OMG! I can't believe the things you can find on the net. One of you found this. Yes, that's the house. That was my prison for several years. OMG. The Oleander hedge is still there! The rest looks so different, but, I recognized it right away. Imagine being 12 and trying to dig a full size pool with a shovel in that. Jebus crimeny. I am blown away that a reader took the time to find this. Thank you, CJ!
Friday, May 28, 2010
2001 N. Forgeus Ave.
OMG! I can't believe the things you can find on the net. One of you found this. Yes, that's the house. That was my prison for several years. OMG. The Oleander hedge is still there! The rest looks so different, but, I recognized it right away. Imagine being 12 and trying to dig a full size pool with a shovel in that. Jebus crimeny. I am blown away that a reader took the time to find this. Thank you, CJ!
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is the pool still there?
LMAO! I'll bet it's not.
Oh. My. God! That is straight KOOKOO! bima
It looks diff, none of that brick shit was there or the car port shade whatever that thing is. It was white and desolate. It actually looks better now.
Something about this brought to mind that movie "TRans America". Good movie. Dark & intense. I think it was a true story. Just something about this. My mom always had a new boyfriend and sometimes a new husband. One of her husbands got a big new upright freezer, had it filled with beef and then chanied it all around, padlocked it and took pictures of it and showed us. He also dumped my sisters used Kotex, that were in those little blue bags all over the kitchen table one time. He was a son-of-a-bitch alright. My mother had arrest warrants out for her & her ex-con boyfriend/husband out in AZ back in the eraly 70's for grand theft auto and bank robbery! We get a call from her one day telling us that he had been killed in a car crash & had burned up. Then here she comes on day, no place to go. We find out about the warrants, & he is NOT dead at all!!! Do you know they were never arrested for that? It's insane. He went to prison eventually for molesting children. I hope he rotted in there. DD, our mothers were twins, I swear. My mom would "do" a guy, anywhere & anytime. And she didnt care who knew! If she got a nice steak dinner out of the deal...all the better. This story is nuts! It totally sounds made up. But I know it's not. Truth is stranger than fiction. My gawd, its a miracle you survived it all. I still think our mothers are twins.
Rox
This house is for sale Pat. $120G, a real nice fixer-upper it says! LOL!!! It looks like it was a Pueblo style house. Did it look more Pueblo style when you lived there?
It was just a plain white adobe box. Hotter than hell and ugly.
$120 grand cracked me up. That place sold for less than $10 grand in the 60's. It was a dumparoo. I later slept in the garage, or on top of the garage when it was hot.
Pat ~ Yesterdaywhen I found the listing for the house I was looking at the pictures... doesn't look like there is a pool in the backyard. Just the normal Tucson gravel.
Couldn't believe it the first time I was in Tucson. People had gravel yards! I'm scratching my head saying 'where's the grass'? Got the answer, No water, No grass.
CJ, thank you so much for finding that. I showed it to my mom and boy is she mad about the price. LOL. She said, well, by god I paid for that place. LMAO!
I can't find back yard pics. Is there a way you can email them to me??
Pat ~ If you scroll to the bottom of the Zillow listing, there is a aerial view of the house. It looks bigger than you described. Maybe someone enlarged it over the years? There are three pictures in the listing, but I can only get one of them to pull up ;(
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2001-N-Forgeus-Ave-Tucson-AZ-85716/8498047_zpid/
Here's the full realty listing.
http://www.longrealty.com/AZ/Tucson/85716/homes-for-sale/2001-N-Forgeus-Avenue-39600104
Incredible yes to see this on the net, for you.
I live in So Cal and I can attest to the horrible clay dirt, rocks, etc. It is impossible to dig even a foot wide hole without coming across a small boulder or planet, ha.
sandy
CJ, thanks for the heads up. That ariel map showed me how far I walked to school and Himmel. I'd walk clear out to the mountains, can you imagine?? Now I know it wasn't my childhood imagination, I walked a long fucking ways. LOL. Geez. I still can't get the photos of the back of the house, can you get them? They come up as an X for me.
You have no idea how bizarre it is to see that place now. Thanks again.
Pat ~ I can't get the other pics to come up, either.
Go to Google maps. Search for "palm shadows, Tucson AZ". That is where my sister lived on E Speedway in 68-69 while she was a grad student at UA. I visited twice while she was there. Can't believe how close you & I were! And that was one long ass walk you took to the mountains. I remember she & my BIL took me up Mt Lemon. That was a long drive.
Mt. Lemon! Man, this is bringing back memories. Did you ever go to a place they called Pepersauce Caves? I liked caving back then. We really did live close to your sis. If you'd hung out at Himmel with the hippies, I'll bet we would have met. Isn't that strange to think about? We probably passed each other on Speedway.
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