249 Jem Road, Oroville, CA

My sister Sharon pointed out that our childhood home is for sale. In 1961, we lived in a mobile home on the property while the house was being built. I can remember playing in the house while it was being built. The house was finished in 1962.

The inside of the house has been updated a lot in the last forty years. There are some major outside changes around the property. The was a giant oak tree in the left front of the house. The driveway in front of the house was added. There was a major irrigation ditch on the east side of the property which has been filled in.

When I was growing up, the house sat in the middle of 2,300 acres of prunes, peaches and pears. The farm was bordered on the east by Highway 70, on the west by the Feather River and on the south by Honcut Creek. There was a dairy to the north.

I have a section in my book about 1991 that talks about what it was like to be raised there.

looking east towards Highway 70 looking west towards the Feather River