Original Baby Boom town turns 60

LEVITTOWN - In 1951, 7-year-old Louise Cassano couldn't imagine a better life than the one she lived in Levittown.

She would climb aboard her bicycle and ride past the rows of cookie-cutter homes. Fences didn't make better neighbors; there were no fences anywhere. Kids staged backyard campouts in makeshift tents. And nobody locked their front doors.

“It was an absolute ideal community,” said Cassano, whose love affair with Levittown never waned.