PHOTO OF THE DAY: A bit of history
Dominica News Online - Thursday, September 13th, 2012 at 9:09 AM
This house located in Calibishie has stood the test of time.
Photo by Alex Bruno
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65 Comments
I grew up in a house just like that one..fun memories…would not trade them for anything…there were people living in houses like that who were much richer than people who lived in big fancy houses…wealth is not alway measured by how big your house is…thanks DNO
It’s not the size of your house, is how happy you lived in your home, we all lived in one like that, in the yesteryears, so thank the good LORD, for we have now.
For what we have now.
no need to go to bank and ask for loan for that house
Lovely photo,one thing for sure, every morning some child would have to bend his back to sweep round the house with a balai coco before going to school.
@ Leeli
What else is new? Mothers had been doing that for years including taking care of her children, cooking, washing and performing other chores and it did not break their back. When the children grow older they can do it. Furthermore they are younger and have the strength to do so. Keep in mind too, children sleep longer and better than adults and so they wake up more refreshed.
I think that is justice and truth house…I saw him at Canadian Tire in Toronto, buying things to full his barel to send home to put in it..
yes I saw u..u had on a red shirt..
for sure, don’t forget they have to fetch water too.
This shows where we were before and where we are now, this is an antique
This house reminds me of the one that I grew up in. Thank you Lord for providing
Depex if u all would like puting some thing on facebook look for better things things to put.dominica hasbetter things to show.then that old house.
oh stop being so cold be proud of where you came from.thats history.
@ BON STAR
Do not be ashamed. Face the facts. In those days the majority of people had such a house. As DNO said it is ‘A bit of history’ and it is.
in side that house have air condition, dont watch it simple
There is a treasure of 5.23 million pounds underneath that house left by the pirates; Francis Drake and his colleagues. Bubbles and red dog1 knows about it. That where the diduised seckko sleeps at night, guarding the treasure.
Love the landscape!
This house has indeed weathered the storms of life. The occupant(s) have weathered it as well.
Imagine no mortgage/rent to pay; no electricity/gas bill; no water tax; no land/property tax; no credit bills and probably no phone bills.
Who would not want this type of life and a leisure one without anxiety and stress? I would not be surprised if they are financially well-off.
When they lie down in bed to sleep they have no worldly cares; likewise when they get up and are no doubt as happy as a lark and able to laugh and sing from morning ’til night.
The only thing which they may need to do is to repair the house/roof and they can live there for as long as they want. They are happier than most people who own much more than that. They are not shy and ashamed of where they are residing and of their house because they are satisfied with them and their lifestyle. They must be loving and respectable people too. God bless them!
Once lived in one as a child. Would be nice to see the interior of one again. It’s probably a two-room (not two-bedroom) house.
Of a Truth Dat!
those are the houses that can stand hurricane.not the houses that are built today .
@ tie toe
The houses of today could not withstand a little wind. No exception in Canada. The older buildings/houses were better constructed and more spacious than those of today. The rooms are small, the walls are thin and the cost is exorbitant. Could write a book about that.
I was told that my grandmother’s house out of town was built in the 1800′s (if I recall). This is a house which was handed down from generation to generation. We would visit there and during school holidays would spend a few days with her.
This house has only two bedrooms, a living room and a dining room. They are spacious enough. It is located close to the sea. During a hurricane the sea has come close enough but has never damaged it. There is no retaining wall. I would think that since they were staunch Catholics and prayed more so during the hurricanes that it did not affect them. The house is still standing erect. This is another one that has weathered the storms of time and continue to do so.
This looks like a house in back street,its not the one on the main road nor Calibishie Ridge, neither Jim Ridge. Has to be one on back Street.
You are right…
NICE GUEST HOUSE FOR YOU AND A BOO. LOLLLL
La laplie ca tombey ou ca tan
lee fore!
COOL HOUSE
That is what we call bout chambre. Sometimes 10 people would live in a house like that. Riverstreet used to have some like that.
