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Where did you grow up?

Grew up Ironwood, MI Just a few blocks from a community college ski area management training program. That is what I did as a kid, ski, ski, ski, ski, cross country ski, snowmobile, snow shoe, ski, and ski some more. Throw in a little drinking and you get the picture.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/1...a46645bab07db6!8m2!3d46.4644697!4d-90.1728387

We had a garage but not the one in the picture.
Was walking distance from the ski hill. Finished night skiing and I could just ski most of the way home. Only had to take the skis off for about a three block walk. Man I was in shape then. Sure do miss those days!!!
 
Dayton, Oregon. Small rural farm town on Western Oregon. One gas station, Mom and Pop grocery store, city park with a WW1 cannon. Town was surrounded by fields of strawberries, wheat and corn, cherry and walnut orchards. Back in the late 70's, they even let school out early one year because the strawberries were ripe early and they needed pickers! It was great place to grow up.
 
I was born in Portsmouth, Va. Dad was in Navy there. Then to the smallest of towns in West Central, Ill till I was 8. Then to NE Missouri, Knox County on a farm (lets here it for the Farm Boys out there!!) till I went to College at MU. Grew up wrenching on old Ford trucks and old John Deere farm equipment (A's, a 60, a 730 and an old 40 JD combine), chasing cattle back in that got out, and feeding pigs. Returned to the old farm a few months ago, not much remains of what it was like when I lived there. Did see the old Flat Head Ford engine laying in the weeds, we took out of our 53 ton and a half Ford back in the 60s and retrofitted a 289. After college, made several moves with my career. Been in the KC area since 1996. Yep those were the "good old days", Not. Best to you folks. B.
 
Grew up in a little town in Missouri called Weldon Spring. Tried the Navy, then went to college and ended up moving out here to New Mexico. Have been here ever since.
 
Weldon Spring...close to Hooter...I mean Cottleville.
You wouldn't recognize the place now.
 
Slap Stick said:
Weldon Spring...close to Hooter...I mean Cottleville.
You wouldn't recognize the place now.
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Cottleville, had three homes within 2 miles of there. It's changed a bunch. My friend owned all the land on both sides of N going into town. Feels like a life time ago!!
 
Pittsburgh

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Slap Stick said:
Weldon Spring...close to Hooter...I mean Cottleville.
You wouldn't recognize the place now.
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I went back a couple years ago. Your right I could not recognize any of the old places we used to run around. Place used to be mostly rural, when I lived there, not now.
 
Lived in the St Louis area until college. My parents first house was in Ballwin, right nextdoor to my mom's parents. The trees are a bit bigger than I remember ;)

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Went to college in Baltimore, MD, then 4 years out in the Bay Area after I graduated. 2 years in the Raleigh, NC area and then to Cincinnati in 2003 when my oldest was born. Been here ever since and not planning on leaving until the kids are out of high school.
 
in poverty ,foster home after foster then boys farms Ohio :(
 
Hey-O said:
Cottleville, had three homes within 2 miles of there. It's changed a bunch. My friend owned all the land on both sides of N going into town. Feels like a life time ago!!
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I would probably recognize the name.
Remember the Blue Diamond?
Then there was the junkyard just N of town. Can't remember the name but the owner ran the PO. Got lots of 65 B and C body parts there.
 
Buffalo, NY but left when I was 21 so probably matured in Los Angeles. Was there for 11 years then job transfer back to Buffalo....and can’t go from LA to Buffalo with Ca. Girl, so in Phoenix for a long time now.
 
Out in the dirt south of Fresno in central Cal. Lived many other places in my adult years, but that's where it all started....
 
My parents house where I grew up. By the time I was 6, dormers were added to upstairs and a 24' x 24' livingroom was added to rear of house. If you could see 200' through this house is my house I built in 1983. That tree on left side of roof now has branches that are above chimney.
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Southeastern colorado from age 15 and up and still here.

I recently bought property near my adoptive parents so I'm not going anywhere.

I love the extremely dry Prarie desert and good rust free, sun baked cars laying around.
 
Wojo68 said:
One of my best friends went the same route. Toughest kid I’ve ever known
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Before I ended up on the mountain outside of State College, I started life in Delaware County Child Welfare, a hard to place case because of mixed racial background (Scotch/Korean). My adoptive parents couldn't meet the income requirements to adopt a white kid. What's really ironic, got my biological info years later from Ancestry, biological father was a doctor, mother made a career on Wall Street through the back door. Korean grandfather came to US in 1920s without a penny, became a surgeon in Philadelphia. I drove a truck, became a corporate lawyer, now drive a truck again.

Fortunate not to have ended up in the system. I'm sure the social workers winced when they saw where I was placed, but it worked out in the end. I always identified with b body Mopars - nobody wanted them when they were young either. Wife of local Chrysler/Plymouth dealer took an interest in me early on, gave me a test drive in her new GTX back in the day, she was a great motivator, more than my parents.

Wife says I never cared about professional accomplishments, just wanted to get enough money to buy the next GTX. Oh well, currently chasing GTX number 6, still have the same wife after 43 years.

As the saying goes, that which doesn't destroy you makes you stronger.
 
Thought to add a picture of house and trees today. Can see my house (barely) on left in new pictures. If you look carefully you can see the arc of a large branch going over house. First picture 70 years ago approximately.
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I grew up in Forest Ontario. That's around 90 miles from Detroit Michigan. Here's a few random photos of the house I grew up in and the driveway. You can see it was Mopar all the way, even back then.

The photos were taken between 1979 and 1981. That's my old Superbird (RM23U0A), a '68 Newport that we painted red white and blue for shits and giggles, a '67 Newport of my dad's that a buddy and I "improved" one day by taking an air chisel to it and giving it a T-bar roof (good old dad was pretty understanding), and in the back ground, my '66 Hemi Satellite. I sold the muscle cars in 1981 or so to fund going to school in England. The last photo has a bit of my dad's 1972 Imperial. It was a great car and the reason why I have three 1973 Imperials.

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