HD Historic Stock Footage Housing Market 1930's, Construction, Model Homes, Lifestyle, Americana

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Better Housing News Flashes 1936 Issue 7
Vintage HD footage of the housing market in the United States from 1928 into the dream home of American families in the late 1930's. Footage of a Nor'easter (noreaster) wind driven winter snow storm of 1928. Suggested "handy man" home improvement projects for the American family home. Animated chart shows a 92% decrease in home construction from 1928 to 1934. Home building boom of 1935, construction of new homes.
Men working on home construction projects in. Image reads "Amortized Mortgage, Government Insured". Fannie Mae was chartered by the FHA (Federal Housing Administration) in 1937. Model Home Mania, people looking at "model homes". Image of 1936 Buick? Well dressed couple look at model home, features offered in model homes in the late 1930's. Price of model home in late 1930's. Sign reads "Model Home $4800. $960 Cash - $27.62 per Mo."
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[@apriljasso9731]

Back when the men building the homes could afford to buy them.

[@RobertSmith-rp3xk]

House looks surprisingly modern considering how far back in time it goes.

[@howardcitizen2471]

Yes, but the rooms were small by today's standards, a single bathroom, and they wouldn't have had any air conditioning.

[@guarionex1961]

$4,800 for a new house and less than $30.00 monthly? Wow!!!

[@lar4305]

Can you imagine how rich you would be if you made the same pay today back then.

[@stevegilbert8486]

But most people didn't earn even $5 a day back then. So $30 a month was still over 25% of your salary back then.

[@dominic.h.3363]

Steve Gilbert A house that cost $4800 back then, would've been the average earner's salary for three years, and it isn't made of sticks and paper from the stationary store, it's made of proper building materials, brick and mortar. Can you say the same thing today?

[@theunknown1685]

i n f l a t i o n

[@normaharrod527]

First minimum wage set in the 1930s at 25 cents an hour

[@hdtwal1den]

In 1939, my grandfather worked for a grocery wholesaler as a salesman in Arkansas. He made $660/year. His rent was $8/month (a house). He was considered working class. $4800 would have been well beyond his means.

[@winterkeptuswarm]

660/yr is 55/mo. Considering how middle class Americans nowadays put up to half their income towards rent/mortgage (raise minimum wage!!), that would be 28/mo, which is about right for this house (27/mo). Plus lots of us are forced to buy older houses that need to be fixed up before move in, whereas I think this house is considered a new build that's move-in ready.

[@robertmoore8076]

I wonder if this house is still standing and if it's still standing what condition it is in now. Too bad we didn't know the address and the city this house was in because we can search in Google maps and see what that area looks like today...

[@Hello-zf5lq]

I bought a 1939 starter minimalist traditional FHA type house, that was built on land bought at a tax sale, from a national company that sold lots in a subdivision for $1 down, and $1/week afterward.. the subdivision was created in 1917, but by late 1930s, I am guessing the company could not sell the lots due to the Great Depression and was foreclosed on for not paying taxes. The house deed just says literally that the house for sale in the one on the company's subdivision map that was seized and kept in the tax collector's office. Some woman bought many of these lots from the tax auction in 1936 and then gave two lots to two of her nephews who were brothers. The descendants of the other more accurate brother still live in the house next door, but my house was built by the sloppier brother so everything is not very well built. They built the house on level ground and then brought in soil to surround the foundation walls with so it looked like the basement was dug inside the ground afterward.. while it was built, the other brother said he had to stand on his car's hood to get inside the house. It is hard to imagine that cars could drive for an hour to get to this house. Mold is the only problem with this house I would say. The concrete mix from which the foundation was poured and the concrete blocks were made is a stronger mix than today, it looks the same as the 1936 bridge nearby is made of - large yellowish concrete granules type. The builders used the same boards for holding the concrete during foundation pour to make the floor with, so you see remnants of concrete on the floor boards on the basement ceiling. For those that today like to deny racism, the house literally had a legal clause in the deed saying, ' This house cannot be legally sold to colored people.' So black people were legally not allowed to buy this house in the 1930s or even maybe 1950s. It just said in the mortgage and deed document, 'The house cannot be legally sold to any colored person.' In 1936, the mortgage rate on the house was 6%, compared to today's 3.5%.

[@philster611-ih8te]

Winder if the house is still there... Wonder where it is...

[@SoCalFreelance]

You should always maintain the original aspect ratio of historic footage IMO. Cutting it down into letterbox disrupts the original filmmakers artistic expression, his carefully chosen framing of the subject matter.

