Your first Marital Home.. tell us about it ... :-)

1965, Upper East Side of Manhattan. The first floor of a tenement. It had the bathtub in the kitchen, had to put quarters into the gas meter (?) to cook. The bathroom appeared to be an afterthought, as the toilet was in what appeared to be what was a small closet. The sink was on the wall outside of it, in the bedroom.
Rent was $48/month.
 
Before we married, we lived in a dumpy old house that we shared with another couple. A year later when we got married, we packed up an old car and moved cross country to a two bedroom rental apartment. It was actually quite reasonable. We found it and jobs when we arrived there.
 

hollydolly said:
OK... thanks that's a great description, I can imagine it in my minds' eye .. we had many places on the East and South side of our city simialar..when I was growing up. We lived on the west side, but the vast majority of my relatives lived on the South & East
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Groing up in NYC, we all knew theBowery was the end of the line for a lot of men... :(

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I owned two houses before I married but once I got married we built a bi level house on some property I had owned for a number of years. Built the house on a very tight budget thinking it was just a starter home, but I'm still here 34 years later!

I paid it off, got divorced so had to buy it again and pay it off a second time but wanted the kids to finish growing up here so it was worth it. I've changed just about everything inside and out and now have it how I like it.

One of the main reasons I never moved though is the property, man I would hate to leave my little piece of the world, I truly love the setting.
 
Kika said:
If anyone ever visits Manhattan, and wishes to see apartments like @Pepper and I lived in many years ago, try to take a tour of the Tenement Museum.
Immigration Museum NYC | Tenement Museum. The apartment tours have apartments set up and furnished EXACTLY as they were years ago.
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I was raised in a Top floor tenement..Nice one tho' , not like the slum tenements in the South and east of our city
 
squatting dog said:
Groing up in NYC, we all knew theBowery was the end of the line for a lot of men... :(

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we had places similar to that in our city... altho' we never saw the men lying in the street. We'd see them staggering and falling,. getting up, and continuing, but they all had homes to go to.... their poor wives.. :confused:... even my own grandfather.. sometimes we'd go to visit him, and he wouldn't be in, even tho; he knew we were coming, and we'd look down the road, and we'd see him way in the distance staggering home..
 
Right before we got married my husband was in the Navy during the Viet Nam war. When he got out I was living with my parents and one day walking a friend to the door I saw them putting a for sale sign on the house across the street. I bought it before he was done hanging the sign up. It needed a lot of work but all my Dad's friends helped remodel it. We lived there until almost 2 years ago. Then we moved to the suburbs to be closer to my daughter and her family.
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Sassycakes said:
Right before we got married my husband was in the Navy during the Viet Nam war. When he got out I was living with my parents and one day walking a friend to the door I saw them putting a for sale sign on the house across the street. I bought it before he was done hanging the sign up. It needed a lot of work but all my Dad's friends helped remodel it. We lived there until almost 2 years ago. Then we moved to the suburbs to be closer to my daughter and her family.
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Our first "residence" after getting married...was a newly built apartment complex..
We had a 1 bedroom, 1ba. on the 2nd for..facing woodlands....
with historic Fort Pickett up the street.
After there... for 1-1/2 yrs.
OUR FIRST HOME..was...we bought a 3 br.1.5 ba. split- level
on a double cul-de-sac...with woods in the back...and
We were there for 20 yrs.
Moved with d/h job advancement.
 
Kika said:
If anyone ever visits Manhattan, and wishes to see apartments like @Pepper and I lived in many years ago, try to take a tour of the Tenement Museum.
Immigration Museum NYC | Tenement Museum. The apartment tours have apartments set up and furnished EXACTLY as they were years ago.
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Wow, Kika. I went to that site... very interesting and from it, I learned they have YouTube videos about the old tenements and the descendants of those who lived there.

I began watching one, and am just fascinated. I had to save it for later, but maybe you would enjoy it when you have time. Just put in your "watch later" queue.

 
Wow, that's great, thanks. I was not aware of the YouTube videos. I will take a look later tonight.
I actually went on a few tours there years ago, showing my new daughter-in-law (at that time) NYC. She was born and raised in rural Pa and could not fathom the apartments I described. Needless to say, she was very impressed.
 
So glad you're interested...there are more there as well.

How nice you took your DIL on a tour.

I see you're in NYC now. How was the move? Do you like where you moved?

I grew up in CT and have visited NYC some when I was younger. I always loved that city and enjoy learning about it's history. @Pepper may like those videos, too.
 
RadishRose said:
So glad you're interested...there are more there as well.

How nice you took your DIL on a tour.

I see you're in NYC now. How was the move? Do you like where you moved?

I grew up in CT and have visited NYC some when I was younger. I always loved that city and enjoy learning about it's history. @Pepper may like those videos, too.
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I never left NYC, I was born here and remain here for now. I'll be moving to Pa at the end of this year, to be closer to my son, daughter-in-law and granddaughters.
 
I was finally able to send my houses, The first one is where I live now the second is where I lived in South Philadelphia when I got married. The house I lived in first the new people painted the bricks red and the door red.
 

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