30 Aug
2014
30 Aug
'14
8:57 a.m.
On Aug 30, 2014, at 11:50 AM, drlegendre . <drlegendre at gmail.com> wrote:
Oh sure, I get that.. my current house had a dirt
basement until a slab was
poured for the furnace in the 1920s, and the rest of the floor in the 1950s
or 60s.
But those residential blocks look to have been built in the late 60s or
mid-70s perhaps. You don't see dirt floors in mid-20th century
constructions, at least not in my USA.
I grew up in Holland (Nuenen, a ?bedroom community?), in a house built as part of a
subdivision around 1960. It had a tiny concrete-floored basement, more like a small
pantry a few feet down under the stairway. But the rest of the ground floor was built
over a crawl space that had concrete foundations but just the original dirt for its
floor.
paul