Percy could live on a pretty strange diet.
when he was sitting me we would eat candy bars and pepsi. This was a guy that got up every morning and did 20 minutes of pushups and sit ups.
When he moved out of our house, he moved to the apartments on old El Camino Drive on the way to El Camino High School. One of the really cool things that he had in his apartment was a heated swimming pool. It was admittedly very tiny but it was fun to dunk and get dunked in it.
When Percy was at out house, we shared the first bedroom up the stairs. He got the bed and I slept on the aluminum cot on the other side of the bedroom. I think that as I was getting taller it became evident that they needed another bedroom added to the house. We worked on the bedroom that became part of the addition. It was a very skinny room, and it was a long way from the bathroom. The house had two bathrooms one was connected to the master bedroom the other one was end the hall from the bedrooms. To reach the bathroom I needed to go through the addition,the kitchen, up the stairs and to the end of the hall. I really didn't need a bathroom close by.
What was great about the new addition and the bathroom was that it had a deck and the bedroom had its own door that connected to the deck. The walls were the classic Philippine mahogany paneling, and it had a very nice window to the backyard and a set of "jealousy" window strips that were at the end of the bedroom across from the closet.
The flooring was vinyl tile over plywood. This tile was throughout the addition. The addition had its own heater, and eventually it had a wood stove. The addition became the center of the family community. The dinner table served as s conversation area and provided a casual place to meet and greet with our friends.
The ceiling to the addition had 8 cantilevered 8x18inch beams stained cabot blackish brown. The area between the beams was 2x6 tongue and groove planks stained grey. A large sliding glass window opened from the dining room section of the addition to the small deck which also was cantilevered.
I think that Dad was pretty happy that we were able to build such as structure for around 3 thousand dollars. Can you imagine what the cost would be today?
Have a great day
Pat
Even though I was running around during the building of the addition and your room, I don't remember a time in the house when it wasn't there. Isn't that strange? My first real memories are of coming down to the addition (dining room) early in the morning, it was very cool, and drawing on a big pad of paper with a very thick pencil.
ReplyDeleteGrowing up, I remember hurrying down to the dining room/kitchen, because Mom didn't heat the upstairs bedrooms and the living room. ::Laugh::: I would rush down to bring feeling to my extremities.
With that wood stove, that part of the house really became toasty warm! Do you remember the big polisher that would come out once a year to polish the linoleum (before they bought the carpet for the addition)?
I also remember how Grandma and Grandpa would take over your room when they would come to visit... kept their little dog with them out there!