More local history, this one particularly relevant to me.
The neighborhood where I grew up was built in the mid-1950s. There’s a private swimming pool there named Crestwood, and my parents bought my brother and I a membership for several summers. My friend Tim Miller, who has helped me practically rebuild large portions of my house, is the current maintenance man at the pool. Today he e-mailed me this picture of the swimming pool being dug in 1955.
I know the house I grew up in was built in 1956, and it was among the first in the plat. Considering the distance of the pool from my house and what I know from neighbors about how the neighborhood developed, this pool must have been in the middle of a farm field. Stroop Road, the nearest major road to the pool, was a dirt road at the time, and it ended at the Creager house and Wagner Road. (The big curve was added in the early 60s with the development of Indian Riffle Junior High and Fairmont East High School.) It’s just amazing to me to see someplace I’m very familiar with as it existed long before my time.
Tim tells me he has some more pictures, and I’ve demanded that he bring them over for scanning. Hopefully we can do that this weekend.
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February 12th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Aaron,
The city that I live in is replacing the pool that I grew up with. The old structure was 60+ years old and needed more work than was affordable. I am still living in the house that I grew up in and looking at the changes in the area is amazing. I look at old pictures and am fascinated by the changes. There is an areal photo of the town taking in 1948 and my house wasn’t built yet but I can still see the layout that we have now. Please post the photos when you get a chance.
February 12th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Hi Philip,
Tim gave me the rest of the pictures he had this past weekend, and I’ll probably post them tomorrow during the snow day. When the weather gets better, we plan to re-create some of the pictures to show just how much thing have changed in 50-some years.