25 ways to save water & survive a drought (1977)
Get 25 tips on how to conserve water inside and outside your home!
15 fantastic old-fashioned fireplaces
Warm up with a look back at 15 different antique fireplaces that were once found in homes across the US!
Retro pink bathroom styles of the 1950s
While not exclusively the domain of the fifties, the popularity of pink bathrooms - including pink toilets, sinks and bathtubs - reached its peak during the middle of the century.
Bathroom colors become brighter, varied (1957 & 1958)
More color in the bathroom
From the Sheboygan Press - April 29, 1957
Pink and yellow bathroom fixture sales increased sharply last year, reports the Plumbing Fixture Manufacturers' Association. White bath... Read more...
Properties for sale in fast-growing Queens (1911)
Fast growing Borough of Queens properties for sale or rent
Forest Hills - 12 minutes from Pennsylvania Station to Forest Hills
10 complete houses for sale, $6000 to $13000
15 in course of erection, which... Read more...
Vintage & antique Christmas decorations
Antique nativity scene music box
Turns and plays "Silent Night"
Mercury glass reindeer
A wind-up drumming monkey toy
Vintage girl with a wreath ornament
In front: Anti... Read more...
Phoneland: Magic land of Christmas surprises (1961)
Phoneland
Welcome to our magic land of Christmas surprises for all the family
Home interphone: In our phoneland, you can talk from room to room, and answer the door, by telephone...
Extension phones make... Read more...
Wood carving a fashionable pastime for the young girl (1909)
Wood carving a fashionable accomplishment for the young girl of today
When, with refreshing prodigality, a young society woman of New York presented a half dozen fall brides with trousseau chests, richly scu... Read more...
Do-it-yourself decorating with colorful oil cloth (1952)
Do-it-yourself decorating ideas
From the personal scrapbook of Constance Hunter, home decorator
Now! Dozens of bright ideas for your home with colorful Blenback Oil Cloth. Practical ideas, too, because Blen... Read more...
Briarwood home pinball machines: You’ll flip for it! (1977)
Briarwood home pinball... you'll flip for it!
From Brunswick, leader in home recreation...
Introducing Briarwood -- commercial-quality home pinball. Now you can choose from six action-packed home pinb... Read more...
Mr Whipple: Please don’t squeeze the Charmin!
"Please don't squeeze the Charmin!"
From 1964 to 1985, and over the course of more than 500 different TV commercials, America got to know nit-picky (and hypocritical) grocery store manager Mr George Whippl... Read more...
Go window shopping in Washington DC in the 1920s
J C Harding & Co, Inc. electrical goods
"Housecleaning made easy" - appliances, radio, vacuums
Shoe store (1925)
Display of Dr Scholl's shoes and "foot comfort appliances" in the window o... Read more...
Bold & brightly-colored kitchen sinks (1966 & 1968)
The wild one (1968)
The sporty Fiesta makes other kitchen sinks look like they're standing still. You get a whole new feeling with that sou instrument panel to command.
With one hand, you shift into the per... Read more...
5478 records later, you’ll be glad you bought a Philco (1964)
5,478 long-playing records from now you'll still be glad you bought a Philco Stereo... that's Philco lasting value
Have you ever figured that if you played just three records a day, you would total up 5,478 "p... Read more...
How to set the lunch table correctly (1899)
How to set the lunch table correctly
The table is set for the meat course. The placing of knives and forks is the same as for breakfast except that there are two of each instead of one. The two forks, berry sp... Read more...
Get your lots in Phoenix, Arizona for $200 each (1892)
Is located on a beautiful tract of land adjoining the City of Phoenix on the west. The site for the building is in the center of a tract of ten acres belonging to the Territory.
Miracle machines: The latest food processors (1977)
Miracle machines: Chef's Delights
Some critics claim that the only cook who really needs a food processor is one who must feed a dozen lumberjacks three times a day. Others say they actively enjoy chopping and... Read more...
Electrolux refrigerators are almost magical – freezes with heat (1935)
Almost magical -- it freezes with heat
Always different, always ahead in performance
Nine years ago, America was startled and delighted by the introduction of a totally new and different system of refrigera... Read more...
How to make a dynamite night light (1981)
A Dynamite night light
Next time you're dining out -- outdoors, that is -- add an extra twinkle of your own to the starlight night! The Dynamite night light we're talking about is a can-turned-lantern design... Read more...
Kim Novak for Beautyrest mattresses (1960)
The Temptation of Beautyrest
Another story about the kind of comfort that's kind to your back
Give Kim Novak an "Oscar" for being smart. She rests her beauty between "takes" of her new Columbia release "Str... Read more...
Early American lamp styles from Grants (1965)
These lamps are made only for Grants
Grant Crest Early American lamps are like the olden days in Williamsburg, Charleston, or Old Salem. Our own designer makes sure of that. And she sees that the manufacturer ... Read more...
Is your bathroom obsolete? (1976)
Is your bathroom obsolete?
The bathroom of tomorrow is not just a dream. Our design, with fixtures of the future, is packed with ideas that can update any bathroom for today's living.
Cinderella was a v... Read more...
Do-it-yourself work is easier with a coffee break (1957)
There is nothing so satisfying as a good cup of coffee — a special recipe coffee! For the colorful 32-page booklet, “Fun With Coffee,” send 25¢ and your name and address to the Coffee Bureau.
Revell jet plane & guided missile ship kits (1956)
Build guided missile ships... jet planes
with Revell Authentic Kits from Woolworth's
U.S.S. BOSTON, first Guided Missile Cruiser, built 1955. Revell model shows com-pletely detailed superstructure. Length 1... Read more...
