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Post WWII Ranch House Windows
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Permalink Reply by kevin on -
Hi, Are you speaking of "jalousey" windows (forgive the spelling) the type that has many small panes that fold out or the metal framed windows that look like regular windows ?
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Permalink Reply by Franz on -
My recolection tells me there is a modifier required in front of the word "jalousey" window.
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Permalink Reply by Bill Hendrickson on -
Funny, I grew up on Long Island NY in one of those ranch style houses in Levittown. But the windows were wood. The only aluminum windows I remember were jalacy type in the doors. Anyway, you made me feel old by using the term midcentury....lol. Good luck.
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Permalink Reply by Lair Tienter on -
Talk about feeling old, last month the mag. Old House Interiors, featured a restoed Mid-century home. It had all the furniture my parents bought new for their house, preparing for my graduation party. They redecorated for the party held at the house and got rid of the old stuff they bought when they first married. I hated the new stuff and still do.
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Permalink Reply by John Leeke on -
Talk about feeling old, the house my dad built in Lincoln, Nebraska, in the year 1950 that I grew up in is now a contributing structure in an historic district! Our furniture was half second hand art deco, and half custom made by my dad in a mix of deco, Maxfield Parish fantasy and American colonial styles.
The windows in that house are double-hung wood, with wood-framed screens and steel-framed canvas awnings for summer, wood-framed storms for winter. The windows are still working great. The house next door was built the same year with the same windows. The owner was victimized by the replacement window pirates in the early 1980s, and the replacements have been replaced twice since then with plastic disposable windows.
John
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Permalink Reply by Jim Finley on -
Odd to think that 1950s houses would be studied for historic preservation. Kind of like seeing all the 1960s-70s "modern" furniture filling the antique stores nowadays.
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Permalink Reply by Bill Hendrickson on
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Its all in the perspective. I remember visiting my Grandmother with my new wife back in 1978, because Grandma couldn't make the wedding. Anyway, the wife and I were into antiques, and my wife commented on her beautiful antiques. Grandma just laughed, and said, "you mean this used furniture".....
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Permalink Reply by Jim Finley on
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Thats true Bill. My grandma was an antique dealer from way back in the 1960s and she told me how back then they practically gave away oak furniture at auctions cause nobody wanted it. Everybody wanted Victorian walnut pieces. By the 80s walnut was hard to find so oak really shot up in price. Now everything is expensive.
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Permalink Reply by Sarah Felix Burns on -
Hi Cynthia,
I had a 1950's rancher (previous house) and the original aluminum windows were replaced with vinyl windows. Probably not what you want to hear, but the new vinyl windows were loads more attractive and energy efficient. The new windows also had the divided pane windows so they looked appropriate for a post WWII ranch style house.
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