OUR CHILDHOOD HOMES

In the 1920’s Joseph Frankel and William Fox, owner of what was to become the film production company Twentieth Century Fox, built a...

I was born in México City in 1964 in a place called Colonia Agrícola Oriental. It's called Agrícola Oriental because at that time it was...

(Note: George Berzsenyi is the son of Col. Miklós de Vargha, equestrian par excellence, from whom Laurie took English riding lessons as a...

There is an aspect of my life that is oh so “Little House on the Prairie.”  My father built our house single-handed, with help from his...

Every summer when I was a little kid I spent with my grandparents in South Bristol, New York, which is 10 or 20 miles from Naples, at the...

I lived my entire childhood in one house. My parents bought this house in 1976 and they've lived there ever since for 47 years in the...

On the road to Polecat Park Although I rail against the damage I believe the Internet and especially social media has done to our civil...

My house was located in Juarez in a Barrio for Railroad Workers. It was an adobe house build by my Grandfather (Matias) more than 80...

Like some other contributors here, I moved a few times during my childhood, and kind of think my childhood homes would be the best way of...

When I was in elementary school during the 1930s, my mother worked in New York City and I lived on 167th St. in Flushing, Long Island,...

I was born in the small town of Peru, Indiana, and so were my parents. We didn’t live there long after I was born. My parents moved us to...

Note: This interview appears in Portuguese followed by the English translation in italics. Alice: Foram 20 anos naquela casa. Era uma...

We moved here right after I finished 3rd grade at Edwin D. Smith School in all white Oakwood, the first suburb immediately south of...

I had two distinctly different childhood homes. There was the home I was essentially born into; then, there was the “new house” we moved...

I came home from the then Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia to a duplex decorated with a Wissahickon schist veneer and faux Tudor...

Our father was born the same year that our future family home was built, in 1925. He and his parents lived about a mile north of Windsor...

Home for me was a two-story brick house in a Fort Worth, Texas, neighborhood built in the 1920s and 30s. Berkeley Place, if you know Fort...

We moved to our house on the south side of Chicago when I was eleven years old. By the time my parents relocated twenty-four years later,...

My first home was at 1201 Elberta Street in Houston’s Sunny Side. I see on Google Maps that the house is gone and the corner lot where it...

During the early fifties my dad, having decided not to transfer with the United Carbon Company to the Gulf Coast, bought and moved one of...