Re: OT: Zillow.com


"bsptss" <bsptss.23vz0j@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I don't think Liz's house was a cookie-cutter house. Here in Levittown,
PA we have 4 types of houses and that's it. They were built in the
1950s mainly to accomodate all the steelworkers who were moving here to
work in the newly opened Fairless Hills Steel Mill. In Liz's
neighborhood I did not see identical houses, which is what I really
loved about her neighborhood. Take our development, Mill Creek
Falls...there must be 150 identical houses in this section. Each
section had the same identical type homes. Levitt never mixed the four
types of houses he offered...each section contained only one style. Now
30 years later of course not many resemble the original homes, but when
first built they were all identical.

Okay Liz....cookie cutter or not cookie cutter???

Barbara

Both! They were definitely cookie cutter when built in the mid 50s - the
typical split level homes that were so popular (at least in the Philly
suburbs) during that era. Even when we moved here in 1971 most of the homes
were the same, differing only by paint color. But over the years as people
have built on additions, most of the houses now have their own distinct
personality. On my street, which has 9 houses, only three remain the basic
house, and of the approximately 100 houses in the neighborhood, I'd guess
there are only 10 in total that have remained unaltered.

Liz


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