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WinterGhost
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 Posted: 03 Feb 2008 02:08 PM Post subject: 932 4th Street (cuarta) |
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I like to ride around Calexico freely every once in a while just to see what's up with my hometown...and as I'm strolling along 4th street I see that 932 old house was boarded up and then the house was completely demolished...now there's some apartments that are in the skeleton stage...
My question is, Why was it torn down...was it because it was rotting away, termites????? I really want to know...because to be honest I'd been to that house before...not lived there but been inside. One of my ex-girlfriends lived there....
I'm curious... |
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chuco boy
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| Posted: 03 Feb 2008 05:27 PM Post subject: 932 4th Street |
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| I share your pain. This house is being converted into apartments by local real estate person. |
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elchrist
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| Posted: 04 Feb 2008 09:09 AM Post subject: |
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What was so special about this house? The architecture/design?
Same thing seems to have happened to the old Spanish home on highway 98 near Mains Elementary. It's a shame that home wasn't restored instead of demolished.
There was also this corner home west of De Anza Jr. High that was very nice. It had these Persian-like arches in the kitchen, yet that was demo'd also for I don't know what. Apartments most likely.
I'm still waiting for the last two houses on Imperial Ave. to go bye-bye.
It's all about apartments and tract homes nowadays, I guess. |
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RandR
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| Posted: 04 Feb 2008 10:55 AM Post subject: |
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| elchrist wrote: |
Same thing seems to have happened to the old Spanish home on highway 98 near Mains Elementary. It's a shame that home wasn't restored instead of demolished. |
They demolished that house? I've never noticed! Loved that house and used to day dream about living there while I walked to Mains. They were planning to build a rather large condo complex there, but it looks like those plans have been postponed. |
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elchrist
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| Posted: 04 Feb 2008 11:19 AM Post subject: |
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| RandR wrote: | | elchrist wrote: |
Same thing seems to have happened to the old Spanish home on highway 98 near Mains Elementary. It's a shame that home wasn't restored instead of demolished. |
They demolished that house? I've never noticed! Loved that house and used to day dream about living there while I walked to Mains. They were planning to build a rather large condo complex there, but it looks like those plans have been postponed. |
Yeah, it's gone.
I wanted to "acquire" some of design pieces from that house like the wrought iron and the weathervane on top. I tried getting a hold of the new owner through someone I know and I never got the OK.
That house got tagged the hell up too. In the end, this house was treated like Rodney Dangerfield. RIP. Both of them. |
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WinterGhost
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| Posted: 04 Feb 2008 11:34 AM Post subject: |
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Well there wasn't anything SPECIAL about it....but I just wanted the details about why the decision was made to demolish this house...I like the way that the old houses were built which made up much of Ghosttown...even if they were small...I'm thinking that maybe it was the lead pipes from the 40/50s that I think had to be replaced...
Considering that lead is one of the many causes of cancer and Alzheimers...this house was pretty old that the floors, from what I remember, weren't even and sometimes looked that it was going to cave in in some parts...maybe they just thought it wasn't worth it and destroyed..
Le dieron Fleet!
Any exact info??? |
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elchrist
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| Posted: 04 Feb 2008 12:02 PM Post subject: |
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| WinterGhost wrote: | Well there wasn't anything SPECIAL about it....but I just wanted the details about why the decision was made to demolish this house...I like the way that the old houses were built which made up much of Ghosttown...even if they were small...I'm thinking that maybe it was the lead pipes from the 40/50s that I think had to be replaced...
Considering that lead is one of the many causes of cancer and Alzheimers...this house was pretty old that the floors, from what I remember, weren't even and sometimes looked that it was going to cave in in some parts...maybe they just thought it wasn't worth it and destroyed..
Le dieron Fleet!
Any exact info??? |
My best guess is that with the housing market on a continuous downward spiral, the (new) property owner decided to take advantage of the increasing lopsidedness of the renting to owning ratio and opted to build low income rental apartments.
I know I sound like I'm full of it, but if I was a greedy property owner I'd do the same. A lot of the houses near the border are becoming rental units and to me that's a real problem. |
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WinterGhost
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| Posted: 05 Feb 2008 07:19 AM Post subject: |
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Yeah, that's true I never thought of that!
Funny to see that the fence is still up...
Ahhh mannn! |
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