I follow the road to my house...
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| Leaving the slabs, a row of broken glass sparkles in the sun. | Another look at the mountains. When you live where there aren't any you tend to miss them a lot. View full size | The road to my house. | I come upon a row of slabs. How tiny the houses were! | My house was here! The ocotillo cactus is still there and double in size!! |
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| The corner is behind me, looking across the road to the location of my first house. | The corner where my house was looking east, note the bush is still there after all these years.. | The rocks and lone ocotillo are all that's left of the cacti garden. | Looking south from where my house would have been. Of course the other houses would have been there as well. | An anthill was beside the electric pole behind our house--in 1960--and still there 45 years later!!! |
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| With my house to my right, I look south, toward the airstrip. |
Flashback! My first house, 1955... |
...was this tiny!! This is the very foundation! View full size |
Flashback! Looking out my back door 1955... |
...and standing in the same spot 2005 |
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Standing where my first house was, looking northwest at my second house location. |
My itty bitty bathroom and shower! |
Flashback! Same spot looking north, 1960. Note bush behind the car... |
...the same bush! The corner now has a cool bus stop sign, looking south, 2005. View full size |
My house would be behind me to the left. Looking west. View full size |
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| My hill! The one with the "fort" on top. | And at the end of my block I find another sign! | I turn north and continue my walk "to school". | Looking to my right (east) is one of the fields I crossed on my way to school every day. | Approaching the school. |
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| Not much left. | The foundation to the new kindergarten. | What's left of our school, which was built in a "U" shape. View full size | The mine road. Once dangerously busy, now lonely. | Map of Midland, with house numbers. View full size |
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The following day, before driving home (and me to the airport), Lyle and Carole stopped so I could take pics of the school in Blythe. |
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| Sunset, Big Maria | Castle Rock. |
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Blythe Junior High School | Back to first page |
