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Home designs & decor from the 1950s
Fashion & beauty in the fifties
The essential fifties housewife: A guide
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10 pretty vintage Christmas cake recipes – with holiday flavors like chocolate, gingerbread, cherry & more
Try these delicious vintage holiday recipes for a Devil's Food, Cherry-go-round, Holiday star, candlelight, gingerbread, White Christmas cake and other festive classic treats!
Favorite fifties funnies: Popular comic strips from 1954
Love '50s comic strips? Here you'll find more than 40 old names like Hopalong Cassidy, Flash Gordon, Curly Kayo, Brick Bradford, Etta Kett, Grandma, The Lone Ranger, Moon Mullins, Myrtle and more.
See how ‘suntan’ became the big beauty buzzword, starting in the ’50s
Companies promoted it. Celebrities touted it. Everyday people paid attention, and then spent hours in the sun, trying to get the perfect suntan.
Salk’s polio vaccine was such a huge medical advance, it made front page headlines in 1955
How the Salk vaccine works to fight polio (from 1955) By Herman N Bundesen, MD – The Plain Speaker (Hazleton, Pennsylvania) May 13, 1955 The
A 1950s tour guide to Hawaii: See what the islands looked like before becoming the 50th state
Even before Hawaii became a state in 1959, it was a top tourist destination - and for good reason. See how the tropical islands looked back in the fifties!
Tasty tuna recipes from vintage Disneyland’s Pirate Ship restaurant (1955-1956)
In the heart of Disneyland is the Chicken of the Sea Pirate Ship, one of Disney's finest creations. Here are two dozen tuna recipes you might have found there!
Check out some classic Nash Ambassador cars from ’56 and ’57, plus scenes of old Disneyland
Nash Ambassador cars: Too hot to hold ’til ’57! Nash announces a completely new concept in fine cars… the new Ambassador Special with Torque-Flo V8…
21 delicious old-fashioned drop cookie recipes from the ’50s
The drop-and-bake cookie family is a big one with great variety and much good eating for all. What a world of good eating those recipes for old-fashioned drop cookies foretells!
3 delicious old-fashioned country fried chicken recipes from the ’50s
Here are some delicious dinners to try from the '50s -- three different vintage country fried chicken recipes that you can make in your oven or on the stove.
Fifties fun in Disneyland: See early rides at the famous California amusement park
Look back to some of the fun and adventure that awaited guests at Disneyland back in the 1950s!
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