The house we lived in (rented) in Little Rock, AR had two porches on the front. One of them was screened in and the other was open. We had a porch swing (wooden that hung from the porch ceiling(s) by chain). I say ceiling(s) because the swing was kept on the screened porch in the fall-winter season and moved to the open porch in the spring. There was a small, open porch on the south side of the house and an open porch on the back of the house that went all the way across. There was another small screened in porch on the north side of the house. I don't remember much use of that porch. Access was from the kitchen and there was no exit to outdoors. The porches that got the most use were the two on the front of the house. The "house in the desert" where we moved in 1945 had a small open porch on the front of the house. There were two "stoops" on the backside of the house. One from the kitchen and the other from a bedroom that was added to the back of the house by the original owner. I haven't lived in a house with a porch in over 40 years now. Sure do miss a porch. Robert E Paty, Scottsdale, AZ aka Mad Hatter > Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:57:29 -0400 > From: etm1935@gmail.com > To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ML] HOW MANY GREW UP WITH THEM > > > http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-04-29/classified/ct-home-0429-front-porches-20110429_1_porch-railings-neighbors > > Elaine > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message