I agree with everyone.  I grew up with orange trees and walnut groves.  Now there are rows of apartments and businesses.  The house that I grew up in is now part of the I-405 freeway. Betty H --- On Fri, 8/17/12, Billie Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: From: Billie Walsh <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] Billie Walsh To: [email protected] Date: Friday, August 17, 2012, 10:26 AM It's building up over there also. I saw a new addition sign go up over that way just a couple months ago. You never should have left. *<]:oD We live about two miles east of where you lived, just off Broadway. On 08/17/2012 11:49 AM, Vera Reeves wrote: > In the late 70s we lived in a new housing area between Guthrie & Edmond > Oklahoma near Santa Fe Ave. It was quiet after spending most of our life in > Los Angeles area. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Billie Walsh > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 6:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] Elllen Reesh > > Oops. > > I live between two towns [ well one town and one city ], Guthrie and > Edmond Oklahoma. The actual city limits of the two towns is only about > four miles at the closes point. When I bought my little acreage twenty > years ago there were very few around me. Just in the last couple years > they have created one new housing addition and started another. Every > house sold before it's completed. Small lots and houses jammed in > together like sardines in a can.I never understand why people want to > move out to the country and bring the city with them. I told Tracie that > it was about time to move further out. *<]:oD > > Tracie had always been a "city girl" until I brought her out here 11 > years ago. It took her about a year to sleep at night. It was just way > to quiet. No sirens or car noise up and down the street. Said she had > never heard the birds at night before. Now I couldn't drag her back to > the city. *<]:oD > > > On 08/17/2012 01:23 AM, Ellen Reesh wrote: >> Well, with the housing crash back in 2007/8 the developers stopped >> building >> house so our farm land stopped being swallowed up. When my parents moved >> from Fresno to Modesto back in 1955 when I was in the 7th grade this town >> had a population of about 38000 people.  Today there are 200,010, what >> used >> to be peaches, almonds, walnuts, grapes, and corn fields are now schools, >> houses, shopping centers, a hospital, fast food, etc. They call it >> progress. I call it sad. >> >> Ellen > -- A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to ‘The United States of America’ for any amount, up to  and including their life. _ _...  ..._ _ _._  ._  .....  ._..  ...  .._ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Boy, that sucks. At least I can go by the house I grew up in every once in awhile. It use be surrounded by grape orchards, and there was a train that ran right by the side of our house. I loved that train. Well the grapes are long gone, filled up with houses, a regional park and a high school. The train tracks are now gone too, it is now a walking and bike path. Ellen On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:01 PM, betty hutson <[email protected] > wrote: > I agree with everyone. I grew up with orange trees and walnut groves. > Now there are rows of apartments and businesses. The house that I grew up > in is now part of the I-405 freeway. > Betty H > > --- On Fri, 8/17/12, Billie Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Billie Walsh <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] Billie Walsh > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, August 17, 2012, 10:26 AM > > > It's building up over there also. I saw a new addition sign go up over > that way just a couple months ago. You never should have left. *<]:oD > > We live about two miles east of where you lived, just off Broadway. > > On 08/17/2012 11:49 AM, Vera Reeves wrote: > > In the late 70s we lived in a new housing area between Guthrie & Edmond > > Oklahoma near Santa Fe Ave. It was quiet after spending most of our life > in > > Los Angeles area. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Billie Walsh > > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 6:52 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] Elllen Reesh > > > > Oops. > > > > I live between two towns [ well one town and one city ], Guthrie and > > Edmond Oklahoma. The actual city limits of the two towns is only about > > four miles at the closes point. When I bought my little acreage twenty > > years ago there were very few around me. Just in the last couple years > > they have created one new housing addition and started another. Every > > house sold before it's completed. Small lots and houses jammed in > > together like sardines in a can.I never understand why people want to > > move out to the country and bring the city with them. I told Tracie that > > it was about time to move further out. *<]:oD > > > > Tracie had always been a "city girl" until I brought her out here 11 > > years ago. It took her about a year to sleep at night. It was just way > > to quiet. No sirens or car noise up and down the street. Said she had > > never heard the birds at night before. Now I couldn't drag her back to > > the city. *<]:oD > > > > > > On 08/17/2012 01:23 AM, Ellen Reesh wrote: > >> Well, with the housing crash back in 2007/8 the developers stopped > >> building > >> house so our farm land stopped being swallowed up. When my parents moved > >> from Fresno to Modesto back in 1955 when I was in the 7th grade this > town > >> had a population of about 38000 people. Today there are 200,010, what > >> used > >> to be peaches, almonds, walnuts, grapes, and corn fields are now > schools, > >> houses, shopping centers, a hospital, fast food, etc. They call it > >> progress. I call it sad. > >> > >> Ellen > > > > > -- > A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check > made payable to ‘The United States of America’ for any amount, up to and > including their life. > > > _ _... ..._ _ > _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >