Commercial: Toys R Us time of year. Toys R Us. Narrator: Thanks to Toys R Us, the toy industry's worth grew from $500 million in 1950 to $12 billion in 1990. At its peak, the company controlled a ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

At last you could go to the toilet in the warm! Plastic toys became very popular in the 1950s. In 1958 the modern Lego brick was invented in Denmark and became available around the world.

I was just a little kid, but I remember him coming down the gangway at my grandmother’s house in his uniform on leave and he ...

News that the world's first commercial octopus farm is closer to ... Sometimes they put the food in a dog toy for him to tease out with his tentacles, so he can practise his hunting skills.

The median size for newly constructed house today stands at 2,478 square feet, up from 983 square feet in 1950, even as family ... kitchen accouterments, toys and electronics.

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 ...

Emma Smyth, commercial director of WH Smith’s high street operations ... WH Smith first began selling vinyl albums in the ...

Merle Hay Mall's managers want to start construction on a hockey arena in the spring, even after the Des Moines Buccaneers' ...

Well, in part it means that some of the political strategies the Democrats thought would turn Obama’s 2008 and 2012 ...