While we don’t have nearly as cool old architecture like other continents, buildings/houses from the 70s are all over. I think most historic buildings tend to be closer to 100+ years old, which is almost half the age of the country.
Depends on where you’re at too, in my area there are still houses from the 1700s, but people hadn’t even been building houses in LA (where he mentioned) until like what 18-something? The Mexican American war was 1846 and then the gold rush was 1849, so I’d guess somewhere around there. And before that there were whole ass Adobe Villages made by the native population of our country out west (not sure about LA, but), and as the other poster said, they count as history it’s just that the europeans came and killed most of the people who knew that history.
Basically, he’s just wrong and/or expecting us to have buildings older than our country (which, actually, we do have them and I’ve been in them. Not older than the colonies though.)
While we don’t have nearly as cool old architecture like other continents, buildings/houses from the 70s are all over. I think most historic buildings tend to be closer to 100+ years old, which is almost half the age of the country.
Depends on where you’re at too, in my area there are still houses from the 1700s, but people hadn’t even been building houses in LA (where he mentioned) until like what 18-something? The Mexican American war was 1846 and then the gold rush was 1849, so I’d guess somewhere around there. And before that there were whole ass Adobe Villages made by the native population of our country out west (not sure about LA, but), and as the other poster said, they count as history it’s just that the europeans came and killed most of the people who knew that history.
Basically, he’s just wrong and/or expecting us to have buildings older than our country (which, actually, we do have them and I’ve been in them. Not older than the colonies though.)