Santa Cruz
In the 1950's my family went to Santa Cruz, and stayed at the beach in apartments. The small kitchen had those units, no oven. For a vacation unit it was perfect. Most of the time it was folded up, and saved space. The guy who owned this place lived in the unit above the apartments, which were on the ground floor, one on each side of the garage. Above his unit was a roof garden. You could walk up the cliff to his other units at the top of the cliff, also accessible from another road. At times we stayed in those units, which had a washer and dryer-Frigidaire of course. That's where I could run the washer and watch it agitate and go in to that spin.