San Lorenzo condos fill vacant space (San Francisco Chronicle)

Developer David Bohannon helped to change the look of suburbia, starting with the Hillsdale area of San Mateo in 1939 and continuing with other Bay Area projects during World War II – including San Lorenzo Village, a planned community that his company began…

Dream-house diva is remodeling the Inland area, one old house at a time (The Press-Enterprise)

Laurel Hampton-Hunt lugs around more stuff in her 40-pound toolbox than most guys keep in their garage. But Hampton-Hunt, 50, doesn’t think of the gear as part of “work.” “I get paid to play,” she said gleefully. Hampton-Hunt’s playground is largely pre-World War II homes, mostly in Riverside, Redlands and Corona. Video:

“Joe the Plumber?” Tchah. Here’s the real story of Dad the Mechanic.

I was raised in a working class home. My father toiled for over thirty years as an aircraft mechanic, and before that he was a truck driver and a salesman. Before that, he served in the Navy during World War II. To join the Navy, he dropped out of high school in his senior year. Dad was a registered Democrat, as most people in quasi-Southern state Oklahoma tended to be in the 1960s, if you get my mortified drift. But I don’t think I ever remember him voting for the Democratic candidate in a pre

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