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To: null and void
If you've been back there or lived there long enough to develop a memory, you should know the old house.....at the corner of Grand Boulevard and Victoria Avenue? Big, white 2-story....columns and balcony in the front.....very large stained glass window in the rear--with a Scottish castle, river and grape vines?

I think it was 2 or 3 blocks off of Main Street--if Main is the one they used to take to go to Lake Elsinore.

It was built in 1908; there was a suicide in the house once upon a time. It was built by the superintendent of the Southern Pacific Railroad for his wife, a Scottish lady.

About the time we decided to sell it, one of the local service organizations (I want to say Junior League but that doesn't sound quite right) asked if they could take pictures of club members there as promo material for some to-do they were having....all the ladies were dressed in Southern belle dresses and hats. I still have the pictures of that event...in the article, they thanked us for allowing them the use of our home---it was a perfect match with the columns and all.

Back in the 'good old days' when Barney Oldfield raced cars, they used the oval boulevard as a race course....and people used to sit on the balcony and watch the race! The town historian filled us in on that historical period.

424 posted on 04/28/2002 8:24:41 PM PDT by Rowdee
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To: Rowdee
I was born there. I never actually lived there, beyond the first couple of days. I don't remember much of it...
431 posted on 04/28/2002 8:35:21 PM PDT by null and void
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