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View of a model home. The number by the front door reads [1]425. The street name "Walnut Grove" is Stenciled on the curb. A sign on the lawn reads "Keep off the grass." On the right of the photograph, partially obscured by a tree, a sign reads "M[odel] ho[me] furnishe[d] [by] Lion, Second Street at San Fernand[o], San Jose. [Ho]urs 9 AM to 6 PM, [dai]ly including Sundays." A utility pole is visible behind the house. The house still stands at this address. This house was part of the Kaiser Community Homes real estate development. Kaiser Community Homes 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. Lion & Sons Co. was a furniture store founded in 1856 by Lazard Lion. The company moved to the corner of Second and San Fernando Streets in 1908 and went out of business in 1967. From: Bob Johnson. "San Jose, " Arcadia Publishing. p. 20. (http://books.google.com/books?id=azqvDO8PnasC&lpg=PA20&dq=lion%20and%20sons%20san%20jose&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q=lion%20and%20sons%20san%20jose&f=false) 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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