My Grandmother was one of the sales team for Paradise Palms: that’s her in the video with the red hair ‘playing ‘ the realtor. My Mom is the model/buyer in this movie . My Mom is still alive and still lives in Las Vegas but not in Paradise Palms. We had 2 homes on Ottawa Drive. One of the homes is in this video . My grandparents also owned a home. My Dad ( also still alive and living with me) says he paid 32,000k for that first home . Dad was the largest pool builder in Nevada for many years and we had a beautiful pool in both backyards. Sonny Liston lived ( and died ) on our street. The Sahara Hotel owned the home just across the street and Buddy Hackett and other famous comedians of the day stayed in that home. In the video they call The golf course the Stardust course but I always remember it being called the Sahara Nevada golf course . The elementary school; Ruby S Thomas was recently torn down. The junior high: William Orr was a Short walk from our house. Such an idyllic place to grow up. Finding this video has been so wonderful for our whole Family . Thank you for posting it.
Oh, that is amazing! I'm an active resident of Paradise Palms and also work with Nevada Preservation Foundation or as I like to call us "The Old Building Brigade" We would LOVE to connect with you about your memories.
I thought I recognized Ottawa Dr. I came very close to buying 1730 Chippewa back in 2011 - it's the same model as the one in the tour (I could tell from the way the kitchen juts out of the front but it's not this house because the car port is on the other side). Amusingly, I passed on it because it only appraised at $115K, and the owner wanted something like $135k. (Zillow value is $471k today!) That is very cool that your family is in this video!
Thank you for sharing! I am actually working on a long-form history podcast about Sonny Liston's life and death in Las Vegas right now. These are the sorts of stories that really add "color" to history.
Your comment is one of the coolest things I've ever read in a TH-cam comment section. Thank you for enlightening us. We're about the same age and I join you in fondly recalling about coming of age in that post-war era. It's easy to make fun of a lot of the things in this film but, on the whole, America was a better place back then.
Dan Saxon Palmer of Palmer & Krisel is my dad. I was born in 1961, so a year before this promotional video. It's fun to see what he was working on when I was born. And, with Father's Day this Sunday, an unexpected look into his life and times. Thank you!
There is a Wikipedia article for Krisel, but not for your dad or for the firm. You should get someone to create those articles. It would be very helpful for people who want to learn more.
Thanks for commenting. Many of us in this very neighborhood are very curious of your dad's work. So much is written about his partner, but we want to know a lot more about Dan.
Thanks Dan, there is a lot of people in this neighborhood (me included) that would love to pick your brain for any more information related to you'd dads architectural career - the people in this neighborhood are very passionate about it's revival and anything you could share would be greatly appreciated
You should be really proud- these pioneers of modern contemporary design really wanted to transform how we work live and play. I love the front views of the homes in this promo, fantastic looking homes
@@nancy107No. most of the houses seem to have been renovated in the 90’s, thus losing any charm. Sadly Paradise Palms is a run down area. That part of town is riddled with homelessness and drugs. I’m sure the homes are owned by good families with hard working people but the area itself is unsavory.
Gorgeous. I’d happily move into one of those homes today especially for “the oven that every girl dreams about …… “those hot points really get me going. No, seriously I love mid century.
I was feeling a little sorry for the saleslady in her black dress, but of course once the tour was finished, back to the air conditioned office she'd go!
Just looked into the prices of the homes still on the pricy side for the side of town and schools ratings but they are quite charming and full of character that's for sure.
I owned one of those houses in the 1980's. The Stardust no longer owned the golf course by that time though. But I soon learned living that close to a golf course has it's down side. We'd occasionally get errant golf balls ricocheting off the patio furniture. And one time I lost one of my sliding glass doors due to a direct hit. And the commenters below are right about how hot a sliding board can get in the Vegas sun. We used to keep an oven mitt next to our metal garbage cans because you could literally burn your hand trying to pick the lid up on a summer afternoon. These days I prefer the milder climate along the beach in L.A.
exactly why i bought a house a block away - when my agent was showing me houses at one of the houses on the course, they had kids playing in the back yard with bike helmets on... lol... they have since done some more strategic planting of trees and landscaping to the course in the past decade
I'm sold. Now I just need to rev up my time machine to go back to 1962 to buy one of those units. 😀 This film reminds me of the 1961 Bob Hope movie, Bachelor In Paradise. Bob plays a book author who moves into such a brand new community (in california) called Paradise Village to collect research material for his new book about wives living in suburbia. The interior, furnishings, decorations and styles of the real life houses in this film very much resembles the interiors of the fake movie set houses in the Bob Hope movie.
