Local attractions where you grew up?

Eater of Worlds said:
I'm not Polish, I go to Lithuanian fests for a reason.
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I know. I'm just saying that Chicago has their own holidays to celebrate that isn't a state or federal holiday. There's that one, and I think another one, but not quite sure.
 
About 30 minutes from where i live there is this place called "la rumorosa" a lot of people who are not from here see it as something extraordinary but i guess everyone else is used to it. Dont really see how its extraordinary...
 
I'm a Marine Corps brat growing up in the Camp LeJeune community, unless you fancy military museums,we were located pretty much at the halfway point between the Outer Banks NC and Myrtle Beach SC.
 
I went to the Santa's Village in Dundee, Illinois. It was a cute place for kids.

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femme Fatale said:
I'm a Marine Corps brat growing up in the Camp LeJeune community, unless you fancy military museums,we were located pretty much at the halfway point between the Outer Banks NC and Myrtle Beach SC.
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I'm sure you've been to Archie's Place then :P
 
Reba said:
We also moved around a lot due to my dad's work, so I'm not even sure of all the places we lived. :lol:

Hubby was the opposite--lived in one house from birth until being drafted at age 18. I can't imagine that!

Philippines and Washington--yes, those would be two diverse but very interesting places to live. Very different "local attractions" indeed.
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My husband was an army brat who moved around a lot as well. I am the opposite..lived in the same house from 18 months old to 21 years old. To this day, my mom still lives in that house...from 1973 to 2014....41 years.
 
shel90 said:
My husband was an army brat who moved around a lot as well. I am the opposite..lived in the same house from 18 months old to 21 years old. To this day, my mom still lives in that house...from 1973 to 2014....41 years.
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That's like TCS and his mom. She still lives in the family house (since 1948).
 
shel90 said:
My husband was an army brat who moved around a lot as well. I am the opposite..lived in the same house from 18 months old to 21 years old. To this day, my mom still lives in that house...from 1973 to 2014....41 years.
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Reba said:
That's like TCS and his mom. She still lives in the family house (since 1948).
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On my mom's side of the family my grandfather moved a three room house from one lot to another here in town in 1896. It grew to 9 rooms as they had 7 kids and an aunt later turned the back porches into what amounted to that 9th room. My mom, several years after my dad died, eventually moved back to keep house for a sister & brother of hers that had never married after her sister broke a hip.

It stayed in the family until in 1989 I was about to buy a 2 bedroom house when my mom died. That resulted in my going from no houses to two houses in a week and one day (she died a week and one day after I closed). As a single person it turned out easy to keep the 2 bedroom house.

The result of this long story is that the house stayed in our family for about 93 years.
 
Grew up passing by Kiddieland amusement park in Melrose Park, IL. Not sure if I ever went when I was little but I pass by it all the time when I went to college. Opened in 1929. It officially closed in 2009. Costco took it's place.

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Looks similar to Nut Tree I mentioned. :)

MangaReader said:
Grew up passing by Kiddieland amusement park in Melrose Park, IL. Not sure if I ever went when I was little but I pass by it all the time when I went to college. Opened in 1929. It officially closed in 2009. Costco took it's place.
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wow lot of you guys who were military brats. Not me. I grew up in the same town until I was 19. I left and never returned to home. :cry:
 
Reba said:
That's like TCS and his mom. She still lives in the family house (since 1948).
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My mom plans on selling it when she retires which is in 5 years and give the money to us kids. That's nice of her. I told her that she doesn't have to but she wants to.
 
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