In about 1960 my grandparents bought a tiny house, in the fishing village of Istachatta Florida (Google it) to spend winters in. I think this was taken in 1962 or 1963. That is my oldest brother on the porch, with my sister who is almost 2 years older than I am. The white car was my father's, the blue car was my grandfathers. When my grandfather replaced the blue car, my father bought the blue one, it is the car we drove to Arizona twice.
The first little house in Florida, didn't have an indoor bathroom when they bought it, the bathroom was installed just before we visited that winter.
Did your family have a vacation home?
We didn't personally own one, but my dad's cousin had a huge house on Harvey's Lake up in Luzerne county we'd spend three weeks at with he and his wife.
ReplyDeleteLake houses are such a joy
Deletemy great auntie em (my maternal grandmother's sister) owned a beach house in sea isle city NJ in the 60s. the house was 1 block from the beach and on the main drag (landis avenue). each family got 1 week to spend there during the summer. my grandmom was one of 7 kids, so...everybody took their turn. good times.
ReplyDeleteA week at the beach sounds like fun right now.
DeleteYour old photos are always great period pieces surrounding cars. I love it. We did NOT have a vacation home. My mother said going to another home just to cook meals and clean up after everyone was no vacation for her.
ReplyDeleteThe Duchess was most wise indeed!
DeleteHmm, when I went to the other house, I usually ended up cooking.
Delete@travel - MEOW, get the milk and claws out! :)
DeleteAnne Marie - the other option was go out to eat. Note I didn't say clean, Hamster has ALWAYS out cleaned me.
DeleteWhat a fab car in the foreground. No indoor bathroom, just like here.
ReplyDeleteThe Blue car was even nicer.
DeleteWe were lucky to have ONE home, let alone a vacation one, LOL!
ReplyDeleteMy parents and grandparents were farmers in a kind of farming that was seasonal, allowing them to get away from harsh great lakes winters.
DeleteMy family did not have vacations :-( On the plus side, that prepared me for most of my single adult life AND 2020.
ReplyDeleteOnce they had four kids, my parents didn't travel or take vacations very much, I am the 4th of those four, until the kids started leaving home.
DeleteGreat photo! We didn't really have a vacation home but we did have what my parents called a "camp". Dad bought a plot of land in the country outside of our home town and built a cabin on it. We would spend weekends there. It was pretty rustic but I remember enjoying being there.
ReplyDeleteThis was maybe 500 sq. ft, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, small kitchen, a living room, and a front porch. I think they paid less than $5,000 for it.
DeleteMy parents often rented a summer cabin at Lake Tahoe [the California side] and I loved going up there. To this day it's one of my favorite spots on Earth.
ReplyDeleteLake Tahoe is pretty (the Nevada side.)
DeleteNo, more's the pity. I always wanted one.
ReplyDeleteSomeone and I almost got one here, but we got too timorous to try it.
Fear of the unknown.
DeleteThe only vacation I ever heard of as a child was summer vacation from school. We went nowhere and my family never even bought a live-in home until I was 16, so vacation home? I don't think so!
ReplyDeleteYou have a vacation home on wheels,
DeleteWell yeah, now. We've also just bought a new house near the kids that I can call our vacation home until we move all the way in when BH retires.
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