Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Lustron homes Kate told me the other morning that she saw an interesting show on PBS at like 3:00 am about metal and ceramic prefab homes from the 1940s.  I would have thought she was dreaming, but her story did not feature small animals chewing on her, so I knew it was real.  It was the Lustron homes story.  The story goes like this: Housing shortage after WWII Visionary inventor comes up with prefab houses that are cheap and last forever without maintenance. People line up to buy them.  Thousands are built and sold all over the country. unknown forces conspire against the company.  Company goes bankrupt.    Lustrons live up to their promise.  Their owners love them.  There are seven of these in Minneapolis. 12:27:06 PM    comment []

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