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Article: Picket fences find renewed popularity.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- July 12, 2001
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Emblematic of the good life in 19th-century America, the picket fence is making a comeback with 21st-century homeowners.
A fence, on the face of it, is a simple thing. Customers, says George Squires of Squires Lumber in San Jose, Calif., "either want to keep something in or keep something out."
But the picket fence has been much more for so long in this country. For generations of Americans, the picket fence came wrapped around their dreams of home and hearth. It represented a way of life and simpler times.
That's what Judy Chaney wanted when she remodeled her 52-year-old one-story home on busy Newhall Street in San Jose. Her picket fence, with ...