Love that movie. Reminds me of the neighborhood I grew up in. Times were simple, then. I was born in Tennessee. My parents bought in a new subdivision. 1960. I think it was 20,000.00. 2 full bathrooms. I have childhood friends, and we still keep in touch. Miss those times. Rode our bikes everywhere. No video games!
My first home in Las Vegas in 1970 was $13,500 3 bed 1 bath a sort of a dinning room near Stewart and Lamb... that gives you an idea of how expensive Paradise Palms was in '62... I was 22 and in the Air force... used my VA loan... $1 down!! Payments $156/mo. Paradise Palms was the top pf the line in those days... Johnnie Carson had a home in there.
The Zestimate for this home is over $483,000 a looonng way from $20,000 to $40,000!!! If people back then were told that now, over 60 years later the home they bought for $20,000 in 1961 would sell for over $483,000 in 2024, their jaws would drop and their eyes would be as big as saucers.
@@AmanglophileMy parent’s former cape-cod-style home in San Diego was purchased for $23,000 in 1962 in the sprawling suburbs of Claremont. It is now worth well over $1.22 million.
In Fact its not 'Worth'....that. It's just what......... 'Things are Going for'...now. Ugh. It's just awful how greedy everything got with Real Estate.
@@CPAndy-x5xNope. The whoosh whoosh sound of something ELSE doing the dishes was music to my Mom's ears. Now, fools buy white noise generators to simulate the sound.
When everything in Mid-Century Vegas, was 'shiny and new'. My god. Wish i could go back. My fam didn't arrive there till '64....but it would have all still looked just like this. We ended up in McNeil, off Oakey and Rancho. Great neighborhood as well. Wide streets and that area is 'Still!...kept it's M-C Charm. Our old house on Colanthe, been remodeled a few times since we left it in late '73.....but the prices now are just beyond ridiculous. My dad bought it in 1968, for around $35K. It now lists for over Half a Million. I miss this old, clean, uncluttered LV.
My good friend bought the home on the northeast corner of Colanthe and Eaton in 1999. He absolutely loves it there and has done a great job renovating it.
I wish I could go back too. I was born there in 59. We moved just up the street from you on Colanthe in '72, so we were neighbors for a year. House was brand new, on the hill up to Eaton. Did you know the Stucki family?
This is great to see. Love all the interiors in these homes. My only issue would have been the homeowners association. After experiencing those in condos and homes in South Florida, I wouldn't want to deal with those again.
I guess it would be another six years before the Boulevard Mall was built, so that would explain the absence of it being shown. When I moved to Las Vegas in 1974, this neighborhood and the surrounding area was one of the nicest parts of town. Fifty years have been hard on it.
Yes the populace has moved away and those there now for the most part are careless... these homes in another part of Vegas would be worth at least 25-30% more
The flippers I bought the house from in this neighborhood removed the original working hotpoint - i just found a mint condition never used on in turquoise i will be putting back in
I live in a late mid century modern in Dallas, with the original hotpoint double oven - still works perfectly. I thought of replacing it but the contractor said it would work forever and I should keep it.
4:02 I can’t believe people fell for ductless range hoods … what a complete and utter scam. Our house from 1963 had an exhaust fan built into the exterior wall right above the range that vented directly outside … nothing like it.
We had that wall exhaust fan too!! I loved pulling on the chain as a kid! LOL! My parents ranch was built in 1960 and had these SAME sliding glass shower doors, a SUburban oven in hte wall in the kitchen ND A sUBURBAN STOVE IN THE COUNTER! pPKUSM OUR FRIGIDAIRE FRIDGE/FREEEZER COMBO WAS BUILT INTO THE KITCHEN WALL ALSO! OUR FRIENDS DIDN'T HAVE HTAT SO THEY THOUGHT IWAS COOL!!!
Nothing like sending greasy, smoky air back into the room so it can stick to the ceiling and walls. The 1964 build I grew up in has a direct vent to the roof and our kitchen stayed grease-on-the-walls free. It also has a gas range, double oven, water heater and dryer which, IMHO, run circles around electric appliances period.
BEEN in a few of these homes -amazing designs yet i recall one with the entire slab sinking about a foot as well as just not kept up too well . also did some handyman stuff for a real creepy dude "smiley face man" i called him house had wall to wall smiley faces in/out he sold mopeds out of craigslist lol yep reminded me of cross between john wayne gacy and liberace . i didnr go for any of his subtle "suggestions" so the handyman work suddenly disappeared ! lol
Our neighborhood, Torrey Pines and Alta, were General Electric All Electric Homes. They even put bronze medallions in the side walk in front of every house saying this.
