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square footage. By the end of the 1950s, the
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Many of these later houses exceeded 2,000 square feet (200 m), with the largest adding another 600 square feet (56 m). A swimming pool was included in all of these designs, priced then from the high $ 40,000s to the low $ 50,000s. The neighborhood, known today as Las Palmas, became the
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