Now, I won’t even make a case for this, and I’ll let the photos speak for themselves. A time before social media, and cell phones constantly ringing. It was a time when kids could be kids and weren’t ...

For anyone who grew up in the 1970s, the local playground wasn’t just a place to spend a Saturday afternoon; it was a proving ground made of scorched metal and jagged concrete. The park equipment of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many offices stuck with old-school interior design. One trend that took off in the 1970s was wood paneling, in offices and in ...

Ah, the Seventies. Most of us of a certain age remember them fondly, with their bell bottoms, sports heroes, malls, the first wave pool and departments allocated just for "juniors." Then there were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Discarded tires litter the shorefront of Baltimore Harbor in 1973. (Jim Pickerell / Documerica Project / National Archives) ...

Thanksgiving is the best holiday. It's all about eating and drinking and spending time with people you value. (This assumes, of course, that your table isn't a minefield of political conversation; if ...

The 1970s were a highly recognizable era for Brooklyn, from the graffiti’d stoops to the local dress, the comparative lack of tall buildings and the ubiquity of mom and pop shops. A student at Pratt ...

I've been hearing people rave about the comic genius behind the website "Awkward Family Photos.com" for some time now. This site demonstrates the "perfect storm" of photographic disasters. It's what ...

I grew up in the '70s. So, as a guy who went from pre-teen to adult during the decade, I'd like to share a few random facts about those good ole days: * The population of the U.S. in 1970 was ...

After my column on the long-lived Shakey’s Pizza in Montclair from 1961, a reader got in touch to share some ’70s memories from her days behind the counter at a Riverside Shakey’s. Leslie Nagby not ...