Lived in Levittown from 1955 to 1966;First on Geranium Rd.,then a year on Sycamore Rd.;when I attended Immaculate Conception School during first grade in 1960..There were 80 kids in my first grade class(yes 80)..it was a great place to grow up the first 12 years of my life...Far more innocent times...
I grew up in a Levittown ranch in Hicksville Long Island , Hicksville is a town next to Levittown Long Island. My family loved living there. I am watching this video because I moved to Pa recently and want to move to Levittown, Pa. I miss living in a Levit home. Mr. Levit really thought of everything when he built his homes. I am also happy that Levittown Pa has a train line just like in Long Island. Thank you for the video, it really made me happy to watch it.
I lived in the holly hill section and backed up to the creek use to have wild strawberries growing everywhere you look and it was a challenge to pick without getting ivy poison 😂
@@davidhibbs6989 Hi David, that is very cool. Behind our house, near Mill Creek, a huge blackberry briar. Storybook beautiful. A footpath ran through it. The blackberry limbs canopied the path. In summer, we would come home with pails full of absolutely delicious berries. I guess the farmers who worked that land (for who knows how long?) just left it there....
I was born in 62, and grew up in Stonybrook. What a great place and time to be a kid! We had 2 LPRA community pools, the library, St Mikes Church and school, Bishop Conwell High(class of 80), the Levittown Shopping center, the movie theater, all within walking distance. We rode our bikes to see friends in the other nearby neighborhoods. It was wonderful! I wish I could go back in time honestly...always a Levittown girl at heart!💕
My Parents grew up in L- town. Both my sets of grandparents bought their houses brand new. They should restore some of the houses back to their mid century modern glory. I always though it would be cool if someone made a Desperate Housewives type show that takes place in a brand new l- town
The PRR station was demolished in 2017, replaced by a beautiful SEPTA station in 2020 that has a bridge over Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, replacing an unsafe, urine-soaked tunnel.
Those children are starting to leave us as well. I lived with original Levittowner, Paul Zuback, who moved there at the age of 10 in 1953, when his parents bought a house on Thornridge Drive. He was 76 when he passed away in 2019.
@@bonniehughes9375 - My mom dated Paul in the 1990s, near the end of Ann's life. Ann adored my mom. I lived with Paul 2018-2019, near the end of his life. He had become a shadow of his former self, suffering from dementia.
We're all on the downward trend now! I lived in the holly hill section parents bought new in 53' I was the last of 5 kids born from 46' to 61' we were spread out evenly 😂
ahh the good old time when a family was built on a man who is a good husband and provider father a woman who is the caring wife / mother ( most sacred job) and healthy kids who live in a good community far from those days media trash
2:04 That's my elementary school I attended from 2005-2013! John Fitch Elementary! I can't believe it, this many years later. I'm 22 now. I'm aostounded at the tecchnology even at 22 years old...
"The most durable and popular theory traces “hunky-dory” to a street called “Honcho-dori” in Yokohama, Japan, where sailors on shore leave found bars, nightclubs and the other sorts of things sailors on shore leave go looking for." Oct 18, 2014
A nice piece of history... The beginning of the car dependent suburban experiment that failed miserably in Canada/USA. Strong Towns has made numerous videos about this failed type of urban development.
Failed? I was born and raised in a city and have happily relocated to suburbia with my family. No regrets. No syringes. No tents. No human feces on the sidewalk.
@@neonnoodle1169 Minnesota Civil Engineer named Chuck Marohn. He wrote two books about the financial insolvency of car dependent suburbia. Aside from money related problems, car dependent suburbia is also a bad place to raise children as you cannot teach them initiative.
@@alexsmith-ob3lu car dependency is an excellent strategy to segregate undesirable addicts, drug dealers, and homeless with mental health issues. Proud to say my car still has its catalytic converter, children have never found a syringe in our parks, and nobody was ever attacked during a mental health episode. No registered sex offenders within a 25 mile radius, our county hasn’t had a single homicide, robbery, or sexual assault in 30+ years. Section 8 housing also isn’t available within our community. It is no wonder why the majority of Americans live in suburban areas; with those numbers increasing annually.
