We loved Lucy: ’50s magazines with Lucille Ball on the cover – plus what she had to say about her marriage to Desi Arnaz
Want to see tacky retro home decor? Check out these top 10 terrible fuzzy toilet covers from the ’70s
8 vintage sixties kitchens with Flair ranges: Pull-out electric stoves and glass oven doors that opened upwards
Want to see tacky retro home decor? Check out these top 10 terrible fuzzy toilet covers from the ’70s
8 vintage sixties kitchens with Flair ranges: Pull-out electric stoves and glass oven doors that opened upwards
What did a typical 1950s suburban house look like? Feast your eyes on this fab prefab home built in 1958
All year long: Looking back at those vintage tea towel calendars your grandma probably hung up in her kitchen
And now for a little ad awkwardness from the fifties: 20 glamorous housewives who REALLY loved their toilet paper
DIY Halloween decorations on a budget: Fiendishly clever ideas from the days before party supply stores (1919)
See 110 vintage ’50s house plans used to build millions of mid-century homes that we still live in today
How to make old-fashioned apple head dolls: Get vintage shrunken apple DIY craft directions, details & photos
Anyone for radioactive food? You could get it with this X-radium cookware – a mind-blowingly bad product idea from 1905
Take a look around Armsmear, Samuel Colt’s famously over-the-top Victorian mansion built in Hartford, Connecticut
Forget kitchen cabinets – install a wall-mounted refrigerator! (Yes – this was really a thing in the ’50s)
DIY furniture from the fifties: How to make double-duty hassocks for storage & seating all in one (1950)
What was a vintage washing machine like in the ’50s? Check out the features on the ’57 Kelvinator washer and its fancy “Magic Minute”
