Neighbors in Clairemont Villas picked from a selection of four ranch houses that had the same cabinets, similar floor plans and an option to add a washing machine. This was in 1957, back when the surrounding Clairemont neighborhood was booming with new subdivisions and mass-produced suburbs were still a national experiment. The family paid $13,250 for Lot 118 and a year later moved into 5120 Baxter Street.
Her father drove the six of them - two parents, four sisters - to a weekend showing where in her teenage naïveté she asked a salesperson if the furniture was included. Sixty-five years later, Margie Coats, 79, still remembers the tour.
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