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The Old Miller Place; 5% down on a Cal-vet loan
Topic Started: Oct 14 2006, 06:57 PM (285 Views)
Steve Miller
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Here it is - the Old Miller Place. Purchased in 1962 for $18,000 - no money down on a 5% Cal-Vet loan. "You'll never see an interest rate like that again, son".

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I was 7 years old when we moved, and I can still remember it vividly. The house was green then - with white trim - the yard was all dirt and there was no electricity. Mom warmed my sister's baby bottle in an electric skillet plugged in via an extension cord to the neighbor's house.

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Danish Modern was the rage, and Danish modern it was - all purchased with the help of a consultant from Sears. It's a shame most of that stuff didn't survive - tres chic today. Instead, it got "updated" over the years, mostly in the 80's.

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The room addition went on sometime in the late 60's. It was a prefab deal - all of the panels came pre-sided and insulated on the back of a truck. My dad and a neighbor stood up all of the wall sections in a day, framed and sheathed the roof on a second day. The whole thing was done in a week, my sisters moved in there and I got my own room.

Room addition:

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My room. The right hand wall was covered in motorcycle posters when I last occupied it:

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My brothers room. Cork tiles went in about 1980 and the room still smells like cork:

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The pool went in just a couple of years before I got married and moved out. We were always afraid that it would slide down the hill but it hasn't yet. I don't know where my brother got that traffic signal.

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We've started the demolition portion of getting the house ready for sale. It should come out very nice - the basic house is in better shape than I thought it was and I've found some nice things to use in it.

Stay tuned for progress pictures.


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I love these threads you start with picture/stories. Thanks Steve! :thumb:
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That fireplace BTW, is gen-yoo-wine Texas Limestone - the kind with the little fossils in it. If you look closely you can see where my brother and I pried some of the fossils out to keep in our room.

It's also really dirty, badly discolored and porous. Any suggestions on how to clean it?
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carve a mural?

kidding.

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Steve, what area of town is that? It's actually quite a roomy house for that era.
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Oct 15 2006, 05:04 AM
Steve, what area of town is that? It's actually quite a roomy house for that era.

It's in the town of Walnut, which is about 40 miles East of LA. That style and size of house is about typical for the era - originally about 1700 square feet. They built thousands of them around that time.

Walnut was not much more than a cow pasture with a college in the middle of it when we moved there. A good percentage of the residents of the tract worked either at the big Convair (later General Dynamics) plant in Pomona or at Aerojet General in Azusa, both of which are now closed.
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I know where Walnut is.. used to be a San Gabriel Valley guy! Go smog! :lol:
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Oct 14 2006, 08:20 PM
have you heard of soda blasting?

No, but I just Googled it and it sounds like just the thing. There's even a contractor about 10 miles away who offers it. I'll call them tomorrow.

Have you ever used it?

Thanks!
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There is also a blasting technique with crushed walnut shells for soft stone -- never used it, but you might look into it.
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