Made of steel, coated with porcelain enamel, Lustron Homes were manufactered like cars and transported across the USA.
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The first Lustron house was produced in March 1948 and over the next two years 2,498 Lustron Homes were manufactured. In Columbus, Ohio the steel houses were made like cars on conveyor belts in a former aircraft plant.
The completed house cost between $7,000.oo and $10,000.oo not including the foundation and the lot. Assembled in about 2 weeks on concrete slats using nuts and bolts.
At the end of World War II, President Harry Truman pressured builders and suppliers to construct affordable housing because the US didn't have enough housing for twelve million soldiers returning home. Inventor Carl Strandlund vowed to mass produce steel houses at the rate of 100 a day and landed $37 million in government loans.
Order for some 20,000 Lustron Homes poured in, but by 1950 the Lustron Corporation was bankrupt.
There is one of these Lustron Houses down the street from us. Have you seen one of these in person? I'd like to see the interior of one.
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DAUGHTER'S PIE CRUST RECIPE
Pie Crust Recipe.
With her permission I share her recipe with you. BLESS your family, friends and your taste buds with this wonderful crust.
Pie Crust Recipe
1 cup flour
3 heaping tablespoons of shortening
A dash of salt
A tiny bit of ice cold water
Mix ingredients together well.
Roll out on wax paper.
Assemble pie.
Spread a little milk on top of crust before baking.
Simply delicious,
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DECORATING
I knew a very frugal Lady named Edith that shared with me a excellent guideline for decorating. She said with ease, "If your room has clean ceilings, floors, and walls, and the windows have nice curtains, you'll have an attractive room."
John 3:7
“Marvel not that I said unto thee,
Ye must be born again.”
King James Version (KJV)
PSALM 118:17
I shall not die,
but live, and declare
the works of the Lord.
By wisdom
a house is built,
and through understanding
it is established;
through
knowledge
its rooms are filled with rare
and beautiful treasures.
SALVATION
Romans 10:9 King James Version (KJV)
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Acts 4:12 King James Version (KJV)
12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
"HOME is a wonderful place to LIVE. No matter the size of the rooms, ones HOME is a place to call ones own. I so LOVE my HOME." ~Deanna~
PSALM 90:12
SO
TEACH us
to number OUR days,
that we may apply our HEARTS
unto
WISHES
NO MATTER HOW BADLY YOU WISH with all your might that the something devastating that happened in your life hadn't happened and want so badly to go back in time to prevent it from happening...it isn't humanly possible to do this. You can't change the fact that it happened. IT DID. But JESUS can change the MEANING of what happened to you and give you PEACE. He can show you the way in which you are to go. God richly BLESS you. ~Deanna
