The wedding date was 3/17/01 and we had been looking for places to live in the Victorian Village, Grandview and German Village areas. Nothing really stood out until this one.
It was the left half of the house, with the other half lived in by a ninety plus woman who was more or less deaf. I was lucky twice in a row. She was a very sweet woman who lived there for over thirty years, saw the house built when she was a child.
The apartment had a small living room with built in bookshelves than went into a dining area. The kitchen had decent size. There was even a portable dishwasher, which was used rarely but good to have. It was one of those dishwashers you had to attach the hose to the faucet in order to use, roll it by the sink, and start. A bit of work!
Upstairs was a tiny bathroom, two small bedrooms and a large front bedroom. The back bedroom opened up to a small private second floor balcony. Had I wanted to, I could have sunbathed in the nude.
The location was ideal, her Grandmother lived on the street behind us. We were within walking distance of the park, a good bus line, all the cool stuff in German Village and a grocery store. Should have been great. Maybe the car that crashed into the house next door a month after we lived there was an omen.
Had to move when she became pregnant. We could not afford the reasonable, but higher costs to rent there. Our hand was forced even more when she gave birth to our son three months early. The landlord was a bit of an ass and only returned part of our deposit. Still, I miss the location.
2 comments:
That looks like a really nice place. Maybe grandma would have watched you sunbathing!
My roommates and I had one of those dishwashers in undergrad. We have a roll-up, attach hose washing machine - works fine and is great because I have moved it from place to place.
- nammu
I really, really liked it there.
Viola was kind of short. No way she could look in :)
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