There are many differences between homes today and those of the '60s - but the one that stands out the most to me is the way all the windows are covered in heavy drapery . . vs . . today the 'openness' you feel with as many un-covered windows as possible is a gr8 selling point.
The only reason the curtains are closed is because it would mess up the exposure level for the film. They would look much better if the curtains were open.
Love how the playground was built with safety in mind... that playground was a death trap in retrospect. Hysterical. Otherwise... wow! I'd love to live there today.
I wonder what it costs to heat and cool those homes today. My grandparent's bought a very similar home here in California around 1964 (all Hotpoint appliances - almost identical - and Rheem forced air heater - no air conditioning as it's the SF Bay Area). The home had absolutely not one shred of insulation. You could hear everything that went on in the neighborhood and the heater was always on if it was cold.
Back then the working class could easily afford a well designed, well located home in a clean safe neighborhood. We should all be asking ourselves what happen to reduce our quality of life.
Corporate greed and the entire GQP who approved it, supported it and helped them over the years. Ppl don't understand that voting REP. is voting against their best interests.
Between 1:09 and 1:25 is clearly seen the house at 3343 Dakota Way in Paradise palm in las Vegas and the view would have to be from the display house at 3315 Dakota Way . the front steps still visible on google earth.
This neighborhood looks lovely, and an incredible value. I am, however, just a little concerned about the extra $20.00 per month for an in-ground pool, that seems like alot of money for a cement pond.
All there, and in the last decade or so, many of the rundown homes have been beautifully rehabbed, but unfortunately the surrounding area is pretty rough. The nearby Boulevard Mall you see mentioned in other comments literally has no anchor stores left.
Many confuse the prices then with today's earned incomes. Those $30,000 homes and even the $20-25,000 homes were beyond the reach of many with their earned incomes. People were not making in today's $ amounts, even though they were making by regulations and by the market value of their skill levels. The $ valuation was different then today's and people's income were in accordance to that.
I bought a home there in 2012 - it has made a big transformation - not as many deals there, but it is really looking nice - they have historic tours of the neighborhood now couple times a year... If you go to take a look the two streets in the video here are Dakota Way and Chippewa - fun to take a look at the before and after
They didn't want to dress in church-clothes 7 days a week... we didn't just wake up in America dressing casual one day... people got sick and tired of this fake formal crap.... t shirts and blue jeans and sneakers were right around the corner... freedom! 🇺🇸
Paradise Palms started out nice with great architecture. Unfortunately, the community lacked sufficient deed restrictions that allowed the homes to be neglected, molested and bastardized beyond recognition.
Nah. Its the trashy people out in Vegas that did that. Plenty of places have no deed restrictions but aren't owned trailer trash and people take pride in their properties. Never gonna happen now though Vegas is East LA - city has its best years behind it.
That was very common in that generation. That guy lived through the Depression and WWII, so almost 15 years of his life got eaten away. And women in those days really liked more mature men.
I grew up then in a tiny 3 bedroom rambler. That orange and brown and avocado green was awful to me. Shag carpet makes me triggered as I had to vacuum that stuff and got yelled at when it got stuck in vacuum cleaner. 😂😂😂😂. But this is fun to watch. This would be for upper middle class.
Not that much has changed in the process when you go purchase a new build in a master planned community in 2024. We just did this process for North River Ranch in Parrish Florida, near Tampa and Sarasota. It’s incredible that we still live in a country that is growing with tons of new communities still being built. God Bless America 🇺🇸 and the beautiful new homes that are being built are really gorgeous. The community we selected will have over 9,000 new homes with 4 different builders, and multiple phases. Nice mix of young families and retirees coming from up north and west. Homes start in the $400,000’s.
They mentioned there was a recreation director to coach your youngster, if your youngster was a boy that is. Only boys played organized sports back then. Girls did ballet or cheerleading. Times have changed a lot since then, right, Caitlin Clark?
You can see a number of butterfly roofs in the distance during the golf course scene that face Eastern. You can also see the butterfly roof on Seneca at the very last cul-de sac scene.
What every girl dreams of "a magnificent, all electric, Hot Point kitchen"......LOL The home's finishes are hideous! I'm sure they were considered hot back then.
Within 10 years the trees filled in the entire area shading homes and the golf course. And yes, pools are extremely refreshing in the Las Vegas summer.
