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Originally Posted by jg6544
In those days, developers just scraped a tract of all vegetation, leveled it, poured concrete slabs to build on and started throwing up houses; like the song, "little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky."
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To be fair, a lot of that land had previously been farm or ranch land. I know the same was true for my neighborhood. My parents grew up living next door to each other, and they and my aunts and uncles played in a field behind my grandparents' houses that was owned by a rancher who had cattle, including a bull, that would chase them from time to time before they scrambled up one of the giant oak trees. There were no other types of trees around here back then. Supposedly, too, before my grandparents moved in, the previous owner of the house had a horse in the backyard.