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Malibu West offered affordable slices <br> of midcentury paradise

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Tract housing in Malibu? Who knew?

This week writer Jeffrey Head explores a little-known cluster of 200 tract homes called Malibu West. He writes:

The tract, built in 1962 near Pacific Coast Highway, is made up of traditional and modern homes, many restored to their original design. To some, these midcentury houses may look like knockoffs of the famed tract homes built by Joseph Eichler, but Malibu West was built by Nisan Matlin and Eugene Dvoretzky, award-winning architects (now retired) who built Malibu West before Eichler had established his signature houses in Granada Hills.

The original sale price? They started at $32,500. Ah, for a time machine.

You can read the rest of Head’s story on this slice of Southern California coolness here.

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-- Deborah Netburn

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redit: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times

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