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Interesting article about some of the housing Trumps father built. I only posted part of the article
1 posted on 06/04/2016 12:17:17 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

I just find it amazing that the media can find a jillion stories about Trump, Trump’s family, Trump’s friends, Trump’s business ventures, etc, etc, yet Hillary Clinton is a mystery hidden by “I can’t remember” and Barack Obama is a mystery hidden by “You’re a racist.”

On the one hand, one wants the media to simply stop lying and tell the truth.
On the other hand, one wants the media to make an effort to be interested in an even-handed approach.
All-Trump-All-the-Time seems to have benefited Trump so far, but willfully ignoring the trainwreck which is the Clinton campaign is a special kind of bias.

NOTE: My comment is a broad comment about media coverage and not intended to disparage the posted article.


2 posted on 06/04/2016 12:23:31 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Nation States seem to be ending. The follow-on should not be Globalism, but Localism.)
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To: Lorianne

Does the article mention the addition of attached garage. ?

My link isn’t working. My devise not your link


4 posted on 06/04/2016 12:38:42 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Trump is exposing the Fifth Column in the US)
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To: Lorianne
Reducing and simplifying taxes spurs investment and labor??

Who knew!?

5 posted on 06/04/2016 12:44:35 PM PDT by Company Man (Trump towers.)
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To: Lorianne
Thanks for posting that article (I read the entire article at Urban Omnibus). Very interesting history of the Tudor Revival style and Trump's father's success.

The article has a personal connection for me because my paternal grandfather, with wife in family in tow, got off the boat at Ellis Island in 1927 (coming from Germany). They lived in the Bronx for about five or six years before moving up to Thornwood and he hand-built his own Tudor Revival style home which still stands today. The stately trees he planted in the front yard are gone now, so it doesn't look as grand. I remember it seemed like a palace to me as a little kid in the 50s.


6 posted on 06/04/2016 1:04:19 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Lorianne

There has never been a bigger SHOWBOAT than Barack Hussein Obama.


7 posted on 06/04/2016 1:06:53 PM PDT by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: Lorianne

All the things described there were typical of tract house construction elsewhere. San Francisco for instance. You will see thousands upon thousands of cookie cutter houses in the 3/4 of the city that is residential tracts. These date from the 1910s-1930s. I own one of these. They were built to near-identical plans, only varied by adjustment to the lot grade and details of the facade. They used standard subcomponents and prefab framing assemblies. They are on scattered lots or in small groups on a block, not in large developments, because the city blocks were laid out in the previous century.
So Trump was one of very many in this sort of business.


8 posted on 06/04/2016 1:19:18 PM PDT by buwaya
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Interesting read. Fred Trump actually successfully built housing for the middle and working classes, something that the “progressives” claim to care about deeply, but somehow never manage to pull off.


12 posted on 06/04/2016 10:52:32 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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