kids, kids & more kids

Levittown was for Kids Because so many families bought their Levittown houses as young adults, the neighborhoods tended to be populated by roving groups of very young children. These masses of children required a new form of flexible supervision. In Levittown, mothers could stand at their windows and watch their children. You not only watched your children, you watched your neighbor’s children and they watched yours.

Seems like every family in the early days of Levittown had a bunch of young kids. There were hundreds of kids in my neighborhood. Especially in the 1950s and 1960s in Levittown, it was not unusual for many of the families you know to have 4, 5 or 6 kids.

Oaktree 1959 (Photo - Hollenzcer Levittown Memories website)

Today, there are fewer large families. This census data tell the story:
1960 Population over 70,000
2000 Population around 53,000 (with even more houses)

LPRA POOLS
The LPRA (Levittown Public Recreation Association) had 5 community pools spread out throughout Levittown. Most of us kids spent our entire summers there.

BACKYARD POOL
(Wagner Family Photo)

In Levittown, if your family had a pool, so did your neighbor's kids. – Snowball Gate 1964

SLEDDING
(Wagner Family Photo)

Remember when it used to actually snow. This was taken in the winter of 1961-62 – Snowball Gate

JUST HANGING OUT
(Wagner Family Photo)
Two kids hanging out in a Country Clubber – Snowball Gate 1958