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Brings a whole new meaning to "I bought a Ford dealership"

Years ago, my wife and I had just moved into our home...the dryer was broken, so we introduced ourselves to our elderly neighbor and asked if we could borrow her clothesline. She eyed me up and down and said "I suppose so, but I don't know how you're going to get it out of the ground". I smiled and assured her that it was going to stay right there.

Later, she came over and told my wife there were certain unmentionable items hanging on the line that needed to be on the INSIDE LINES. NOW. I stifled a smile and asked my wife to rearrange things to meet clothes-line etiquette requirements, which was accomplished post-haste.

With that shaky start, we all became great friends and were terribly saddened when age finally caught up to her a number of years later.

When I was about 13 my parents bought a house and had it moved about 6 miles from where it was sold to the front of our lot. We had to cut down an oak about 10' high and the house was placed right on the lot. The crew had to move it under trolley lines so they needed to cut down the roof and lay it on top of the ceiling. They got the house moved without breaking a window and as they were putting the roof back up, one worker put his foot through the ceiling in the living room. My job was chipping the old mortar off the fireplace and foundation bricks. I got paid a few cents for each brick I didn't break. The house was set on a concrete foundation, so we had plenty of bricks to rebuild the fireplace. The oak tree grew back from the stump and last time I looked it was very tall. Sadly, after the family sold the house, it burnt down. They did get to live there about 25 years before it was sold.
Norm

In the 1970’s I bought houses that were moved out of the way of new freeways being built. There were plenty of empty lots or lots with just a chicken coop on it. The house moving companies loved me. Some of the houses I bought sometimes traveled several nights and as far as one hundred miles. Los Angeles is a big city.

That was major entertainment when I was a kid. Watching them jack the house up and drag huge timbers under it. Then lifting the power lines to roll it down the road. What characters those guys were.
Thanks again.
Rich

I may have told this before but it was an experience to be part of. My Amish neighbor needed to move a pole barn to build on to his house. This was an old pole building . Heavy corigated metal and utillity poles. 40x60x10 was no garden shed. He poured his new pad about 75 yards behind the house. Braced the barn with a huge stack of 2x4x16 and 2x6. You coulnt walk through the barn because all the bracing. He asked if I would like to help. Sure, thats what neighbors do around here. I asked if the were useing skidsteers or drag it on poles or what? He said no we were going to carry it.

Well I showed up on moving day along with about 75 Amishmen. The preacher was boss and all directions were given in German. I watched the guy next to me for instruction. The preacher gave the word and that barn jumped off the ground and settled to arms length. We carried it 75 yards and turned it a quarter turn and placed it on the new concrete pad. The women were busy setting benches up on the old barn floor as soon as the barn was clear. Then the best part! Pie and icecream for everyone.
I tell all my friends that it would have been eisier if they had cut the poles off at floor level 1st.

Well, Ford put the world on wheels...

Fantastic picture!

We’re moving. Same, Ford Sales and Service building you are accustomed to, in a new location, next to the Uptown Texaco !

This gives a whole new meaning to the contemporary advertising slogan: "Watch the Fords go by!" Now even Ford dealerships "go by"!

Marshall

Could be Salt Creek Beach area near LA?

Live Cam of the beach there:

https://thesurfersview.com/live-cams/ca ... rf-report/