My Grandmother was one of the sales team for Paradise Palms: that’s her in the video with the red hair ‘playing ‘ the realtor.
My Mom is the model/buyer in this movie . My Mom is still alive and still lives in Las Vegas but not in Paradise Palms. We had 2 homes on Ottawa Drive.
One of the homes is in this video .
My grandparents also owned a home.
My Dad ( also still alive and living with me) says he paid 32,000k for that first home .
Dad was the largest pool builder in Nevada for many years and we had a beautiful pool in both backyards. Sonny Liston lived ( and died ) on our street. The Sahara Hotel owned the home just across the street and Buddy Hackett and other famous comedians of the day stayed in that home. In the video they call
The golf course the Stardust course but I always remember it being called the Sahara Nevada golf course . The elementary school; Ruby S Thomas was recently torn down. The junior high: William Orr was a
Short walk from our house. Such an idyllic place to grow up.
Finding this video has been so wonderful for our whole
Family . Thank you for posting it.
Oh, that is amazing! I'm an active resident of Paradise Palms and also work with Nevada Preservation Foundation or as I like to call us "The Old Building Brigade" We would LOVE to connect with you about your memories.
What a wonderful history. Thank you for sharing with us.
I thought I recognized Ottawa Dr. I came very close to buying 1730 Chippewa back in 2011 - it's the same model as the one in the tour (I could tell from the way the kitchen juts out of the front but it's not this house because the car port is on the other side). Amusingly, I passed on it because it only appraised at $115K, and the owner wanted something like $135k. (Zillow value is $471k today!) That is very cool that your family is in this video!
Thank you for sharing! I am actually working on a long-form history podcast about Sonny Liston's life and death in Las Vegas right now. These are the sorts of stories that really add "color" to history.
Your comment is one of the coolest things I've ever read in a TH-cam comment section. Thank you for enlightening us. We're about the same age and I join you in fondly recalling about coming of age in that post-war era. It's easy to make fun of a lot of the things in this film but, on the whole, America was a better place back then.
Dan Saxon Palmer of Palmer & Krisel is my dad. I was born in 1961, so a year before this promotional video. It's fun to see what he was working on when I was born. And, with Father's Day this Sunday, an unexpected look into his life and times. Thank you!
How fantastic! Cheers!
There is a Wikipedia article for Krisel, but not for your dad or for the firm. You should get someone to create those articles. It would be very helpful for people who want to learn more.
Thanks for commenting. Many of us in this very neighborhood are very curious of your dad's work. So much is written about his partner, but we want to know a lot more about Dan.
Thanks Dan, there is a lot of people in this neighborhood (me included) that would love to pick your brain for any more information related to you'd dads architectural career - the people in this neighborhood are very passionate about it's revival and anything you could share would be greatly appreciated
You should be really proud- these pioneers of modern contemporary design really wanted to transform how we work live and play. I love the front views of the homes in this promo, fantastic looking homes
That metal slide in the Las Vegas summer is what childhood memories are made of.
Absolutely in my nice white bright and Right neighborhood.I want to go BACK FOREVER OMG!!!! :{
The Playground has a climbing Bars set shaped like a Gemini Space Capsule.
lol
@@larrywakeman4371 Good thing your racist generation is naturally decreasing. Tisk, tisk.
@@larrywakeman4371 You'll be heartbroken to find out Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Russian families lived in this community since it's inception.
What a gem. I grew up in Paradise Palms and still have my childhood home there. It was great to see them displayed here in all their glory!
Oh wow! Would love to see what the community looks like today. Has it been preserved?
@@nancy107No. most of the houses seem to have been renovated in the 90’s, thus losing any charm. Sadly Paradise Palms is a run down area. That part of town is riddled with homelessness and drugs. I’m sure the homes are owned by good families with hard working people but the area itself is unsavory.
Wonderful glimpse into the past. Thank you for saving and restoring!
Beautifully designed swimming pool.
Gorgeous. I’d happily move into one of those homes today especially for “the oven that every girl dreams about …… “those hot points really get me going. No, seriously I love mid century.
That slide in the park must have been fun in 100 plus degree weather
Right? I can feel my skin burning off just thinking about it 😂
I was feeling a little sorry for the saleslady in her black dress, but of course once the tour was finished, back to the air conditioned office she'd go!
All '60s kids have seared thighs. :-)
SCREEEEEECH......AHHHHHHHH!!!!🤣🤣🤣
I was thinking the same thing...they didn't even put cheap awnings up over the play equipment. Yikes
Genuine tile.
