A last look at where it all started

[@Jallge]

It's nice that the new owners like the original style.

[@greggsvintageworkshop8974]

Sorry both of your parents are now gone Bob. Saying a final goodbye to the family home is also a bit tough, been there and done that. You will always have some fond memories of your parents, family and home that you can cherish forever. Very nice older home too. Thanks for sharing.

[@bigaudioal]

Love those bathroom sinks on the upper level!

[@bandersentv]

The dual sinks came in handy when my sister and I lived there :)

[@Pablo-he7gm]

Amazing house, I wouldn't touch any part. The bathrooms are just so cool. Sorry you were not able to keep it as your place in the world and a personal museum. Sometimes we need to just let go. Thanks for sharing it with all of us!

[@tomki6asp]

I grew up in a ‘50s split level + basement. Train layout was in the basement. Watched cartoons on Saturday mornings on the Admiral TV in the lower split level.

[@seandaugherty7504]

Thanks for sharing, Bob. Had to be tough. Takes me back to when I was an adolescent, tinkering with trash picked electronics in my bedroom. Driving my mom nuts with the junk I dragged home. Cool home, hopefully all the good memories brought you some warmth.

[@Suddenlyits1960]

Bob,Its too bad you couldn't keep your parents house and move your restorations and collections there. Think of how much more stuff you could collect. I love those 50's homes.its comforts you just to be inside one. I don't like modern homes at all. Thanks for sharing this video with us. It must have been fun growing up there. Wish all the original kitchen appliances,flooring,etc was still there from the 50's. I can imagine how cool it must have looks. I like that the sinks and some of the floors and tiles managed to survive the changes

[@peterbondmusic]

Not the video I expected on this channel but very cool. Love the wood, the 50’s aesthetic.

[@asvintageelectronics]

Very sorry for your loss! love the home, I would also leave it as it is. Somebody has gotten a real treasure. did the same thing with the train layout (Lionel) even at one point brought home an old car radio that had the vibrator power supply. I had been playing with lead pencils and making an arc. What could be better than high voltage!? i hooked the train transformer to it and cranked it up. Well I lost my grip on the pencils after being surprised about the effect and ended up on the floor (fell from a bar stool). My arms were all hot. Parents asked what happened, "Nothing!" otherwise would have been the last time I played with tube gear!

[@Suddenlyits1960]

Sorry for the loss of your mom and family.home..I like the color of the floors in the laundry room and the pink sinks and multicolored bathroom tiles. If i bought the home I'd restore everything back to how it was in the 50's

[@RickO.-vq8oh]

Thanks for sharing - its never easy but time heals - my childhood hobby (8 to 17) I dragged anything electronic home and tore into it - all my outlets were black and melted - let a lot of smoke out of components in my room. To this day, I can still distinguish burning components by smell alone - - ic chips/resistors/transistors/diodes (Se and Ge)/caps, etc . . . I bet that house is top dollar in CA - it is a beautiful home!!

[@PaulinesPastimes]

Absolutely love the master bathroom, the others are pretty good too. Lively, energising colour. Futuristic too. Doesn't really go with our subdued times now, which is why it is good to be reminded of those times. Thank you for sharing the experience, it must have been emotional.

[@Suddenlyits1960]

Yep,the 1950's and 60's were a very unique and special period in American history. That was our zenith,when America was the envy of the world and the American dream meant something

[@TradieTrev]

Cool old home! I've worked on a lots of homes and It's always the memories that will forever live on when the home is lost and forgotten. Lots of apprentices I've taught really respect people's homes as if they were they're own. Even when your gone the TVs will still live.

[@kellywilson2858]

Bob, thanks for sharing your wonderful memories and taking us through your childhood home. It's a wonderful place. I know this has been a hard process for you having to say goodbye to your family home. I had a similar experience about 12 years ago and had to say goodbye to a pristine all original house from the mid 1960's. where I had lived since I was 4 years old. It was like walking back in time every time you set foot into the place. The thing that I discovered quite quickly was that once the people that made that house special were gone, the magic faded away and it became just another house so we sold it. It just recently sold for the second time since then and we saw the Realtor photos and the house was renovated and all the 1960's charm is gone, replaced by modern. Still have all the memories though. Thank you again for sharing.

