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The dawn of the 1950s signaled a boom time for many American cities, flush with new families in the years after World War II. In Clifton, founded in 1917, far-flung western farms were transformed into a new suburbia. The pace of growth was so fast that, decades later, one official would bluntly say, "Clifton wasn't planned. It just happened." Decades earlier, there had been a false start. In Clifton's Allwood, a development of a promised 4,500 Tudor-style homes, construction was interrupted, as elsewhere, by the onslaught of the Great Depression. But the boomtown years would come. People who called this 12-square-mile town home were a reflection of the times and swelled with pride as they cheered the high-energy, high-stepping Clifton Mustang Band and as they watched the 1967 jubilee parade.

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• Full title: Clifton: The Boomtown Years
• Author: Philip M. Read
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 127
• EAN: 9780738549569
• ISBN: 0738549568
• ID: 11468123
• Publisher: ARCADIA PUB (SC)
• Weight: 322 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 168 × 9 mm
• Date of publishing: March 2007

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