None of that imitation stuff for Paradise Palms!
Just looked into the prices of the homes still on the pricy side for the side of town and schools ratings but they are quite charming and full of character that's for sure.
I would love to go back in time to enjoy it as it was - all brand new!!!!!
The fabulous 50's and 60's , a great time to be living anywhere in the USA
I owned one of those houses in the 1980's. The Stardust no longer owned the golf course by that time though. But I soon learned living that close to a golf course has it's down side. We'd occasionally get errant golf balls ricocheting off the patio furniture. And one time I lost one of my sliding glass doors due to a direct hit. And the commenters below are right about how hot a sliding board can get in the Vegas sun. We used to keep an oven mitt next to our metal garbage cans because you could literally burn your hand trying to pick the lid up on a summer afternoon. These days I prefer the milder climate along the beach in L.A.
exactly why i bought a house a block away - when my agent was showing me houses at one of the houses on the course, they had kids playing in the back yard with bike helmets on... lol... they have since done some more strategic planting of trees and landscaping to the course in the past decade
I'm sold. Now I just need to rev up my time machine to go back to 1962 to buy one of those units. 😀
This film reminds me of the 1961 Bob Hope movie, Bachelor In Paradise. Bob plays a book author who moves into such a brand new community (in california) called Paradise Village to collect research material for his new book about wives living in suburbia.
The interior, furnishings, decorations and styles of the real life houses in this film very much resembles the interiors of the fake movie set houses in the Bob Hope movie.
Love that movie. Reminds me of the neighborhood I grew up in. Times were simple, then. I was born in Tennessee. My parents bought in a new subdivision. 1960. I think it was 20,000.00. 2 full bathrooms. I have childhood friends, and we still keep in touch.
Miss those times. Rode our bikes everywhere. No video games!
My first home in Las Vegas in 1970 was $13,500 3 bed 1 bath a sort of a dinning room near Stewart and Lamb... that gives you an idea of how expensive Paradise Palms was in '62... I was 22 and in the Air force... used my VA loan... $1 down!! Payments $156/mo. Paradise Palms was the top pf the line in those days... Johnnie Carson had a home in there.
This was so interesting to watch and to have the son of Dan Saxon Palmer one of the developers of this project respond is amazing.
The address of the home they walk into is 3344 Dakota Way. The front steps are the same to this day as they were then.
I just just did a walk down that street with google earth. What a cool neighborhood!
@@pxn748the house directly across the street hasn’t changed much.
The steps look much wider in this video than they do today. What's up with that?
The Zestimate for this home is over $483,000 a looonng way from $20,000 to $40,000!!! If people back then were told that now, over 60 years later the home they bought for $20,000 in 1961 would sell for over $483,000 in 2024, their jaws would drop and their eyes would be as big as saucers.
@@AmanglophileMy parent’s former cape-cod-style home in San Diego was purchased for $23,000 in 1962 in the sprawling suburbs of Claremont. It is now worth well over $1.22 million.
My house was also built in 1962, and purchased for 19,200. It's also a modern ranch and is worth 400,000 today.
i live in a MCM in Ca my parents bought it in 1971 for 21 thousand and it's worth almost 2 million today
In Fact its not 'Worth'....that. It's just what......... 'Things are Going for'...now. Ugh. It's just awful how greedy everything got with Real Estate.
I grew up in Truesdale. My parents had it built in '61, my birth year.
The kitchen was all Hotpoint
Legend has it that the golf cart is still seen crusing around down by the Club.
Wall-to-wall carpeting! Woohoo!😂 I absolutely love mid-century houses
What a wonderful trip back in time!!! Great promotional movie!
Great view into 1960’s America. Thanks for posting!
Dishwasher in 1962 must have been heaven.
It was heaven, and so was a garage, a master bathroom, and a separate laundry room with a dryer.
And probably noisy.
And the central air.
@@CPAndy-x5xNope.
The whoosh whoosh sound of something ELSE doing the dishes was music to my Mom's ears.
Now, fools buy white noise generators to simulate the sound.
We got ours in 1970. It had to be a portable. You rolled it over to the sink to get the water, then it rolled back to the end of the counter.
Classic. Cool Man Cool....
They had me with the pool! SOLD lol
When everything in Mid-Century Vegas, was 'shiny and new'. My god. Wish i could go back. My fam didn't arrive there till '64....but it would have all still looked just like this. We ended up in McNeil, off Oakey and Rancho. Great neighborhood as well. Wide streets and that area is 'Still!...kept it's M-C Charm. Our old house on Colanthe, been remodeled a few times since we left it in late '73.....but the prices now are just beyond ridiculous. My dad bought it in 1968, for around $35K. It now lists for over Half a Million. I miss this old, clean, uncluttered LV.
