Every late summer for work we get to go over to Idaho to inspect about 30 bridges for one of our clients. This past week my boss and I spent two beautiful summer days up in the woods crawling around on all kinds of bridges.
One day we were lucky enough to get to drive through Orofino, Idaho up into the Clearwater forest. It was really fun being in that area. I gave my boss the grand tour of Orofino.
I drove by our old house which looks the same, but different. Now it has a garage and a front deck. (The picture I'm showing is actually from our trip down with my sisters two years ago.) The neighborhood is actually a lot more run down than I remember. So it has either gone downhill, or it was always like that, I don't know. And remember the swimming pool near the school? Well, it was completely gone, nothing in its place! I had a lot of fun memories there.
My perspective on many things was definitely different as a child. I always thought the elementary school was so far, yet it was only a short block away. And the drive to Lewiston seemed hours as a child, but it was only around 45 minutes.
Anyway, it was fun to see things again and reminisce about my childhood.
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This was actually one of the nicest homes in Orofino when we bought it for $37,000 in about 1977. We also had a hard time making the payments and thought about moving to something smaller as we only had 2 children. Boy, I'm glad we didn't sell it, because we soon filled it up.
Glad to see that you are back and "bloggin" again!
A little more detail on the Orofino house. When we were thinking of leaving Orofino in 1985, the house was valued at about $61,000. Right before we left, Potlatch Corporation announced they were closing two sawmills in the area and the realtor called and said our house had dropped in value $10,000 or more as a result! It took nearly 2 years to sell and we finally had to accept $45,000. Would be interesting to know what it's worth now. And by the way, Potlatch never did close any mills. I believe it was a tactic to gain labor concessions.
That was the best trip down memory lane when we went to Orofino. Now that I have my own kids, I wonder what kind of memories they are storing away about their childhood home/neighborhood. I wish you could still buy a house for $37,000 too!
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