Home buyers must make income sufficient to pay $38.75 a month

[SoCalDem]

Grand Island New York circa 1941
http://www.isledegrande.com/picpage03.htm



This photo appeared on a post card promoting the sale of homes on Love Road in Grandyle Village in 1941 by the Grandyle Land Corporation. A return post card to be filled in by interested home buyers included the line, "We make an income sufficient to pay approximately $38.75 per month." New residents began moving into the houses, built by the Sears & Roebuck Company, in early 1942.

[monktonman]

1. damn, your subject line fooled me.

I was thinking "well, I got forty bucks in my pocket"
lets go buy a house!

[CK_John]

2. Remember 20-25 cents per hour was the norm. n/t

[aquart]

3. They built houses during the war?

Bet people lined up for miles.

[SoCalDem]

4. Sears & Roebuck apparently did

:)

[nosmokes]

5. Sears Used to sell houses by mail. Honest.

There might even be one in your town. Sears Mail Order Houses

[no_hypocrisy]

6. The Sears Catalogue displayed houses for sale as early as World War I.

[rox63]

8. A lot of Craftsman-style bungalows are actually Sears mail-order houses n/t

[Horse with no Name]

11. I would LOVE to have one.

Now that is a house!

[SoCalDem]

12. A DUer had one for sale in upstate New York.. can't recall his name right now n/t

[blondeatlast]

13. They sell for a premium now; the quality was first rate.

I'm mad for anything Arts & Crafts style; my home is a revival of a traditional California bungalow.

Here's a great source for all things Craftsmen and there's links to a Sears home-by-catalog site here.

Enjoy--be careful, though--it only takes a little taste to go crazy over this stuff!

http://americanbungalowmagazine.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=27660&Main=27085

[SoCalDem]

15. What's funny too, is that people raised 5-6 kids in those small houses

and today, people with 1 kid complain that a 2500sq.ft. house is "too small".. :rofl:

[aquart]

16. Do all those people have maids? And butlers?

[KG]

7. the war, for america, didn't start till the very end of '41

those were probaly the last houses like that built til '46

[Wcross]

10. America didn't declare war until December of 41. n/t

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

17. Was this the 11th?

Trying to recall last years history. . .

[SoCalDem]

20. Dec7th

but I assumed you were channeling Rudy 911iani :)

[1932]

9. ...

[blondeatlast]

14. Sears homes; link:

I would LOVE to own one of these but they sell at a premium now, ironically enough...

http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/index.htm

[Cleita]

18. I remember my parents mortgage payment on a home in the

forties being $65 a month.

[bluedigger]

19. Friends owned one in NJ...

It was nice and had won a local community restoration reward, but I was constantly bumping my head in the stairways - I'm 6'3" and the house was like 4/5ths scale! :rofl: