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Those
are my cousins Carol and Jerry Buckingham on the porch, and the
number over the door appears to be 1009. Therefore, this must
be the house at 1009 Augusta Street in Racine, Wisconsin, where Carol
and Jerry lived with their parents Ralph and Esther beginning in
1939. My future mother even stayed
there for a time in 1943-44.

Below
is a 2012 Google Earth view of that house on the north side of town,
a thousand yards from Lake Michigan.

When
I originally posted the first picture, I mistakenly thought it
showed this house at 1035 Gomber Avenue in Cambridge, Ohio.
Vernon Thomas rented a room here when he came to town to work at the
local Chevrolet dealership, a couple of blocks to the south. It
happened to be the home of Harry and Emma Buckingham and their
daughter Ann. Vernon would marry Ann 2½ years later, and
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