As Time Goes By.
pg.40 IN THE SUBURBAN PROMISED LAND
THE COUPLE WAS trying to hold on to their piece of the American Dream: a detached three-bedroom-one-and-a-half-baths house with a front yard and a back yard that allowed a view of the Pacific only blocks away. A picture window in the living room, with a view of hills covered with trees where deer grazed. They were now installed in their tract house in the new development, Paradise, a suburb eighteen miles from San Francisco where even utilities, transportation were a threat to their budget—the floor furnace in the tiny cottage had been so affordable. Now with the central heating it had tripled. Transportation! Could hardly afford to use the Olds. Gas was very expensive. A dollar for gas? Do we have dollar fifty?
pg.40 IN THE SUBURBAN PROMISED LAND
THE COUPLE WAS trying to hold on to their piece of the American Dream: a detached three-bedroom-one-and-a-half-baths house with a front yard and a back yard that allowed a view of the Pacific only blocks away. A picture window in the living room, with a view of hills covered with trees where deer grazed. They were now installed in their tract house in the new development, Paradise, a suburb eighteen miles from San Francisco where even utilities, transportation were a threat to their budget—the floor furnace in the tiny cottage had been so affordable. Now with the central heating it had tripled. Transportation! Could hardly afford to use the Olds. Gas was very expensive. A dollar for gas? Do we have dollar fifty?
5 comments:
Did you take those photos from our family's album?
Is he gd calling, or what?
Were people safer then?
There r NO such families anymore.
We hd a TV like that. The fun.
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