Take a look back at vintage Knott’s Berry Farm – the California amusement park known as a Disneyland alternative, but one that boasted its very own ghost town.
Starting in 1914, there was a lot of hype about Old Gilbert, Arizona, a little town near Phoenix: ‘the fastest growing and most prosperous community in the Southwest.” See how it’s grown!
The insights and inventions of Dr George Washington Carver – which he gave freely to the world – revolutionized the South, and helped millions out of poverty.
See old Phoenix, Arizona as it looked back in the 1800s and 1900s, when the city’s population was low and there were plenty of wide-open spaces.
Clyde Tombaugh, a Kansas farmer, loved astronomy, and cemented his name in history by discovering Pluto. Here’s how he found it.
Look under the old Universal Jeep, and you’ll see why it has pulling power surpassing anything its size, plus versatility no other vehicle matches.
The “hex marks” painted on the old barns of the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch farmers, even on some of the modern new barns, now are merely traditionally ornamental.
Vintage weathervanes were made in almost every conceivable design and pattern. Horses, cows, deer, eagles, ships. roosters and even pigs were hammered in metal and used to register the direction of the wind.
“DDT is good for me-e-e!” The great expectations held for DDT have been realized. During 1946, exhaustive scientific tests have shown that, when properly used,
Here are images showing New York City’s growth from a frontier settlement known as New Amsterdam to the metropolis of the western world –through the Colonial times, and in the early days of US independence.
Starting around the end of the 19th century, there was a war that was fought not with guns and sharp knives, but with food coloring and butter knives. It was the great battle of Butter vs Margarine.
Organic foods: Are they modern-day cure-all elixirs sold by modern-day hokum medicine men? Or are they a more wholesome alternative to the chemically-treated foods we customarily eat?
Farms of the future — High rise barns and plastic domed fields? Farmers of the not-too-distant future may have as much need for off-hour exercise
A dedicated and growing band of people — most of them young — has taken to cooking and serving no-nonsense natural foods.
ILLINOIS. Is about equal in extent to England. with a population of 1,722. No State in the Valley of the Mississippi offers so great an inducement to the settler as the State of Illinois.
Southside Agricultural Fair Big fair at Petersburg October 17th – 21st inclusive Premiums for exhibits and race purses Great Wild West show and other attractions
Florence Thompson with two of her children “I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet,” Dorothea Lange told Popular
Women: Do you have the ideal figure? Here’s what ‘they’ thought in 1950 
Popular vintage board games from the ’60s 
Eight is Enough: The idyllic life of TV’s Bradford family, plus the opening credits & theme song (1977-1981) 
What did a typical 1950s suburban house look like? Feast your eyes on this fab prefab home built in 1958 
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