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Gateway to old homes
PS. Here is where this is. Google Maps don’t have it on their map, but you can make out the green area in the center of the map above. The Flickr/Yahoo map does better, naming this green area Alverna. Cool
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I’ve been in two of those houses, as I knew a few people who rented rooms there at different times. From what I’ve seen they’re pretty typical for the area.
Thanks for the picture of Alverna Terrace on the Mardyke, No. 13 used to be my mother’s house, what a surprise to see the terrace on the net! No’s 13 and 14 are a bit to the right of the photograph and face the Mardyke. I remember the Erinville Hospital being built in the 1960′s.
Colman Ahern.
Berkeley, Calif.
It would be cool to live someplace where you had actual old buildings. Most of the places here in Las Vegas are less than 50 years old (and if they are on the strip, they get demolished and rebuilt). They are starting to build places like that here, with a common courtyard surrounded by residential buildings. I’m curious, what do they rent for?
my dad grew up in alverna, have many memories walking up to the statue at the end.
What is your dad’s name?
My husband grew up in number 7. What fond memories.
There was a kingfisher stained glass above the front door.
@ Mary O’Neill
In the summer holidays of the years 1979-1980 I twice stayed for three weeks at Mrs O’Neill’s house, 7 Alverna, Mardyke Walk. She used to have Belgian students in summertime. Is she still alive? So I have known your husband in his twenties. There were two sons. Unfortunately I forgot their names. One of them was a scubadiver. Please tell them I still keep very nice memories of that time.