[@alexinnewwest1860]

Thanks for sharing. I do love these mid century modern homes, they are pretty fun

[@dh-_1011]

I remember the last time I was in my parents house. My dad called my room the fire trap because of all the wires and electronic junk lying around.

[@cjay2]

Thanks for the tour, Bob. Reminded me of my original house.

[@drewleclair1281]

Thank you so much for sharing this, Bob. Gorgeous house, and in a more general sense, really cool to see your origin story. Much much respect from internet land! I’ve been following your journey for close to 15 years now… I also still have a GE locomotive to send you lol.

[@hardyboy1959]

Cool Crib! Thanks!

[@mikefinn2101]

Nice Memory lane remember those old style 70s flooring.

[@radio-ged4626]

Thanks for sharing a part of your personal history. Looks like you have a lot of happy memories of where you grew up. It's perspective of yourself, where you came from and where you are now.

[@jogiemka]

Nice trip Bob, thanks for sharing... I'm going through a similar trip myself right now. I too dragged some amazing stuff home as a kid, boy the garbage sure has changed, eh? I still cannot believe that I never started the place on fire each and every time I plugged something in to "see if it works"...

[@oldradioguy65]

Thanks for the tour, Mr. Andersen.

[@hotpuppy1]

They don't build em like that anymore. Nice layout and I bet 1000% better quality materials than the cardboard crap they build today.

[@chetpomeroy1399]

It would be safe to say that Bob has some *wonderful* memories growing up in that home with his family. There are times in our lives where we all have to 'turn the page,' but at least reminiscences like these will endure. It's nice to think about the enjoyable times in the past, and it's important to plan for the future, but there's no moment like the *present* moment!

[@Suddenlyits1960]

I like Doug Harlands saying "I tolerate the present by living in the past"

[@CristoMaidana]

NICE SURPRISE THAT SIOUXSIE POSTER IN THAT DOOR IN THE THUMBNAIL,I LOVE SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES MAN,GOOD TASTE OF YOURS.

[@quetzal4042]

Whoa, my parents had that exact same pink sink! I brushed my teeth for 20 years in that sink. The fixtures were pink but the walls were all blue plastic tile!

[@Timothycan]

Thanks for sharing. You will SO miss that place! I moved out of the house I grew up in, and that was 30 years ago. I still miss it.

[@tomcarlson3913]

Neat old house. I love seeing places where the original interior hasn't been messed with. I wouldn't say that home predates central air. The house I grew up in as a kid was built in the 1940's (it's amazing what abuse a plaster/lath wall can take and how it'll fight off nails for hanging pictures) and had central air and I got to see the original furnace (darn thing took up a whole wall) replaced out from under the central 70's air conditioning unit when it started leaking gas in the 90's. (it's possible it had AC from the beginning, but we never asked the people who would know). Some people back then hated air conditioning and wouldn't build their houses to accept it.

[@davidberndt6275]

Thanks for the tour!

[@markseymour5558]

I'm sorry for the loss of your Mom 😢

[@bandersentv]

Thank you

[@MikefromMOMichaelTurner227]

Id move in right now!! Clean up the smoking part lol. Retro can be awesome 😎

[@uxwbill]

That's quite a nice place. I'm glad to hear the new owners plan to keep a lot of it the way it is. By chance, do you still have any of those treasures that you dragged home so many years ago?

[@bandersentv]

Alas no. Well some tubes and books, but nothing cool.

[@Superbonker-np6iz]

Lower level, that's what I call "sunny basement"

[@olleinsulander]

Sorry to hear of your parents. The bathrooms look amazing! Can´t find the photo mentioned in the youtube community nor patreon?

[@bandersentv]

Oh it's the thumbnail for the video. I'll post it in patreon

[@vintageradio58]

Wow, nice original house. Well, I will be doing the same thing next year in 2025. I will be selling the house that we were raised in. My grandparents bought a bank foreclosure in 1938. Three generations lived in that house. My big delema is what to do with my 50 + years of collecting. I cannot bring all of it to Florida it all will not fit in our condo. But after 66 years, it's time to move on. The 100 year old house will be demolished along with the house next door to make way for a 16 unit condo building.

