. >> reporter: chris galvin is head of the local united way. >> but it's still all the same zip code. 43452 is port clinton. >> this was not a high rent district when i was growing up. but of course now in the past 25 years this has been taken over by huge mansions all along here. you can see in the parking lot of the port clinton high school bmws that are driven to school by kids who live out here. >> reporter: in robert putnam's day, everyone hung out together at tony's snack bar, now the a la carte. the future was bright for the members of the class of '59 regardless of their socioeconomic background, be they the rich ray lambert (known as "casey"), or virginia park who was poor. >> i grew up on a farm and i was one of ten children. so our economic status would have been much lower than casey's and probably considerably lower than bob's as well. >> reporter: but you didn't feel that difference? >> no, not much. i didn't know until i was a senior in high school that his family were the wealthiest people in port clinton. >> that was news to me. i didn't know that. (laughter) >> repor