Finding My Past with Google Maps

I wish Google street view was around while my first three childhood homes in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Vancouver, were still standing, though I did have opportunity to see the third one before it was demolished. Don't know why I didn't take a photo of it. The old neighbourhood in Vancouver, had not changed a lot .. obviously, not a prime real estate area (then, or now). The old frame houses were built on steep inclines with long staircases I always envisioned the neighbours falling down, and the rotting wooden paint-peeled fences were still abundant. It made me sad to see.

I've got a Google photo of the house I spent my high school youth growing up in, and occasionally look at our 'haunted' house in Niagara Falls (story in Paranormal thread). It's fun also checking out the homes of relatives back in Australia. I feel like a voyeur sometimes :playful:
 

They have "googletrikes", too, to go where the cars can't go. I was in Gasworks Park in Seattle once and the Google trike was tooling around on the sidewalks taking pictures. I tried like the dickens to get in the picture, but I don't seem to be in any of the angles. Bummer.....my one chance at stardom.
 
I've done the same thing. Looked at the last house my parents owned in Santa Cruz, Ca (on one of those real estate sites) and found out that the people who bought it from them never sold it. 1984, 115,000. I asked my mother once what they sold it for and she stated she couldn't remember exactly. Now I know. They let the yard go.

Luckily for me, I have no desire to ever really go back to Santa Cruz.
 

My parents bought the house that I grew up in for $3500 in 1933. My sister found an ad for it for $500,000. It is a 1929 frame house.
 

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