Levittown pennsylvania

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The archetypal postwar suburb has less socioeconomic diversity—and hardly more racial diversity—than it did in the 1950s.

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Known as the archetypal post-war American suburb, Levittown was the first mass-produced housing development and set a standard for planned s...

Levittown Levittown, PA Ah, Levittown. The very name conjures up a picture of white, middle-class, suburban, cookie-cutter American homes in an idyllic Leave-It-To-Beaver style with manicured lawns, good-looking people, and no fences. No fences at all. If that’s your image, you’re partially correct. In the 1950s, Bill Levitt built many of these communities across the country. There were also numerous unlicensed copies—the township I grew up in had it’s own version, “Cherokee Ranch”. Most…

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Levittown, extensive, unincorporated suburban housing development in Bucks county, eastern Pennsylvania, U.S., near the big bend of the Delaware River, approximately midway between Philadelphia and Trenton, New Jersey. It was built between 1951 and 1958 by Levitt & Sons, Inc., who repeated there

PA c 2002 A sad image of the theatre where we spent many a Saturday afternoon ... it was torn down soon after this pic was taken. It was a classic of mid-century style architecture.