1940s
20 retro yellow kitchens from yesteryear: Sunny midcentury home decor
These retro yellow kitchens – in all their buttery, warm and sunny splendor – are here for the midcentury home decor enthusiast to appreciate!
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1950s
7-Up float: Combine Seven-Up soda & ice cream for a truly retro treat
Seven-Up floats! Ice cream and 7-up – what a cool, cool combination for a summer afternoon… what a treat for the whole family! Get a few different vintage float recipes here.
1950s
Pretty, thin, young and single? Check out these sexist stewardess job requirements of the ’50s & ’60s
See what was needed to put you in the running for a coveted stewardess job back in the ’50s and ’60s! Some requirements were grounded in reason, but many were just plain sexism in action.
1930s
Talking behind her back: 12 really mean vintage ads that could give anyone a complex
The judgments are harsh, and nobody is worried about subtlety in these ridiculously mean vintage ads that ran in popular magazines years ago.
1930s
20 vintage pink bathrooms: See some wild bubblegum-era midcentury home decor of the 1950s & 1960s
While not exclusively the domain of the fifties, the popularity of vintage pink bathrooms – including pink toilets, sinks and bathtubs and other home decor – reached its peak during the middle of the century.
1950s
Live Jetsons-style in the home of tomorrow! Ideas for retro-futuristic space-age inventions (1958-1961)
Imagine getting paid to create retro-futuristic space-age inventions. Throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s, that is exactly what commercial artist and futurist Arthur Radebaugh got to do.
1950s
Ford Edsel: See all 18 models of the 1950s car that failed disastrously & lost more than a quarter billion dollars
Despite a spectacularly expensive launch, the Ford Edsel was one of the greatest business failures of all time. Take a look back at these vintage cars here!
1950s
Vintage Milton Bradley board games for family fun (1950s & 1960s)
See vintage Milton Bradley board games like Uncle Wiggily, Candy Land, Go to the Head of the Class, Chutes & Ladders, Stratego, Concentration and others!
1950s
And now for a little ad awkwardness from the fifties: 20 glamorous housewives who REALLY loved their toilet paper
Apparently stuck for a way to make toilet paper – particularly rolls of colored toilet tissue – more attractive to ’50s housewives, advertising executives turned to the world of glamour and fashion for an assist.
1960s
40 favorite vintage breakfast cereals from the ’60s
In the ’60s, vintage breakfast cereals were getting really popular, gaining millions of fans – especially kids. See the hottest retro brands here!
1950s
Vintage Disneyland tickets: The A B C D E rides and attractions at the Magic Kingdom (1959-1982)
With these vintage Disneyland tickets, visitors could enjoy their choice of dozens of Disneyland rides and attractions in Fantasyland, Tomorrowland, Frontierland and Adventureland.
1950s
21 sweet vintage ice cream flavors of the fifties
Here are some of the coolest vintage ice cream flavors from the 1950s, including several long-gone flavors. (And they seriously loved pineapple and cherry!)
1950s
Classic crown o’gold meat loaf recipe: Meat loaf with mustard meringue (1959)
High, gold and handsome… here’s a retro ’50s meatloaf with a unique savory, golden topping that’s really a meringue made with mustard instead of sugar.
1950s
Strawberry & peach dessert pizzas: Flaky cheesecake-style party pies! (1959)
From the 1950s, here’s are two fruity, cheesecake-style dessert pizzas. You serve them like a pizza… you eat them like a pizza… tastes like a flaky party pie!
1940s
Inside vintage grocery stores & old-fashioned supermarkets of yesteryear
Take a look back at the kind of aisles, counters and checkouts American shoppers used to encounter every day when shopping for food and other groceries!
1950s
Vintage payphones: When phone booths, walk-up & drive-up public telephones were everywhere
Imagine being able to call someone when you *weren’t at home*! It was a big deal back in the day. See the history of vintage payphones & phonebooths here!
1950s
Classic ’59 station wagons from Ford, Plymouth, Studebaker & Rambler
Take a look back at these classic ’59 station wagons, made especially for fifties families! See vintage models from Ford, Rambler, Studebaker and Plymouth.
1950s
“Busy-day” lemon cheesecake (1959)
What is a ‘Busy-day’ lemon cheesecake? Get two easy vintage cheesecake pie recipes that require no cooking, no special pans, and no expensive ingredients.
