Superstition Lake This is our home now

Pictures of Places we have lived during our Married Life and before. Actual places shown in chart below.

Del Carstens
Birth name Delmar Leroy
Born in Beatrice, Nebraska
March 4, 1931

Judy Ann Haag Carstens
Birth name---Judith
(always addressed as Judy unless there was problem!)
Born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin
May 21, 1937

1.First home on farm near Firth, Nebraska
PICTURE HERE

1. First Home in an Apartment on Old Chippewa Road in Rural Eau Claire. Lived upstairs of paternal grandparents home.

Bell and later Ella Street Beatrice, Nebraska

638 ½ (upstairs) Apt. Menomine St. EC, Wisconsin
Chicken Coop made into cottage home behind grandparents house on R#4 Old Chippewa Road, Wisconsin

Cedar Street, Beatrice , Nebraska

1201 ½ (upstairs) Ellis St. Stevens Point, Wisconsin

1600 S. Helen St. (Morningside) Sioux City 6, Iowa

116 Normal Avenue Stevens Point, Wisconsin

Garretson Av Sioux City, Iowa

219 Center St. Stevens Point, Wisconsin

2904 6th AV Morningside Sioux City 6, Iowa

R #3 Delvu Place @ grandparents 4 mo upstairs apt. EC, Wisconsin

Lincoln St. Beatrice, Nebraska

R#4 Old Chippewa Rd (Returned to Chicken Coop where we
lived before moving to Stevens Point.) (Old Chippewa Road's name changed to Starr Ave )

Elk St. Beatrice, Nebraska

R#4 Old Chippewa Rd (Purchased Sherman House 2 doors away on Starr Avenue Eau Claire, Wisconsin

2904 6th AV Morningside Sioux City 6, Iowa (repurchased property when moved back to SC from Beatrice.
Later in the 1960's Parents moved to Colorado, briefly, and returned to Sioux City again. Same address.

45 McCook Lake, Jefferson, South Dakota
Dad was working in Sioux City and had his Office on the 6th floor of the Badgerow Building, 12 stories high and the tallest in Sioux City and surrounding area at that time. Picture Badgerow Building- 12-story “Art Deco” office building on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1929 with steel, concrete and terra cotta ornamentation.

Fox Hole in Korea and Marine Corp dwellings for 2 years. San Diego and Quantico, Virginia 1952-1954

1608 Jackson St. Sioux City 6, Iowa

2904 for year SC Iowa
5050 Silverton Rd. Salem, Oregon
Midland College Fremont, Nebraska Men's Dormitory

2632 S. Paxton St. Sioux City , Iowa 51106 Married August 26, 1956

Married! 1623A N Platte AV Fremont, Nebraska Midland College Married Housing (No more Dormitory Life and juvenile delinquent boys to deal with.) PICTURES

Married! 1623A N Platte AV Fremont, Nebraska Midland College Married Housing. (No more answering to Father as to when I must be home.)

PICTURES Below

Masonic Home, Fremont, Nebraska

Linden Heights Mt Pleasant, Iowa ( Rental (sold N moved 1 month later)

1623 B N Platte Returned after Verdon Summer, Nebraska

4 W Highland Mt. Pleasant, Iowa 52641
Malcolm, Iowa Methodist Presbyterian Manse (Del lived there 1 year)

St. Marks Parsonage Verdon, Nebraska

15 ft. Shasta Travel Trailer in Cindy's driveway 2 1/2 mo. 36th St. and Palm Lane, Phoenix, Arizona

Franklin Ct. Apartments Des Moines, Iowa (during summer Internship at St. John's)

6933 W. Medlock Drive Glendale, AZ 85303 AZ Rental 7 yrs.

Seminary Apartments 204 W. in Fremont, Nebraska

6936 W. Medlock Drive Glendale, AZ 85303 AZ Purchase 7 yrs.

R# Box 110 St. Johns Parsonage Cozad, Nebraska 69130

572 Leisure World Mesa, AZ 85206 Purchase parents home.

Box 88 Swedesburg Swedesburg, Iowa 52652 Parsonage

Leisure World Mesa, AZ 85206

History of Homes and Places
Del and Judy Have Lived
A BIT OF HISTORY...1985 brought us to the Valley of the Sun in the Desert of Arizona.
Moved from SE Iowa to the Metropolitan Area of Phoenix where our daughters lived.
Our home now is in Leisure World .. A Great retirement community!

History of our Homes.

Leisure World

Our Home in our Golden Years

A Little History of this Community in which we are blessed to live during our Senior Years.

Leisure World Community in Arizona started after successful communities were developed by Rossmoor in California. Judy's Grandparents' (Benjamin and Maude Rice Haag) were earlier residents of Leisure World in Seal Beach, California. It was known as Rossmoor World of Leisure. Grandma Maude is seen leading the parade with her 3 wheel bicycle in 1958.

PICTURE HERE

April 1973 was the beginning of new construction. It took place on Leisure World Boulevard just off Power Road entrance where a large globe was placed at the entrance just before the gate house.

People began to order their home by selecting one of several models which they toured just inside the entrance. As I recall hearing, the Highlights in amenities were a golf course, security (A Big Selling Point), and Nurses always on call (Another Great Selling Point for those moving from the Midwest, especially). Bingo was a Friday night possibility, and it was Free. Extra cards could be purchased for 10¢.

A lot could be purchased on the Boulevard, a lake or the gold course. The first group of homes built were 140 in number. Built on a Sweet potato farm those first residents remembered receiving free sweet potatoes and their homes were referred to as
"Leisure World Gold".

My parents purchased their groceries at Bayless Supermarket on the corner of Main and Power Road. They were so excited when Fry's Grocery came to the area just north of the Broadway gate on Main Street. They talked of the day when Golf carts could be driven to get groceries when they might no longer drive.
We drove down the Apache Trail to Bates' Nut Farm, Scottsdale and Tri-city Mall in Mesa for other shopping. Orange groves were surrounding the area and fruit stands graced the orchards. Our children picked a few of their own citrus to take home to the Iowa. They picked outside the gates/citrus was not plentiful inside as the community was so new.)

1623A No. Platte Avenue Fremont, Neb
		W.Highland Mt.Pleasant, Iowa
Malcolm, Iowa Del spent one year Methodist Presbyterian Linked parishes 3	Lived in Cindy's Carport in our Shasta Trailer 1985	Our Homes 6933 Glendale, AZ
6936 W. Medlock Dr. Glendale, AZ		Leisure World

Sioux City, Iowa S. Paxton St. Morningside Del	McCook Lake Jefferson So. Dak Judy	Jackson St. Northside Sioux City Judy
6th Avenue Morningside		Orpheum Theater- Built in 1927 originally as a 4-story building, the Orpheum Electric Building was home to Sioux City Gas & Electric. Chicago designers Rapp & Rapp, creative minds behind dozens of Orpheum circuit theaters in the U.S., encased their theater with the commercial space. Originally a 4-story building, another 4 floors were added in 1949. The theater was mainly intended for vaudeville and stage acts but in the late 30’s, went mainly to films and symphony performances. Del and I went to movies here in the 50's.