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...N.A.H.B.'s $13,500 house is completely air-conditioned (heating and cooling), comes with all appliances, including a dishwasher, clothes washer and dryer, has an attractive fenced patio and carport. Without these features it could cost as little as $9,600. N.A.H.B. President Nels Severin likes it so well that he plans to build one in San Diego...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: More for Less | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...love? "One never knows," said Kim. But all the publicity brought out an embarrassing fact: back home, Ramfis has a wife named Octavia ("Tan Tan") and six children. Frankly surprised, Kim said she had planned to send the car back anyway. "There's not even room in my carport," said she. Zsa Zsa was gladly hanging on to both her presents. At Leavenworth, the Army announced that Ramfis, who last week had his adenoids removed, had been completing his assignments by mail, and he would graduate in June along with his less-traveled classmates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Ramfis' Conquests | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

Aluminum Village. Near Riverview, Fla., Housing Developer John Stalling offered houses of fabricated aluminum with 470 sq. ft. of living area plus porch and carport for $5,999. Aluminum panels with honeycombed insulation are bolted to a concrete slab foundation, which has sewage and water pipes already installed. Designed for retired couples on limited incomes, the little houses have electric outlets three feet above the floor, guard rails around the bathtubs, ramps at the doors. Stalling, 75 himself, is aiming at a 2,500-home village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Apr. 28, 1958 | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Palace for Pills | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 14, 1957 | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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