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• W202516339 abstract "Abstract This essay presents a socio-history of the postwar, mass-produced, suburban community of Levittown, Pennsylvania. It was a community built from scratch, first charted on paper, and then built house by house, section by section. In six years, from 1952 to 1958, the community grew to over 17,000 houses and over 70,000 people. Such growth did not come without great challenges. First residents were strangers to each other, living within in a dusty and often muddy construction project, without telephone or television service. Yet they were not alone. This newness seemed to bring many together; it was something they all shared. Like first-generation college students living in the dorm, they were experiencing a way of life that was all-together unfamiliar. They were frightened and curious, cautious but very eager to explore. Chipping away at daily challenges, early Levittown residents built community, both with brick and mortar and social organization. And like parents, early residents raised a community from birth much like they would their own children. Primary resources-newspapers, periodicals, and the individual voice-are used to narrate this essay. On Saturday December 8, 1951, at the edge of a farmer's field in the southeast corner of the state of Pennsylvania, sat three homes of modern structure and design.i The homes were built by Levitt and Sons and were situated in a row, separated by some 20 feet, yet surrounded by trees and rolling farm fields they looked out of place, lost, even, when considering their position and density relative to other homes in the area. But directly behind them, along the south bank of an abandoned canal, someone had painted large white rocks and had assembled them into a pattern of letters, forming a word. Taken together they spelled out the name of a new community: LEVITTOWN. Of the estimated 15,000 to 50,000 people who flocked to the Levittown Exhibit Center that weekend, entering the parking lot at a rate of 65 people per minute, residents of Philadelphia outnumbered them all. Many others were from Trenton and Camden, New Jersey and the surrounding Mid-Atlantic region. They came to inspect the newest line of homes offered by Levitt and Sons, a company that, according to The Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Harper's, Fortune, Life, and Look magazines, seemed to also offer the biggest value. Many visitors were new parents, War veterans, interested and eager to escape crowded, urban, apartment living. They had heard of this community project from ads and articles in the local paper. Traveling from Philadelphia some 26 miles (which in 1951 was a great distance), they saw only three houses in the middle of a farmer's field; it must have been an odd scene indeed. Some questioned the integrity of the homes. How could such a mass-produced house, without a basement, stand up against the wind? Their parents had warned them, yet they were so hungry for a home of their own. Roosevelt had promised them something better in his fireside chats. Could this newly planned housing development, Levittown, PA, be what they were searching for? And could they afford it? Levittown, Pennsylvania, was the creation of Levitt and Sons, Inc. Abraham Levitt, and his two sons William (Bill) and Alfred, formed their company just as America entered the Great Depression, 1929. By 1948, Life magazine considered them the nation's biggest house builder.ii It would be a title held for another seven years. But the Levitts built more than houses; they built entire communities, complete with schools, churches, parks, ball fields, and shopping centers. Between 1947 and 1964, they built 17,447 homes in New York, 17,311 homes in Pennsylvania, and 12,000 homes in New Jersey, naming them all Levittown. In France, 20 miles south of the Eiffel Tower, Levitt and Sons created a 700-house development named Les Residences du Chateau. In Puerto Rico, it was more of the same: Levittown Lakes and Levittown De Puerto Rico. …" @default.
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• W202516339 title "Community in History: Exploring the Infancy of America's 'Most Perfectly Planned Community,' Levittown, Pennsylvania" @default.
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