Rob,
I worked over there every Summer from 1974-79 and then for a year after I got out of college in 1979. There was a real building BOOM on in those days and there was money to be made.

There were some real “jackleg” carpenters in those days. Some of the crap that they built was unbelievably sorry. It wasn’t just the carpenters either. The plumbers, concrete people, electricians, etc had their own jacklegs.

Our builder was Kenny Marchant (congressman) and I remember the day that he contemplated using aluminum wiring. Being a physics major in college, I explained that the practical, ethical, moral, and liability reasons for NOT using aluminum wiring far outweighed the immediate savings.

I think it was the liability part of the conversation that got his attention, but to my knowledge, he never used aluminum.

A lot of ‘em used aluminum. I just wonder how many of those houses burned down in the years after.