We lived in Villa Park, which was a rural area at the time. We had this old barn in the back yard where the boys used to play. Dan practiced his drums out there and we had a barn dance for Bob's 17th birthday. Our house was build in 1905 and was a craftsman style. Sears used to sell a kit house for 500.00 dollars and this is what our house was. The Holditches , an old Villa Park family had it built for their first home after they were married.
In 1975 Grampy bought the 1967 jag for ?? but it wasn't much compared to cars today. Bob was driving the old blue chevy station wagon and still trying to fix up the old white ford that he had purchased from a friends father. It didn't run but he finally got it running and then David could drive the blue chevy until he bought a car and then it was Dan's turn. That old chevy had twohundred and fifty thousand miles plus on it when it finally died.
The little jag was a pretty car and the boys took it to the proms. It was special to all of us.
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Where was the house in Villa Park?
Elliott, the house is no longer there as they put in a tract of
houses. If you go down lincoln just east of wanda there were the
railroad tracks, a large grove, the Fitstchens house, another grove
and then our house. Where our house was is a small street that
deadends at lincoln and is just a block long. Our house would be in
the middle of the street. If you kept going east there were groves
and then one house in the grove where Preach Lyerla lived. More
groves and the lincoln enede at center street. Villa Park Elementary
was on the north west corner. It was a great place to live and we
felt very sorry when the 54 acres if land was sold and they built
houses. That is when we had to move to wanda street as we wanted the
boys to stay in the same school. I will try to find some pictures of
the house so that you can see it.!
Love and Hugs
Grammy
Mom, Dad paid $5,500 fot the Jag in 67, and the Chevy had 250,000 before it died, and I was the one who killed it!
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