[@529alex]

my house was built in 1847. 3,006 sqft, 7 bed and 2 bathrooms. $1,016 a month. I just wonder how they sold a house in the 1800s..

[@shadowreyes9101]

Nice House video

[@hanschenk2708]

VERY INTERSTING

[@ZulcanPrime]

Interesting to see how much was a honest days pay was for an honest day work during that decade. Low rate of pay for hard physical labour.

[@GinaBlythe]

For us, living in the 21st century, yes, but at that time, it was fairly reasonable. on the lower end of reasonable, but we need to look at the time, the era. Inflation comes into play. $27.60 a month for a house is very close to paying $600 (if my math is correct. I wouldn't be surprise if it is wrong, though.)

[@stupedaso9553]

My rent in the Bay Area was $4300 a month, in Fremont where it was the cheapest.

[@mirola73]

30s American house billions of light years ahead of a 60s UK house....

[@sharid76]

mirola73 -Unfortunately for UK residents - yes. When the private homebuilding market responds quickly to the demands of the buying public, that's what happens. When there is profit to be made in researching and developing advancing technologies, and the broad use of such technologies makes their cost affordable, by bringing down the price simply by increasing the scale of production, then those technologies quickly find their way into the mainstream market. It's exactly the same as it was after WWII in the UK, and the relief of restrictions and rationing of goods was finally relieved. The increasing introduction of small and medium sized electric appliances and lighting fixtures was stymied by the public's reluctance to use electricity. The electrical producers had to strongly and repeatedly encourage UK citizens to actually put electricity to good use, because they knew that was the best way to bring down the cost - by economies of scale. Same thing with DVR/VCRs, microwave ovens, pocket calculators. When they first hit the market, they were incredibly expensive, but the refining of production technologies and the actual operational technologies cut the price down some, but it was the economy of scale in getting them into every possible home that really did the job. I was gifted with a very simple, but extremely expensive, Casio calculator in 1973 when I was. Junior in High School, for a Christmas gift from a well-to-do uncle. I looked it up in the current copy of the Technology and Household Goods Catalog (Service Merchandise) and that particular model was $80! A ton of money at the time!! Now you can go in to any Dollar store and get them two for a dollar! Economies of scale at work. But when the government puts all private home construction out of business, and takes it over, they have little interest in providing niceties and advanced technologies - all they are interested in is doing the job as cheaply as possible. Big difference.

[@lewisner]

Many American houses at that time were all wood construction. You will hardly ever see a wooden house in the UK.

[@MrSoldierperson]

Are you serious.

[@MrSoldierperson]

@@lewisner Not in Chicago at that time. Most houses were made of brick. Houses now are probably made of wood or siding. They want to cheap it up. Keep the cost down. My Chicago style Bungalow is Brick.

[@martinmessiah7130]

Space and climate

[@sabrinamarie3480]

I got a mortgage for 280$ cheaper then my rent this year

[@fingerburn50]

By the 50's housing had gone up to about $13.000 for a 1200 sq foot home..

[@RADIUMGLASS]

The way Detroit neighborhoods use to be..............

[@RADIUMGLASS]

Ohhhh I know it all too well.......

[@kayking3488]

I though about investing in Detroit, buying a block at a time. Remodeling homes.....my brothers talked me out of it. Last time I was in Detroit (a year ago) it sadden me.

[@helpmeget100subs]

@@kayking3488 at 23 mile in the good neighborhoods. why dont our modern homes look this nice

[@foamer5490]

$4,800.00 FOR THAT WHOLE THING?? My closing costs for a house probably half that size from around the same year were over 5k.

[@mikesavad]

they left the door wide open...

[@jamesedwards282]

I noticed that to but it was an open house. Have a thumbs up.

[@Me88230]

Interesting to watch to reflect a time when government actually wanted to help the average person and not the top 1%.

[@garybsg]

+Curtis Johnson you mention the 1% but don't mention the government??? Today that same government has grown 1000 times bigger and takes 4 trillion dollars from the economy and has borrowed 19 trillion, has allowed 60 million immigrants into the country which many are on welfare and food stamps. Government employees have pensions that are fantastic which are bankrupting cities and states, they passed massive regulations choking businesses and finally the 1% collaborate with the gigantic massive government to enrich BOTH themselves. I agree the 1% are scum but the real culprit is government itself. The 1% could not do this without big, corrupt government.

