Neighborhood profiles, photos and images, and news and events from the last five decades and before are detailed in these pages:

[Before 1950] [1950s] [The 1960s] [1970s] [The 1980s] [The 1990s] [The 2000s]

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Building Lakewood Village

Construction of Lakewood Village began sometime around 1955 and continued until sometime around 1957 or 1958. Lakewood Village was built in a series of development stages, and each one was given a “unit” number according to the order in which houses were built in each region:

Unit 1: Sandia Avenue to Wildwood Avenue, east of Lawrence Expressway. Unit 2: Lakehaven Drive to Lakewood Drive, west of Lawrence Expressway. Unit 3: Lakehaven Drive to Lakebird Drive, west of Lawrence Expressway. Unit 4: Palamos Avenue to Sandia Avenue, east of Lawrence Expressway.

Lakewood Village was constructed to fulfill the demand for affordable housing of civilian and military workers in the Moffett Field area. Homes were priced somewhere in the range of $11,000 to $15,000, and mortgage payments were less than $100 per month. Special deals were available for veterans, and move-in costs were under $500.

The brochure advertised “2,500 New Homes”, and the billboard said “1,000”, but we ended up with about 1,600 homes. Some twenty floor plans were advertised, all of which came with three bedrooms and two bathrooms. The homes were equipped with an attractive and modern set of features and benefits (see the list, above right). Two of the floor plan models are shown below, the one-car-garage “Biscayne” and the two-car-garage “Nassau”. Maybe you live in one of them?

Sunnyvale history

Historical information about Sunnyvale in general can be found at the web sites of Sunnyvale Voices and Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum. Information about mid-century modern architecture in Silicon Valley is very nicely presented on the SV Modern web site.

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