at 17:17 that is my house i grew up in, thats insane. i lived on crabtree drive and went to g Washington school. so many good and bad memories. the creek is overgrown alot. we used to skate on it when it iced over the one on the left. looks different. they closed off the garage.
It is said that Levittown Long Island was the test project for what would eventually be Levittown PA. After the Levitts finished the project in Long Island, they sought to do a bigger project which would become Levittown Pennsylvania. The Levitts also built Willingboro NJ which shares some similarities with the other Levittowns.
@@TylerLarew one thing they did was mix the house models so there was some variation door to door. There was also a Levittown in Puerto Rico or so I was told.
That whole entire area looks alien to me now. My parents bought brand new in 53' Holly hill section 52 hollyhock. I moved out in 79' and graduated and moved to coastal south Carolina my parents moved out after my father retired from Conrail and reading. Sold in 82' raised 5 kids in that jubilee house. Thanks for the video!
The start of suburbia around the US. Where WWII vets could buy a "starter" home at a low mortgage rate and raise a family on ONE INCOME. These home frame could be built in a day and thousands of these homes would pop up al over the US. THIS was the start of THEN expanding US middle class.
@@redmustangredmustang I inherited the house I grew up in in Plumbridge in 92. I sold it for $100,000 in 97 which was pretty much the going rate. Two or three years later they were going for $250,000. Who knew. If it was a few hundred yards away in Middletown it would have been worth a lot more. No one knew back in the fifties that Bristol Twp. would be a lot less desirable than Middletown Twp. My parents should have gone to Snowball Gate a couple miles down the road. But no one knew. Still a lot better than a row house in Kensington.
Awesome! I left Leaveittown in 2017! Glad to be gone but very cool seeing my 2 story white house in the far background when you made the left onto Willow Drive. Then you turned off into Elderberry dang lol! Good times but seriously glad I'm out again. Never ever goin' back this time 😅
Thanks for the ride, Mike! I looked down at my tablet and I saw that a video about Levittown, Pa was about to start. My family moved into a house on Gable Hill Road in 1979 or maybe it was 1978. We came from Elizabeth, NJ, Bayway section, in the Burbs… You passed by Goldenridge section, where I lived, going down Edgely Road, early into the video. It really was nice to ride with you all around the Levittown area… I now live in Reading Pa. There’s no nice, wide streets in this city, Mike… I wonder if you’ve got a video driving around Reading Pa? ❤😊
Holly Drive has to be one of, if not thee highest point in Levittown PA. You can actually see all the way to the landfill at the top of Holly Hill. In the video you can actually see it briefly around 15:41.
@@virginiadios4550 i remember when it first went in. you could go down there they had a lake. yea 1970 people were ok with it back than. of course down there the fill payed your taxes and payeed you off every year. it was higher than the statue of liberty. bolted masion was the place to hand out for us kids
Thank you you brought back good memories without out me going back to that shithole was born and raised there born in 63 left in 81 would of liked to see Levittown lake but you did go by many relatives houses
This is the first habitational unit ever made in the world... Esta es la primera unidad habitacional construida en el mundo... In Chalco the so-called suburbs didn't arrive until 1984 when Villas and Portals of Chalco were opened. En Chalco los suburbios llegaron hasta 1984, cuando se abrieron Villas y Portales de Chalco.
@@ronaldswangler2538 oj yea, we used to set the salamander in a pool with to craw fish. one nut thre .22 shells in a bucket in the fire and we all scattered
@@scottsautomotivecenter5612 I was a kid there in Plumbridge in the sixties. Snowball Gate was too far away to walk and Indian Creek pool wasn’t worth walking to or even riding a bike to.
No steel mill and no real local market for steel even if you did have a mill. No Budd Company, No Fisher Body, really nothing. Bunch of kids with worthless degrees doing nothing but spitting out worthless words. Even if you brought the infrastructure for the industry back, there is nobody left with productive job skills
My parents lived in Levittown when I was born. We lived on Tawney Road and Ivy Hill Road. I have not been back for a very long time. Thanks Mike !
at 17:17 that is my house i grew up in, thats insane. i lived on crabtree drive and went to g Washington school. so many good and bad memories. the creek is overgrown alot. we used to skate on it when it iced over the one on the left. looks different. they closed off the garage.
