[Elecraft] K3 Speaker, Season finale

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

 > I would disagree on the size.  I have a book Weyrhauser put out in
 > the early 1950s for people to choose plans from to build a house.
 > The sizes ranged from 600 to 1100 square feet.

I know for a fact that average homes of the late 40's through early
60's were considerably smaller than common today - typically 1500
square feet was considered large.  My father was a draftsman on the
design team for one of the largest "kit built" home manufacturers in
the mid-west right after WWII when they were cranking those homes out
by the hundreds of thousands to supply the needs of all the returning
GIs who were setting up households.

Not only were room sizes typically smaller than those today - the
average house of the 50's and 60's lacked a formal dinning room
or separate family room.  The two additional rooms plus a second
full bath in homes of the 80's and later represented a significant
increase in the average home size - even before considering the
larger room sizes and additional storage space in "modern" homes.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 4/23/2013 11:24 PM, David Christ wrote:
> I would disagree on the size.  I have a book Weyrhauser put out in
> the early 1950s for people to choose plans from to build a house.
> The sizes ranged from 600 to 1100 square feet.  Try to find houses
> that small being built today.  Two to three thousand are common and
> four to five are not unusual.  I will admit that houses built in the
> 1900 to 1920 era may have been larger.  But they were built for large
> families and quite likely a hired girl.
>
> In 1934 Sears offered material bundles for homes.  I just saw an
> advertisement for two.  Three bedrooms - 960 and 1050 square feet.
>
> David K0LUM
>
>
> On Apr 23, 2013, at 9:53 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
>
>> As home sizes have diminished steadily over the decades, and the
>> size of the equipment has diminished, having a rig that was
>> acceptable in the living room has become how many Hams have stayed
>> on the air.
>
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