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Summer 1949 --- A Perfect Lot For A New Lustron Home
Color Photos by Mike Jacobs --The Home's First Owner
1622 Broadlawn Road, Davenport, IA
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Future Residents Of The New Lustron. This appears to be excavation for the perimeter footing. In cold regions like Davenport, footings must be deep to stay well below the frost line to prevent heaving. This section is probably the living room window outset.
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The Concrete Slab Work Underway
The Lustron Trailer Provided Shade For Two Young Observers On
This Warm day in 1949
Roof Trusses Installed. Cars of the day in 1949, now antiques.
Just 4 years after the end of World War II, many pre-war cars were still on the road since the car factories had stopped car production for the war effort. Post war car production was low and not very modern for a few years.
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Lots to do still. See the storage bins on the trailer.
Some of these may be holding shiny new porcelainized panels
separated by heavy paper to prevent scratching during transit.
The doors, windows, sinks, roof, walls, bathtub, electric wiring, lights -- everything was
on the Lustron Trailer, including the doorbell!
The small bathroom window, back door, porch light, and kitchen sink window are seen here.
Note the loops of electrical wiring all precut to length and connected to boxes at the factory. This was just one of many factors that allowed Lustrons to be built in just 6 weeks or less. See electric box down low below the kitchen window. This was probably intended for the dishwasher unit or garbage disposal. |
Some things never change...there's always someone just standing there watching people work.
And this new, unusual housing phenomenon was something to watch.
Laying In The Porcelainized - Steel Roof Tiles. A 50+ year Roof !
Utility Room Area Under Construction.
Back Side of The Bathroom Wall with Mirror And Soap Cutouts, Toilet Paper Dispenser Visible
With all the wall structures and roof trusses taken off the trailer,
what's left inboard are the porcelainized panels for ceilings, walls and exterior that go on last.
View Of The Front Corner Bedroom. Lot's of Pieces To Put In. There is no carpentry, mainly Assembly. Note the yellowish color on the Lustron panels. This yellow is the fiberglass wool blankets adhered to the back side of Lustron exterior panels for insulation. Plain fiberglass wool without paper backing was used.
Final Stages Of Construction
Backyard, One Year Later, August 1950
August 1950, One Year After Start of Construction
Next Photo, Below . . .
See Sall & Sue Revisiting The Lustron Home of Their Childhood in 2005
The Lustron Had Stood 55 years when this photo was taken in 2005
Sally, on left and sister Sue, center returned to see her childhood home
A New Type Of Home For A New Era
Winter 1950
| Thanks To Mike Jacobs, the home's fist owner, for taking color photos of this Lustron home. And thanks to his grandaughters who scanned and digitized this special collection of Lustron color slides and gave Lustron Connection permission to present them here. |
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