Living in a Modern Way
When California Designed the Future
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Home is where most Angelenos wanted to live when World War II ended, in a house where “the new” might be acquired as Better Things for Better Living, just as the slogan from DuPont put it. The question then was, which new things? In what kind of house? And would any of these new things actually make living better?
Surprisingly, the U.S. government had urged GIs to ask those questions even as the war wound down …