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Photograph shows a man and a woman standing outside a house. The writing on the curb reads: "Newhall St." A sign reads: "Kaiser Community Homes: Santa Clara - San Jose." Kaiser Community Houses was a home-building project started after World War II by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967) and real estate developer Fritz Burns to address the burgeoning housing needs of postwar America. These suburban communities were built in three West Coast metropolitan areas: Los Angeles (North Hollywood and Panorama City in the San Fernando Valley), the San Francisco Bay Area, and Portland, Oregon. A related image is in the Gordon panoramics (see http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u?/jcgpanorama,123). It gives the location as Santa Clara -- California. This is the same Kaiser of Kaiser Permanente fame. Many books on postwar urban and regional planning focus on the Kaiser homes in Panorama City and the Los Angeles Area. There is very little about the Bay Area Kaiser homes. The Bancroft Library has the Kaiser papers, including an album on the Kaiser Community Homes (nothing online). Sources: "Historic Residential Suburbs: Guidelines for Evaluation and Documentation for the National Register of Historic Places" (http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/publications/bulletins/pdfs/Suburbs.pdf); Mark Foster, "Prosperity's Prophet: Henry J. Kaiser and the Consumer/Suburban Culture: 1930-1950" (http://www.jstor.org/stable/969279?seq=2); Greg Hise, "Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis" (chapter 5 is about KCH; we have the physical book and the ebook in the library, see http://catalog.sjlibrary.org/record=b3695757~S1). Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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