Go now, you can buy a home in Walnut Creek’s Ygnacio Hills development for $47,990!
Wait, that was 46 years ago, in 1974.
This ad was in the Oakland Tribune in February of ’74.
Ah, those were the days.
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Make smart investments is all I gotta say. Durring the crash of 2008 I bought 6 different properties from Danville to San Ramon all cash. Now my financial future is secure.
Wow, looks like the Shire is only a stones throw from san fran.
~$250,000 in today’s dollars according to https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Tells you how overpriced the housing market is today.
That’s before the boomers got to the economy.
Now the average price is one million to live in the Looter filled gas blowing slums.
People have been trying to get into Walnut Creek since, … forever. The Ygnacio Hills development is in Concord.
28 minutes from SF to Walnut Creek via BART? Somewhere I have some of those old tri-fold BART schedules. It’s possible SF to WC was 28 minutes for before the trans-bay tube fire. It’s now about 34 minutes.
The add is to busy. Hurts my eyes looking at it.
Put a couple of 1’s in front of that now. 1,147,990.00.
1974
Hourly wage working at Bob’s Big Boy Jr. $1.74.
Claycord once featured an original sales brochure from the Crossings. Prices were in the $60,000 – $70,000 range
The Ygnacio Hills development school feeder pattern with Greatschools.com rating is as follows:
Woodside Elementary School – 6
Oak Grove Middle School – 1
Ygnacio Valley High School – 4
That’s a no, dawg.
Are those ratings circa 1974?
@Rollo Tomasi Oh, no. They are current. That’s the sad part. Those were once highly-rated schools. Ygnacio Valley had a great reputation when I moved here in the late 70s.
Most kids that attend these schools are from the monument Corridor while people that live in neighborhoods around the schools choose private school or intradistrict transfers.
it’s in concord not walnut creek
https://imgur.com/a/NOqNeRJ
Concord and about 750k not 1.4 million.