Amazing. I just checked Cupertino
and half the houses on Tuggle are torn down and rebuilt. The neighborhood is
unrecognizable. Meanwhile back in Wiesbaden, it looks practically the same as
1967 when we left:
1. My first day of Kindergarten in the basement school room.
2. The playground across the street where I received the scar on my head
when I accidentally stood to close too the teeter-toter.
3. Our apartment on the first floor.
4. The bushes in the back lawn where we peed on a mushroom and ran
away (boys!: For reference see movies Sand Lot, and Stand By Me etc...)
5. The back lawn where the Fire Fighters played football, and where the kids
from different stairwells or different buildings had an epic snowball fight,
including fortifications!
6. The hill next to the street where we went sledding.
7. The fire station where we bought sodas from an old fashioned Coke
machine.
8. The Dahghren's house.
9. The PX Commissary where I got lost when I walked around a rack of pants
and my Mom had moved around the corner. I cried and had to have her paged.
10. The church?
I also recall the candy man who came by every week or two and sold all kinds
of candy from his station wagon. The kind of Gummies you find now in Cost Plus.
And the Christmas when Mom painted a mural of the nativity on the living room
window. The neighbors loved it.