@@krzytofr34 Some Americans like you are more financially capable of spending more money on car dependent suburbia. We call that gated communities. I've got nothing against it if you can afford it. Most Americans (like myself) cannot afford car dependent suburbia without massive government/debt subsidies to help out; so it doesn't make any sense. Yes, Big cities have lots of problems with drug dealers, drug addicts, homeless, debt problems, criminals and aggravated assault. BUT in smaller urban areas, these things are non-existent!
@@OldsVistaCruiser ouch that sucks, I don't recall that happening anywhere I lived in California. I do know my dad trimmed up a pine tree we had in our backyard once. In recent years, all the new developments try to put in very leafy trees.
And they're the ugliest houses I ever laid my eyes on.And the stench from the Tullytown landfill really tops off the depressive feeling I get when I go thru the area.I frequent a record shop on Woerner Av Only place I go to.I lived in Churchville and Richboro growing up in the 60's-80's and always thought of the Langhorne/Penndel tracks as the dividing line of "the other side of the tracks".Crime and all there now.Bristol(I call it Blister)is the worst,except for the wharf area.I never liked Lower Bucks.Central(Doylestown)and Upper Bucks were always preferable for me.
Central Bucks snob! But your comments are right on. And the uneducated people are moving your way. Churchville and Richboro are nothing like they were 40 years ago. I lived in Warminster from 1971 to 1990. Before that, in Feasterville in the late sixties. Hey, remember Dick's Deli at the Langhorne / Penndel train station? The old cab stand, and the seedy bar?
And don't forget the airplane diner!!I remember Two Guys on Rt.1 and the Roosevelt Drive-in(and flea market)where the Target store is now.Yes,Festerville,Leaveittown,no fun at all.Even Bitchboro and Newtown are over crowded.Two Council Rock Highs!!I'm up in Quakertown now.I love Pike Co.up in the corner of the state!!Beats Bucks,hands down!!I want to move there!!
People like you make me very sad for humanity- so judgemental, hateful and arrogant. So many people (my family included) had a wonderful experience growing up in Ltown, and deeply cherish the fond memories of their childhood. I absolutely loved visiting my grandparent's cute and cozy home, and hated when I had to leave. They are long gone, but my mom and I still drive by their house occasionally and replay the happy memories in our heads- wishing we could go back in time and relive them all over again.
Lived in Levittown from 1955 to 1966;First on Geranium Rd.,then a year on Sycamore Rd.;when I attended Immaculate Conception School during first grade in 1960..There were 80 kids in my first grade class(yes 80)..it was a great place to grow up the first 12 years of my life...Far more innocent times...
I grew up in a Levittown ranch in Hicksville Long Island , Hicksville is a town next to Levittown Long Island. My family loved living there. I am watching this video because I moved to Pa recently and want to move to Levittown, Pa. I miss living in a Levit home. Mr. Levit really thought of everything when he built his homes. I am also happy that Levittown Pa has a train line just like in Long Island. Thank you for the video, it really made me happy to watch it.
I live here it's crazy how the diagram of the inside of the houses are exactly how mine still looks
No kidding? Is your house still small then?
Thank you so much for posting this video! The best one about Levittown I've seen...brings back such fond memories, it brightened my day💕
Built on spinach fields.....😄 I used to find asparagus growing in the lawn at our house on JollyBrook Rd.😁
I lived in the holly hill section and backed up to the creek use to have wild strawberries growing everywhere you look and it was a challenge to pick without getting ivy poison 😂
@@davidhibbs6989 Hi David, that is very cool. Behind our house, near Mill Creek, a huge blackberry briar. Storybook beautiful. A footpath ran through it. The blackberry limbs canopied the path. In summer, we would come home with pails full of absolutely delicious berries.
I guess the farmers who worked that land (for who knows how long?) just left it there....
Thank you for the presentation.
I was born in 62, and grew up in Stonybrook. What a great place and time to be a kid! We had 2 LPRA community pools, the library, St Mikes Church and school, Bishop Conwell High(class of 80), the Levittown Shopping center, the movie theater, all within walking distance. We rode our bikes to see friends in the other nearby neighborhoods. It was wonderful! I wish I could go back in time honestly...always a Levittown girl at heart!💕
Did you have a Putt Putt Golf with arcade? Meet any BOYS there? 😜
I was from the area born in 61' holly hill section and I bet you weren't afraid to drink from the hose 😂
@@davidhibbs6989 The hose was THE drinking water source!
