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These old 'insert dime' holiday greeting cards filled with coins were very popular - and a super fun way for friends and family to give a kid a dollar!
From the 1950s: Sweet Virginia Dare Pink Wine adds the extra sparkle and elegance that makes the difference between just another evening and a good party.
Take a 1950s home tour of a 'junior five' near San Francisco - a small house that had an entry stairway that starts at garage level and leads up to five rooms - bedrooms, kitchen, garage and more.
Remember having fun in vintage playhouses & forts like these? Take a look back at some of these retro play structures through the decades, from the '50s through the '80s!
When color TV was first invented, people wondered if you could convert a black & white TV to color, and which shows would appear in color - and when. Here are some of the answers they were given.
From awful double entendres to horrible diseases to the just plain bizarre, here are some bad vintage product names that used to appear on grocery store shelves.
Cowboy actor and hero of scores of western thrillers of the silent film era, Tom Mix, was killed on a highway detour in Arizona. Here's what happened.
Here's a look at singer and actor Bing Crosby's house in Holmby Hills, California, as it appeared in 1950.
Starting in 1914, there was a lot of hype about Old Gilbert, Arizona, a little town near Phoenix: 'the fastest growing and most prosperous community in the Southwest." See how it's grown!
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier became the bride of Senator John F. Kennedy - the future president - at this elegant society wedding in 1953. See what it was like!
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