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  Friday  September 5  2003    01: 21 AM

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Levittown: Photographs from the Tekula Family

In the early '50s, Charles Tekula and his wife and children, Joanne and Charles, Jr., moved to a Levittown house at 103 Bloomingdale Road. Like most postwar American families recently moved to the suburbs, the Tekulas photographed their lives together in snapshots using small, consumer-oriented cameras of the time, like the Kodak Brownie and Starmite. The pictures are fuzzy at times, but they are invaluable records of one family's life in the new landscapes of postwar American suburbia


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