It’s crazy how much things change with time
The house at 3:30 is still standing with additions on Bristol-Emilie Rd, right across from the First Baptist Church
My Parents grew up in L- town. Both my sets of grandparents bought their houses brand new. They should restore some of the houses back to their mid century modern glory. I always though it would be cool if someone made a Desperate Housewives type show that takes place in a brand new l- town
The PRR station was demolished in 2017, replaced by a beautiful SEPTA station in 2020 that has a bridge over Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, replacing an unsafe, urine-soaked tunnel.
We were one of the first families that moved into the lower orchard section
We moved in 1955 left 1967.
I lovvvved the pool between snowball gate and forsythia gate.
And Indian creek
Those children are starting to leave us as well. I lived with original Levittowner, Paul Zuback, who moved there at the age of 10 in 1953, when his parents bought a house on Thornridge Drive. He was 76 when he passed away in 2019.
My Mom worked with Ann Zuback at the hall
@@bonniehughes9375 - My mom dated Paul in the 1990s, near the end of Ann's life. Ann adored my mom. I lived with Paul 2018-2019, near the end of his life. He had become a shadow of his former self, suffering from dementia.
We're all on the downward trend now! I lived in the holly hill section parents bought new in 53' I was the last of 5 kids born from 46' to 61' we were spread out evenly 😂
WONDERFUL thanks for this!!
ahh
the good old time when a family was built on
a man who is a good husband and provider father
a woman who is the caring wife / mother ( most sacred job)
and healthy kids who live in a good community far from those days media trash
2:04 That's my elementary school I attended from 2005-2013! John Fitch Elementary! I can't believe it, this many years later. I'm 22 now. I'm aostounded at the tecchnology even at 22 years old...
I went to John Fitch in 83 to 85
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot !
Levittown never had its own police force. It is served by FOUR police forces, 1 for each of the 3 townships and 1 borough.
Before the townships were created, Levittown did have its own force. Remember, this was made in 52 and the townships really didn't happen until 55-56
Too bad this isn't a real time machine, because I'd go to that place and time in a heartbeat.
I grew up there, it really was a wonderful place to be a kid in the 60s and 70s!
I was born in evittown before I moved to Florida at 5yo.
In 1960, Levittown won the Little League World Series.
This place looks like paradise
Not now it isn't.Waitll you get the waft of the landfill in Tullytown.Ugh!!!
I grew up there, born in 1962. It really was a wonderful place to be a kid. I have such fond memories, I wish I could go back in time...💕
But there were no black people there, how could it have been wonderful@@Aprilgirl1962
@@ronmartin4212The joints on 13😒
❤ NOSTROVIA ☦️ HOLLAND PA.
Given how well planned this place was, why didn't it stay nicer for longer? (It didn't)
"The most durable and popular theory traces “hunky-dory” to a street called “Honcho-dori” in Yokohama, Japan, where sailors on shore leave found bars, nightclubs and the other sorts of things sailors on shore leave go looking for." Oct 18, 2014
Well so much for passing that expression on to my grandchildren! 😅
@@bobt5778 Lord only knows what was passed onto those sailors.
A nice piece of history... The beginning of the car dependent suburban experiment that failed miserably in Canada/USA. Strong Towns has made numerous videos about this failed type of urban development.
Failed? I was born and raised in a city and have happily relocated to suburbia with my family. No regrets. No syringes. No tents. No human feces on the sidewalk.
Failed? According to who?
@@neonnoodle1169 Minnesota Civil Engineer named Chuck Marohn.
He wrote two books about the financial insolvency of car dependent suburbia.
Aside from money related problems, car dependent suburbia is also a bad place to raise children as you cannot teach them initiative.
@@alexsmith-ob3lu car dependency is an excellent strategy to segregate undesirable addicts, drug dealers, and homeless with mental health issues. Proud to say my car still has its catalytic converter, children have never found a syringe in our parks, and nobody was ever attacked during a mental health episode. No registered sex offenders within a 25 mile radius, our county hasn’t had a single homicide, robbery, or sexual assault in 30+ years. Section 8 housing also isn’t available within our community. It is no wonder why the majority of Americans live in suburban areas; with those numbers increasing annually.
@@krzytofr34 Some Americans like you are more financially capable of spending more money on car dependent suburbia. We call that gated communities. I've got nothing against it if you can afford it.