History! Roots! see how far most of us have come
from.As I look at this pic it gives me a sense of appreciation.Reminds me how far we came .There were many of them in the good old days But God have blessed many of us for this reason we need to not look down on those who are still there. We use to call it “BOTE. SHAM”
@ good news
Also Lagoon in Roseau and elsewhere in DA.
I would’ve advised the opposition to support the nominee for president… if that would be the ‘state palace’…. a real state malace lol…
@ mouth of the south
Sarcastic!
Leave the house alone, thanks DNO for the picture.
Some of all you have too much zess and peditan in all you. Almost every one of us grew up in homes like these, struggled as children with sometimes half a meal a day not sure of dinner. We had no tv, running water and flushing toilets etc but we were contended. Banana boom send many of us to school and today because we have a job/career we suddenly want to erase everything, damn near scrub the black off our arses to pretend to be who and what we never were. Look back at houses and situations like these Dominicans and remind yourselves of your journeys so you can remain humble. Hurricane, earthquake, fire, flood, sickeness doh have who living in block house with 10 rooms, or what car they drive. A man’s home is his castle!
So true my dear.so true
i would shake your big toe!
@ Tut-tut
This is what you call ungrateful people who forgot their roots and their previous lifestyle as soon as they attain something better. You know, there are many of them like that in the world today. You can tell them, those who put on an act. They like to show off and pretend they were better than others. Never see comse come crazy.
THAT IS DEVELOPMENT IN THE COUNTRY LET US ALL CLAP.
Is it for rent?
All you must call Woodfordhill Name,my.god live wooty out ok.
you can see that is GOOD WOOD……..not what dem man these days.
there are people who are very fortunate to have big homesand those who are not able, but there are still persons living in these
homes in Dominica.
@ michel
And they are happy and satisfied. They are not asking for much as long as they have a roof over their heads and food to eat. They will even settle with a leaky roof.
I visualize people like that who own and live in such a house are godly people who love and serve the Lord with faith, hope and trust, knowing that they cannot take what they own with them to eternity. They could be generous people who also own land to grow their provisions and vegetables.
Godliness breeds generosity. St. Paul said – Generosity in Giving – Who has more do not necessarily have more and who has less do not necessarily have less.
Our Lord said, “…If you have food to eat and clothing you will be satisfied with that…”
While everyone would like a comfortable home to live in with all its amenities, the problem in this progressive world today is some people want more and some would do anything to get them. The result of this is more dissatisfied, unhappy people and more crimes. This also breeds lack of love, to name one but there are more.
this is not history….people still leave in homes like this..and homes that are not as sturturally sound like as it is
live
structurally sound
At least they have a roof over their head
preserve that house?…like domnicans not still living in houses like that…. that house even better than alot of new houses like the man who’s house got blown away the other day
Is that the new presidential palace? Eben, I want to know where the rest of the money gone.
:love it lol:
I love your post, real funny, of course I know a few folks who are asking that same question. but for then not funny at atalllllll!
Yeap i remember those kind of houses in Woodfordhill too..
I would preserve houses like that. So much history and nostalgia
SO TRUE
many of the homes in south city grandbay is like this, a sense of history is present in our very eyes loving the pic d.n.o ,nothing better than back home
shatta…. u spring a new leef man… anywayz.. is not… “homes in south city grandbay IS like this”
but rather… ‘homes in south city grandbay ARH like this”…
wow calibishie has mansions…..
is dem house dat strong wii lemme tell you
It strong? How long you think it would survice a direct hit from a hurricane?
is it obvious it has survied hurricanes and tropical storms..it is still standing and all over DA there are many more like that standing strong
such nostalgia!
another great photo DNO
Boy, that looks like the perfect retirement home for me, all that’s missing is a hammock… I may have to add a little verandah too!
I wonder how much it is listed for ReMax.
I think you should also install a swimming pool to add some curb appeal to the house.
Dont forget the fireside to roast the breadfruit Memories
Ha Alex I am sure if you go to every community in Dominica, you will find one like this.
The photographer had some fond memories in that house. ha ha ha ha
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