Re: Frye Road in 1963
Posted by:
EKKHV
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Date: July 09, 2018 01:36PM
From RT 1, drive down Frye Road to Manor Drive and start looking on the left at that intersection. It is probably one of the ones from 8320 to 8316 Frye Road.
I am guessing this based on the following. House numbers must go from low to high as you travel from the highway into the woods, because when the road is built, you don't know how high the numbers will eventually go. (For example, looking at the construction, think Frye Road in fact has been extended a block further north since then.) The first part of Frye Road is apartments and new houses, so that would have been the 100 block. Then comes Odessa Dr, and if there was anything there, it was wiped out and replaced by that block of modern row houses. (Perhaps that was the 200 block.) Then comes Manor Drive, which still has original houses from the time period you're talking about (built in the late 1940s, looks to me). The first thing you will see are a couple of two-story red brick single-family houses. And those are the only ones you'll see; the remainder of the road has some old houses (and some new), none of which are the kind you're looking for.
It was either one of those houses starting from Manor Drive, or it was on the previous block and no longer exists. Note that the yard probably has slightly different foliage than it did 55 years ago (trees and coverage will be larger, at the least). Your Mom might recognize one of the houses, or else you can say, "Well, it must have been right over there and is gone."
Have fun!