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The first mall I had ever seen.
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A Super Wal-Mart
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I really don't know what is built on the property, as all i have is this old original deed. But the property is in down town Chicago per google maps. stay tuned!
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A house.
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When I was growing up, there was a village nearby that had a former foundry - all that was left was the foundation and the basement. They eventually built houses on the land.
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A strip mall
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They built a school over the place where the older kids used to find arrowheads. I was very disappointed when I found out a few years later.
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A few 2-family houses, right across the street from our house.
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A housing tract that is now worth about 60% of what the home-owners paid.
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They tore down Paradise and put up a parking lot.
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Too much, that's what :(
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I remember looking out of my elemenary school window and seeing a big field of cows. Now...it's a subdivision:( Bye bye cows. I remember being sad because my small town was getting so big. But now that I'm older, my small town is still really small. You have to go to the next town to find serious work.
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Another Sky Scraper.
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a cheap-ass house. We had a lot next door while I was growing up. We used to build a hockey rink there every winter and I learned how to chip a golf ball there. It was a place for the kids to run. A kind of park right there in the centre of the neighbourhood. They built a house there when I was about 15.
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If you don't mind Jay I will go the opposite in my story. When I was a kid I lived in this very small town for a few years (Tuleta, Texas). From about age 6 to 11 I lived in this town. Population had to be under 100. On this one corner there was an old abandoned 2 story house. It was very spooky. We messed around in it all the time, during daylight hours, never at night. I live a long way from there now and that was 35+ years ago. Recently while traveling for work I was near there so I went and drove around for sentimental sake. I saw that old house has been demolished and removed sometime in the last 3 decades. For some odd reason it made me a little sad, a part of my childhood was gone, just an empty lot now.
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When I was a lad in the 50's there was a large site round the corner which had a big bllboard on it "Site aquired for Phipps Brewery for new Public House". We waited 20 years for that pub to open..it never did...they built a block of flats instead.
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An entire new town.
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A Home Depot! I miss seeing the moose that would walk through it. And in the empty field across the street; A Super Wal-Mart!
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A 7-11 convenient store.
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800 acres of orange groves demolished to put up a retirement village. Arrrgghhh
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Apartment buildings and fancy single family homes.
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A Publix shoping center. It's kinda sad.
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First the city bought the land next to our house which was a lovely vineyard, and the farm house in the back of us. They built a golf course on that land, and after my mother sold the house, years later, they tore it down and it is now a parking lot for the golf course. Looks so weird now when I drive past that lot! My mother still says how she could have made a lot of money from that land, as the city wanted it badly, but refused to give her a fair price for it. So, the people who bought the house from my mother are the ones who profited when the city finally offered a good price for it. But, it's nice to know that it was a young couple with small children, and they probably needed that money more than we did. I heard they had made more than enough profit to purchase a really nice home with enough space for their growing family.
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A large shopping complex.
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