Ann, we moved here in September 1967, when Virginia Beach Blvd. was still, at least for much of its length, a two-lane road with interspersed stretches of "service roads" alongside from Norfolk to the oceanfront. Now, VB Blvd. is four lanes in each direction, the service roads are almost all gone, and there's the Interstate "spur" that parallels the boulevard all the way from the riverfront in Norfolk to the oceanfront at the beach. The neighborhood we live in now, and have for over thirty years, was only a horse pasture or farmland when you left the area. We live in the vicinity of Acredale, which was a crossroads community at the intersection of Kempsville and Indian River roads. My daughter Docie started kindegarten at a fairly new elementary school in an adjoining neighborhood, Indian Lakes Elementary. By the time she was in second grade, she went to a brand new elementary school, Providence Elementary. In the fourth grade, she and her younger brother were enrolled in brand new Centerville Elementary. Both went to middle school in Brandon Middle, and she went to high school first at Green Run High, then to brand new Salem High, and by the time her brother was in ninth grade, he was in the first freshman class at Tallwood High School, from which he graduated. That was the only school that either of them could walk to throughout their school years. Oh, and all of those schools had portable classrooms for the overflow, from the day they opened their doors! I was gone from the area for over five years in the late '90s and early '00s, and when I returned there had been so many changes made that I got turned around several times and didn't know where I was in relation to familiar roads close to my house! Now that's a weird feeling! 8~0! I hope Ken suffered no permanent damage to his arm... Carolyn