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Classic Christmas cookie recipes from the '50s Sugar cookie snowflakes, paintbrush cookies, frosty fruit bars (1)

Fancy Christmas cookie recipes from the ’50s: Snowflake sugar cookies, paintbrush cookies & frosty fruit bars

Best classic Christmas cookies

The Best Classic Christmas Cookies Sweepstakes: Enter daily to WIN!

Bad vintage Christmas ads 20 retro holiday sales pitches that you'd never see today

Bad vintage Christmas ads: 20 retro holiday sales pitches that you’d never see today

Retro versions of classic board games you can get again

Retro versions of classic board games: 12 hits of yesteryear you can get again

Vintage recipes: Classic food & drink

Christmas takes the cake - decorating frosting ideas from 1986 (8)

Cool and creative retro decorated Christmas cakes from the 1980s

For a retro party: Vintage holiday punch and cocktail recipes from the '50s & '60s

For a retro party: Vintage holiday punch and cocktail recipes from the ’50s & ’60s

vintage holiday recipes made with Kahlua liqueur

Chocolates, caramel popcorn, date-nut loaf & other vintage holiday recipes with Kahlua liqueur (1987)

Planters holiday chocolate nut squares vintage recipe

Holiday chocolate nut squares (1997)

Gingerbread house gallery Christmas cookies & candy (1987)

Classic gingerbread houses: 28 clever Christmas creations made with cookies & candy (1987)

Vintage makeup

Blue eyeshadow: The good, the bad & the ugly vintage makeup

How to use makeup crayons (1974)

How to use makeup crayons to get a vintage ’70s look (1974)

How to get hot eighties hair & makeup (1982)

Retro hairstyles

Beehive hairstyles of the 1960s (1)

Goodbye, bouffant – Hello, beehive! The hot hairstyle of 1960

Fabulous '40s hair styles for women (1948)

Fabulous ’40s hair styles for women (1948)

7 big pictures of the hottest hairstyles of 1967

7 big pictures of the hottest 1967 hairstyles

Old-fashioned fashion

1973 Catalog - Juniors fashion clothing

’70s juniors clothes for teens from the 1973 JC Penney catalog

1983 Flannel nightgowns and pajamas

Old-fashioned flannel nightgowns & pajamas, ’80s-style

breathtakingly gorgeous vintage evening gowns

16 breathtakingly gorgeous vintage evening gowns with long skirts so full they’d make a Disney Princess jealous

That's entertainment: Classic movies, music, TV & more

Sleeping Beauty with the prince

“Sleeping Beauty” – the classic animated movie – deemed a top Disney triumph (1959)

Tiny magical worlds A collection of vintage View-Master reels

Take a look! Vintage View-Master reels & viewers

Vintage Peanuts sticker sheets with Snoopy - Woodstock - Charlie Brown and the gang

Vintage Snoopy & Peanuts stickers sheets (’70s & ’80s)

Dorothy with the Wicked Witch and Glinda - Wizard of Oz

Behind the scenes of The Wizard of Oz movie (1939)

I Love Lucy debuts, and a leading TV critic hates it (1951)

8 ways to enjoy old-fashioned eggnog

8 ways to enjoy old-fashioned holiday eggnog

For a retro party: Vintage holiday punch and cocktail recipes from the '50s & '60s

For a retro party: Vintage holiday punch and cocktail recipes from the ’50s & ’60s

How Hot Dr Pepper became a cool thing in the world of warm winter drinks (1960s)

How Hot Dr Pepper became a cool thing in the world of warm winter drinks (1960s)

How about a cup of classic hot chocolate 10 different recipes to try

How about a cup of classic hot chocolate? 15 cozy cocoa recipes

True crime

John Lennon and Yoko Ono

The Beatles’ John Lennon shot and killed in New York (1980)

The real Bonnie & Clyde: Texas officers trap and kill notorious duo in shootout (1934)

Hogan's Heroes actor Bob Crane murdered (1978)

Still unsolved: Hogan’s Heroes actor Bob Crane murdered (1978)

Classic cars & trucks

The future Your own personal flying cars, powered by electricity

The future: Your own personal flying cars, powered by electricity (’50s & ’60s)

The new heavy-duty 1961 Ford Trucks

When the Saturn was a different kind of car (1990s)

Historic medicine

How cats helped create the first iron lung machines for polio victims (1938)

Thomas Alva Edison holding an incandescent lightbulb c1911

Thomas Edison says electricity will cure everything (1914)

Marie Curie - Madame Curie - Scientist

Marie Curie tells how she discovered radium (1921)

Aretha Franklin - Aretha - With The Ray Bryant Combo 1961

Aretha Franklin’s earliest reviews from the ’60s

Barry Manilow in 1976

Barry Manilow says he likes being middle-of-the-road king (1976)

Chuck Berry, the real daddy of rock 'n' roll

Chuck Berry, the real daddy of rock ‘n’ roll, goes on a cosmic boogie trip (1972)

See more than a decade of vintage homes, decor & more

6 beautiful ways to make a welcoming Christmas wreath for your front door (1962)

6 beautiful ways to make a welcoming Christmas wreath for your front door (1962)

Tiny, private gardens and sweet retreats Clever ideas for small outdoor spaces from the 1960s

Small gardens & sweet retreats: Clever ideas for secluded outdoor spaces from the 1960s

Vintage kitchen appliances from 1961 - Frigidaire Flair pull-out range stove and ovens with glass doors that lift up

8 vintage sixties kitchens with Flair ranges: Pull-out electric stoves and glass oven doors that opened upwards

Mr Whipple Please don't squeeze the Charmin

Mr Whipple: Please don’t squeeze the Charmin! 20 years of toilet paper drama

DIY Halloween decorations on a budget Fiendishly clever ideas from the days before party supply stores (1919)

DIY Halloween decorations on a budget: Fiendishly clever ideas from the days before party supply stores (1919)

Take a look back through America's history

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US joins World War I Headlines declaring war (1917)

US joins World War I: Headlines declaring war (1917)

The Titanic’s terrifying last moments before sinking to the ocean floor (1912)

The first Thanksgiving 1621 - JLG Ferris Pilgrims and Natives gather to share meal 1932

Thanksgiving history: Starting from the Pilgrims’ First Thanksgiving to the strange way turkey day eventually became a national holiday

Last known photo of the Titanic before it sank

The Titanic’s last desperate SOS messages sent as the ship was sinking (1912)

The Galveston Hurricane of 1900: See how the Texas city was destroyed by the killer storm and flood

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