and the Walls Came a Tumblin’ Down!
After we took Mark’s mom to the doctor on Tuesday, we were driving down a street in the suburb where she lives and we saw a house being razed. I have seen buildings being taken down, but never a residence. The machine made short work of it and a few neighbors stood by to watch. One of them said she was glad because teens had been stealing her solar lights from her yard and using them inside this abandoned house. One woman said she has lived in the neighborhood for 36 years and the house has never been occupied during that time. I always hate to see a house being demolished, but it sounds like this one had been abandoned so long, it probably was beyond repair….
I was only there for about five minutes and I couldn’t believe how rapidly the house was coming down! Too bad I wasn’t there from the beginning. I always feel sad seeing buildings going down and then ugly modern ones taking their place!
Mark grew up in this neighborhood from the time he was three, so he will be missing the “big yellow house on Creek Street”!
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Creek street in Penfield? If so, then I grew up near there too. My gr. grandparents had a farm at one time on Creek Street (the house is still standing and in good shape). My father and grandfather went to this school house on the corner of Creek Street and Plank Road.
Pretty wild seeing a house come down! When we lived in Buffalo, the house across the street from some friends of ours burned, then about 3 days later, they leveled and cleared the whole lot in a day. It was really wild that they could do it so quickly.
Priscilla, yes indeed, that is Creek Street in Penfield! This was the big yellow house next to the convenience store on the corner of Browncroft and Creek Street. Mark grew up on Royal View. That little schoolhouse is so cool!We have passed by it so many, many times!!!
Boy, if this world doesn’t get smaller and smaller everyday!!!!
Katya!!!
The farmhouse that my Gr grandparents owned and lived in is located almost directly across from Royal View! It is a white farmhouse. I wish I could ask my Dad, but he has passed away…but my gr grandparents MAY have owned land across the street from their house…which would be where Royal view is. I KNOW they owned a lot of the land that is on the same said of Creek street as the house. The barn and all of that is gone.
Also…when I was growing up, my friend Richard Rogers lived on Royal View. He and I went to Schroeder High School in Webster.
BTW, that was my sister’s blog that I referred you to about the school house. So the story she writes about Grandpa is about my grandpa too of course….who grew up in the white farmhouse across from Royal View.
Priscilla, that is so funny! Mark graduated from Schroeder in 1977.
I really enjoyed Martha’s writing about the schoolhouse! how terrific to have a piece of your grandfather’s past etched into history!!
Martha was in class of ’82, I was in class of ’85. Our older brother should have been in class of ’76 (much to my parents’ dismay, he quit and got a GED before that).