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the old Neighborhood

grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
edited August 2017 in General Discussion
Go into a conversation about childhood neighborhoods and if they were safe or not. Only 3 houses on my old block did not have a gun. Mine cause my mom was scared of them. The crazy old lady, think she was a witch cause she scared everybody. And the one Mormon family, I spent a lot of time at their house and never saw one But their could have been. But with 2 big boys and a dad who could handle them nobody was bothering that house.

Most of the rest were WWII vets Great folks but would not want to cross any of them.
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  • bullshotbullshot Member Posts: 14,727 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The neighborhood that I grew up in is now a ghetto, there are no white familys and not one home has a lawn, just dirt and debris. The houses are all run down and all need painting.

    Even the mail trucks have tail gunners.
    "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you"
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bullshot


    The neighborhood that I grew up in is now a ghetto, there are no white familys and not one home has a lawn, just dirt and debris. The houses are all run down and all need painting.

    Even the mail trucks have tail gunners.




    It is the same now in my Hometown.
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  • diver-rigdiver-rig Member Posts: 6,336 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My old neighborhood, everyone had guns.

    Probably still do, all three houses on that gravel road.
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  • Irish 8802Irish 8802 Member Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Where I grew up,and my mom and dad lived for 60+ years,is now a Haven for south of the border types.Sooooo sad,,what a great childhood I had..
    Of course that was in the 40's and 50's......Sigh.
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  • droptopdroptop Member Posts: 8,363 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    About a year ago did a "Google Drive Thru" of the town where I grew up.

    100's of homes had been torn down and the lots cleaned. No new homes. Almost every downtown business was GONE or building vacant.

    My childhood home was still standing. It was one of two on that block. Remember thinking over half the homes were gone.

    The town wasn't "trashed" or even overgrown, just kind of vacant looking. There were new business along the highway that ran around the edge of town.
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  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I believe everybody on our neighborhood had more than one firearm.

    And I bet the entire town may have one or two people that lived in it that didn't own at least one, but I sure didn't meet any of them

    I still live in the same town, and I'll bet you at least 60% of the homes now least one firearm. That percentage should probably be higher, if there wasn't so many divorced women running around
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  • patt7638patt7638 Member Posts: 369 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The old neighborhood has really changed. All of the houses then were single family homes but they have almost all disappeared. They have been replaced by apartments. The old home has gone and was replaced by a bank. I have no idea how many guns were in the neighborhood, then and now. .
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  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I grew up in the Ghetto so to speak, Washington DC until Dad finally moved u enough to get us the hell out of their.

    Then we moved to Spotsylvania VA what a difference!

    I drove back once to check out the old hood and since I couldn't carry really didn't want to be there.

    Even the cemeteries where my ancestors are all buried in DC look pretty spooky. I went in the daytime and didn't spend anytime outside the cemetery, in the gate and out.

    One was so bad the nearby half way house had used stones to adorn their yard.
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Grew up in the country. EVERY house had a gun of some kind.

    Still a nice place to live. Most still have a gun. It is about 4 miles from where I was born to a traffic light.
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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I grew up in the country, no neighbors really. Our place backed up to and was surrounded by the Chattahoochee national forest.

    Everyone I knew had multiple guns in the house. Everyone had at a minimum a 12ga, 22lr, 3006 or a 30-30.

    Deer season and squirrel season came around and kids would ditch school to go hunting.

    It sounded like a war.
    RLTW

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  • pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    grew up in farming country .Every house had yard chickens and at least a shotgun to keep the varmints killed off to protect the Sunday dinner
    cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
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  • mjrfd99mjrfd99 Member Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
    quote:Originally posted by bullshot


    The neighborhood that I grew up in is now a ghetto, there are no white familys and not one home has a lawn, just dirt and debris. The houses are all run down and all need painting.

    Even the mail trucks have tail gunners.




    It is the same now in my Hometown.

    Add mine - Newark NJ destroyed by democraps and nignogs
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