She discovered that gender-based toy ads from the 1920s to the 1950s pushed traditional roles: the “little homemaker”; the “young man of industry.” In 1925, about half the toys in the ...

Revisit vintage holiday ads from your favorite food and drink brands including Coca-Cola, Campbell's Soup and Ritz Crackers.

Unlike older cities, towns, and suburbs, with their mix of people of all ages, the new postwar suburbs were inhabited primarily by young families. There were few older people or even older children in ...

Exercise and diet are not the only things to radically change over the last half-century. In the 1950s, a new home cost £2,000 but an office worker's average wage was just £ 14 a week.

The films - which date back to the 1950s and 60s - were discovered ... a noisy paper toy which is demonstrated in one of the ads. Kay Foubister from the moving image archive with some of the ...

A man bought and retrofitted an iconic 1950s TV set so it can play Netflix and YouTube. Kevin Martinez, 30, is an avid ...

Ruth Lyons and sidekick Willie Thall on WLWT-TV's 50-50 Club in the early 1950s. Many local ... Jim Henson puppet film and commercials for Dixon, Kenner Star War toys and Crosley’s Shelvador ...

But how are toys now different from the past? Here’s our timeline! Let’s look at toys from the 1950s to the 2020s and find out more… Most toys that children played with in the 1950s were ...

Its skilled workers turned out screws, washers and buttons; showerheads and alarm clocks; toy airplanes and lipstick ... surrounding lively commercial districts with ethnic markets and bakeries ...

As the holiday season approaches, many families will incorporate Advent calendars in their list of Christmas traditions.

In the 1950s, Alan Ross, a professor of linguistics at the University of Birmingham, claimed to identify behavior that distinguished England's upper classes from the rest of society. These ...

Santa Claus will be heading to two dozen of Manitoba’s remote communities to spread Christmas cheer and drop off some gifts.