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Title
Forty G.I.'s and their families get new homes
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1947
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Forty G.I.'s and their families will "invade" new homes in a caravan of 40 moving vans and autos at the Kaiser Community Homes projects in the Westchester district of southwest Los Angeles. The homes have but recently been completed and will be ready for occupancy when the hegira arrives with utilities men standing by to even turn on the gas, lights and water. According to Fritz B. Burns, President of the Kaiser Community Homes project, which has rushed these homes to completion for the mass moving in, this is the first good news of the year on housing shortages as it signifies the fast construction of homes now being accomplished. Ten homes are being built a day, with ten thousand of these homes scheduled to be built during the year. Cost per home varies slightly in the different tracks, with all substantially below $10,000 figured on the basis of $615.00 down and approximately $55.00 a month payment on them. Photograph dated February 24, 1947.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00040686
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9716
CARL0000044721
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13101
Subject
Kaiser Community Homes Project (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Public housing--California--Los Angeles
Prefabricated houses--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Westchester (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Westchester (Los Angeles)
Westchester (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Westchester (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period
1941-1950

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