Estero River Heights was incorporated in 1956 and my house was built
in 63. These are all "on your lot houses", there was never a master
builder. No two houses are alike here.
Power (and TV cable) is overhead but phone is all underground.
The only reason my phone and DSL was out is the fiber to copper
conversion up at the end of the street is powered by the utility and
they were down. The battery lasted about 30 hours and a few days later
they dropped a generator up there.
There were stories of vigilante homeowners, cracking into the boxes
and hooking it up to their generator. Evidently it runs on a 5-15
plug. I would have done it if the box was in front of my house.
Unfortunately POTS is not really that same old "plain" that it used to
be. No more running the whole system from a central office battery.
There are some same houses, but when they developed the land, was a large
area. Was rural area. Fairly rural still in 1979. Only 24,000 people,
now near 80,000. Was safflower fields where is now a large mixed
industrial / housing area. Headquarters of ATT, Peoplesoft, etc. one of
the two main roads is Hopyard Blvd. when I moved here, was friends with a
90 year old guy who was born here. He said he was one of the kids in the
tree in the movie Rebecca of .sunny brook Farm. Filmed on 2nd street. He
said they rowed down Hopyard in the winter as was flooded. And grew hops
for Guinness among others. Hops and cattle.
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