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wagner family scrapbook
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)

Betty Kuehner & Dick Wagner early 1940s

(Wagner Family Photo)

My mom, Betty Wagner in 1940s

(Thomas Sanicola photo)

Yardwork 1957 with my cousin Denise

(Wagner Family Photo)

Grandpa Adolph at the fireplace

(Wagner Family Photo)

Denise & Carole hanging out on the steps

(Wagner Family Photo)

My cousins Denise & Carole with Bing the cat

(Wagner Family Photo)

Our Backyard Pool 1964

(Wagner Family Photo)

Pop and I in the yard 1960

(Wagner Family Photo)

Mom after a snowfall

(Wagner Family Photo)

Country Clubber dining room 1958

(Wagner Family Photo)

Grandpa Adolph & Grndma Lydia Wagner 1958

(Wagner Family Photo)

High School - The Snowball Gate crew

(Joe Upcavage Photo)

My Country Clubber bedroom 1960

(Wagner Family Photo)

Mom and I in the snow 1960

(Wagner Family Photo)

Mom and I in the snow 1960

(Wagner Family Photo)

High School - The Snowball Gate crew

(Joe Upcavage Photo)

High School - The Snowball Gate girls

(Joe Upcavage Photo)

High School - The Snowball Gate boys

(Joe Upcavage Photo)

Family shot in 1999

(Wagner Family Photo)

Amy Wagner 2004

(Wagner Family Photo)

AMy and Jackson 2005 at beach house

(Wagner Family Photo)

Jackson and Pop 2005

(Wagner Photo)

 

 

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