As photographed by Life Magazine in 1955 Las Vegas was a booming desert town. Driven by gambling, the migration due to high unemployment, and the glitz and glamour of the desert oasis. At Las Vegas last ...
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The seventh Miss Universe pageant, Miss Universe 1958 was held in Long Beach, California, USA for the 7th time. In this pageant, thirty six contestants competed, where finally, Miss Colombia, 19-year-old Luz Marina Zuluaga won the ...
In the spring of 1955, as the Cold War intensified and the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union escalated at a shocking pace, America — as it had many times before — detonated an ...
The show “Mad Men” takes viewers into a fictional 1960s, the pre-feminist era, inside the Madison Avenue ad agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, and its competitors. Don Draper: “What do women want?” Roger Sterling: “Who cares?” Reality ...
The 1950s was the decade that saw the rise of the supermarket in the USA. They first appeared during the 1930s, but it was twenty years before stores gradually moved out of towns and cities and ...
On October 3rd 1955, the MV Joyita left the port of Samoa heading for the Tokelau Islands. But something terrible was about to happen during the journey and the ship was to never reach its final ...
Detroit, up until the 1950′s was a bustling industrial town, once the 4th largest in the USA. Over the next 50 years the city saw its population fall by 60% largely caused by poor town planning, ...
These early photographs of Marilyn Monroe were taken in 1950 by photographer Ed Clark. After the shoot in Griffith Park in LA, Marilyn went on to become one of the worlds most celebrated sex symbols, and the ...
So you thought that Photoshopping models was a new practice? These 1950s pin-up photos show that there was just as much retouching going on 60 years ago. In the 1950′s Photoshop gave way to paintings and ...
Driving or walking down a dark, deserted country lane can be scary enough at the best of times. With no other person in sight and an eerie silence casting over you, it’s all too easy to ...
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