Where I Used to Live, 20 Years Ago
May 9th, 2008 by Mike
Last week my net buddy for life Nick Ramsay did a post about what his area looked like 20 years ago. Well I’m gonna do something along those lines with this post.
20 years ago I lived in a neighborhood called Rundle in Calgary. The picture below is the house I lived in for the first 10 years of my life! My Aunt still lives in this area and when I go to her house for some “free dinner” I always pass by my old house.
Surprisingly, it looks nearly the same as it did 20 years ago. The yard hasn’t really been kept up but you can’t really tell in this picture since the snow covers it. I’d love to go inside the place just to see if it brings back any childhood memories but the people living there probably wouldn’t like that a whole lot.
Directly across the street from my house is my old elementary school. Again it looks pretty much exactly the same as it did 20 years ago. 10 or so years ago I actually went back inside to see what it looked like and I remember being surprised because the name of every room in the building was listed in like 10 different languages. Rundle has a lot of immigrants these days and so I guess that’s why they changed their signage. The times, they are a changin’!
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Posted: May 9th, 2008 under Calgary, Sausages!!!.
Comments: 2
That’s not a house, it’s a bungalow!
You must have been really popular, living right across from your old school. Did you sneak home in your lunch break?
I’d like to go back to the neighborhood I grew up in, but I’d have
to leave it before sunset for fear of getting shot.