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Amazing Photos Capture People at Home in the 1950s

The 1950s were a decade filled with exuberance, radiating a positive outlook from the United States triumphant post-war recovery. The emphasis of a ’50s household was on comfort and leisure, with the decade being a prosperous time for most middle…

Old McDonald’s: Historical Photos, Vintage Advertisements and the Original Menus, 1950s-1980s

McDonald Brother’s store in San Bernadino, California, 1953. When McDonald’s was first founded in the 1940s by brothers Dick and Mac McDonald, it was actually a barbecue-centric restaurant, serving items like ribs and barbecued pork sandwiches. But once Ray Kroc…

36 Cool Photos of Teenage Girls in the 1970s

Teenage girls’ fashion in the 1970s continued the “do-your-own-thing” look of the late 1960s for the early years of the decade.   Girls’ clothing styles were dominated by the disco look during the latter half of the 1970s. Girls’ clothes…

29 Fascinating Vintage Photos of Secretaries From the 1950s and 1960s

Since the advent of television and the movies, Americans have come to love secretarial characters from Miss Hathaway in The Beverly Hillbillies to Mrs. Wiggins in The Carol Burnett Show to Jennifer Marlow in WKRP in Cincinnati. In the 1950s and ’60s, the number one…

Cool Pics of American Young Girls in Short Shorts in the 1970s

The 1970s was a time of liberation, of “anything goes,” and people were putting their bodies out there and feeling proud of them. The Woodstock era had taught us to be free, to question authority in general – and in…

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Big Hair & Christmas Tree: The Favorite Christmas Style of Women in the 1960s

Referring to big hair, we often think of the typical hairstyle of women in the 1960s. A set of fabulous vintage photos that shows the Sixties women with big-hairs posing by Christmas trees. The lady by the pine tree is…

Pictures of High School Proms in the 1940s and 1950s

In the United States, and increasingly in the United Kingdom and Canada, a promenade dance, most commonly called a prom, is a semi-formal (black tie) dance or gathering of high school students. This event is typically held near the end…

That was a great life in America in the 1950s

The 1950s were a decade marked by the post-World War II boom, the dawn of the Cold War and the Civil Rights movement in the United States. During the 1950s, the United States was the world’s strongest military power. Its…

40 Cool Snaps That Show the ’50s Formal Dresses of Young Women

1950s formal dresses and prom dresses were much like the popular dress styles of the 1950s. The natural female figure was merely a starting block for the structure and design that clothing in the ’50s promoted. The look was innocent,…

Hotpants of the 1960s and 1970s

Hotpants, or booty shorts describe extremely short shorts, which may be worn by women and, to a lesser extent, by men. Whilst the term “hotpants” is used generically to describe extremely short shorts, similar garments had been worn since the…