The houses that are original along Canada Way, like this house have stayed the same. People have moved in and out and had their families here. The big change is the woods behind us, which has turned into Buckingham heights . When my dad bought the property it was $500 and that was so expensive. A few years later somebody offered him $30,000 for the property and he said, “Get out of here it's not worth that.” The change is the development of the area, but that's progress. We never locked our doors unless we heard the siren from Oakalla prison as it was somebody breaking out. Dad would get up lock the back door and go back to bed, and then we all felt safe because we had this deadbolt on our back door. It's been a lovely city to grow up in.
