More vintage photos of Division Avenue High School grads

• Dance recital in early 1950s. Sandy Adams (1960) is in center of first row and behind her is Martha Traystman (1960). Sandy provided the photo. We need help identifying other dancers.

• Cathy Burner, class of 1963, in 1958. Photo compliments of Toni Crescenzo Gelfer, class of 1968,

• Tim (1963) and Mitch Lavey early 1950s.

• Carol Binninger (1964) on a pony Sept. 1949 on Cord Lane in Levittown.

• Tom Filiberto (1963) at 18 months of age in 1947.

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More vintage photos of Division Avenue High School grads

• Michelle Fromm-Lewis '63 and brother Cliff Fromm '60 in 1951.

• Marilyn Monsrud Frese, class of 1963, on the left in the nifty hat with her best friend and next door neighbor, Linda Morris. This shot is from approximately 1952. Note the Levitt houses and immature trees in the background.

• Roberta Landry Bremmer, class of 1961, with her dog Lucky when she lived on Union Avenue in Bethpage in 1948. She was four years of age.

• Toni Crescenzo Gelfer '68 and her brother Jimmy (Levittown Memorial 1959) in 1954.

• Perry '60 and his sister Jackie Berns in 1959 at Bradley Beach, NJ.

More vintage photos of Division Avenue High School graduates

• Perry Berns, class of 1960, and his sister Jackie Berns Karp in 1956.

• Jimmy Judson and Arnie Galeota (holding bottle) class of 1961 in 1959.

• Howard Whidden, class of 1962, visits Santa in 1951 at Macy's in Herald Square.

• Roberta Landry 1961 (left) and Dotty Kuppler 1960. They look classically innocent.

• Bill Stanley (No. 13) and Frank Barning, 1960 classmates. We were teammates on the junior varsity basketball team during the 1958-59 season. The photo was snapped by Owen Goldfarb.

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Some old photos of Division Avenue grads who moved to Florida; many Levittowners have migrated to the Sunshine State

• John Sanzone, class of 1960, passed away on December 12. Here he is shown during his high school days playing guitar in Peter Antonio's band which was popular in Levittown. The photo is courtesy of Tom Paturzo Baker. John, a dental technician who lived in Melbourne FL, was a Vietnam veteran who had served in the US Navy.

• Louise Nicolosi, class of 1960, in the summer of 1947. Louise now lives in and totally enjoys Florida. She has lived in Belleview for almost four years.

• "Some things never change," says Lynn Smith-Dos Santos (1964) about her husband Larry (1964) playing baseball in his backyard, circa 1955, with his Dad in the background. He lived on Albatross Lane. " Larry can still be seen on any given day here in Venice, in the same pose, playing on the Venice FL. Senior Softball League. I call them The boys of perpetual summer.”

• Karen Biro Hewson, class of 1960, in a 1945 photo. She has lived in Stuart, Florida for 17 years and does not miss snow.

Photos of Division Avenue High School graduates from long, long ago. One lived, briefly, on a nearby farm.

• Roberta Landry Bremmer, class of 1961 with her dog Lucky in 1950 at the Hanisch Dairy Farm in Plainview. She was six years of age.

• Jim Anton, class of 1961, and kid brother Jerry in 1955. Notice the Levitt houses in the background.

• Ira Shapiro, class of 1961, age 3

• Artie Kornfeld, class of 1960

• Don Davidson, class of 1960, age three in 1946. Nice pants, Droopy Drawers.

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Why did Roberta Landry live on a Plainview dairy farm in 1948? According to the 1961 graduate, "It was just the house my parents rented while they were building our Loring Road house in Levittown.

"As I remember, it was a little house, pretty close to the barn and cows. The owners of the farm lived down the hill and across the road. I had to walk down the hill to get the school bus and would get scared that the bull might be out. I attended St Ignatius in Hicksville for first grade then when we moved to Levittown, I went to Division Avenue for second grade."

The Loring Road house was not built by Levitt and Sons, one of the few non-Levitt houses that Division Avenue High students called home.

Photos of Division Avenue High School graduates from way back when

• Louise Nicolosi Hayn, class of 1960, age three in 1945

• Linc, class of 1963, and Carol Binninger Mondello, class of 1964, in 1948

• Cliff, class of 1960, and Michelle Fromm, class of 1963 with their mother Sylvia, in 1947

• Tim Lavey, class of 1963; grammar school picture

• Steve Mohr, class of 1960, age eight in 1950

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Vintage photos of Division Avenue High and Levittown Memorial High graduates

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Shown here are:

* Linc Binninger, class of 1963, in his graduation photo.

* Easter girls Sandy Kelly Mincher (taller of the two), class of 1961 with sister Karen in around 1956. Note the cars. "The Hudson was ours," said Sandy. "We also had a Wasp and a Hornet."

* Steve Mohr sent this Jones Beach photo of him and his siblings. He wrote, "Included are my older sister June (Levittown Memorial class of 1957); my sister Barbara (Levittown Memorial 1959); me (Division 1960); and our little brother Eddie who went to high school in California." The photo is from approximately 1953.

* Don Davidson, class of 1960, age 14 months in 1944.

* Jimmy Crescenzo and Jerry Gosse, 1959 Levittown Memorial High School graduates.

More vintage photos of Division Avenue High School grads

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Shown here are:

* Howard Whidden, class of 1962, Marine boot camp photo.

* Sandy Kelly Mincher, class of 1961, in 1958 or so. She lived at 34 Honeysuckle Road. The Renault and Hudson Hornet were her family's cars. Sandy said that her dad "was a car enthusiast, of sorts."

* Toni Crescenzo Gelfer, class of 1968 at about age six. The construction behind her is the Crescenzo kitchen being squared off.

* Don Davidson, class of 1960, age 10 months in 1944.

* Tom Filiberto, class of 1963, at age two with his mother.

Even more photos of Division Avenue High grads as children

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Shown here are:

* Frank Barning, class of 1960, in September 1943, age 15 months. My dad, along with other fathers, was away fighting the war.

* Sandy Kelly Mincher, class of 1961, in front of 34 Honeysuckle.

* Don Davidson, class of 1960, age three in 1946.

* Toni Crescemzo Gelfer, class of 1968, in her Sea Scouts uniform; American Cadet Alliance, Admiral Halsey Division. We don't know the name of the boy who was giving Toni the finger.

* Carol '64 and Linc Binninger '63 in Miami in 1950.

More vintage photos of Division Avenue High School kids; do you remember Freedomland?

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Shown here are:

* Don Davidson, class of 1960, age six in 1949. He was a Hopalong Cassidy fan.

* Howard Whidden, class of 1962, visits Santa in 1951 at Macy's in Herald Square.

* Marilyn Monsrud, class of 1963, age two.

* Louise Nicolosi Hayn, class of 1960, first communion.

* Toni Crescenzo Gelfer, class of 1968, at Freedomland in 1961 in her Sea Scouts uniform.

FREEDOMLAND
Do you remember Freedomland? Toni's picture might give you a flashback. Many Levittown dads drove their families to the park.

According to Wikipedia: Freedomland U.S.A. (usually just called Freedomland) was a short-lived, U.S. history-themed amusement park in the Baychester area in the northeastern part of the Borough of The Bronx, New York City. Its slogan was "The World's Largest Entertainment Center" (later, "The World's Largest Outdoor Family Entertainment Center"). Freedomland opened on June 19, 1960. It closed at the end of the 1964 season when it failed to make a profit.