The road in the foreground is Glenwood St. heading west to the left. The new lane is Fairfield St. View is more or less toward the northwest. Houses on lower right front on Lamb's Gap Rd.

My grandparents owned the house with the carport cut off on the left. My parents built a house on the lot directly behind it 1974.

Hi Michael,
Do you have any memories you want to share about your grandparents house or parents house?

Sure, my grandfather worked for the Navy base nearby. It was common for the initial people who lived here to purchase additional lots for extra space and gardening. For example the split level in the center of the photo, they purchased the lot directly behind it. The Thompson family on the corner of Lamb's Gap and Glenwood had a lot on Fairfield with a huge garden as well, he'd always be riding his huge orange farm tractor up and down the street. There are 6 lots inside the "Fairfield Square", my grandfather bought 3 of those and almost bought 4 had there not been talk of him being transferred to Chicago. He had a big garden on the lot to the left of the house and had all sorts of fruit trees on the property he later gave to my father. Today, almost all the plots have houses on them, but initially there was plenty of flat open space for the neighborhood kids to runaround, ride bikes, play baseball, etc. Most people refer to this neighborhood as Bunker Hills but in fact this initial phase here is called Glenwood Farms. Most of the original houses had carports, it's interesting to see that more of them than I realized as they were later renovated.

Great memories of growing up with my grandparents right there for us to run across the backyard to right after school everyday. This photo is a gem.

So today, this area is a mix of houses built in the 60s and 90s as those extra lots were eventually sold due to original residents moving, retiring from gardening, etc. Just a nice country neighborhood, no curbs, no sidewalks in what is now a very convenient location with easy access to 581 and all the conveniences on the Carlisle Pike. It's a little sad to see how much traffic flows on the nearby roads now and I miss the fresh country air from the farms that were nearby. But in its heyday, a kid couldn't ask for much more.