Today, a few of the ticky tacky chalets occupied by the refugee children can still be seen.

"There's room for 12 houses on the land - I'd rather preserve it than have a ticky tacky subdivision built.

I gazed ruefully at the ticky tacky area.

The houses at Hartwood Reserve will not be "made of ticky tacky."

Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same.

And when a popular song deplored the monotony of lives lived in "little boxes made of ticky tacky," there was no doubt that the imagery drew from the Levittown idea.

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"Do we make nine million people pay billions to clean up after those who would turn the pristine waterways and beautiful mountainsides of our Catskills watersheds into a chop-chop environmental ticky tacky?"

Pete Seeger complained in one of his songs that they lived in "boxes made of ticky tacky," and people who flew over them on their way to Europe emphatically agreed.

Sitting down with the "ticky tacky" was part of the fun of watching the show centered around a suburban mom selling the sticky icky--who may look the same, but surely is not.

Even back then, the pat suburban stereotypes, summed up by the smug 1960's folk song about the look-alike people living in look-alike "little boxes made of ticky tacky," seemed numbingly wrongheaded.

There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same.

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First he praised his hometown of Levittown, the Long Island community whose cookie-cutter houses were lampooned in the Malvina Reynolds folk song as "little boxes made of ticky tacky."

The complex was part of the extended bedroom community that had come to surround the nation's capital, accreting slowly over the years at first, then suddenly metastasizing like some architectural cancer, expanding in huge pressed-wood, ticky tacky lumps and clots in all directions.

And the people in the houses All went to the university, Where they were put in boxes And they came out all the same, And there's doctors and lawyers, And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same.

He claimed that train stations in the city looked "like flippin' Calcutta" and that the city had been "paved over with ticky tacky houses that are mostly filled with East Indians" and is also quoted saying "I wake up in the morning and I feel great.

Lore has it that the little houses built by Mr. Doelger, a San Francisco native and once the country's most prolific home builder, inspired Malvina Reynolds's 1962 antisuburban anthem, "Little Boxes," which starts "Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky tacky."