0:18 I was shocked by the Gulf Station; I haven't seen on of those in decades! I thought they were out of business.
Amazing how much it looks like Levittown out here on Long Island..
It is said that Levittown Long Island was the test project for what would eventually be Levittown PA. After the Levitts finished the project in Long Island, they sought to do a bigger project which would become Levittown Pennsylvania. The Levitts also built Willingboro NJ which shares some similarities with the other Levittowns.
@@TylerLarew one thing they did was mix the house models so there was some variation door to door. There was also a Levittown in Puerto Rico or so I was told.
Lived in north Park until 71. Moved to Florida. My brother had hot rods an I remember him blasting down some of these roads😂
Levittown parkway every weekend
Nice drive in Levittown PA
That whole entire area looks alien to me now. My parents bought brand new in 53' Holly hill section 52 hollyhock. I moved out in 79' and graduated and moved to coastal south Carolina my parents moved out after my father retired from Conrail and reading. Sold in 82' raised 5 kids in that jubilee house. Thanks for the video!
The start of suburbia around the US. Where WWII vets could buy a "starter" home at a low mortgage rate and raise a family on ONE INCOME. These home frame could be built in a day and thousands of these homes would pop up al over the US. THIS was the start of THEN expanding US middle class.
😂$200.00 down and $50.00 a month. Back then it was living there or a row house in Philly. It was great when everything was brand new.
@@dew02300 now those Levittown homes cost around $668,000 TODAY in 2024. No wonder people can't afford these homes.
@@redmustangredmustang I inherited the house I grew up in in Plumbridge in 92. I sold it for $100,000 in 97 which was pretty much the going rate. Two or three years later they were going for $250,000. Who knew. If it was a few hundred yards away in Middletown it would have been worth a lot more. No one knew back in the fifties that Bristol Twp. would be a lot less desirable than Middletown Twp. My parents should have gone to Snowball Gate a couple miles down the road. But no one knew. Still a lot better than a row house in Kensington.
Lived here my whole life. After my Grandma passed we found the og deed to the house on Trenton Rd for $5700! Blew my mind
@@AquariumArmy plus you’re in a good school district.
Awesome! I left Leaveittown in 2017! Glad to be gone but very cool seeing my 2 story white house in the far background when you made the left onto Willow Drive. Then you turned off into Elderberry dang lol! Good times but seriously glad I'm out again. Never ever goin' back this time 😅
You'll be back
You drove past my old drug dealer from the teenage years
holly crap, my hometown!
mine too. crabrtree drive.................
Mine also apple tree drive
@@tylerross9706 me too, me too, Plumbridge .
Thanks for the ride, Mike! I looked down at my tablet and I saw that a video about Levittown, Pa was about to start. My family moved into a house on Gable Hill Road in 1979 or maybe it was 1978. We came from Elizabeth, NJ, Bayway section, in the Burbs… You passed by Goldenridge section, where I lived, going down Edgely Road, early into the video. It really was nice to ride with you all around the Levittown area… I now live in Reading Pa. There’s no nice, wide streets in this city, Mike… I wonder if you’ve got a video driving around Reading Pa? ❤😊
I wonder how many of these are the original Homes at Levitt built from 1952 to 57. There were 5 different styles to choose from.
almost all of them still are. Some have had improvements and additions though.
I'm still here living with my dad and the garage was built into a kitchen/ alternative living space back into the 60's/70's I was born in 2000.
yup and you could buy the upstairs finished or unfinished
all of them. updates sure. but they are mostly the same one to the t
Holly Drive has to be one of, if not thee highest point in Levittown PA. You can actually see all the way to the landfill at the top of Holly Hill. In the video you can actually see it briefly around 15:41.
I had no clue about the landfill. Do you know what year it was done? My parent's first home was on Holly many moons ago. Moved to Langhorne around 62
@@virginiadios4550 i remember when it first went in. you could go down there they had a lake. yea 1970 people were ok with it back than. of course down there the fill payed your taxes and payeed you off every year. it was higher than the statue of liberty. bolted masion was the place to hand out for us kids
I miss driving around this area.
