wagner family scrapbook

Tired of the Crowds at the Jersey Shore?
So were we. That is why we renovated our Historic Inn in the quiet & pristine Victorian beach resort town of Cape Charles, just north of Virginia Beach. Why not take your next family vacation on the Virginia's Eastern Shore at our 17 room water-view Inn or our beachfront rental home? It's laid back, not crowded, affordable & only less than 5 hours from Levittown or Philadelphia.

My parents, Dick & Betty Wagner, moved out of a row house in Northeast Philly in 1957 in search of the American dream of owing their own single family home with a yard. They found it 30 minutes away in Levittown, PA.

Wedding Day 1945 (Wagner photo)

Dad was a Navy Vet and a Machinist by trade. My mother was a homemaker and later a substitute teacher. They were unusual in 1957 in that they were a double income couple with no kids yet. This enabled them to buy the "top of the line" Levitt house; a Country Clubber in the Snowball Gate section. Within a year of moving in my mother became pregnant and I was born in 1959 at Lower Bucks Hospital.

I grew up in Snowball Gate during what could be called the "golden age" of Levittown. When it was still new and there were kids everywhere. We rarely left Levittown for any further away than the Jersey Shore until I went away to college. I think it is fair to say that Levittown was my whole world for my first 18 years.

Here is the Gallery of the Wagner's Levittown (click to see larger image)