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May. 28th, 2005
My childhood home
May. 28th, 2005 10:51 pmUpdated link, care of Google Maps/Earth
Street View
425 Webber Road, Oakland, OR. From 1972 to 1982 (I think), this was where my family and I lived - a little place off a country road that was just another exit off I-5 (which you can see to the right), a little bit north of Oakland and Sutherlin. The house is almost dead center in this picture, on the west side of the road; on the east side in my time was the ruins of a turn-of-the-century roadhouse, but it looks like that was torn down to make way for something else by 2000. Certainly I couldn't recognize the house itself the last time I visited.
The north edge of our property was the darker patch of ground/field; you can see the path that leads up past the house to the small hill behind it to the west. The north-south line of trees at the top of the hill marks the western property line. The rest, as you can see, is wooded down to the fenceline that separated us from our neighbor, the cattle rancher. (That fence can be seen running off to the west.)
Zoom out a step and you'll see that one-lane road connect with the bigger one that led back up into the hills, past the big horse ranch that went in near the end of our time there and the auction house at the intersection. I used to wait for the school bus across from it. And just a tiny bit north of that, if you pan the image up, is the Metz Hill exit/overpass.
EDIT: Updated Apr 2017 with new links.
Street View
425 Webber Road, Oakland, OR. From 1972 to 1982 (I think), this was where my family and I lived - a little place off a country road that was just another exit off I-5 (which you can see to the right), a little bit north of Oakland and Sutherlin. The house is almost dead center in this picture, on the west side of the road; on the east side in my time was the ruins of a turn-of-the-century roadhouse, but it looks like that was torn down to make way for something else by 2000. Certainly I couldn't recognize the house itself the last time I visited.
The north edge of our property was the darker patch of ground/field; you can see the path that leads up past the house to the small hill behind it to the west. The north-south line of trees at the top of the hill marks the western property line. The rest, as you can see, is wooded down to the fenceline that separated us from our neighbor, the cattle rancher. (That fence can be seen running off to the west.)
Zoom out a step and you'll see that one-lane road connect with the bigger one that led back up into the hills, past the big horse ranch that went in near the end of our time there and the auction house at the intersection. I used to wait for the school bus across from it. And just a tiny bit north of that, if you pan the image up, is the Metz Hill exit/overpass.
EDIT: Updated Apr 2017 with new links.
