The new instant community outside Los Angeles at right was one of a rash put up by developers in the immediate postwar years. In Long Island's Levittown, two bedrooms and a slice of lawn could be had for $6,990. Growing up in such tract houses would not affect speech patterns until, like, wow, the 1980s?
![Hempstead Turnpike with Loring Road on the left. The man in the photograph is a surveyor overseeing the site of the Wantagh Parkway crossing over Hempstead Turnpike. It was taken in May of 1936. [By PAUL MANTON Levittown historian]](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/01/63/29/016329bd4975e2a53a5767b15704815b--long-island-ny-island-girl.jpg)
