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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Post-War housing by Spiros Ponty, 1947.


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For some reason it took the St Petersburg Times over a year to publish the story, but here's the picture, and they got the caption word-for-word.


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From Spiros G. Ponty's obituary in the LA Times (January 26, 1989):

"Spiros G. Ponty, a Greek immigrant who not only built thousands of homes in Los Angeles but led efforts to provide long-term mortgages so returning war veterans and others could afford to buy them, died Monday at St. John's Medical Center in Santa Monica.

He was 88.

A restaurateur as a young man who later became an assistant business manager to film producer-director Cecil B. De Mille, Ponty began in the housing business as a real estate salesman.

From 1929 until his eyesight began to fail in 1963, he built homes in Westwood, Norwalk, Beverly Hills, South-Central Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley.

They ranged from the economical to the elegant, and his 147 Spanish Colonial Revival homes in the Carthay Circle area of West Los Angeles--each one unique--are historical landmarks."