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EyeEm Mobile GmbH/istockphotoTime has a funny way of turning everyday items into goldmines. Just ask this guy who sold a 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card for $12.6 million. From mid-century modern ...
1950s style for women was all about elegance and sophistication. Here is a list of the top trends from the decade we see making a comeback.
By the late 1950s, planned obsolescence had become a commonly used term for products designed to break easily or to quickly go out of style. In fact, the concept was so widely recognized that in 1959 Volkswagen mocked it in an advertising campaign.
Enter this punchy turquoise rotary dial phone from the 1950s. These kinds of devices were popular until cellphones unofficially took over in the 2010s. In 2022, few people still have and use a ...
Holiday camps, which had first opened in the 1930s, became popular holiday destinations in the 1950s – and people increasingly had the ability to pursue personal hobbies. The BBC 's early television service was given a major boost in 1953 with the coronation of Elizabeth II , attracting a worldwide audience of twenty million, plus tens of ...
Brightly colored clothes and accessories became fashionable in the 1950s and the bikini was developed. The main article for this category is 1945–1960 in Western fashion . See also: Category:1950s clothing
In 2018, McDonald’s announced a $6 billion plan to modernize its U.S. restaurants (which today number nearly 14,000), with planned updates to furniture, décor, exteriors and kiosks. The menu ...
Depending on the size and style of the plan, the materials needed to construct a typical house, including perhaps 10,000–30,000 pieces of lumber and other building material, [4] would be shipped by rail, filling one or two railroad boxcars, [6] [7] which would be loaded at the company's mill and sent to the customer's home town, where they would be parked on a siding or in a freight yard for ...