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Old 02-08-2010, 07:56 AM
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A "summer cottage" at Newport, RI built by the Vanderbilts.
How's that stack up against the Kennedys?

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Kennedy Compound - Hyannis Port, MA


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The Vanderbilt "Winter Home", Asheville, North Carolina.

I guess all that cheap "Coolie" (Chinese) labor really paid off for old Cornelius?

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Old 02-08-2010, 11:31 AM
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Oh. Well, that's obviously the cottage of the working man

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How's that stack up against the Kennedys?

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Are you getting the idea, Pete? The grotesque displays of wealth by the robber barons during the gilded age stand apart from anything we've ever seen in this country (so far).

Here are just a few more of the many summer "cottages" (they really called them that) at Newport.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...land_edit1.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Lawn_edit1.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...lcourt1895.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...reyMansion.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...port%2C_RI.jpg

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And now for some contrast.

Worker housing during "The Gilded Age".

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Old 02-08-2010, 12:05 PM
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Worker housing today (to compare to Kennedy's place today):
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More fine examples.......

One taken in Pennsylvania, and one in Louisiana.

Nice digs, Huh? This is "unfettered capitalism", Bro.........

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Worker housing today (to compare to Kennedy's place today):
Those places look quite a bit older that "today", Dawg. My guess is they went up about the same time as "Biltmore" and "San Simeon".

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Old 02-08-2010, 12:12 PM
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Inner city Brooklyn. Blue collar folks can't buy NEW houses, for sure!

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