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Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Sarasota Fla.

My small upstate New York town had two Lustron houses. The one my best childhood friend lived in was a three-bedroom model built on a hill with a garage under the back end.

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Dang, I hate I missed this program in person. It is soo interesting!!!

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Wow, I remember going there, as a little kid, back in the 1970s. I miss the old days!

Awesome program! The panel was interesting and engaging.

Thanks for sharing this the history of the the Lustron house, very interesting to know.🏠

I own a yellow lustron for the lady 30 years! Best house ever! No reason to ever upgrade or leave!

I love the steel and built ins.I wouldn't mind living in one!

Too bad that the sound on this YT presentation was so garbled. I was looking forward to hearing this presentation and was excited to see this on YT. I could not understand most of what was said.

I just stumbled across this video and immediately ordered the book from Amazon. Mr. Thurmond I could have listened to you talk all day.

Absolutely Amazing Sir!!! I'm a California native born and raised and never ever knew this about this state in this nation. Thanks for the work of writing your book and for the history of the man who established Georgia #Blessings

I’m stunned! What a fantastic work and revelation from Michael Thurmond. Should be required reading in every school and church.

They look so perfect, would have totally bought one if I would have been there at that time

Weird that you include totally irrelevant information on "redlining" and black Americans. Nothing to do with Lustron houses, just woke nonsense.

Thanks, well done.

Everyone moved to Levittown. 😂

We have one in my Iowa town & it's still beautiful. They also purchased a matching garage. I wish we could see how the inside held up. Great video

What does racism have do with Lustron Houses?

Fireproof?

This is very interesting. There are still several (I believe 3) Lustron houses in Rockford, IL, and all are still lived in. I was able to see one on the interior when it came on the market some years ago. It was in fairly good condition, but past owners had made some changes that looked a bit awkward in the all-steel construction. There was some rust apparent around the edges of exterior panels, a problem noted in the video. Overall, the house remained in pretty good condition, however. You didn’t mention insulation, and I wondered about that in the house I visited. In this northern climate, an uninsulated house would be pretty unlivable, especially one made of metal! Thank you for not glossing over the racism that prevented Black families from getting into the housing market. The effects of that exclusion are still with us today.

Mitchell SD has an entire neighborhood of these. They are in very good condition. Check them and the Corn Palace out if you are ever in that area.

Great job

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There are at least 2 or 3 are still in Sioux Falls

It would be cool to have a whole neighborhood of these houses

About 20 years ago, 60 Lustron homes demolished located at US Marine Virginia location (Quantico?)

I'm 77 & remember those late 40's & early 50's! When you consider that Lustron Houses didn't include the lot; basements, wells; plumbing & heating , etc. I don't think that it was a very good deal! "Levittown" on Long Island, NY, was built around the same time & a modest house, with lot, cost $7,000 to $9,000, in the late 40's! These same houses, now sell for at least $450,000! Let's see if you could get that, for a 70 year old Lustron home?

Thank you for not ignoring nor glossing over the racism and red lining that was rampant during this time. ❤

To make all the finished parts for 27 homes a day is still an amazing achievement with an average time of 3 days to erect the structure that means one crew could build 9 a month! No matter what shortcomings these houses had you can’t argue with that kind of speed and efficiency and is still unmatched today it takes a year or longer to have a house built these days

A 'suburb' was built of all Lustron homes on a military base in Virginia. 200-300. Government offered them for free removal. No takers so they were dismantled and scrapped for new base housing construction. There are several in Clark County, Ohio, mostly in Springfield. A couple are in Champaign County to the north. One was resored in the City of Yrbana and was on a historical home tour. Owner salvaged parts from a dismantled home in Beavercreek, Ohio.

Great presentation, Kenosha Wisconsin has 4 of them, my friends aunt used to live in a tan one.

DeKalb Indiana? Who was the architect?

How does this doc only have 114 likes?? It's fantastic!

Georgia resident and fallout 4 daily player here:) I really desire to go visit this place:)

You are claiming you were born in Africa?

Love to hear more about one of the most unique trends in American housing. I own a 1961 ranch built by Alfred Campanelli in Illinois, on a slab, no basement. I have 5 closets, one in each bedroom, and two in the hallway. Most of them aren't as deep as a normal closet typically is. I think a lot of these really early kit homes from the 1940s and 1950s really knew how to maximize storage space when you had no basement, like having overhead cabinets above a closet so you can really maximize the usage of the upper level. I don't know if this trend subsided by the 1960s or what, but the homes in my neighborhood do not have such features. Basements are also somewhat rare in my particular area, which normally is strange for the north, but the area I was in used to be wetlands with peat soil that makes solid foundations hard to build.

I'm a history buff and and Architecture buff.... amazing how they intersect! Red lining should be taught in schools to reveal institutional racism.

This virtual tour is VERY interesting! Great research!🙂

Very interesting and informative. I'm volunteering at an 1878 Eastlake Home in Northern NY and I wanted to know more about the history of Eastlake design.

I had a great time working here for over six years. Met a lot of good people and would enjoy hearing from some of them.

How 'socially conscious' of you to insert 'systemic racism' into a video about pre-fab homes. Isn't it ironic that you admonish,ever so passive aggressively in your 'Karen' style voice, the inequities of post WW2 America while being a part of the ideological and political 'system' that you so disdainfully blame for the plight of black America? Ahhh, yes you ARE a liberal Democrat, aren't you? And wasn't FDR a Democrat? Weren't all of the policies and bureaucrat directives of that time under Democrat management, much like today? Either you're just being facetious, ignorant or trying to absolve you and your kind's major involvement in a subject that has nothing to do with 'houses that require no maintenance' . So which is it, Karen??

This man presided over my divorce and subsequent domestic relations hearings. God bless this kind man.

Narrated by Bebe Neuwirth. LOL!

My Mother grew up in a prefab in Merseyside, UK which stood for some years. There still are prefabs in Netherton.

Just HAD to toss in a comment about r-r-r-racism is there didnt you? I'm so sick of hearing about this shit. I'll find another Lustron documentary that doesn't fkn preach at me.

Wasn't Lustron the ones who took over Tucker plant.

He need a humanitarian award facts.

I love this man saved my life twice ❤️ he could have sentence me and threw away the key but he gave me a second chance and I toke it. Thank you judge