Home Designers Show Interest In Novel Contest

At the Glendale Industrial Exposition held in that city recently, the Security Housing Corporation, a home financing company in Los Angeles staged a contest for model home plans that attracted much interest at the exposition and caused favorable comment among the other merchants of Glendale

The Security Housing Corporation conducted a booth at this show; and announced at the opening that they would award substantial prizes for the best and most practical home plans submitted, these plans to be for building to cost not over $4,500.

The Security Housing Corporation is drawing considerable interest from prospective home builders, with their publicity campaign.

At tbe Valencia Show at Anaheirn last month they installed an attractive booth in which they displayed a model of a five room stucco bungalow that had been built recently in Los Angeles. They offered a prize to the one guessing the closest the cost of this building. Several thousand guesses were registered, running from $850.00 to over $40,000.00. The winner guessed within a very few dollars of the actual figures, which were $4,060.00.

Over thirty plans were submitted in all, and the display was attractive, indeed, the manager of the exposition, Mr. H. E. Hossack, manager of the application department for this company, had these large colored drawings hung around the walls of the booth so that everyone could see the large variety of plans that can ,be used to select from when building.

The house pictured at the top of this page was the winner of the first prize. This plan was submitted by an architect living in Glendale. The other two plans received high mention in the contest, as well as thirteen others that were selected as being the best sent in.