http://crestwoodla.com/new-website/ The website of Crestwood Hills, CA Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:02:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://crestwoodla.com/new-website/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Gene Goldenfeld Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:35:45 +0000 http://crestwoodla.com/new-website/#comment-48 I was just forwarded an email about the MAK tour last weeken and hadn't known there was a Crestwood website, let alone such a nicely presented one. Cory Buckner's article here is interesting and has things from the early days I never knew about. Have you considered, or tried to get for posting, the Getty magazine article from the 1990s about the origins of the Crestwood Hills project? It also discusses the architectural history in some detail from a different perspective, with more emphasis on the social (or political) side of the community's origins and early development. About those building plus land figures, my dad always mentioned $20k as the figure for building ours. The story was that with the start of the Korean War ("Conflict") in 1950, the cost of materials skyrocketed and many of those on the list dropped out. By the way, that bottom photo looks quite familiar from its surroundings, specifically a lot like our family house on Bramble Way (monuments page no. 632, seen from the other end), but I can't tell for sure whether it was ours or the Mellinger house next door to the west (sold to Travis family in the 1950s). I was just forwarded an email about the MAK tour last weeken and hadn’t known there was a Crestwood website, let alone such a nicely presented one. Cory Buckner’s article here is interesting and has things from the early days I never knew about. Have you considered, or tried to get for posting, the Getty magazine article from the 1990s about the origins of the Crestwood Hills project? It also discusses the architectural history in some detail from a different perspective, with more emphasis on the social (or political) side of the community’s origins and early development. About those building plus land figures, my dad always mentioned $20k as the figure for building ours. The story was that with the start of the Korean War (“Conflict”) in 1950, the cost of materials skyrocketed and many of those on the list dropped out. By the way, that bottom photo looks quite familiar from its surroundings, specifically a lot like our family house on Bramble Way (monuments page no. 632, seen from the other end), but I can’t tell for sure whether it was ours or the Mellinger house next door to the west (sold to Travis family in the 1950s).

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