![]() ![]() On some weekends, so many people showed up that the Los Angeles Police Department had to be called up for traffic and crowd control. Kaiser's prefabrication problems aside, the company's homes were extremely popular with the war-weary house-hungry public: on average, 5,000 people a week viewed model homes in Panorama City. While Burns was prefabricating 3,000 homes in the Kaiser shops, he was also hand-making hundreds of others on site, which cost significantly less to build. Everything for a house was delivered on site and assembled in just a few weeks. ![]() Kaiser Community Homes were, for the most part, pre-milled and shop-fabricated by Kaiser ship builders at a factory near LAX, representing an early large-scale experiment in prefabrication. The houses combined thoughtful modern designs (mostly in the Ranch and Minimal Traditional styles) with technological innovations perfected during World War II, all for under $10,000. Panorama City's master plan, by architectural firm Wurdeman and Becket, called for over 4,000 houses, setting aside thirty-one acres for commercial development and twenty-five acres for parking. After World War II, the shipbuilder was looking for a peace-time business and diversified greatly into construction, especially prefabrication. In an area originally part of one of the largest dairy and sheep ranches in Southern California, Panorama City was developed in the late 1940s by developer Fritz Burns and Associates for Kaiser Homes, Inc. Panorama City is one of the youngest communities in the San Fernando Valley and one of the best-known planned communities in Los Angeles County. ![]()
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