Originally posted by mkgd1 When I first came to the US in 1985, my employer arranged for a realtor to drive us around the area (Orange County California) As we drove through one area in Garden Grove, she told us, "these are old houses" They looked like typical California bungalow style homes so i asked her when they were built. She told me " back in the fifties"
I has to chuckle, in UK anything built after WWII was considered "new" I grew up in houses built in the 1890ies. One of my favorite pubs on the Yorkshire moors, the Strines Inn, was built in 1275 and is still open.
In the 1980's my wife and I went to an old English pub, somewhere in the south of England. I can't remember the name, think it was something like 'Ye Olde'...etc..
It was built many centuries ago and apparently it was a rest stop, for pilgrims and rumour was that Chaucer slept there. Inside it looked very old ....ceilings very low, huge oak beams stretched across the ceilings.....the entrance ways ways to the washroom, were very low and narrow.....I had to sidle up, bend down to gain access.
I almost knocked myself out inadvertently.....I got up to get something for my wife and stood completely up. I'm 6' 3" + ....and as mentioned before the ceilings were very low. I struck my head on an ancient oak beam and went down to the ground. My wife said she could hear a thud.....some said a crack. A few of the regulars started laughing...and my wife overheard one say...'looks like old Nell (their name for this beam) got another tall tourist.'. "