I have a tendency to be nostalgic on here and want to take a few seconds of your time to inform you of a new (to me) feature on Google Maps… Street View. I did not research the technology behind this feature, but basically my guess is that a vehicle of some kind drives around cities, primarily in the U.S., with a panoramic camera attached, and records still images as it goes. This has led to the following discovery, our old house on Mare Island. It has the address wrong, but it has been almost 20 years since we lived there. As I took a virtual tour of the island I stopped by several memorable locales - St. Peter’s, the park with the gazebo and bunkers, the field where we played soccer, and the golf course. I found other houses, in Creve Coeur and Valrico, but this feature has its limits and houses in Landisville, Camp Pendleton, and Catonsville did not make the cut. I Hope this opens a new realm of searches and brings back many good memories.
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P.S. Ben, you blogged on making a "conscious note of the slope of the hill and the curve of the drive down to the swimming pool." ("Hooray" June 4, 2008) When I was looking at the house on Bookbinder Dr., I followed the road up over and down the hill to the swimming pool, thinking of you the whole time as if I was riding my bike down the hill.
yeah, it was kind of annoying that you couldn't turn into the swimming pool parking lot!
I took some picture of my Google trip, see them here: http://picasaweb.google.com/bennycrum/Nostalgia
I've always thought this house would be vastly improved by the addition of shutters on the front windows, but I am glad to see that it's still yellow. This was a great place to live.
Mom, how can you improve on perfection? This was and always will be the perfect house, the perfect location, the perfect everything :)
How could a house be perfectly perfect with nasty fig trees dropping nastier figs in the back yard?
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