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...housing construction. That insight enabled him, and the many builders who copied him, to put up houses fast and cheap. Levitt's houses were so cheap (but still reasonably sturdy) that bus drivers, music teachers and boilermakers could afford them. And the first place he offered them was Levittown, N.Y., a town that is as much an achievement of its cultural moment as Venice or Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suburban Legend WILLIAM LEVITT | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...biggest (dare I use the word?) community on the Web. He understands that community is mostly about communicating--and he figured out a way to facilitate both online. Think of him as the Web equivalent of William Levitt, the postwar developer who built affordable homes in suburbs like Levittown, Long Island. Bohnett's was the first Website to supply free home pages, and the tools to build them, to all comers. To date, nearly 1.7 million users have signed up and are publishing their home-brew homages to Leo DiCaprio, Beanie Babies, Windows 95 and everything between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Levittown On The Web | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...earth's cars. Automobiles were the symbols as well as the vehicles of individual and national progress, so why shouldn't Americans have the most ostentatious models--with new fins each year? At the height of fin fashion, American cars (with sticker prices about the cost of a Levittown house) resembled the pagoda-shouldered pottery courtesans in Tang dynasty tombs--exotica from a lost age of extravagance. The 1958 recession sent the style into decline. Fin de siecle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1948-1960 Affluence: Somewhere Over The Dashboard | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...about time women were recognized as a major force in the music world instead of just backup singers or dancers." SHANNON SLAVICK Levittown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 11, 1997 | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...Mack truck full of daisies. As you peel yourself off the macadam, you're free to cry out against all that is filigreed, twice marinated and hand dipped. You may even be allowed to live. But you will know you have met the woman who sold colonial Williamsburg to Levittown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE CLASS OF 1996? | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

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