Lustron Homes

01/03/25 • 13 min

This week, we’re talking about Lustron Houses - prefabricated enameled steel houses developed in the post-World War II era in response to the shortage of homes for returning GIs. I’m going to cover the inventor, the Lustron Company, and more importantly, Lustrons in Atlanta - how many were built, who lived in them and how many remain?

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A Reintroduction + Podcast Format Update

Happy 2025! I started this podcast in September of 2018 and if you told me then I would be here recording in 2025, I would never have believed it. Over six years and over 250 episodes later, I am finally making a material change to Archive Atlanta - and that’s format.

We’re starting off 2025 with a new, bi-weekly format - that means twice a month - the first and third Fridays. So much has changed in 6 years that I also thought it’d be fun to record a new introduction.

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Veterans Hospitals

This week, we’re talking about Atlanta’s Veterans Hospitals. When I first put this topic on my list, I thought I’d be covering the 1960s-era hospital that is still operating over on Clairmont Road, but I was surprised to learn we had several other variations and the history of caring for veterans in Atlanta is over 130 years old.

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