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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
Yep, our family has been living above our store for around a 100 years now. Before that I know the store (back then we sold sports articles) was a bit further along the canal and I'm not sure if our family lived over the store then.
The store during my grandfather's time.
The store during my great-grandfather time.
And the second photo was taken a couple of years ago (btw the icecreams from the van in the first picture are really really good). |
The store still looks great! In this country, we'd have ragged that building in 30 years, tops.
One of my grandfathers at one time used to live in back of his store; a small local grocery. Later, while still running the store, he bought a duplex and lived in the bottom floor of half of it while renting the other half to my father. The floor over him was where his sister lived with her husband. It was a nice way to grow up, with so much of the family there in one place.