Leisurama Homes
AIRED: Season 3, Episode 10
THE DETECTIVE: Gwen Wright
THE PLACE: Long Island, New York
THE CASE:
The grandson of Andrew Geller, the designer of Leisureama homes, is trying to find some of his grandfather's products in Florida
Geller created the model kitchen "Splitnik" used during one of the most famous television moments of the Cold War - the notorious exchange between Nixon and Khrushchev during the "Kitchen Debate" at the American Exhibition in Moscow in 1959.
From "Splitnik," Geller later developed the Leisureama home.
A newspaper advertisement suggests the Leisureama homes were widely sold in Florida, but so far Andrew has been unable to locate them.
History Detectives heads to Florida and New York to learn more about this Cold War event, the emergence of second home living and the influence of leisure on architecture.
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