Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cheapism Things kids did in the 1950s and 60s often required little more than a bicycle, a few neighborhood friends, and enough ...

Kids' bedrooms in the 1950s didn't have gaming consoles, tablets, flat-screen TVs, or tangled piles of charging cables next to the bed. Compared with children's rooms today, they were much simpler ...

“Here’s a picture of my wife, Cathy Tantillo, in 1951, in front of her childhood home in Stanton Island, New York,” says Charlie O’Brien. “She was 5 years old at the time and thought that if she ...

Kids who grew up in the 1950s were the first to be fed the Disney diet: "Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams." They thrived on the power of their imaginations while internalizing the ...

We have the 1950s to thank for cementing the tradition of trick-or-treating into our Halloween culture.

When it comes to music, there may not be two eras more different than the 1950s and 1960s. In many ways, the 1960s were a direct response to the decade prior. The time period was trying to push the ...

Have you ever seen a kid take a marker or crayons to a phone or iPad? If so, you might be able to imagine what it was like to see kids of the 1950s drawing all over the fantastic new technology of the ...