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1974
Muscatine County, IA
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This is the old downtown area of Walcott, IA. We used to bring grain down here to the Elevator.
1981
Scott County, IA
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My sister and her family live here now and it looks MUCH different! So neat to have the old vintage aerial photo of the old farmstead.
1981
Scott County, IA
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I remember visiting our neighbor, Elmer Soenke, here on his farm.
1973
Scott County, IA
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This looks like the farm of our former neighbor, Elmer Soenke.
1973
Scott County, IA
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Well, I somehow stumbled across this website and couldn't help but check out the home farm that I grew up on near Walcott, Iowa. Our Grandparents, George & Janice, would have still lived here back in 1973, the year that I was born. We still lived down closer to "town" in the "Gray House." What struck me most about this photo was the portable hog buildings out in the fields. Also, it looks like they had some heavy rains this year too with the wet areas in the low ground.
1978
Scott County, IA
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Well, I'll need to double check with my parents on which year that we moved into the home farm here but I would have been 5 years old I do remember the farm being EXACTLY like this while growing up as a young boy in the "country." Specifically, I remember the tin storage shed in the bottom left and stone building just above it being good places to explore and play. Dad only had one bin but had added the finishing barn in the far, upper right. The house still hadn't been renovated yet either but this was definitely "home" to us!
1973
Scott County, IA
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Looks like an early version of Walcott Elementary School to me. I was born this year.
1974
Muscatine County, IA
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Looks like B&D Automotive down in Walcott, IA.
1981
Scott County, IA
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Well, I would have been 8 years old by 1981 and Dad had definitely been making changes and updates to the layout and operations on the farm by this point. Specifically, you can see the open "pit" in the bottom left next to the newer "nursery." He also had added a second grain bin by this point (it just "barely" fit next to the building).