"Very readable"-- Booklist . "A significant book"-- The Boston Globe . In this intriguing account, the humble mobile home provides important insight into American society and culture. Wallis describes how the "manufactured housing" industry flourished in the housing shortages during and after World War II, and follows its struggle for respectability in the years that followed (including numerous--and often hilarious--new designs). Featuring many rare and unusual illustrations, this book provides an unusual look at American ...
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"Very readable"-- Booklist . "A significant book"-- The Boston Globe . In this intriguing account, the humble mobile home provides important insight into American society and culture. Wallis describes how the "manufactured housing" industry flourished in the housing shortages during and after World War II, and follows its struggle for respectability in the years that followed (including numerous--and often hilarious--new designs). Featuring many rare and unusual illustrations, this book provides an unusual look at American life.
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Add this copy of Wheel Estate: the Rise and Decline of Mobile Homes to cart. $3.97, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by Oxford University Press, USA.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Add this copy of Wheel Estate: the Rise and Decline of Mobile Homes to cart. $9.46, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by Oxford University Press.
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Like New in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; Mobile homes--or manufactured housing, as they are called today--provide shelter for more than twelve and a half million Americans, and in the last two decades have accounted for one quarter of all new single family housing produced annually. Yet they have been attacked as unsafe and unsatisfactory, and critics have argued that they should be banned or restricted. But to Allan Wallis, the mobile home embodies many of the most fundamental American ideals of home and community. In Wheel Estate, Allan Wallis offers a lively and informative history of this much-maligned form of housing over six decades. He begins with the travel trailers of the late 1920s and 1930s, describing models that were built like yachts or unfolded like Polaroid cameras. With the Second World War, Wallis writes, the industry mushroomed as trailers became homes for thousands of defense workers; he vividly portrays the communities they lived in and the trailer houses that were turned out under government contract. After the war, severe housing shortages sustained demand for trailers as year-round housing. The industry responded with new models--now called mobile homes--that tried to strike a balance between house and vehicle, even as owners built their own often fanciful additions (including one mobile home complete with Egyptian pylons). The results, illustrated in Wheel Estate, were sometimes comic, but they revealed what Americans thought their housing ought to look like.
Add this copy of Wheel Estate: the Rise and Decline of Mobile Homes to cart. $20.00, good condition, Sold by Princeton Antiques Bookservice rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Atlantic City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by oxford univ. press.
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