Trust me you wouldn't miss it, traffic is a mess.
@@ronaldswangler2538not really
Newfalls Rd. Tattletales. Fallsington county. Good stuff.
🤣
Thank you you brought back good memories without out me going back to that shithole was born and raised there born in 63 left in 81 would of liked to see Levittown lake but you did go by many relatives houses
I have watched Documentaries about old timers who lived there all their lives. It was pretty interesting. I suppose it's to each their own.
Where's 30 Thaliabush Lane of Thornridge? Birch Valley, Vermillion Hills, North Park, Fairless Hills?
Come On Man!!!
Vermillion Hills here
Ive been in Levittown before. Its a very dreary beaten down area. Especially the Bristol side. Certainly was a great place in its day though.
Not really.
This is the first habitational unit ever made in the world...
Esta es la primera unidad habitacional construida en el mundo...
In Chalco the so-called suburbs didn't arrive until 1984 when Villas and Portals of Chalco were opened.
En Chalco los suburbios llegaron hasta 1984, cuando se abrieron Villas y Portales de Chalco.
magnolia drive had the woods and alligator creek and of course the pool, lgpa
Alligator rock
@@ronaldswangler2538 yup. And we would catch cray fish. Dude. Head to the bolted masion. With the old cut tree out front.
@@ATL_Transparency_News salamander's to. We use to have bb gun wars in the woods, good times.
@@ronaldswangler2538 oj yea, we used to set the salamander in a pool with to craw fish. one nut thre .22 shells in a bucket in the fire and we all scattered
@@ronaldswangler2538 what year? did you goto george washington?
Thanks 👍
I remember when the Gas Riots broke out in '79 at the intersection shown at 4:34
We were in the ice cream truck at 5 points selling ice cream
I got bjt by one of the dogs from PPD. Ran towards Thiokol after that.
I live here sometimes!
Why didn't you do Trenton Rd ?
School mate got into a bad wreck at that part of Levittown Parkway when we were in high school 14:02.
We used to call that Deadman's curve in the 70's and 80's.
@@SeanCrowley-ks1mu still did in the 90s
@@SeanMcUSMC The drag racing was over by then though.
what years was it? 1970's i remember a bad motor cycle one there. he didnt make it i think close to the holly hill enterence
@@ATL_Transparency_News 90's
I wonder if Levittown, NY looks like this.
I agree. Levittown, New York definitely looks like this. It somewhat looks like Hempstead Turnpike and a lot of the neighborhood streets in Levittown!
Going to find out soon
I think they all look the Same. Same layout
They are in fact the same. Also a town in Jersey willingsboro was built by William levitt
@@FaultedWolF My hometown
I miss home so bad
Strange thinking I could be driving past you at this point.
Where are the sidewalks? What kinda town is this...
are gym teacher lived over in oak tree
60 years ago there would have been so many kids playing in the streets there.
Grew up there from 68 through 2017. In the 70s and 80s there kids EVERYWHERE. Not so much anymore with Video Games and Social Media.
Do the Gates- Red Rose, Forsythia and Snow Ball
What you know about the gates? Red rose here 81
@@scottsautomotivecenter5612I know back in the day they had the cleanest pool.
@@dew02300 we use to jump the fence at night party at the pool
@@scottsautomotivecenter5612 I was a kid there in Plumbridge in the sixties. Snowball Gate was too far away to walk and Indian Creek pool wasn’t worth walking to or even riding a bike to.
@@dew02300 I don’t remember a pool in Indian creek I was born in and raised in goldenridge 1963 moved to red rose gate 1978
now oak tree had a different name do you remember what it was..... it was only on one sign
I shop at that Aldi's
I can't get over that you literally cannot just walk somwehere in America
No steel mill and no real local market for steel even if you did have a mill. No Budd Company, No Fisher Body, really nothing. Bunch of kids with worthless degrees doing nothing but spitting out worthless words. Even if you brought the infrastructure for the industry back, there is nobody left with productive job skills
Look at this area too, no sidewalks, no parks, no community. Just roads, gas stations and fast food joints. What a disgrace.
Levitown is trash.
True that, they barely have any sidewalks and like no parks like what the fuck.