Well, Luke... I don't remember if we painted the interior before or after the siding went on... I think it was before. Maybe that's why Dad had enough of scraping. NOT scraping certainly did not apply to the wallpaper project. I will always remember that steamer and the smell of melting glue and how it ran down Daddy's arm (and Paul's) as they held it up to a small patch of 7-layered wallpaper on the walls (fewer layers on the ceilings). And how we stood waiting with our scrapers to pull off that wallpaper, and yelling at each other not to gouge that beautiful old plaster. I don't know how one Daddy and an army of kids did all that, but we did. And we thought that fake wood paneling on the 3rd floor was SO COOL. Below is what 178 Main Street looked like in July of 2017.
They painted it tan... it's just nowhere near as cool
The 3 elms mom planted on the right side of the house all succumbed to elm blight.
Pretty windows on the top level though...
The Guido's house next door looks nice..
Main Street School
The main entrance
In the Parking Lot between St. Paul's Church and the old St, Paul's School, which they now use as a pre-school and/or daycare for little ones.
The Whitesboro village green
'Nuff said
Cool clock
Check out the front of the old school run by the Jesuits. It's now combined with UCA and St. Frances de Sales, the only Catholic High School in Utica.
Val and me at his High School Reunion at Rome Free Academy
And I threw in a picture of our dog with his dog walker just because it's cute.
OMG, yes, scraping the wallpaper! I found it so tedious, except for that one scrape in 500 where you would get through all seven layers to the plaster in one stroke.
ReplyDeleteIn Cindy's and my first house here, one of the spare bedrooms had a foot-wide strip of wallpaper around the tops of the walls. It had to go. We rented the equipment, and the second that steam hit the paper and glue, I was transported by the Way Back Machine to the winter of 1961-1962. It was a moment of thoroughly mixed emotions.
Those are some wonderful pic, Anne. The house looks quite a bit smaller painted that way.
I wonder who chose the color tan for 178 Main St.
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