[@randyab9go188]

9" asbestos floor tile!!

[@charliemartin-k7m]

As long as you don't break it up its more of less harmless.

[@Suddenlyits1960]

​@charlieretro Thats true,and the stuff lasts forever. I recently went in an alpha beta supermarket that was closed down and ruined by remodeling and the inside had all the original Congoleum confetti pattern linoleum with pink,turqouise,black and white streaks in it.

[@KameraShy]

I remember shag carpeting. It was disgusting. What were they thinking?!?

[@BobbyS1981]

Love MCM houses! I’d have bought it:

[@bandersentv]

We had a lot of interest and sold in a week.

[@Suddenlyits1960]

​@@bandersentvI'm curious,why did you let it go? I really loved the place in the video and could see it as it was with restoration. I really like the layout too. I'm weird though and not in step with the times.

[@bandersentv]

My sister and I already have houses and mortgages to pay. What are we supposed to do with it? It sat empty for almost a year. Property taxes, insurance, utilities and maintenance really add up. Selling was the only viable option.

[@dontknowbrian]

Thanx for the share there Bob. I grew up very similar to.

[@uniservo]

That thumbnail for the video...when is that from?

[@bandersentv]

Best guess is 1991/92

[@bandersentv]

It's the only photo I know to exist from that era. Found it while cleaning out the house.

[@ThePolaroid669]

Nice house. Who are the two hot guys in the thumbnail for the video?

[@bandersentv]

Yours truly and an old high school friend.

[@mcramp20]

😊

[@hestheMaster]

Wow Bob that house was so retro. Not a fan of split level homes especially without force air heating/cooling but she looks to be a good home to grow up in. That kitchen will have to be completely redone for today's modern open concept living.

[@bandersentv]

Me neither. No attic or real basement. Just a crawlspace for storage. Originally it had heating pipes running through the basement slab but they corroded shut.

[@Suddenlyits1960]

So this is where the Ren and Stimpy poster once hung! Aren't you sad to lose your childhood home? Bob,maybe there's a way you can get rid of the new owners and keep the place for yourself! You and your sister could stage a fake gruesome murder/suicide there that would haunt and traumatize the new owners so deeply that they would require decades of staggeringly expensive therapy and would never be able to live there for one day,then you could have a friend step in to buy the place back for 10 cents on the dollar! Or you could dress up as a ghost like in the Brady Bunch and haunt the place by appearing as the spectre of death carrying a scythe at midnight and threatening to carry them off to toil ceaselessly in hades...or maybe you could get the new owner drunk and take compromising photos of him with bigfoot and threaten to post them online and destory his marraige and good name unless he reverts ownership of the home back to you.you know,just some harmless,innocent gags like that to help save your family home.but im sure you've already thought of all these things too. Lol

[@bandersentv]

More bummed that nothing remains from back then. Not even a single poster. Forgot to mention there is a graveyard across the street. Graves dating back to the 1800s. Now that was fun!

[@Suddenlyits1960]

​@bandersentv Sorry to hear that. Had you left the posters and your old items there when you moved out? There was an old cemetery across from where I used to live a long time ago. Now they show Beetlejuice another horror movies there on halloween

[@bandersentv]

@Suddenlyits1960 gradually got rid of them over the years

[@polaraligned1]

No offense, but for someone who lived there from 9 years old until at least you were out of college, you seemed to have forgotten a lot.

[@bandersentv]

I don't understand. You mean how the house used to look? I live just a few miles away and here been to the house regularly my entire life. Most of the changes happened 45 years ago shortly after we moved in and there are no photos.

[@polaraligned1]

@@bandersentv I misunderstood Bob. You were trying to describe how the house looked when you first moved in. I thought you were trying to remember how it looked when you were a kid growing up. I guess your parents made prompt changed to the decor. I still remember a lot of how the inside of my childhood house looked.