Ruthie Levikoff, 64, said she's walked past the Philadelphia Senior Center at Broad and Lombard streets for years without knowing what the center offered. It wasn't till a friend suggested started going to pick up a ceramics class that she finally became a member."It was like opening a world for me," she said. Levikoff, who commutes to the senior center from Balwynne Park on Tuesdays and Fridays for ceramics classes and on Wednesdays for sewing.
"If I weren't busy with so many other things, I'd come more often," Levikoff said.
Levikoff has been working in theater since the 1970s, when she helped film numerous documentaries about women's progress. She currently works for a branch of the Circle Theatre doing improv.
"Not like comedy - a dramatic kind," she said.
Levikoff said she's gotten to the point where she's "happy with every single birthday," and she wishes more seniors would feel the same way.
"I try to tell other people who are my age [about the Senior Cneter], and I try to tell my friends' parents, who may be in their eighties," Levikoff said, adding she loves meeting new people at the Senior Center and learning what they did before they retired as much as she loves the classes.
"I really think there's people who tend not to go out [for different reasons]," she said, "but at a certain stage in your life, you could come here and find your place. And it's a wonderful place."
By Tracy Galloway and Maria Zankey
Group 18, Technically Philly
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