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An actual need for mobility and frontier nostalgia on the consumer end, combined with the redirection of war production, resulted in the creation of the mobile home. Introduced in the 1950‘s as a more economic way to own a home for young couples or war veterans, the mobile home, as Diana Smith described in American Cold War Culture, "condensed the rhetoric of post-war mobility, as well as domestic security, into a nicely packaged interior.“