[@MzClementine]

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[@richardvaughn2705]

Curtis Johnson Apparently you havent studied 1930s.

[@11th_Hominid]

They had their share of corruption too. The government aid during the depression is interesting nonetheless considering its modus operandi up till then was to interfere as little as possible with civilians and business

[@himinah]

That mortgage payment wow 😱$27

[@Just1nHale]

I spend twice that for coffee in a month!

[@heru-deshet359]

A house for the cost of three average monthly mortgage payments today!

[@alphonsocarioti512]

"You know how wives are"!

[@oliviagomez815]

Less than $30 a month. What was average monthy salary then?

[@brendastephens5265]

27.62 a month for a brand new home......

[@merianharper9551]

Oh, those payments! Back then, it was a good chunk of their monthly income, but today, it seems a pittance.

[@msbrowngault]

Wait! A master bedroom with a "single bed" instead of two double beds in the 1930's?

[@mouse9008]

+TashaKang Sandra actually a lot of couples can't

[@eratoisyourmuse659]

My greatgrandparents (who were popping out their kids in the 20s and 30s) shared a bed. Yet oddly enough, my inlaws and parents, who were married in the 80s, have seperate bedrooms (my mom is a light sleeper and my dad twitches and snores all night).

[@economics4014]

20% down. $4,800 = $84,730. The Federal Reserve created the housing boom and stock market boom of the 1920's with artificially low interest rates from 1925-29 mush the same as 2003-04 and the housing boom and bust in 2008 Same crap different decade. The economy went into Depression again in 1937-29 because the Federal Reserve screwed up again and FDR screwed up again wit labor law and federal spending. Unemployment did not drop down to single digits until 1940 when we were frantically gearing up for WWII.

[@hammerhead4231]

I wonder how they edited things back then

[@Sam-ui1ll]

through the use of scissors mainly

[@oscartovar5756]

HammerHead42 final cut pro,but on a real note wasn't celluloid Individually cut and glued ?

[@sharid76]

Frame by frame - the ORIGINAL "Cut and Paste!"

[@abes.4040]

a house like that was less than 5,000?????

[@howardcitizen2471]

Adjusted for inflation, that's $91,200 in 2020.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@howardcitizen2471 that isn't how that works

[@joanhamilton2651]

Why are buyers so interested in the furnishings instead of the mechanics of the home? It would be very unusual to buy a furnished home.

[@MrSnappinit]

1:20... they had paper towels in 1935?

[@sharid76]

Jeff Smith Yes! Consumer paper products such as toilet paper and paper towels (obviously) were already on the market well before then.

[@user-yj8dd6ce3i]

80年前は、古い

[@tommyboat64]

Are they going to tout the lead pipes throughout? And the faulty "burn your house down" wiring?

[@sharid76]

They didn't use lead pipes throughout. I collect - and read thoroughly, cover to cover, 1920's through late 1940's American Builder magazines, which were written by and published for professional builders, carpenters, contractors, building material suppliers, etc., and I have read considerable amounts of information on the types of building materials used in new construction of the day. Almost all new construction at this time used COPPER water lines. Lead pipes were already known to be trouble, and they did not use them. No lead pipes. Copper was cheap enough that most all builders used it not only for water lines, but gutters and leaders too! Lead PAINT yes, because it was amazingly durable and wore like iron, especially the enamels used in kitchens, baths, and exteriors. Left ALONE lead paint has absolutely no effect on current owners, or even on the contemporary owners of the day. The key word here is "ALONE." Don't pick it, don't sand it, don't scrape it. Leave it be, and paint over it. Same goes for asbestos. Left strictly alone, it causes no problems to anyone. It only becomes problematic when it's released into the breathable air as tiny fibers. That doesn't happen by itself - it's tough enough it needs lots of help to become that way. Cover it up if you want to redecorate, just leave it there! More vintage homes have been absolutely destroyed because of over-zealous lawyers and ridiculous laws that serve no purpose other than to make sure beautiful, safe residences get dismantled at incredibly high cost.

