Mr. 20 Prospect in a quiet moment
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I’m like to print an excerpt from one of your posts in the Pioneer Press. Please contact me as soon as possible if you are interested.
Thank you,
Alleen
Are you willing to sell/license one of your images to our company to use on a back cover ad to a community guide in the Vernal area? We are willing to credit you with the photograph as a local photographer. Let me know ASAP as I need to complete this ad in the next few days. Thanks.
i wanted to respond to your comment on my blog, but you don’t have your email linked to your profile so i couldnt….. and i don’t want to comment here cause it’s too personal and shit, right?!?! anyway..
I came across your Blog by accident. I write articles for the Holland Land Office Museum about Old Batavia and I was looking for a fitting definition for Urban Renewal and I came across your writing which by the way is excellent. It is hard to put into words what Urban Renewal did to Batavia. I also went to St. Joseph’s School and Notre Dame. Thank you for the memories of Old Batavia from your porch.
AM
Thanks Anne Marie!
Feel free to look around. Lot’s of stories about Batavia here.
Hello from the present 20 Prospect avenue in good old Batavia. Yes that’s right we are the people who bought 20 Pros’ about 9 years ago and alot has been done since you were here last. We have had two sons born while living here and this house will carry the same meaning to them as does with you about where and how they are maturing.
The stone driveway is now paved (and alot shorter)and the pricker shrubs along the edge are gone. The pool in the back has been replaced. There is now a pull down ladder with a new opening to the attic. We have electricity in the shed out back. Slowly I am replacing the windows in the house as time and money allows.
We have a white picket fence along the property replacing the chain link fence.
The ductwork in the basement remains with the yellow stripes painted on them to remind me to “duck” (I still forget sometimes) Ouch!!
There has only been one problem since living here and that as you may remember was that this street is a speedway for youngsters taking a shortcut from Oak to North street and they fly driving through here.
But all in all it is one of the most comfortable and easy going streets in Batavia.
Have a great day as it is time to wake my sons up to tackle another day.
Rog
Roger,
Thank you for the note. It means a lot to know that 20 Prospect is in good hands, and will provide wonderful memories for another generation of kids.
Peace,
Tom
G’day Tom,
Firstly, I must thank you for putting my little blogging effort on your blog roll. That was right neighbourly of you. At this stage, I am not sure if I will extend the life of threemonthsinmoresby beyond the three months. It is a bit of test exercise for me, but I am quite enjoying it.
Secondly, I have to thank you for some great insight into what it was like growing up in Batavia. Marrying a girl from Batavia was the best decision I ever made in my life – I often tell people that I “married well”. Still, the fact that we have always lived on the other side of the world hasn’t afforded me the chance to understand what her growing-up years were like. Your stories have helped build some kind of impression. So thanks.
Cheers,
Anthony.
Thanks Anthony,
I’ve been enjoying your posting on life in PNG. I find it a fascinating place, unlike any place that I have ever had the pleasure of visiting. Keep up the good writing.
Peace,
Tom
I just stumbled onto your blog. It caught my eye initially because it is an address. So is mine, except it’s in Albert Lea and I still live at it. Nothing else in common.
Take care and be well.
Great minds think alike.
Albert Lea! My 9 year old says the best Pizza in the world is at Jake’s in Albert Lea.
I know the owners well enough to get free pizza. I still don’t go there.
But the best hamburgers in Minnesota may be a the Elbow Room on South Broadway. Seriously.
Gunnar
http://oakwoodlife.blogspot.com/
You really should have your email address listed somewhere, you know, because some people really dislike leaving comments, and generally only do so on the Internet Places of people they already know in some conversational capacity, when they don’t have the energy for a real letter (or they happen to know that those particular people really get off on having comments left for them, and who are they to argue with that?). But the rest of the time — most of the time — they prefer to send a nice quiet, private email to one specific person, and not light up a huge message in the sky that goes out to the entire world. As it were.
That is just to say that there are at least _some_ people like that out there. *ahem*
How did I get over here? Someone lead me out gently by the hand to the other posts because this is like seeing behind the green curtain of the Great Oz.
And you wonder why I don’t offer you drinks?
I just found my great aunt and uncle in the newly released 1940 US Federal Census living at 22 Prospect. I didn’t notice a 20 Prospect on the survey. Th e addresses jumped from 16 to 22.
Hey Sean,
I’m not sure why it doesn’t appear on the 1940 census. We moved there in the late 60′s. The house itself was built in the late 1800′s.
Do you happen to know the surname of the folks living there at the time? It is just possible that the house was empty at that time.
My great uncle was a prison guard at Attica and only lived there (next door) for a short time. He ended up buying a big farm outside of town on Alexander Rd. to live out his days.
I do not. Sorry.
You might want to try to property records from the Genesee County Parcel database. Here: http://gis.co.genesee.ny.us/PHD/Viewer/