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Post by hitzpink on Jul 5, 2006 20:22:11 GMT -5
I used to cut through people's backyards when I was a kid because I knew everyone in my neighborhood and nobody had fences. Given the fact that in Stoneybrook everyone knows (and loves) everyone else, most of the neighbors probably wouldn't have minded Nicky running through their backyard on his way to the secret passage.
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Post by jen on Jul 6, 2006 6:30:37 GMT -5
Is it usual for backyards to not have fences? I remember in the book where the Pikes get Pow (Claudia and the Perfect Guy, I think), Mrs Pike says they can take Pow as soon as they get a fence... So are fences totally out of the norm? When and where I gre up, every backyard I'd ever seen was fenced in.
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Post by lilafowler on Jul 6, 2006 19:00:42 GMT -5
Where I live, nearly all backyards are fenced in, except for those in developments.
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Post by greer on Jul 6, 2006 19:10:34 GMT -5
I seem the recall the Pikes having a fence when they played Secret Agents, which was way earlier in the series--before Stacey moved back to Stoneybrook.
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Post by macca on Jul 6, 2006 21:24:01 GMT -5
Is it usual for backyards to not have fences? I remember in the book where the Pikes get Pow (Claudia and the Perfect Guy, I think), Mrs Pike says they can take Pow as soon as they get a fence... So are fences totally out of the norm? When and where I gre up, every backyard I'd ever seen was fenced in. Same here. I can't imagine a backyard without a fence. Weird.
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Post by hitzpink on Jul 6, 2006 21:50:20 GMT -5
So are fences totally out of the norm? When and where I grew up, every backyard I'd ever seen was fenced in. Where I grew up (in North Dakota), nobody really had fences around their backyards. Thinking about it now is weird, because where I live now (Arizona), everybody has a fence around their yard. In ND my backyard and the backyard of my friends who lived behind me was this huge field of grass. I guess there was sort of an "implied" boundary, but there was definitely nothing concrete seperating our yards. (Or the yards of us and the other neighbors.) But in most places I'd say that fenced in is definitely the norm.
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Post by greer on Jul 6, 2006 23:21:48 GMT -5
Where I live the yards are generally over an acre, so it doesn't really make sense to fence in your whole property. Most people have a small fenced area if they have a pool or a dog. But in the more town, rather than country, part, people have fences because the yards are a lot smaller. Except where Mary Anne, Dawn, and Kristy lived, I always felt that Stoneybrookites had smaller yards with close-together houses, where a fence would be practical. So it's kind of weird that the Pikes didn't have one.
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Post by jen on Jul 7, 2006 5:17:46 GMT -5
Maybe that adds to the close community-ness of it all. *shrugs*
And actually, my boyfriend's house isn't fenced in... He lives on a 20 acre property, though, and there are boundaries. But it's not fenced in like it is in the suburbs. And I always imagined Stoneybrook to be a bit like the suburbs, where houses are close together and would therefore have fences.
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Post by macca on Jul 7, 2006 5:26:17 GMT -5
^ Yeah, that's how I imagine Stoneybrook as well. Maybe I just assume backyards are always fenced in because I've never lived anywhere but the suburbs (with small blocks of land, etc)
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Post by lisa on Jul 7, 2006 6:44:06 GMT -5
Even whre I lived somewhere a bit more ruralish we had fences...It never occured to me that you wouldn't have a fence.
In Me and Katie (the Pest) they didn't have a fence in the yard, it just went back into some sort of forest.
And now I'm thinking of it, the Pike's so did have a fence, because Mallory had to go all around the block with the cassorole that mer mum made for the McGills when they moved in.
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Post by lilafowler on Jul 7, 2006 8:42:42 GMT -5
^Didn't Stacey and Mallory cut through their backyards to walk to school together, though? But then I also thought they had that towel code where Mallory stuck a towel over the fence to tell Stacey whether she could walk with her or not.
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Post by ktag on Jul 7, 2006 16:21:57 GMT -5
Yeah, I think most of them had fences, but they probably also had gates or openings so they could cut through when they knew each other better. Dawn's property might not have a fence.
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Post by hitzpink on Jul 7, 2006 19:05:03 GMT -5
^Didn't Stacey and Mallory cut through their backyards to walk to school together, though? But then I also thought they had that towel code where Mallory stuck a towel over the fence to tell Stacey whether she could walk with her or not. I'm pretty sure Mallory hung the towel over her patio or deck or something, but not over the fence. The Pikes definitely had a fence in the beginning of the series, but later on they didn't.
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Post by jen on Jul 7, 2006 19:40:15 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure that in Claudia and the Perfect Boy, the Pikes are talking about getting a fence. Eh... we should be used to such inconsistencies by now
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2006 1:21:37 GMT -5
When I first had this book, I always assumed that the cover showed Dawn and Jeff looking up at a regular staircase in their house. I never thought that the cover showed them in the secret passage. Halfway through the book, aren't they freaked out by a storm and noises coming from the secret passage? They shut the opening to the secret passage in Dawn's bedroom and call their mom (interrupting her date with the Trip-Man). I always took the cover illustration as them waiting downstairs for Sharon to come home--but they're waiting/anticipating the ghost at Dawn's house to come downstairs. I dunno.
Trying to figure out the structural layout of the small hidden passage is hard when the TV series depict it as your run of the mill attic with plenty of space and windows.
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