1950s
How the original Twilight Zone began, plus see the TV show’s iconic opening (1959-1965)
Widely regarded as one of the most innovative television shows of all time, The Twilight Zone premiered in 1959, and would go on to dazzle, delight and frighten audiences for the next five seasons.
1950s
A dozen adorable vintage Father’s Day cards
These cute and child-friendly vintage Father’s Day cards show the sweet sentiments that kids expressed for dad (and grandpa) in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s.
1950s
A-frame house plans for second homes & family vacation cabins: 12 retro designs from the ’50s & ’60s
The A-frame house design is a tried and true style, and was especially popular for second homes and vacation cabins in the ’60s. See several retro A-frames here!
1950s
See 130 vintage ’50s house plans used to build millions of mid-century homes that we still live in today
If you’re buying a 1950s house, already live in one, or just want to see how new suburban homes were designed back in the rock ‘n’ roll and ‘Leave it to Beaver’ era, we have some fantastic ’50s house plans for you!
1950s
Get the famous Can’t Fail 5-minute fudge recipe, plus 10 more fast vintage fudge recipes
Get the famous Can’t Fail 5-minute fudge recipe, plus 10 more fast vintage fudge recipes that you can easily make right at home!
1940s
50+ sexist vintage ads so bad, you almost won’t believe they were real
Not only would these sexist vintage ads not sell well today, but they’d also cause a huge social media backlash. See 50 of the most obnoxious examples here.
1960s
Queen Elizabeth sends President Eisenhower her drop scones recipe (1960)
Queen Elizabeth II sent this scone recipe to President Eisenhower in 1960, because he had loved the little pancakes so much when he visited her in 1959.
1910s
A cheerful collection of 20 vintage Mother’s Day cards
Here’s a look back at some of the sweet vintage Mother’s Day cards – including a few of the 240 million greeting cards just for mom that were sold back in 1959.
1950s
30 vintage TV dinners: Fried chicken, turkey, pot roast & other fab frozen food, retro-style
Who could forget vintage TV dinners — those shiny foil trays filled with delicious-looking dinner delights, just waiting in the freezer for a special night?
1940s
Have some fabulous fifties-style fun with these weird vintage fruit cocktail recipes
In the ’50s, vintage fruit cocktail was added to everything from jello salads to canned meat. Here, see 42 weird old-fashioned ways they used to eat the stuff!
1960s
Blue eyeshadow: The good, the bad & the ugly vintage makeup
See more than two dozen examples of vintage makeup, showing the evolution of blue eyeshadow from the ’50s to the ’80s. As you will see, sometimes it works… and sometimes it really, really doesn’t.
1950s
Vintage 1950s San Francisco junior high & high school report cards from one of Jerry Garcia’s old classmates
See some vintage report cards from San Francisco’s Outer Mission district schools during the ’50s. One of his classmates? Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead.
1950s
How to be a perfect ’50s housewife: Love your refrigerator!
For the picture-perfect housewife of the ’50s, the kitchen was the heart of the home. And the heart of the kitchen was the refrigerator/freezer combo – the kind of luxury that mother and grandmother could have only dreamed of!
1950s
Longing for an uncluttered life? Doris Day tells you how to get organized! (1959)
Do you want to get organized? Have you longed for the uncluttered life? Actress Doris Day reveals her plan for becoming an ‘ex-Aimless’ and an ‘ex-Chaotic.’
1950s
Tour the ultimate mid-century modern house: The Scholz Mark 58 Home of the Year
See a Scholz Mark 58, a marvelous mid-century modern home built in 1958. From the blue bathroom to the wooden wall paneling, every inch of this reinterpreted California Ranch house screams retro… and we love it.
1950s
Buddy Holly & three others killed in airplane crash (1959)
Buddy Holly, 22-year-old Lubbock rock ‘n’ roll singing star, was killed along with three other men in the crash of a light chartered plane northwest of Mason City, Iowa, on February 3, 1959.
1950s
How to be a perfect ’50s housewife: In the kitchen
A lighthearted look back at the 50s housewife during the sunny days of yesteryear, when a woman’s home was her castle — and her kitchen was the heart of that home.
1950s
16 breathtakingly gorgeous vintage evening gowns with long skirts so full they’d make a Disney Princess jealous
This collection of vintage evening gowns is so over-the-top, you don’t have to even like fashion to appreciate the oomph factor of these formal dresses.
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