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28th June 2022

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I did my American Studies senior thesis in college on split-level houses, I found they were product of

  • The WWII training of a civil engineer cohort used to gas-powered construction machinery and retaining walls*, that could make use of
  • Previously marginal hillside lots in the postwar housing crisis,
  • Improved furnaces that didn’t dirty the whole basement, and
  • Boomers’ parents’ desire for a lifestyle untainted by their children

* my maternal grandfather was a WWII-vet SeaBee Lt. Commander (he built golf courses in Hawaii to accommodate all the new officers) who went into home construction

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