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Toronto 1961
1054 Walnut Street, in the city’s west end, a typical A-frame with a corrugated plastic carport sat on a small, post-war plot of land. Like many in the city, the neighbourhood of South Etobicoke had been built to house vets who returned from the war. The post-war period sparked a housing boom all over the city. Buying a house today in one of those neighbourhoods would cost you as much as twenty thousand dollars. In 1945, the same house cost three thousand bucks. Many of the denizens had upgraded their homes, adding permanent garages and expanding the footprint of the structures themselves putting in extra bedrooms or expanding the small kitchens. The really ambitious finished their basements with linoleum or even a wet bar along with a wood burning fireplace.
Unfortunate
