :p ;)

ditto.. the house my family lived in for a while was only like 3 years old... and my apartment building i don't think has been around for over 10 years...

My house wasn't built 50 years ago, but I do wonder what the land that it is on looked like.

Yeah.....in 1953 my house wasn't even alive. ;)

I doubt the apartment building I live in is 50 years old. The house I used to live in I think was built in the late 1890s or the early 1900s. I'm not sure. When my family first moved into it, it had this fake brick on it, but then we put up a grey/white siding on the house. So, my old house as probably very old.

Fifty years ago, my house had just been built, so it probably looked fairly decent.

i know what mine looked like :lol:

because my great-grandfather had it built/ lived here in 1950

mine didnt exist then...
i always wonder what my school was like in the 20's

My house didn't exist at that time.

Mine wasnt around in 50 years it was new when we bought it in the mid 70s

Hmmmmm..... good question

My house is pretty old. It was built in the 1930's. I would think that the garage and my parents room weren't build when the actully house went up.

My house is only 2 years old but I do wonder what the land around here looked liked. It was probably all farmland because my mom said that when they built our local mall it was in the middle of nowhere and we live 5 miles away from that.

My house was built in 1981.

Originally posted by ~LadyJess~
My house is only 2 years old but I do wonder what the land around here looked liked. It was probably all farmland because my mom said that when they built our local mall it was in the middle of nowhere and we live 5 miles away from that.
Are you by any chance referring to Lakeside Mall? I remember when that was fairly new and there was mostly woods around it. Hardly any houses at all.

My parents built our house in... 1980 or 82. I dunno. But yah, before that it was woods. Danville used to be so woodsy and now with all these developments theres too many people.

hmm...... :confused:

I wonder about that alot. Mine would probably look the same, only thing that was added on was a room at the Back and a Balcany added sometime between the 1960s & 80s, Otherwise it hasnt been changed at all. My house was built in 1902, I think, maybe 1912, I dunno for sure. Looks like my house is older than anyones whos posted so far :lol:

Really interesting topic!

Actually, my house was built in the seventies, but it has an intersting story. My father used to live in the next town when he was a kid, and his babysitters lived in our town (in the house right across the street!) The house we live in was a field back then, that he used to play in! We have a woods in the back that he says he and his friends used to go wander in all the time. He says it was so weird when we moved here cuz although he didn't know the house, he definately knew the woods!

Actually, it's no longer our house :( My parents have since moved to Pennsylvania, but since I haven't seen that house yet, I still consider the one on Main Street, in Northville, Michigan my real home ;) :wave:

My house was a cornfield 50 years ago!:lol:

The house i'm in now was built in the 70's, Back in the 50's it was probably woods.

Originally posted by Mijada
Are you by any chance referring to Lakeside Mall? I remember when that was fairly new and there was mostly woods around it. Hardly any houses at all.

Yes! :D I used to live right by it and it's so hard to imagine it being just around woods especially because of all that stuff on Hall Road and everything that is there now.

My house was built in 1988.

It looked like nothing cause It wasnt built yet... :lol: :p ;)Nope the one we live in NOW wasnt built either but the 1 I was born in was and im sure it looked as good as it did when we got it..... We lived there till I was about 5.......

I'm not sure when our house was built, but it's old.

The house I live in, was built in 1940, in a neighborhood where most houses were built 1900-1920

As such, the house provides a unique snapshot of "post depression" America. Prosperity was just starting to return, so my house was originally equipped with a gas furnace, and modern ductwork, (compared to coal, which was the standard up to that point) and sports a gas incinerator in the basement, which current fuel costs make impractical to operate. House also had a cable and pulley system in the basement to allow one to hang their laundry indoors to dry, during bad weather. And, poured concrete walls in the basement. Place is like a bunker.

Found a website that sells vintage aerial photos, and bought my entire city from 1938....which I have found incredibly interesting....thinking about getting 1955 and 1963 just for kicks.

Back inside my house for a moment, being built in 1940, and me deciding around 2004 to do a thorough repainting inside, I noticed that the furnace air vents in the walls had previously been just paint rollered over with a paint-soaked roller too many times, so they actually looked crusty.

I decided it was time for a fresh start, and stripped them all down to bare metal, and spray painted them all black. We're talking about 8-10 coats of paint.

And I was absolutely astounded to see that the vents in the living room had been taxicab yellow at one point, which just seems bizarre to me. I'm guessing with gray walls, considering that was the color of the wall behind the vents flanges

Our house wasn't around 50 years ago.

Years ago the wife and I did rent a house that was built in the early 1900s, it was right next to an old church and cemetery. It was a neat house other than it had only one bathroom downstairs, our bedroom was up stairs and the stairs were super steep, so it made for a fun trip if you had to get up and go during the night.