[@sharid76]

As for the faulty "burn your house down wiring" if that were true, then we wouldn't still have so very many lovely vintage age homes with original wiring still standing! The biggest problem wasn't the wiring. It was the dangerous overloading of circuits with many more appliances and devices in an outlet than it was meant to support. When homes of this Vintage, and particularly before, were originally wired for electricity, it was mostly for lighting, with a few wall outlets for the occasional vacuum cleaner, the new electric refrigerator, and maybe the radio. They didn't have multiples of kitchen appliances yet, and frequently things for temporary use like an iron were plugged in using a special adapter plugged into the hanging cord from the ceiling after you removed the lightbulb. Housework was done during the daytime, so turning on the lights to see wasn't actually an issue most of the time. Electric appliances and their use in modern middle class homes exploded during the twenties and thirties, with new or improved household electric appliances coming on the market every day - literally - and the wiring in the house that was built in the Roaring Twenties just wasn't "blooming" more circuits and more outlets as the need for them exploded too. No, and most people did not go to the inconvenience and expense of having their whole houses rewired to keep up every five or ten years. They just looked for ingenious ways to expand the usefulness of the wiring they had, which, while perfectly safe and adequate when installed, was rapidly becoming overwhelmed with new appliance usage. Expandable adapters, which plugged into one outlet, but bristled with three or sometimes more usable outlets, allowed the homeowner or the housewife to plug in the floor lamp, the table lamp, the radio and the vacuum at the same time on the same circuit, but if everything was being used at the same time, such as on a dark, rainy winter day, the fuse would announce the failure of that plan pretty quickly! The "American Builder" of the times contained many articles and ads on adequate wiring for new homes, and especially for planning AHEAD and allowing for the definite occasion of increasing use of electrical devices, large and small appliances, lighting, light switches, and the outlets that would be required to operate all the current plus those new labor saving devices we just knew would be coming along soon! Dishwashers, which came along in the 20's and electric ranges, the "new, clean, modern way to cook" and electrical refrigerators - "Fire your ice man today!" plus an exhaust fan, a wall clock, and additional outlets for countertop appliances such as mixers, waffle irons, coffee makers, even cooling fans - rendered the kitchen a huge user of power all by itself! And it needed all its own dedicated circuits. When breakfast nooks came to fame and every 20's and 30's home couldn't be considered complete without one, frequently had a light fixture over the middle of the table, plus a double outlet at the end of the table to plug in the waffle iron, or the toaster, or the egg poacher, and the coffee percolator right there at the table! Remember the scene in "A Christmas Story" where Ralphie"s dad - "The Old Man" - was attempting to plug in the Christmas tree? Remember the snake's nest of cords plugged in to one duplex outlet using all those adapters? And the sparks that flew when he did, with the scholarly pronouncement on the Old Man's part that "A FUSE is out!!" ? That's exactly what I'm talking about, and it was very common back then. Now it wasn't the fault of the wiring that the humans using it were doing it without proper regard for the capacity of the circuit, and put that infamous - and ultimately dangerous penny in the fuse spot - leaving themselves wide open for a house fire. And the old cloth covered knob and tube style wiring wasn't meant to carry the kinds of loads that were inflicted on it either! My parents moved into a 1920's era bungalow back in the middle nineties. It was a beautiful house and had been very well cared for. But they had to have ALL the old knob-and-tube style wiring that was still in it replaced before the insurance company would write a policy on it! It was actually still in good shape, what there was of it, because a lot had been upgraded, and other parts were newer in newer additions and remodeling work that had previously been done. But it ALL had to be brought up to code first. They said the electrician told them he hadn't ever seen a system like that of such an age that was still in such good shape. So, a good bit of original plastering had to be removed and replaced with drywall to get the wiring done. But, even so, there had never been a fire in it anywhere. It depends on how you take care of things, and not overload a system of limited capabilities.

[@tommyboat64]

I won't challenge you on this. YOU WIN

[@tommyboat64]

I would like to build a house with cast iron stacks, copper plumbing, 3/4" hardwood floors and real honest to goodness wood lathe, plaster and a crushed oyster shell topping coat! I rented a house in Charlotte that had real plaster and the oyster topping coat and it was magnificent to feel and to live in. It felt like a solid house. I would have a dishwasher for show only. They really smell bad and only run up your electric bill. The best way to wash dishes is by hand and air dry. Stop using your dishwasher for 60 days and see the difference in your electric bill. You can have dinner at a nice restaurant with all the savings...with a bottle of wine to boot.

[@Davilow]

In the 1950's the solder they used to join the copper lines had lead in it. I'm assuming this was true in the 1930's.

[@helpmeget100subs]

nearly $600 a month in todays money. not bad at all. beside all the lead and asbestus

[@imburg1]

$27.42 a month for that dump?

[@debrakirkwood4787]

I would take it

[@fingerburn50]

By the 50's housing had gone up to about $13.000 for a 1200 sq foot home..