Ice cream cake & hot chocolate frosting (1941)
Ice cream cake & hot chocolate frosting recipes
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Clever crafts for kids with crayons & paper (1959)
Crayola Corner: Constructive ideas to keep children happily occupied
Shirt board shields. Grey shirt cardboards look like steel -- make perfect "knight's armor." Sword, shield, and visor are quickly cut to sha... Read more...
Classic chocolate & vanilla pinwheel cake recipe (1954)
Pinwheel cake
Terrific NEW cake idea! Chocolate topping baked right in.
No frosting! Easy to Baker's Chocolate and Carnation Milk!
Pinwheel cake recipe
For cake
4 squares Baker's Unsweetened Chocol... Read more...
James Brown’s singles of the sixties (1963-1969)
James Brown: Dynamite & Prisoner of Love (1963)
... with a new pop teenage sound, singing sweet as he did in "Lost Someone," with a full orchestra and nine voices
James Brown: Papa's Got a B... Read more...
Giant Raisin Bran cookies recipe (1998)
Don't look now, but your kids are eating fiber.
Kids need fiber. And when they're eating these delicious cookies made with fiber-rich Kellogg's Raisin Bran, they love getting it. It's fiber kids love.
Giant... Read more...
Mid-century modern carpet styles (1950s)
Siboney broadloom wall-to-wall carpet (1953)
Siboney broadloom by Bigelow has more "extras" than a newsboy
Just look at the richly-textured pattern! Notice how Siboney's special 3-level pile gives you the b... Read more...
Lucy & Desi Arnaz choose their dream carpet (1955)
From all these beautiful Bigelows, Lucille and Desi Arnaz chose their dream carpet
BIGELOW has such a wide and wonderful selection of beautiful carpets, it's easy to find the perfect one for your home. Mr. a... Read more...
Purple Jell-O poke cake recipe (1978)
Jell-O: Purple poke cake recipe
Ingredients
1 package (2 layer size) white cake mix
1 (3 oz.) package Jello Blackberry flavor gelatin (or any other flavor)
1 cup boiling water
1 cup cold water
Direc... Read more...
Howard Johnson’s ice cream shops & restaurants in the 1950s
Haven for the folks... heaven for the kids (1950)
One way or another, everybody goes for Howard Johnson's! You get ice cream with the famous "28 flavors," fried clams and other New England favorites. Hurry-up ... Read more...
Howard Johnson’s ice cream: Good old days goodness (1966)
There's Good-Old-Days goodness in every flavor... under the orange roof!
How ever you love it... to eat in a heaping cone... or to sip by the glass... or spoon by the bowl-full... you'll never discover finer i... Read more...
Fruit cocktail eggnog pie (1956)
New holiday pie idea
Fruit cocktail's so gay to fold into the filling, to ring in a wreath round the top of your pie! And how nice for you -- there's no work to do. Summery-sweet cling peaches, pears, grapes, ... Read more...
Souffle salad with Jell-O (1953)
Ahhh! A really new salad idea - made the new fast-frost way!
If you're a salad-lover (who isn't?) ... ... but you've run out of new salad ideas (who hasn't?) ... this will be the best news you've read in years... Read more...
Cherry swirl coffee cake recipe (1986)
Vintage cherry swirl coffee cake recipe
Somethin' good is comin' up when you get the Bisquick down. So why wait another day? Get the Bisquick off your shelf, and help yourself to somethin' good.
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Vintage mascara from the 1920s
Viola Dana Reveals the secret of her beautiful eyes (1926)
Miss Dana, world-famous for the beauty of her expressive eyes, accentuates the lovely sweep and length of her curling lashes by darkening them with th... Read more...
Paint, ink & sketch toys from Ohio Arts (1987)
The first Etch A Sketch produced on July 12, 1960. It was a big seller, and over the years, Ohio Art made several other creative, artistic toys -- such as these shown below. Alas, in 2016, the Etch A Sketch and... Read more...
Let’s play house! Fisher-Price Kitchen Center (1994)
Only the Fisher-Price Kitchen Center comes with the works
Fisher-Price Kitchen Center toy for kids
No other kitchen comes with as much fun stuff as the Fisher-Price All-In-One Kitchen Center. For starters, ... Read more...
Card tables & folding furniture from the fifties
Set - for a couple or a crowd (1950)
With Samson folding furniture
Living styles are changing as fun replaces formality (1952)
America Uses Samson Foldaway Furniture To Double Play Space, Dinin... Read more...
Vintage vacuum cleaners from Hoover
Hoover Suction Sweeper (patented 1908)
Hoover for sanitary cleaning (1920)
Immaculate rugs are safe playgrounds for the children. Clean thoroughly to protect childhood's precious health. Beat out ... Read more...
Star Wars video game cartridges from Parker Brothers (1982 & 1983)
Star Wars Empire Strikes Back video game cartridge (1982)
The Imperial Walkers are moving toward the Rebel base on the Ice Planet Hoth. Can you destroy them before they blow up the power generators? Quick, int... Read more...
Did you know the Commodore VIC computer could do all this? (1983)
'The best computer value in the world today. The only computer you'll need for years to come.' - William Shatner
Stouffer’s ice cream debuts (1974)
Since they were already a well-known freezer brand, the company tried to expand outside the TV dinner/frozen meal market back in the mid-seventies. Stouffer's ice cream had a 10-month trial in the New York metr... Read more...
Classic magic cookie bars recipe (1988)
Magic Cookie Bars recipe
Easy to make. Hard to resist. Makes 24 to 36 bars.
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1-1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 (14-ounce) can Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed M... Read more...
Striped Delight vintage dessert recipe (1985)
This Striped Delight vintage dessert recipe is one of several popular recipes featuring both Jell-O pudding and Cool Whip -- complementary products owned by Kraft.
With Jell-O Pudding, your next sweet ... Read more...
Sanford introduces McDonald’s McMarkers (1995)
In 1995, Sanford launched McMarkers -- two sets of licensed scented markers -- in partnership with McDonald's. The partnership didn't seem to last very long, as almost no mentions of the pen sets appear beyond... Read more...
Mickey Rooney as Young Tom Edison (1940)
Mickey Rooney as Young Tom Edison
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER has just completed the first of two most important pictures. Together they encompass the life story of a man whose influence on modern civilization canno... Read more...
Double chocolate mint cookies recipe (1986)
Double Chocolate Mint Chip Cookies
Introducing: Magnificent mint-chocolate morsels
Double Chocolate Mint Chip Cookies recipe
Ingredients
1 (10 oz.) pkg. (1 1/2 cups) Nestle's Toll House Mint flavored se... Read more...
