was telling me the other day that his father had built prefab homes from around 1908 until 1940, when they got out of the home building business and began making surfboards.  His company, Pacific Ready Cut Homes, built an estimated 40,000 homes during the 32 years it served the West coast and parts of South America.  William Butte found a need for low cost housing and filled it with a comfortable, attractive do-it-yourself dwelling,  Read about it - click on the source below…

(Source: homepage.mac.com)