JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post 
Herbert Hoover--perhaps a better classical scholar than president--famously promised "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage". Well, in this example of thrift and austerity, we see a summer cottage offered for sale for $375.00 (disassembled plus freight), with room for a car, and even for a family. A small family.
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Given that the average American made about $1600/year, and the average house cost $3200, and the average car rolled in at $650, the prospect of such inexpensive structures must have seemed appealing to the average reader of Popular Mechanics in 1945. It is particularly interesting that the automobile had become such an integral part of the family.
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