Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Introduction and question

[Fred H Olson WB0YQM (fholson]

Debbie Behrens debbeh [at] auto-trol.com 
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to a listserv problem it was posted by the COHOUSING-L sysop (Fred).
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> From cohousing-l [at] uci.com Fri Jul 28 13:47:54 1995
> From: Sofistic [at] aol.com
> Subject: Introduction and question
>  Anyway, for several years now, I have had this nagging question that seems
> to be at the crux of a declining sense of community, and absurdly simple:
>  When did all the front porches disappear from houses, to be replaced by
> garage doors?
> Barry Savage  > Humboldt [at] aol.com      > The Humboldt Institute

My uninformed swag is that it was a post-WW2 phenomenom that coincided,
not surprisingly with the shift from extended to nuclear families as
people started moving around the country in larger numbers.  
You can't keep them down on the farm after they've seen Paree.  
Autos were probably still too new after WWI for it to have happened then
(not enough market saturation).

Millions of cheap homes were built in the years after WW2 and those 
seem to be the ones that began the front porch elimination trend. IMO

I also miss the mixed zoning of ground level businesses and upper level
apartments.  I see neighborhoods now where you have to drive 5-10 miles 
thru tract after tract just to get to a grocery store or gas station
or school.  Mixing business and residential is verboten except in the
inner city.

*** a simplistic and probably wrong answer to your nagging question ***


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