Most Americans (like myself) cannot afford car dependent suburbia without massive government/debt subsidies to help out; so it doesn't make any sense.
Yes, Big cities have lots of problems with drug dealers, drug addicts, homeless, debt problems, criminals and aggravated assault. BUT in smaller urban areas, these things are non-existent!
For a kid in those days it was Nirvana.
I grew up there, it was wonderful! 😊
Me too 😄
Great place to grow up in the 50's! Pools, schools, shopping centers, ball fields ....
Unfortunately the "no crime" didn't last too long
You got that right!!It gives Lower Bucks more than one meaning!!
Try Philly, lol, just moved from there, up here!
Unusual suspects.
That's what happens when the American culture rejects GOD.
@@georgepoirier9014 LOL, oh c'mon.
@4:06 best part for me :)
I swear people looked happier back then.
16:57 It appears that the Republican lady , put Oscar the Democrat, who delivers frozen food, in his place.
Yeah that’s before the parties switched ideologies.
Not exactly a surprise, most everyone liked Ike back then, the 1952 general election was a blowout.
@@federalbureauofinvestigati5588 the big switch is a myth, the histories of both parties does not support that idea.
@@disciplewill7696 dude, it's not a myth. It's well documented.
@@federalbureauofinvestigati5588 the parties switched in the early 30s. This wasn't before the switch, it took place after.
The policeman says the only problems are lost kids, lost dogs and a few motor violations. With the captions on motor comes out as murder! 😅
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This was a great time before the Myers family came
I saw a person leave that comment on another site and he was bombarded by the your a racist comments galore. Beware 😂
@davidhibbs6989 I'm used to it. I can careless. They should beware of me
the evil, hate, and ignorance you preach will disappear soon enough. Those that embrace humanity, equality, & decency will guide our future.
Those trees grew into huge junk trees in 65 years.
What do you mean junk trees?
@@kbanghart - We had huge pine branches that broke off in any high wind.
My cousin still has one of those original pine trees the things are beast
@@OldsVistaCruiser ouch that sucks, I don't recall that happening anywhere I lived in California. I do know my dad trimmed up a pine tree we had in our backyard once. In recent years, all the new developments try to put in very leafy trees.
The pines at the house where I lived grew directly over the power lines. Any time a branch came down, it landed on the wires.
Yikes. So 1984.
Grew up here since 2011, the people suck
1:20 least handsome 50s man
Still the 9th largest city lol
And they're the ugliest houses I ever laid my eyes on.And the stench from the Tullytown landfill really tops off the depressive feeling I get when I go thru the area.I frequent a record shop on Woerner Av
Only place I go to.I lived in Churchville and Richboro growing up in the 60's-80's and always thought of the Langhorne/Penndel tracks as the dividing line of "the other side of the tracks".Crime and all there now.Bristol(I call it Blister)is the worst,except for the wharf area.I never liked Lower Bucks.Central(Doylestown)and Upper Bucks were always preferable for me.
Central Bucks snob! But your comments are right on. And the uneducated people are moving your way. Churchville and Richboro are nothing like they were 40 years ago. I lived in Warminster from 1971 to 1990. Before that, in Feasterville in the late sixties. Hey, remember Dick's Deli at the Langhorne / Penndel train station? The old cab stand, and the seedy bar?
And don't forget the airplane diner!!I remember Two Guys on Rt.1 and the Roosevelt Drive-in(and flea market)where the Target store is now.Yes,Festerville,Leaveittown,no fun at all.Even Bitchboro and Newtown are over crowded.Two Council Rock Highs!!I'm up in Quakertown now.I love Pike Co.up in the corner of the state!!Beats Bucks,hands down!!I want to move there!!
@@ronmartin4212 we don't want you Central Bucks weirdos in Quakertown and nobody from Pikes Co wants you either 😂
People like you make me very sad for humanity- so judgemental, hateful and arrogant. So many people (my family included) had a wonderful experience growing up in Ltown, and deeply cherish the fond memories of their childhood. I absolutely loved visiting my grandparent's cute and cozy home, and hated when I had to leave. They are long gone, but my mom and I still drive by their house occasionally and replay the happy memories in our heads- wishing we could go back in time and relive them all over again.
@@CEO_of_Autism_ It's not Churchville(where I grew up-Council Rock schools being better than Neshaminy or Pennsbury) or Richboro thats for sure.