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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Ken Burns dubbed New York City the “capital of baseball” in the 1940s and ‘50s, but the fact is, the city was baseball's undisputed mecca about a century earlier. Among the growing number of organized ...
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 ...