I imagined a Ninjago City style of set when I saw the name. This is not quite that.

@MCLegoboy:
Ah, yes, with Detroit having the ignoble distinction of being the only city to serve as both “before” and “after” in the same episode. On the other hand, I think it was the only city with any remnant that would be largely impervious to the ravages of time, due to it not actually being present on Earth.

It's good to know where we came from, but no minifig, no deal for me.

A time when Legoland buildings had got a bit too colourful. Blue rooves were never a great look!
Nice to have one of the last proper white aerials though, before they became nasty bendy milky white things.

@PurpleDave said:
"It’s...a delivery shooting brake, with all the aerodynamic qualities of a wall safe full of anvils?"

Shooting brake... Learned a new term today. That was a nice little rabbit hole to go down.

@MeisterDad said:
"Those awning stickers (if they are designed anything like the ones on the 376 ) are supposed to hang off the sloped bricks there like real fringes. I have yet to find any set of this ilk with them still applied."

That's because the roof slopes have a rough surface. Stickers don't stick as well to them as they do on the smooth surfaces of other parts. So many of these stickers would have fallen off the awning and been lost.

Now that’s a set crying out for some minifigs

One of my first ever sets brought for me by my grandparents. Little did they know the thousands I would spend on the hobby since

And those tables and chairs would have involved one of the first unconventional build methods.

That really is a beautiful vintage set. I had loads of those red fences and red gates as a kid. Every Lego house I ever built was surrounded by them. Happy days!

What a nice set! This would make an awesome remake! I'm thinking a 6 wide Citroen 2CV van or Morris Minor Van, pretzel pieces and minifigs, that would be a really cool set.

@sjr60 said:
"A time when Legoland buildings had got a bit too colourful. Blue rooves were never a great look!
Nice to have one of the last proper white aerials though, before they became nasty bendy milky white things."

Tell that to 21325.

its like the lego movie 2 set emmets house

Hmmmm, yum. Just looking at the image, the gemütlichkeit smell of that nice original lego plastic comes through.

@mediAFOL said:
" @sjr60 said:
"A time when Legoland buildings had got a bit too colourful. Blue rooves were never a great look!"
Tell that to 21325 ."
A great set that could be considerably improved by ditching the bright blue (or at least toning it down like the original design)

I didn't know this existed and looks quite advanced for its time, when most sets were still just 2x4 brick walls and roofs. I still have the same problem that my car is longer than my car port by 2 studs. Is it just the photo but is the door frame at an angle as well as the door?

So pretty. I'd be into a re-release of these type of sets. Or remakes.

@P

Soon to be owned by 443 members - I have one of these on the way from a Bricklink store, with all stickers apparently intact.

@ambr said:
"I didn't know this existed and looks quite advanced for its time, when most sets were still just 2x4 brick walls and roofs."
They'd progressed from 2x4 brick walls by 1969, when mini-wheels arrived!

e.g. 346-2, 345-1, 344-1

@tmxbricks said:
"I remade this one a few years ago:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yCVKU9J9Je2I98ukK_T_3nYS_7GCvo4J/view?usp=drivesdk"
Nice!

One of the first sets I assembled from parts. Never got the correct baseplate or stickers. Tmxbricks, I like your mods!

@WizardOfOss said:
"I just looked up the instructions, and one thing I noticed was that only the pieces to be added in every step were colored, everything from previous steps was white"
The only set I've got with instructions like that is the Rocket Base 358-1 from 1973 and they were back to usual by the end of 1974, so it was presumably a short lived experiment, which went down as well as black backgrounds did recently!

This was the first 'proper' set I ever received, apart from a couple of basic type sets - it must have been around 1975, possibly for my birthday. I loved it - the green baseplate had white printing where the set should be set out so everything ended up in the right spot; the car didn't fit under the archway and the aerial was very fragile (I think it was the milky white type) and all the prongs fell off...
I ended up buying it again off Ebay - complete, mint, boxed (mint) and with mint instructions too a couple of years ago for the princely sum of £7 - its assembled in my Lego room and its a great set from more innocent times.

@LAKAbricks :
I can’t remember what set triggered it (just that it wasn’t this one), but I know I was involved in a discussion on some AFOL site regarding the correct orientation of the pretzel on a sign. In Denmark, I understand that lobes-down is typical, where in the US it’s always lobes-up. However (and I have no idea where these originated), I was able to find images that showed pretzel signs with lobes-in and lobes-out orientations, so all four basic orientations have been used on signage, _somewhere_ in the world.

We need more Villas!

Please make a re-release of this set in 2022 look.

Wow! This was the first set I had. Some time ago, I browsed through sets of those years, but could not find it. And when I saw this photo... That awning! The red fence! Ah, no doubt, it is. Memories...

@PDelahanty : Totally with you on those gate pieces. I've always wanted some of those.

@tmxbricks: Nice! Love the pretzel door handles.

My first proper set, I remember the baseplate had white dots on the studs to show where the walls go. I still have the plate at my parents house, and probably the rest too.

Sweet little set and, for those of us who were Lego active in the early seventies, a nice little reminder of how awesome this kind of set was back then. I didn't own it myself but I had 360 Gravel Works (the best set ever) and my sister had 363 Hospital and if I remember rightly the red cross stickers kept sliding off the shutter doors on the ambulance! Happy days. Funny how it worked out, I work in a hospital and she worked in a quarry ....