Think back to when you were a child, say 5, 10, or 15 years old. Do you remember your home address where you lived? If you lived in multiple homes, let’s see if you can remember the address of the one you lived in the longest.
Some people can rattle off their childhood address without hesitation as if it’s etched in their memory forever. Maybe it was a place where you rode your bike around the neighborhood or built forts in the backyard.
Others might struggle to recall an old address, especially if they moved frequently or if those early years feel like a blur.
For RVers, the idea of “home” can be a bit different. Many of us have traded a permanent address for the open road, but that doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten where we started. Maybe your childhood home is still standing, or perhaps it’s long gone, replaced by something new. Either way, the memories tied to those places often stick with us.
It’s funny how some things fade over time while others remain crystal clear. You might not remember the phone number you had as a kid, but your old street name could still pop into your head instantly. Or maybe it’s the other way around! Either way, memory can be a fascinating thing—sometimes surprising us with details we didn’t even know we still had stored away.
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RVDT2848
RFD 1, Miami, Missouri
As a military brat lived in many places. Several no longer exist. From converted WWII wooden barracks, duplex house, War reprations house, Semi-modern high rise, and back to converted WWII barracks.
I remember some addresses, but several are just empty lots.
As another military brat, I was too young to remember the first three addresses, I remember part of the fourth, and I drive by the last one – which is not on a base – all the time.
Boy, oh boy I can relate to that too! However, I lucked out as a teenager when Dad finally retired and I got to stay in our “final” home from 15 on! That address, I DO remember! lol
College was interrupted by WWII for my dad. I was born at the very end of WWII and Dad was discharged and went back to finish college. The military and college had installed Quonset Huts for the many GIs coming back from the war. My first home was a Quonset on a college campus. During Vietnam, I again lived in a Quonset in South Korea. I now live in a house with walls.
My step-dad sold the house I grew up in about 2 years ago, after my mom passed away. So, yes, I still remember the address. No sentimental value though – none of us kids, grandkids, or great-grandkids wanted the place with its renovation needs.
Parents built the house in 48 and they died while still living there. Dad in 93 while in Florida for the winter and Mom in 06 after a stroke while living there. Went back last summer on a camping trip and talked to a childhood friend who lived across the road and he suggested I go and talk to the new owners. They were very happy to discover the history of the house and property and it brought back a lot of memories. Being as it is over three hours away and we have no living family I was close to in the area, I doubt we will ever get back to the old home town.
Yes, my dad built the house and now my older son owns it.
I remember all 3 of them
I lived in about 10 different houses by the time I graduated from high school. I remember the exact address for a few, the street names of several, and the telephone number of the last two.
Yes the address and the phone number.
Yes!
All 4 of them!
OK here we go! My parents bought this 1920’s bungalow right after WWII & I was born April 1946. Address was 3521 E. 2nd Street. When I was 10, they built a new home @ 4632 Eastgate Ave. Can you figure out what city I grew up in?
Could it be the city that boasts the home of the Air Force Museum??
Stay safe and visit the Buckeye state, Joe
Not only the address, but also the phone phone number before area codes and exchange numbers were introduced. Instead of a three digit exchange, it had a two letter designation followed by four numbers.
ACXXXX. (ACademy)XXXX
According to my parents I was born in a barn and lived under a rock.
Yes. I now own the house that my mother and father built back in 1936. Where my three older brothers and I were raised. I still have the same phone number that we had in the 1950s.
One home in Redondo Beach, CA from 1947 to 1965. I remember the address and phone number ….
Frontier 42430
Funny, I can’t remember the addresses of most homes I lived in after going on my own.
1428 Conner Drive, 2nd through 6th grade, then 530 Hoke Smith Drive – 7th through 12th grade.
Ages 4 – 7, 1437 – 15th St West and age 7 to leaving home 809 – 4th St East. First house is still there. Last house, a brick beauty built in 1912, now replaced with a duplex after folks moved out in the early 1970s. Phone number was 5571. We did not have a prefix until about 1963. Had to go through an operator for long distance calls and always called after 7 PM when the rates went down. City Police was 2323. Easy to remember, just say toothy toothy.
RD#2, Watsontown, PA
Not only do I remember the two addresses I had, I have used them in various ways for passwords. It’s the kind of passwords that aren’t easily hacked but somewhat easy to remember.
Yes I remember the address from elementary school and also a 2nd from high school – after my folks separated and my sister and I were split up for a time. I don’t remember the address(es) when visiting my mother & sister. Wish I could remember today’s breakfast!
Not only do I remember the address – it’s still my address! I bought the family home from my father almost 30 years ago.
We moved a lot when I was a kid. From when I was born to 1963, when my parents bought a home, we lived in at least 10 different places. I have only spotty memories from several of them because of my very young age or how short a time we were there.
We moved every two years with my father’s job. I don’t remember the address of any of them. Oddly, I do remember a Post Office box that my mother had when I went to college.
RFD 1 Raymondville, MO.
1970-2015 Manitou Springs, CO
I remember 2 of the 3 places I lived as a child, except for the Zip Codes. But I don’t think Zip Codes were invented until after we moved to the last house.
While we lived in the same city, while I grew up, my parents tended to move every few years. I lived in the first house 7 years. We moved every 3-4 years after that. Since getting married, we’ve moved 3 times in 51 years, having been in our present home longest.
Mom, dad and I lived with Grandma at 1016 Winchester until shortly after my sister was born in 1939. That house with an ice box on a very deep lot is long gone as are the courts next door. The addresses are also gone. Then we had our own house in Santa Monica at 2930 Kansas Ave until dad bought a much larger home in Burbank. Construction of the Santa Monica freeway took our Santa Monica house.
Yep…but the house either burned down or was demolished (druggies) several years ago. Lots of good memories in that house….along with a few not so good (my dad’s premature death).
I remember all of the addresses that I lived in. AND I can remember the phone numbers of our phones! Not bad for an 80-yr.-old!!
Yes, I’m 4th generation to live on the family farm. Address has changed at least 4 times but same location. Kids and grands are awaiting their turns. Even the same phone # for over 60 years.
Yup, and my 90 year old mother still lives there.
In twenty-four years of military service, I have lived in 14 different homes across most of the globe. Remembering each of those 14 addresses, much less the half dozen addresses I lived in as a child, as my parent was also military, would truly be a remarkable feat of memory recall.
Both the first and second home each was only a mile and a half from each other.
It encouraged me to look mine up, now a vacant lot. Sniff! But home l lived at from age nine to sixteen is still there and looking pretty good for a WWII Government housing project. ..