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BUNGALOW #: 164 |
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3 Room House |
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| 1955 to 1962 | ||
| OCCUPANT: Arie and Alice Gravendijk | ||
| DEPARTMENT: Arie was the Head cashier-Accounting Dept. Alice was a Lago School teacher. | ||
| CHILDREN: Susanne (Sue) (Wirth) Class of 62 | ||
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| My father had two large walk-in aviaries for raising canaries and finches which he imported via Holland. One was on the street side, next to the deep patio, and the other was beside the screened in porch. It was the larger and built on the slab of an old one car garage. Alice was a wonderful gardener and the flowering pink pooi tree in front of the patio was quite rare. Huge poinsettias bloomed in the Christmas season, and a red hibiscus hedge fronted the garden along the roadway with a pointed flower bed filled with the constant blooms of star of Venezuela. In the back of the house was another terraced garden with temple lilies, oleanders, crotons and a cactus fence she made herself from weekly excursions into the cunucu with spade and leather work gloves. It was a truly beautiful home. The front windows overlooked the big lagoon and we could watch the Grace Line glide past at lunchtime every Thursday. It was still sitting derelict and decaying, in January 2005. I w ould love to live there, again, for the rest of my life, but that house is beyond restoration, I am afraid. | ||
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