| Identifier: | e_rl_13918_0005 |
| Title: | San Diego housing addition, Corpus Christi, 1949 |
| Description: | G. H. Swartner, builder of the original 120 units in San Diego addition, did some landscaping and furnished seed to the buyers. He also sponsored a landscaping, garden and lawn contest. In 1949 he guessed that the majority of the San Diego home owners were employed at the Naval Air Station; he further said that the turnover in ownership had been below the average for this price-range house. He believes that there is a profitable market for such houses among the Latin-Americans if the monthly payments are not more than $25 or $30. Swartner also said that a main difficulty in this type of building is that the Latin-American has not a credit rating and has little conception of long-term credit culture. The outside venetian blinds, seen on many houses in this addition, were added in the summer of 1948 by the home-owners; the entire addition showed excellent home maintenance and improvement. Corpus Christi, Texas. |
| City: | Corpus Christi |
| State: | Texas |
| Country: | United States |
| Date: | 1949 |
| Creator: | Lee (Russell Werner) |
| Source: | Lee (Russell) Photograph Collection |
| Publisher: | Dolph Briscoe Center for American History |
| Rights: | © Dolph Briscoe Center for American History |
| Box: | 3Y183 |
| Folder: | left |
| Format: | Film negative |
| Subject: |
Houses Mexican Americans |
