Posted on 09/29/2007 2:15:08 PM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
LEVITTOWN, N.Y. - In 1951, 7-year-old Louise Cassano couldn't imagine a better life than the one here, where she rode her bicycle past rows of cookie-cutter houses, kids held backyard campouts in makeshift tents and nobody locked their front doors.
"It was an absolute ideal community," said Cassano, whose love affair with Levittown never waned - she still lives in the Long Island town dubbed by some as America's first suburb.
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I miss them
I feel lucky to still live in a town like that.
I grew up in Levittown and my Mother in Law still lives there in an original Levitt House that has no extensions...
It also still has the original steel kitchen cabinets and bathroom cabinets and one of the attic rooms is still unfinished.
The community has changed but still a lot of oldtimers!!!
I grew up in the town next to Levittown. We moved there in 1954 ,when I was 8, and growing up in that environment was really heaven. I have nothing but wonderful memories of my childhood and teen years on L.I. Sadly, it has changed dramatically.
Hard to believe Nassau County used to be full of potato fields !
Bump
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