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Date
6-1-1970
Description
The Levittown Shop-a-Rama, was a pedestrian shopping mall, planned and developed by Levitt and Sons, a real estate development agency responsible for building the heterogeneous towns and communities of Levittown, New York and Levittown, Pennsylvania, as well as various other real estate and community projects. The shopping mall opened on October 15th, 1953, and was at that time the largest pedestrian shopping mall east of the Mississippi.
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This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcommons@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.
Creator 1 Role
Photographer
Creator 2 Dates
1953
Creator 2 Role
Developer
Recommended Citation
Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.
Recommended Citation
Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.
Keywords
malls, suburbs, new town, new towns
Notes
Lacayo, Richard. "Suburban Legend William Levitt." Time Magazine, 7 Dec. 1998. Longsmith, Richard. "The Levitts, Mass-Produced Houses, and Community Planning in the Mid-twentieth Century." Culture Politics & the Built Environment: Second Suburb: Levittown, Pennsylvania, edited by Dianne Harris, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.