Take a trip back to the beaches of the 1940s and ’50s, where summer meant sunshine, sand, and simple pleasures. These old photos offer a glimpse into an era when swimwear was stylish but modest, ...
When preservationist Joe Svehlak was growing up on 57th Street in the 1940s and ’50s, that neck of the woods was still called Bay Ridge. Much has changed since then, but his former block is still “a ...
NEW YORK — Van Johnson, whose boy-next-door wholesomeness made him a popular Hollywood star in the '40s and '50s with such films as "30 Seconds Over Tokyo," "A Guy Named Joe" and "The Caine Mutiny," ...
Almost all carnivals traveling the circuits in the United States and Great Britain in the 1940s and ’50s towed their own haunted railroad. These “ghost trains” represented the peak of pop-up dark ...
A detail from Johnny Craig's infamous cover to "Crime SuspenStories" No. 22 from EC Comics. Credit: Comic Book cover For avid followers of comic book history, 1954 was the most epochal, unsettling, ...
1 videocassette (U-Matic) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. ; 40 min., 20 sec. Recording of slides and music from session C17 from the "American Metalsmithing and Jewelrymaking in the 1940s and 1950s" symposium ...
Where did all the vintage Pontiacs go? I wondered about this after last week's column featuring Jim Biddle's beautiful 1951 Pontiac Chieftain. I'm pretty sure the blue 1968 Catalina station wagon I ...
The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), developed at the University of Cambridge, is one of the world’s earliest general-purpose computers. Volunteers at the National Museum of ...
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