$35k in the early 60s is around $400k today. Lol.
My good friend bought the home on the northeast corner of Colanthe and Eaton in 1999. He absolutely loves it there and has done a great job renovating it.
I wish I could go back too. I was born there in 59. We moved just up the street from you on Colanthe in '72, so we were neighbors for a year. House was brand new, on the hill up to Eaton. Did you know the Stucki family?
$35K in ‘68 is anywhere from $315.8K+ to $316.7K in 2024, adjusted for 4.01% average inflation over a course of 56 years.
@@JeffW-jq9fo - Sure Did Jeff! We were the Hicks'.....in 2712. Best memories of that great 'ol town, all those years ago.
This is great to see. Love all the interiors in these homes. My only issue would have been the homeowners association. After experiencing those in condos and homes in South Florida, I wouldn't want to deal with those again.
I keep expecting Vault Boy to slide by, giving his trademark thumbs up and grin!
I love this video. I own two homes in beautiful Paradise Palms.❤
Mom sure has a pleasing and inviting figure. Oh, to live in the '60s!
Yea and no ink or piercings.
Cool man, Cool.
WE had those sliding glass shower doors just like that!
The only MCM design that I got excited about is the golf cart. I hope someone kept hold of at least One!!
I guess it would be another six years before the Boulevard Mall was built, so that would explain the absence of it being shown. When I moved to Las Vegas in 1974, this neighborhood and the surrounding area was one of the nicest parts of town. Fifty years have been hard on it.
You're right. That part of town has gotten a little rough. The fancy new homes are now further out aways.
Yes the populace has moved away and those there now for the most part are careless... these homes in another part of Vegas would be worth at least 25-30% more
GENUINE TILE !!!? OMG :)
Oh wow, excellent Markum.
Wish i could go back then
I don’t
Those Hotpoint machines (and all the other mid-century appliances) will live forever.
The flippers I bought the house from in this neighborhood removed the original working hotpoint - i just found a mint condition never used on in turquoise i will be putting back in
I live in a late mid century modern in Dallas, with the original hotpoint double oven - still works perfectly. I thought of replacing it but the contractor said it would work forever and I should keep it.
My sister had a 1956 Hotpoint refrigerator that ran until 2015...just needed a switch then!
@@anderander5662 We currently have. 1955 Hotpoint refrigerator. The only thing it needed after 69 years was a new chrome handle.
I love how these announcers made everything sound..."New and Exciting"....😂
Everything *was* new and exciting back then! 😀
It was, it really was. Everywhere. Nassau County, NY, in IL, in PA, etc.
New schools, New parks, etc...
4:02 I can’t believe people fell for ductless range hoods … what a complete and utter scam. Our house from 1963 had an exhaust fan built into the exterior wall right above the range that vented directly outside … nothing like it.
We had that wall exhaust fan too!! I loved pulling on the chain as a kid! LOL! My parents ranch was built in 1960 and had these SAME sliding glass shower doors, a SUburban oven in hte wall in the kitchen ND A sUBURBAN STOVE IN THE COUNTER! pPKUSM OUR FRIGIDAIRE FRIDGE/FREEEZER COMBO WAS BUILT INTO THE KITCHEN WALL ALSO! OUR FRIENDS DIDN'T HAVE HTAT SO THEY THOUGHT IWAS COOL!!!
Nothing like sending greasy, smoky air back into the room so it can stick to the ceiling and walls. The 1964 build I grew up in has a direct vent to the roof and our kitchen stayed grease-on-the-walls free. It also has a gas range, double oven, water heater and dryer which, IMHO, run circles around electric appliances period.
Amazing, nostalgic video of a bit of Vegas history! Hard to believe you could buy a country club home for 20k lol. Great video 👍
Inflation adjusted for today would be $209,000. Still an excellent deal.
I remember when homes where I grew up in Southern California in the 1970s sold for $20,000.
BEEN in a few of these homes -amazing designs yet i recall one with the entire slab sinking about a foot as well as just not kept up too well . also did some handyman stuff for a real creepy dude "smiley face man" i called him house had wall to wall smiley faces in/out he sold mopeds out of craigslist lol yep reminded me of cross between john wayne gacy and liberace . i didnr go for any of his subtle "suggestions" so the handyman work suddenly disappeared ! lol
Thank you!
