A dollar really went far in the 1950s and 1960s — much farther than it does today. Before you get too nostalgic, remember that the average home was worth $7,354,…
Air travel has come a long way since the 1950s, this we know. But in the ’50s, flying was something different. It was something magical and marvelous. Air travel exploded…
The 1970s were a time of unique style and fashion. ’70s fashion was the era of disco, bell bottoms, and leisure suits. While some may view the fashion of this…
Although the technology to produce color prints was widely available as early as the 1940s, for many years black and white remained the only accepted medium for fine art photography.…
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, as the most populous city in the province and the fifth-most densely…
In 1941, LIFE magazine sent photographer William C. Shrout to document the lives of one of the biggest single demographics in the U.S: the 30 million housewives who did most of the…
Louie Mattar, a San Diego garage owner with a big imagination, who turned his 1947 Cadillac into a how-to guide for four-wheeled DIYers everywhere. When he bought a brand new…
In the middle of the century, supermarkets began to dominate the task of supplying food to the nation's consumers and that affected farmers and consumers in both good and bad…
A row of LNER streamlined locomotives belch out smoke at a London railway station, where they are to be tested out. From the left, they are Dominion of New Zealand,…
Toasted bacon wrapped in tin trays, sonic dishwashers and fridges that appear from under the kitchen floor – this was how life was supposed to be 40 years ago. These…