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Levittown-style homes for returning WWII veterans were poor quality -- "little boxes all made of ticky-tack" as the song goes, but even high quality homes of th
by jhbadger 2mo ago
Levittown-style homes for returning WWII veterans were poor quality -- "little boxes all made of ticky-tack" as the song goes, but even high quality homes of the midcentury were still tiny -- the average size of a US house in 1960 was 1,289 sq ft -- basically apartment sized. And typically only had one bathroom
https://www.newser.com/story/225645/average-size-of-us-homes-decade-by-decade.html https://www.newser.com/story/225645/average-size-of-us-homes...
- Animats 2mo ago"little boxes all made of ticky-tack" That song is about Daly City,[1] where some of the original houses still are pink, green, blue, and yellow. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boxes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boxes