It was a small house, only 3 bedrooms and one bathroom. My dad finished off the basement. The house is the same color it always was. I remember roller skating on the sidewalk, playing hopscotch, and playing red light green light in the yard.
The garage was not always there. I remember when they put the slab in for it. It made a great stage for us girls from the neighborhood to put on dance recitals and hula hoop contests. Sad to say there are fences up now between the houses. There were none when I was young. Guess that’s a sign of the times.
Our house was within walking distance of the back side of Saratoga’s Thoroughbred track and we always rented the house for the month of August. My parents would make enough to pay their mortgage for almost 6 months. I think I remember my mother telling me they paid about $6,000 for the house in 1952!!
We didn’t have much luck at the casino and probably won’t be going back. I do want to go back to Saratoga though for the races in August. Hopefully, we will get a chance to do that.
I feel another trip coming, maybe to Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream factory in Vermont. I think we will take the ferry across to Vermont. Maybe I can find the house we used to live in when we lived in Burlington!!
