The 1980s can be categorized as a decade of excess. The new generation of young people placed a heavy emphasis on individuality, materialism and consumerism, all of which…

As Americans gained more money and leisure time in the 1950s, proms became more extravagant and elaborate, bearing similarity to today’s proms. The high school gym may have…

A drive-in is a facility (such as a restaurant or movie theater) where one can drive in with an automobile for service. At a drive-in restaurant, for example,…

Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but it would still be several years before the new technology would be marketed to consumers. After…

The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States. Sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon…

Charles Phoenix is a dude who has done a great service to mankind. He has traveled to countless thrift stores and estate sales rescuing abandoned family slides from…

The 1950s were a decade marked by the post-World War II boom, the dawn of the Cold War and the civil rights movement in the United States. The…

Ladies of the 1960s were still wearing the straight fitting sheath skirt or pencil skirt. Some continued to wear full gathered or pleated swing skirts that came to…

Before the ’70s era, jeans were assigned to the working class, namely farmers and others who toiled outside in the dirt and mud. But when the casualness of…