Show it!
 

I'm a huge fan of Google Earth, a free software package that can show you virtually anything on the planet via satellite pictures.

Sal's thread about summers past has had me thinking about the home where I spent all of my formative years.

I'll show you mine if you show me yours. ;)

In this shot, our lake is marked and we can see all the other lakes we used as our childhood playground. The lakes visible in this frame are all within the canal system or walking/biking distance and we routinely portaged our canoe across roadways to go lake hopping and on other various adventures (some less than wholesome). :rolleyes:

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47b9...D550/ry%3D400/

Cool, Cindy. I tried but haven't been able to navigate Google Earth, yet. I'll try again..:rolleyes:

Sal, you can plunk in your address of choice and zoom or scroll any image. It took me a little longer to spot my old stomping grounds because sooooo much has grown and changed. Sadly, our fabled "Century Oak" is now a mere patch of nothingness. It was an enormous oak tree that was our private climbing jungle. :(

If I did that I'd have to post at least 20 maps!

OTOH, I used Google to look in my porch windows and I have to clean the porch! :cool:

Do they have Google boats??? I couldn't get a look at the front of my house but there was the lake side and all of the enclosed porch's messy glory!!! :eek: Jeeez!!!

Here's my childhodd summer playground :D :rolleyes:



http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47b9...D550/ry%3D400/

BUFFALO CHIPS! http://www.greensmilies.com/smile/sm...teinwerfen.gif

I never knew you then and if I had, I'd deny it! Now get along, Buffalo gal!!!

So, Shelley, are you and AMN sisters or cousins then? :p

Mine is just below that, in Ohio...:D

[QUOTE=AfterMyNap;531263][QUOTE=Shelley;531259]Here's my childhodd summer playground :D :rolleyes:
I was just easier than actually doing google earth. :p TYS

Distant cousins of course I am from the cuter smarter side of the family :eek:

(do I have a death wish or what today)

So would that make Naps from the smarter side of the family by chance?:Scratch-Head:

(Hey, it was just a question. Nothing to get your panties all in a bunch over, Shelley!)

Not much to see where I grew up in Central MS. In the '30-60's it was all cotton fields. In the 70's my dad started raising cattle. BY the 90's my brothers had set all 150 acres out in pine seedlings. In the google map photo it was a forest. Last summer the entire place was clearcut because of beetles in the pines. Not much left of what I remember from childhood. Besides my brother would shoot me... his house shows in the best photo :D

My Childhood hood
 

This is the house I grew up in from age 4 - 14. I really miss that house an plan to buy it back one day. I had my happiest memories of my life there. It is in Woodstock, Il. My house is the one in the center of the picture. We had 3 acres to roam in and mom and dad said "get out and come back at dark" Across the street was a cornfield, beyond that was a huge Catholic church that had a pond we used to swim in all the time. Darn I miss it. I want to be 12 again.

Here's a picture of my house on google earth

(am I pushing it or what today....oh yeah and Twerpy you better run)

:confused: Oh man, which one do I choose?:confused: Like RW, I'd have to post a few maps. Each place that I lived and spent my summers brings back such fun memories.

What's the deal with this? Are we running out of room for links around here???:confused:

Go ahead! Throw caution to he wind! Release the inner child! Surrender to indulgence! Tawanda!!!!!

Pick one or 20 and give it up! You can choose an image from miles in the sky, heck, even I had a hard time finding my old territory, who's going to pay attention to what's there?

Just do it! Carpe the diem! Carp diem (seize the fish)!

My "playground" from 1964 to 1971.


EDIT: AMN, it didn't work. How did you get the image in there?

Copy the image address and paste in the box from the little yellow postcard right up there.

Here's my old stomping ground, Tims Ford Lake, Tennessee. Notice Sleep Hollow to the right? lol Tubing, cookouts and the whole family gathering. It was only once a year but still warms my heart to think about it. See the little white marks? The image caught boats racing along the lake.

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/i...summervaca.jpg

:confused: I give up. After trying several times to get it to post and a phone call to Sandy (Sandy it didn't save it to my computer:confused:), I give up. Eventually I will get it but have other things to do right now. LOL

Trish
 

I've been trying to get an overview of NCR- Old River Park, and they don't seem to be able to deliver.:mad:

NCR(national cash register) had been part of Dayton, Oh, since 1884, and just recently left us and moved to the Atlanta area.....to save money:rolleyes::mad: ( the greedy bastuds )

Old River park was a place, a gigantic park, built for it's employees and friends. In the 40s, 50s and 60s, almost everyone had a family member working there. I was either at the hunormous double pool or canoeing, or cooking out with the family, at one of their many pavillions, every day, during the summer.

The city just reopened it, sans Pool, after NCR left.... and thousands descended upon it, to celebrate, once more.

Here's a few circa 60s pics.....

http://home.earthlink.net/~sal.pal/s...ldriver-16.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~sal.pal/s...ctures/or3.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~sal.pal/s...ctures/or2.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~sal.pal/s...ctures/or1.jpg

Dang, Sally!!! That park looks like fun. What a great place to spend the summer as a kid. Of course, I'm a water baby at heart and love being in the water.;)