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March 23, 2014
Dream House
Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 23, 2014 10:14 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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What was the average wage for a working husband-say, an airplane mechanic- with 2.3 kids around the time those were being offered?
What was a 20yr home owners loan?
Posted by: CaptDMO at March 23, 2014 3:33 PM
In 1971 my dad was working as a block mason for Pulte Construction for $8.00 an hour. Late that year we moved into a brand new 3 bedroom 2 bath 2 car garage house with a screened in back porch on a 1/3 acre subdivision lot and that house cost $26,990.00 in southwest Florida about 3 miles from the gulf at Sanibel Island and my mother didn't work. I remember him bitching about the $78/mth payments. The following year he started his own masonry business and paid that house off 3 years later. 5 years later he dropped dead.
Posted by: ghostsniper at March 23, 2014 5:06 PM
My parents bought the only house they ever lived in together, for $8,900.00 in 1955. You cannot even buy a new car for that now.
Posted by: Leslie at March 23, 2014 8:36 PM
8606 Pearl Street today:
https://maps.google.ca/maps?client=firefox-a&channel=sb&q=8606+pearl+street+wausau&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x8800248d77fc9333:0x99596a62f3cb3b84,8606+Pearl+St,+Rothschild,+WI+54474,+USA&gl=ca&ei=KrsvU5HmLMGSyQGJsYGoAw&ved=0CCYQ8gEwAA
Posted by: Ray at March 23, 2014 10:03 PM
And 129 Park Blvd. is still looking trim and well-kept. The old tree seems only a little bigger, though.
Posted by: Ray at March 23, 2014 10:13 PM