You think real estate is not a good investment? Check out the prices on these homes in Yardville's Sunnybrae area. This was when newly weds Tom and Judy Glover went house hunting. $12,000 to $13,000 dollar homes were out of the question for us. Back then when one applied for a loan, the banks would not accept a woman's salary as part of the earned income and thus Tom Glover's under $100per week take home salary put homes such as those in Sunnybrae Village off limits. I remember how we fell in love with that brand new home on the corner of Nottingham Way and Paxon Avenue, but alas, it was priced at a price that I could pay cash for today. How tempus has fugited and how prices have risen!
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My Dad and I were helping build Levittown PA, sheetrocking. Those prices were around $9-10,000 then. All I could do was dream about living in one of them, in lieu of the burg.
HI TOM.....THANK GOD FOR SUNNEYBRAE GOLF COURSE. TGHE GREEN FEES WERE REASONABLE AND I DID'NT LOSE MUCH BALLS. BUT I NEVER LOST MY SLICE CAUSE I SWUNG A GOLF CLUB LIKE A BASEBALL BAT ANS COULD NEVER AFFORD LESSONS. BEST REGARDS
My parents never discussed money and real estate so I was not savvy at all but I'll never forget the price of a tiny two bedroom "bungalow" on LBI in 1962. At the time the "Silver Sands" stretch between Beach Haven and Holgate (about 4 miles), was wonderful and totally deserted with the exception of Tebco's Boat Yard, there was nothing but sand and sea gulls. Then the builder put the sign up and for $5,000 one of those boxes could be yours. My uncle would drop us kids off while he went fishing and it was quiet and we were like castaways on marooned with our bag lunch and imagination. Thanks Tom, you always spark some forgotten memory.
Ed Millerick
Tom, I wish you had bought that house at Nottingham and Paxon. The lady who lived there paid me 35 cents to shovel a foot of snow from the entire driveway...and I had to share it with my buddy!
Square-boy
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