Word: carport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With Architect Stone, Owner Hanisch rode up to his brand-new, three-acre, $3,000,000 combined office and plant in Pasadena. He saw a dazzling, 400-ft.-long, low, white-and-gold façade, faced with an airy grille of masonry, half given over to a carport spaced by hanging saucer-gardens. Black-bottomed reflecting pools reached under the cantilevered grille-wall to give the building a hovering effect. Five evenly spaced jet fountains splashed aerated water in the sun. The whole structure was set back a deep 150 ft. from the boulevard, and magnificently...
...most fantastically irreal estate since Prince Potemkin's villages-have had a drastic effect on the American way of life. But who can actually say what the effect has been? Have they created a split-level personality? Is the American male developing a barbecue pituitary or a carport stoop? Is his wife, with all her built-in conveniences, becoming a technological unemployee...
...products so fast that industry is hard pressed to keep pace with demand. Almost anything new catches on instantly. Three months ago, Denver's Rocky Mountain News started a do-it-yourself column, In one of its first articles it explained how to build an aluminum carport. By noon the next day, the News switchboard had received 200 calls; seven local firms immediately went into the business with carport kits, and so far have sold...
...Levitts' standard house (two bedrooms, a study-bedroom, bath, kitchen, living room, carport with storage space) will sell for $10,500. For those who can pay for more, there will be a bigger house priced...