If this doesn’t sell you on Paradise Palms, I don’t know what will. You’re probably just square.
I was sold when I saw that table full of paperwork and brochures.
Or smart enough not to move to a desert during climate disasters. You people have no more good healthy water. No trees either!
sooooo charming!
The tiny kitchen sends me
Our neighborhood, Torrey Pines and Alta, were General Electric All Electric Homes. They even put bronze medallions in the side walk in front of every house saying this.
A few of the homes in this neighborhood still have those sidewalk medallions.
@@DEESANT-oc9xf I wish I had thought to save one. I haven't seen on since the late '70's.
I saw one on ebay for 11.00
Amazing MCM architecture for 20-40 grand... Where do I sign? Wish I could time travel.
Adjusted for inflation, about $200-400k... still a bargain.
Well dressed people without tattoos and metal in their faces
No tweekers.
There are many differences between homes today and those of the '60s - but the one that stands out the most to me is the way all the windows are covered in heavy drapery . . vs . . today the 'openness' you feel with as many un-covered windows as possible is a gr8 selling point.
The only reason the curtains are closed is because it would mess up the exposure level for the film. They would look much better if the curtains were open.
lol "plan-oramic" love it!!!
Love how the playground was built with safety in mind... that playground was a death trap in retrospect. Hysterical. Otherwise... wow! I'd love to live there today.
I wonder what it costs to heat and cool those homes today. My grandparent's bought a very similar home here in California around 1964 (all Hotpoint appliances - almost identical - and Rheem forced air heater - no air conditioning as it's the SF Bay Area). The home had absolutely not one shred of insulation. You could hear everything that went on in the neighborhood and the heater was always on if it was cold.
With a new AC not different than a modern home
Uncluttered. New. Clean. Beautiful. Safe. THIS.....was the time to live in Vegas. My family would arrive in '64. just a couple years after this.
20 thousand!!!!! Wow, let that sink in!😏
Thank goodness it has been rediscovered. It was a slum with a pga course, for a long time.
K maybe because I'm obsessed with mid century this. But I wish I could live there when it was new
Great blast from the past. I love these 60's narrated videos. What are the main roads that boardered this development?
Roughly Eastern, Desert Inn, Maryland, and Flamingo.
The neighborhood is still there.
Just before our country hit the shitter!
Back then the working class could easily afford a well designed, well located home in a clean safe neighborhood. We should all be asking ourselves what happen to reduce our quality of life.
Republicans
Corporate greed and the entire GQP who approved it, supported it and helped them over the years. Ppl don't understand that voting REP. is voting against their best interests.
Biden
What happened? Government overreach. Property tax, zoning regs, cost of timber production....etc. JMO.
The Federal Reserve and endless wars.
4:20 That dishwasher almost looks like it's from today.
It's probably still working today. Because not made in China.
I wonder what it looks like now. 😊❤
💩
I thought the bedroom looked like a Howard Johnson hotel room
That safe playground made of concrete and steel is very familiar to me.
Between 1:09 and 1:25 is clearly seen the house at 3343 Dakota Way in Paradise palm in las Vegas and the view would have to be from the display house at 3315 Dakota Way . the front steps still visible on google earth.
They really leaned hard on orange in interior design, didn't they? And how did they light those interiors, with car headlights?
Behind curtains are massive floor to ceiling windows and sliders. Massive amounts of light in these homes.
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The Summerlin of the 60s, 70s, they need to recover this part of the city like they are doing for downtown las Vegas
This neighborhood looks lovely, and an incredible value. I am, however, just a little concerned about the extra $20.00 per month for an in-ground pool, that seems like alot of money for a cement pond.
I can’t believe they had marble counter tops. I’ve never seen that in a mcm bathroom
I was not aware that every girl dreams of a HotPoint kitchen. Thankfully I was born 6 years later.
What remains today?
Their. regrets
Great neighborhood
Where is this place? Is it still around
Still there off east desert inn a few blocks behind boulevard mall in Vegas
All there, and in the last decade or so, many of the rundown homes have been beautifully rehabbed, but unfortunately the surrounding area is pretty rough. The nearby Boulevard Mall you see mentioned in other comments literally has no anchor stores left.
This on Maryland pkwy?
couple blocks off - the Boulevard mall is the border of that street - then DI
thanks to the Hoover Dam
Many confuse the prices then with today's earned incomes. Those $30,000 homes and even the $20-25,000 homes were beyond the reach of many with their earned incomes. People were not making in today's $ amounts, even though they were making by regulations and by the market value of their skill levels. The $ valuation was different then today's and people's income were in accordance to that.
