45 Cool Snaps That Show Christmas House Interior in the 1950s and 1960s_ml

A cool photo collection that shows how people decorated their houses to greet Christmas in the 1950s and 1960s. Cool Snaps That Show Christmas House Interior in…

50 Stunning color photographs illustrating the appearance of gas stations in the U.S. during the 1950s and 1960s_Lap

Back then, full-service gas stations engaged in numerous marketing ploys to draw you in for fill ups. Unlike today’s gas station stores that are mostly eateries, the…

Candid Photographs of Teenage Girls at Texas Beaches During the 1980s_Lap

By the 1980s, Texas hot spots for spring break, from Matamoros to Galveston were in full swing. These candid photos take a look back to how teenage…

Photos of Vis-O-Matic, the pre-Internet online shopping store, 1950s_Lap

In the 1950s, visionary business entrepreneur Lawrence Freiman opened a new concept store that tried to reinvent the way people purchased things. “Vis-O-Matic” was the Amazon Prime…

Vintage pictures of bizarre vending machines you never knew existed, 1920-1960_Lap

This collection of photographs shows some of the world’s oldest and oddest vending machines. Nowadays almost anything imaginable can now be purchased from the vending machines, however,…

Stunning black and white photographs capturing life in London in the 1950s_Lap

Casparus Bernardus Oorthuys (1 November 1908 – 22 July 1975), known as Cas Oorthuys, was a Dutch photographer and designer. Oorthuys first took up photography after he…

30 Rare and Stunning Vintage Photos of a Young Queen Elizabeth II in the 1940s and 1950s_Lap

Queen Elizabeth II was born Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary on April 21, 1926, in London, England. At the time of her birth, most did not realize Elizabeth…

Vintage color snapshots capturing Birmingham in the 1960s_Lap

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. In the last 200 years, from a market town of Warwickshire, Birmingham has risen into…

One of the Wild Fads of the 1950s Was Telephone Booth Stuffing_top1

One of the most well-known fads of all time was the art of “telephone booth stuffing.” In taking part in this event, several students would squeeze themselves…

Historic Photos of the Last Trams in London in July 1952_ml

What would you do if London buses went out of service? Terrifying thought isn’t it? Well, on July 6 1952 London’s trams ceased being a convenient form…