This nugget comes through a long circuitous route via The Food Section, which is in turn via Coudal Partners, which is in turn via List.
The State Museum of Pennsylvania is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Levittown:
The brainchild of developer William J. Levitt, Levittown, Pennsylvania was the largest planned community constructed by a single builder in the United States. By the time it was completed in 1958, the development occupied over 5500 acres in lower Bucks County and included churches, schools, swimming pools, shopping centers and 17,311 single-family homes.
To its 70,000-plus residents, Levittown represented the American Dream of homeownership. To many others, Levittown epitomized postwar suburbia — a place often criticized but widely copied.
What does it have to do with food? Well, one of the major parts of the exhibit is a reconstruction of a 1958 suburban kitchen. Why is this interesting? Well, if you click on the little dot in the back left corner of the room, you will get to zoom in on the canister set. “So what?” you say. Well, that is the same set that Gretchen and I use to this very day. Gretchen got it from her Mother, whom we presume got it when she moved here to central Pennsylvania in 1957.
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