I agree. Many people don’t stop to consider adjusted inflation prices and incomes of the time.
American DREAM!❤
What kinda dream
Is it intolerable hot in the summer?
3 months are hot. But there are workarounds.
not if you have a pool
Today, 06-15-24, it is a balmy 108...
what is on that lady's head?
What is paradise palms like today?
I bought a home there in 2012 - it has made a big transformation - not as many deals there, but it is really looking nice - they have historic tours of the neighborhood now couple times a year... If you go to take a look the two streets in the video here are Dakota Way and Chippewa - fun to take a look at the before and after
This subdivision is the shiznit.
They should have used this as a motto, back in the day.
I miss the proper-speech and how they dressed....
They didn't want to dress in church-clothes 7 days a week... we didn't just wake up in America dressing casual one day... people got sick and tired of this fake formal crap.... t shirts and blue jeans and sneakers were right around the corner... freedom! 🇺🇸
All that for $20k !
Paradise Palms started out nice with great architecture. Unfortunately, the community lacked sufficient deed restrictions that allowed the homes to be neglected, molested and bastardized beyond recognition.
Nah. Its the trashy people out in Vegas that did that. Plenty of places have no deed restrictions but aren't owned trailer trash and people take pride in their properties. Never gonna happen now though Vegas is East LA - city has its best years behind it.
Yep, they trusted the home owners to be responsible...
Dude looks old enough to be her father
Well, this was the olden days lol 👴👧🏼
That was very common in that generation. That guy lived through the Depression and WWII, so almost 15 years of his life got eaten away. And women in those days really liked more mature men.
The man only live to about 60... Look like that dude's time is almost done.
That's his secretary. 😎
Yea kinda creepy. My times have changed.
Hey, I saw a tree.
I grew up then in a tiny 3 bedroom rambler. That orange and brown and avocado green was awful to me. Shag carpet makes me triggered as I had to vacuum that stuff and got yelled at when it got stuck in vacuum cleaner. 😂😂😂😂. But this is fun to watch. This would be for upper middle class.
Not that much has changed in the process when you go purchase a new build in a master planned community in 2024. We just did this process for North River Ranch in Parrish Florida, near Tampa and Sarasota. It’s incredible that we still live in a country that is growing with tons of new communities still being built. God Bless America 🇺🇸 and the beautiful new homes that are being built are really gorgeous. The community we selected will have over 9,000 new homes with 4 different builders, and multiple phases. Nice mix of young families and retirees coming from up north and west. Homes start in the $400,000’s.
HOA?
@@toebeans3985 yes all the new communities have HOAs / at least in the tampa region - master planned = HOA
They mentioned there was a recreation director to coach your youngster, if your youngster was a boy that is. Only boys played organized sports back then. Girls did ballet or cheerleading. Times have changed a lot since then, right, Caitlin Clark?
I'm sure those women slipped into their flats after filming!
I would
the outside of the house looks like an electrical sub station and who shoved a dining table against a wall?
Didn’t show any butterfly roofs, present day Seneca, Pawnee & Ottawa streets have a #.
You can see a number of butterfly roofs in the distance during the golf course scene that face Eastern. You can also see the butterfly roof on Seneca at the very last cul-de sac scene.
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Red states give thumbs up to this ad.
I thought I saw a black kid in the play yard ? Can you tell us more about the deed restrictions? I am asking for a friend.
😂
Notice the lack of trash all over the streets?
Didn't know dishwashers were around since the early 60's
My 1955 hotpoint home had one, still worked in 2017 when I sold the house.
Dishwashers were shown in an exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair.
My parents bought a new home in 1959 in palos verdes cal. It had a built in dishwasher
What every girl dreams of "a magnificent, all electric, Hot Point kitchen"......LOL The home's finishes are hideous! I'm sure they were considered hot back then.
Madness. No trees, too hot....I doubt you'd feel refreshed by that pool in June July or August. Give me 4 seasons and real trees. Yikes!
Winter in Arizona is awesome. We get all 4 seasons in a day. 6am is winter. 9am is spring. 1pm is summer and 4pm is fall. Summer you just hunker down.
Within 10 years the trees filled in the entire area shading homes and the golf course. And yes, pools are extremely refreshing in the Las Vegas summer.
You couldn’t pay me too I’ve there. Give me San Francisco in June when it’s a Heavenly 58 degrees
@@pgnandt Same in Palm Springs!
$40 k for a golf course estate!
What was affordable back then, is very much NOT today.