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44. My oldest son was born in 1986 at Cedars Sinai in L. A.

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 03:48 PM

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We brought him home to a house in Rustic Canyon that backed up to Rustic Canyon park. Five minutes from PCH and the beach. We sold it for $840K when we left Los Angeles in 1988 and started our various moves across the country, ending in Chapel Hill, NC in 2000. The people who bought from us sold it for $1.374M in 1992. The house was on the extreme edge of the fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades in January this year. Zillow says it's now worth $5.5 M and Realtor com says $6.5 M!
The photo on those websites of the house from the street looks just like it did when we drove away in 1988.

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The last time you visited your childhood home/neighborhood? [View all] True Dough Sep 21 OP

Drove by my family's farm in 2023. My parents sold it in 1970. sinkingfeeling Sep 21 #1

A couple of weeks ago? I might have posted about it... LuckyCharms Sep 21 #2

That's right True Dough Sep 21 #3

One of them has. LuckyCharms Sep 21 #5

So you look something like this? True Dough Sep 21 #7

No, the only hair I have is on the tip of my nose... LuckyCharms Sep 21 #9

So, downstairs, that would be True Dough Sep 21 #10

Hmmm...I'd say it's more like a "sprout". LuckyCharms Sep 21 #11

Timely question EverHopeful Sep 21 #4

I didn't ask to go inside either True Dough Sep 21 #8

I drive through my childhood neighborhood every Emile Sep 21 #6

I think George Carlin suggested going through on your knees Marthe48 Sep 21 #12

got to go in after my mom's funeral in 2000. mopinko Sep 21 #13

I went in 2014, The house was gone. The neighborhood was so run down. debm55 Sep 21 #14

mine shd b on the national register, if u ask me. mopinko Sep 21 #17

Beautiful home. debm55 Sep 21 #18

it's amazing. it's small, but so well designed. she used to have huuuuge parties there. mopinko Sep 21 #19

Only via Google earth. mwmisses4289 Sep 21 #15

About ten years ago for final estate matters. GreenWave Sep 21 #16

Every place I lived as a kid has gentrified. hunter Sep 21 #20

My parents still live in my childhood Luciferous Sep 21 #21

The house? Decades ago. (And it's only about 3 or 4 miles from where I've lived for the last 18 years.) Iggo Sep 21 #22

Yes. About 12 years ago I was mnhtnbb Sep 21 #23

My grandparent's house in Los Angeles suffered a similar transformation... hunter Monday #43

My oldest son was born in 1986 at Cedars Sinai in L. A. mnhtnbb Monday #44

It's crazy. My parent's first house was like that, a couple of blocks from the beach. hunter Monday #46

hard to say for a GI brat Skittles Sep 21 #24

I didn't have one home or neighbohood when I grew up LogDog75 Sep 21 #25

I've been by a few times since I'm still in the same area. Ocelot II Sep 21 #26

A couple of months ago, I drove through the complex I lived in from age 10 to 15. MIButterfly Sep 21 #27

Well, growing up in an Army family we moved a lot. Mom and Dad did have a house in El Paso sdfernando Sep 21 #28

Haven't been in my childhood home or property since 1974 and it is only 100 yards away. nt doc03 Sep 21 #29

My mom sold the house in 1985, and passed away in 1988. rsdsharp Sep 21 #30

My childhood home is a victim of katrina TexLaProgressive Sep 21 #31

Yes! Americanme Sep 21 #32

I found a video tour of one of my childhood homes a few years ago. subterranean Sep 21 #33

1983, I think mike_c Sep 21 #34

About 35 years ago, before moving to Maryland Wicked Blue Sep 21 #35

2001 Jilly_in_VA Sep 21 #36

I've Driven By The House... ProfessorGAC Sep 21 #37

It's still there, but... LudwigPastorius Sep 21 #38

Burned and bulldozed to grow more corn and soybeans........iowa IA8IT Monday #39

I moved around too many times nitpicked Monday #40

We moved too many times to say that about a single structure. OldBaldy1701E Monday #41

2007, when my grandfather died. Aristus Monday #42

How many siblings, Aristus? True Dough Monday #48

Older sister, younger brother. Aristus Monday #53

My parents sold the house I first lived in when I was 9. Harker Monday #45

Wonderful interlude, Harker True Dough Monday #47

I hope so, too, TD. Harker Monday #49

January? Kali Monday #50

My childhood home burned down when I was in college. CanonRay Monday #51

Eight years ago Justice Brandeis Monday #52

1998 helped my parents get rid of stuff. Woodwizard Monday #54

Never. There were way too many WhiteTara Monday #55

Yes and the people who bought it Tree Lady Tuesday #56