Ghosts from the past

[evilcreamsicle]

I've been meaning to write this post for awhile, but found that it was difficult to do in the days immediately following. By writing about it, it means I've acknowledged it, and that was something I didn't want to do. But it's been a few weeks now and I've come to accept it as real

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[njbearcub1]

I still have half of those polka, easy listening, and big band music LPs in my car. I had no inertia to move them once Jeff went through them and said that there wasn't anything we could use. Sorry about that.

I only saw 115 Chatham that one time, but the view was incredible. You'll never really let it go, since you grew up with it. I still have many fond memories of a few short years at 632 South Riverside, and still miss Jeff's mother's house. Even though both houses themselves were crappy, you are 100% correct in that it's the people and memories that outlive the buildings.

[evilcreamsicle]

Thanks Ed, and no worries about the records - although I must say I'm surprised at the lack of interest in Polkas :P

[njbearcub1]

If you were more famous, and knew Weird Al Yankovic, I bet he'd have some use for them.

[evilcreamsicle]

That's true. Maybe I'll stalk him on twitter or facebook and send him a message. Or not. BTW, if you need help disposing of them, let me know. I can snag them and bring them to the Neptune dump - or - leave them as a present for my dad at his new place. I'm sure he'd appreciate that.

[changeling72]

What a touching post. The house looks lovely - and it sounds so much bigger than it it looks in the photo. A happy place.

[evilcreamsicle]

Thanks Mark - a happy place indeed! It'll be a long time - if ever - that I drive down that street again. I have no doubt that the buyer plans on replacing it with some horrible, characterless monstrosity.

[cristalskye]

this made me cry. i hope you took a door or doorknob. anything that you could put in your own house.

xoxo

[evilcreamsicle]

I'd by lying if I didn't have a tear or two while writing it. I actually took the bar top, the bar sink, the bar fridge, numerous signs, the slates that formed some of the walkways in the backyard and then kicked apart the stone wall that framed the steps that went down the hill - some of those now form a border around the flower bed in the front of the house.