Brown v Board of Education and the nationwide racial integration that followed hardly touched Levittown, and even today its demographic profile still reads They provided settings to the novelists who got their start in the midth century, some of whom would famously inveigh against their stifling social atmosphere.
He has too much to do. Being American, after all, many of them set about customising their freshly built homes, whether of the standard utilitarian Cape Cod design or the newer models Colonial, Rancher and Country Clubber that followed. The early 60s. The banks and other lenders required it. They would not make loans to people of color in that time, and made that extremely clear, so that IT would be extremely clear in any court in the land.
Ahhh Shari. No need though. There is nothing wrong with me pointing out racism no matter the era or Government. Thanks for that education. Nowhere did I say YOU definitely said…and it was well within context. My family moved into our Levittown home in I enjoyed meeting new friends and how the neighbors worked together as neighbors. The yards were still dirt and the streets were cement and the construction workers were still constructing homes in nearby neighborhoods.
When our family drove around looking at the variety of styles I noticed the workers. Later in life I received original photos of different workers building Levittown,Pa which shows Levittown homes being built and this example. So black people helped build communities they were forbade to live in…and? As is true all over the country. Asbestos roofs! They were apparently better quality to everyone involved — those who lived under them, who made them, who made loans on or insured the homes they were installed on, because they were fireproof.
This was an extremely important feature to homeowners all the way back to the early twenties who had been living in homes prior to that with wooden shingle roofs and open flame heat sources, where a few good sparks from the chimney picked up by the wind could land them on any nearby roof, including the home it came from of course, and begin a raging house fire.
More houses were lost that way than most any other in those times. Combined with certain types of cement and coloring materials, it could become home siding, with which the original Levittown homes were sided.
Yes, that asbestos. Yes, I know all about that stuff. This response alone was interesting, thank you. That is, minus the last sentence. I never said you Shari do not know about the risks of asbestos. No, you never said that, but I was not addressing you specifically in the last bit, but also anyone and everyone else who could read my answer. The problem here is the unqualified lack of expression of several factors most important in interpersonal communications.
The things that are difficult if not impossible to include in written communications. Things like body language, eye expression, facial expressions in general, tone of voice, inflection, and so forth. But, even in the 21st century, the ability to do two very simple things in these kinds of messages, and in text messages are STILL missing! What I mean is color, and underlining! I have yet to find that capability in any smartphone platform I have examined to date!
Not all posts have to be fluffed up with too many words. Let it be. But alas here you are, breathe. Research would have uncovered the reality of the Levittown in Bowie, Md, which is a healthy racial mix, reflecting the employment policies of the federal government and military, where its residents work.
The Levittowns are a reflection of the larger communities, and the financing policies, where they are located. There was a tradeoff, which these comments have ignored.
Each community was built with neighborhood schools, parks and community shopping center, sidewalks, all built by Levitt. Minimal need for school busses; the planning allowed all kids to safely walk to school. Sewage and water plants were financed or built as required. The mass production system of factory manufactured panellized construction was invented by Levitt, and is now the standard nationwide.
This included framing innovations that anticipated the hurricane code standards required decades later. The later Levittowns provided for economic diversity also; but bank lending practices dictated separate streets and neighborhoods for the larger more costly homes. As World War II came to an end, families looked for ways to start over. One way they did that was by moving out of the cities and into newly developed suburban communities. Levittown in Long Island, New York, was one of the first to introduce the idea of a pre-planned, mass-produced uniform suburban community.
Families started moving there on October 1, At the time, most people lived close to the city center to work in factories, or they lived in rural communities to work on farms. The GI Bill gave each returning soldier benefits that were designed to stimulate economic growth.
Each soldier was given a year of unemployment and free tuition to go to college. The military pledged to back all home loans, which allowed veterans to buy houses with little-to-no down payments.
In , 3. This trend continued into the '50s. Some believe this was due to "a desire for normalcy after 16 years of depression and war," while most think it was simply because Americans were eager to have families after having postponed marriage and childbirth because of the Great Depression and World War II. During the war, factories focused on creating wartime essentials , like airplanes and barracks.
In the '50s, they refocused their efforts on building home components and automobiles using the new practices they implemented in the war, like the assembly line. As a result, factories were able to produce materials for homes faster than ever before. Levitt and Sons, a construction company, purchased a 7-square-mile plot of potato and onion farms in Long Island in They set out to build one of the first uniform suburban community in the US.
Levitt and Sons hired mostly unskilled workers to build the homes , giving them each one very specific skill to specialize in, and creating a sort of human assembly line in that way. Unlike other builders who merely constructed houses, Levitt built entire communities. The third Levittown, located just across the Delaware River in New Jersey, changed its name back to Willingboro in The opening of U. Jim Sheridan hardhat came to Levittown from a small mining town near Scranton.
Lower Bucks was close to population centers Philadelphia and Trenton , improved highways including the Pennsylvania Turnpike and, best of all, jobs. Steel broke ground for its new Fairless Works Division along the western bank of the Delaware River in early At the time, the Fairless Works was the second largest integrated plant on the East Coast, and the 12th largest steel mill in the country.
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