Townies

[Bill(Wis)]

My father and I were born in the house I still live in when I'm at the farm which is about 50% of my time. Still own all of the farm which grew over the years that my grandfather owned it. My father was born in 1901 and I was born in 1936. No electricity until 1937. My first Christmas tree had candles on it. I should add that although we had no electricity we did have a milking machine in 1914. We had a whole bunch of those little gas engines that you now occasionally see at farm shows and fairs. All of them went for scrap metal in the early 40s.

 

[Paul Janke]

Not what you asked about, but I have lived in three zip codes. Those have been 59713, then 59715, and now 59714. Zip codes had the first three digits of the sorting facility and the last two originally were the towns in alphabetical order. Those three were about 120 miles apart and about nine miles apart.

 

[37 chief]

I have lived in the same town I grew up in, live 1/2 mi from where I grew up, except for my Navy time. That time I lived in several different states, and countries, and a few weeks on a ship. I didn't have any choice in that. Stan

 

[John M]

50 years on this same piece of property. I say that because I moves out of the house into amobile home for 10 years until Dad passed away and we remodeled the house and move back in. I was 3 when we moved here, but lives like 4 miles away.

 

[chcase]

Lived at one farm a mile away and now this one for the last 51 years.Been putting a crop on this farm each year since spring of 1972

 

[WilBury]

LOL, you guys gotta get out more!
My dad was a mining engineer, so while I was growing up, we never lived in the same place for more than a few years. Lived all over Canada, the Yukon being the only place I haven't been. Strangely enough, I built my retirement home near where dad started his career before I was born.

 

[caterpillar guy]

Lived across the road from where I grew up at. Before that dad taught screwool in Flint so lived there when I was about a year old till he moved us back to Owosso Mi then he moved to the home farm his dad owned when he bought it from his parents. Then I bought the place across the road about 25 years ago. Lived out west on harvest crew for 5 seasons other than that never moved more than a few hundred feet. Dad's place is now or about to be a centennial farm. His grand dad bought it in about 1922 or there about and he was born in the house a 1/4 mile east of there. He just turned 90 the 8th of this month. I'll be 64 next month.