MOC9-Day-23-Interview-About-the-Past

JOURNALING:
Childhood Memories
I can’t believe I found the old Williams family home
ON GOOGLE EARTH!
7225
Marion St.
Interview with my twin sister about the old Williams family home.
How do you know this is a picture of the old Williams house: ME: I recognize the basic shape of the house and how it is situated on the street. Almost directly in line with the driveway on the far right is a road (Buckeye Ridge Rd, actually) that leads up a small hill and you can just see the graveyard that is on the right side of the road. I remember the wrap-around front porch, the old “wash house” toward the rear of the big house just off the driveway. But, the MAIN feature I remember is the downward slope of the property on the left in this picture.
SIS: Yeah, that downward slope is one of my strongest memories of the house. I remember running up and down that slope.
ME: Yeah, into sort of a “bowl” at the bottom. It was easier going down than up!!! (Laughter)
SIS: I remember that screened-in porch and that room to the left was called the “sun room.” It had pretty doors leading into it with crystal doorknobs. But I DON’T remember those pillars and the walkways going up to the house. Of course, we always entered the home on the side of the house next to the wash house.
ME: It lead into the kitchen. Do you remember the LAVA soap? It was this yukky gray color and had pumice or something in it because it was rough feeling.
SIS: But you sure felt like you were getting your hands clean! Wonder if they still make “Lava?*” This has GOT to be the old house. Let’s plan a road trip!
*From Wikipedia: Lava is a heavy-duty hand cleaner in soap bar form manufactured by the WD-40 Company. Unlike typical soap bars, Lava contains ground pumice, which gave the soap its name. The soap and pumice combination is intended to scour tar, engine grease, paint, dirt, grime, filth, and similar substances from the skin.
CREDITS: PHOTOS: from Google Earth; KIT: "Mansion Masquerade" - collab; FONT: OldNewspaperType [352 words]