It may not be much, but it beats a tarpaper shack or a cold water walkup.One way to beat the wartime housing shortage: manufactured housing.
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It may not be much, but it beats a tarpaper shack or a cold water walkup.One way to beat the wartime housing shortage: manufactured housing.
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One way to beat the wartime housing shortage: manufactured housing.
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There are some really good scenes of them trying to make a home in its tiny space, but unfortunately, this is the only still I could find that kinda shows it:
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^^^ That is really cool. It hasn't been that many decades since line shaft driven machine tools ruled the manufacturing world.
Inside the children's hairdressing salon at Harrod's, 1929
Here we have a museum room, which was transplanted from an apartment building at 525 Park Avenue in New York.
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The room was designed in 1928 by the French firm of Alvoine, and installed in this 1915 vintage building in 1929. The firm decorated the balance of the apartment in a more conservative Louis XVI style. The owner donated this room to the Brooklyn Museum in 1971. He continued to live in that apartment until his death in 1989. Since then all traces of the 1929 decoration have been removed. The former library, which is now used as a dining room, is by far the most interesting, character -rich space in the unit, and that is not saying much.
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The above represents the current taste of the current masters of the universe. I weep for the future.
There was a massive POW camp and training post near here called Camp Ellis. It was shut down shortly after the war ended and many buildings were sold to be moved. The local university ended up with several barracks building that they used mostly for married student housing up into the 1960's when they built apartment buildings for that purpose. I have known a few people who lived in them. A trailer would have been a step up since they were thrown together in 1942 to last only a few years. There is still a row of them in the little town I live in used as apartments. They are curious structures because they are framed with whatever was available, very little is standard dimension lumber. Updating them is a challenge because of this.