Last night we went to a community association meeting where we were able to meet others in our neighborhood as well as talk to city officials, volunteer organizations and…the neighborhood local historian, who just happens to be a diagonal neighbor or ours. We talked to him for quite a while and he introduced us to a real estate agent who once owned our house. For the first time since moving here, we were able to learn a little history about our house, which was one of the first built in the neighborhood. Which leads us to this week’s question.
Our house used to be which of the following:
a. a store
b. a barber shop
c. the old post office
d. the local watering hole
Judging by the layout, and trying fervently to remember, I think it was a store. That’s my answer, although it would be cool if it used to be a bar…
I am going with “store”… because like the olsen’s store on little house on the prairie, the family could still live upstairs!
a post office
It was a store. That housed a Brothel upstairs.
Sissy, you are partially correct. The correct answer is a. Our house was a store early on. At the community meeting we heard a story about the woman who grew up in the house across from us. Even in her old age, in and out of reality, she remembers whenever she was good in church she could come to our house to get an ice cream cone after church. Unfortunately, there aren’t any pictures of our house to document this, but we are enjoying gathering up bits and pieces about the history of our digs.