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In an age before Montanas, they did use metal roofs. As Orv points out, they were musical during rain storms! Loudly musical.
They had a bit of maintenance, now, Al did ours, but, it seems that every year you were supposed to closely inspect the caulking stuff around the vents, air conditioner, antenna, etc. Then, periodically you were supposed to paint the entire roof with this special, expensive, silver roof stuff. The roofs were not made the way they are now, where you can walk on ALL of it, you had to step between the rafters. So, on paint day, Al would take a large sheet of plywood, paint, brush, etc, and up he would go.
You try to forget bad memories, so, mine is a bit shaky on this, but, it seems it would take him the good part of a day, it was stinky, nasty, and made your body ache. I do remember, clearly, that Al hated doing it, and well, bless his soul, he was rather cranky when he came down off that roof and in need of at least one adult beverage.
Inspecting the roof vents and stuff is something he still does, but of course, and he washes the roof, and he is still sore, cranky and in need of at least one adult beverage. But, he is only dealing with Dawn dish detergent and a brush and water, and not that stinky, on your knees application of that icky paint.
That said, we do miss the ting ting ting musical sound of rain on the metal roof.
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