Everybody wanted a house with a picket fence.” But that could be any fence. How did a white wooden fence become synonymous with the American dream? In a piece for Smithsonian tracking the ...

It’s about the city of Paramount -- 15 miles southeast of downtown -- and its White Picket Fence Program. The city, eager to replace chain-link fences, pays 75% of the cost when homeowners put ...

Painted to make the wood last longer, the image of the white picket fence became burned into the collective unconscious as a symbol of niceness. The fashion was popular abroad, too, especially in ...

Can now have the Leave it to Beaver solution, just slip a white picket fence around them. The fence was designed by Karl Zahn and would be great for anyone that can't feed networking cables ...

In Colonial times, a mixture of lime and water protected the wood pickets and gave the fences their traditional white color. Getty Images Blame the Cold War for doing in the picket fence.