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10 Easy Ways To Cut Your Gas Costs

By Alina Wang on June 21, 2025

A collection of vintage electronics including a boxy CRT television, a rotary dial telephone, a cassette tape player, audio cassettes, a VCR, and VHS tapes, all placed on a wooden floor.

11 Everyday Items That Used To Be a Big Deal

By Alina Wang on June 20, 2025

Two young women in plaid outfits stand and smile, while next to them is a view of cars winding down Lombard Street in San Francisco, lined with flowers and greenery, with people taking photos at the bottom.

37 Retro Photos of Everyday Life in 1975

By Colby Droscher on June 19, 2025

A retro illustration shows a green classic car parked in front of a modern mid-century house, with three people in formal attire conversing by the entrance at dusk.

10 Retro Luxury Car Ads From the 1960s

By Rachel Schneider on June 17, 2025

Split image: On the left, a man angrily yells at a football referee wearing a jersey with the number 52. On the right, a woman in a patterned dress talks on a corded phone in a retro phone booth.

30 Throwback Photos From 1970 That Take Us Back in Time

By Colby Droscher on June 15, 2025

A woman in a black dress stands behind a jewelry counter, holding a pearl necklace and smiling. Display cases filled with jewelry surround her in an elegant, well-lit store.

12 Photos of 1960s Department Stores

By Rachel Schneider on June 13, 2025

A grand, ornate ballroom with crystal chandeliers, tall white columns, gold accents, classical paintings, and a polished wooden floor. Elegant chairs line the walls, and intricate detailing decorates the room.

12 Vanishing Old Money Status Symbols

By Alina Wang on June 11, 2025

Aerial view of a city skyline with numerous skyscrapers under a partly cloudy sky. In the foreground, a large body of water with a docked military ship and marina can be seen.

What Middle-Class Life Really Costs in America’s Major Cities

By Alina Wang on June 11, 2025

Three containers are organized for recycling: one holds empty plastic bottles, another contains egg cartons, papers, and small boxes, and the third has clean, folded clothes and glass jars on a tiled floor.

10 Common Items You Should Avoid Donating

By Alina Wang on June 9, 2025

A collection of vintage radios, cassette players, and audio equipment stacked and displayed at a market or antique shop. The items are old, with various designs and signs of wear.

12 Electronics From the ’70s That Once Felt Like the Future

By Alina Wang on June 4, 2025

A large ocean liner with four smokestacks, emitting smoke, sails near smaller boats on a wide river under an overcast sky. People stand on the riverbank in the foreground.

10 Valuable Titanic Artifacts Pulled From the Wreck

By Alina Wang on June 4, 2025

A person holding and playing an original Nintendo Game Boy handheld console against a plain white background.

15 Items From the ’90s That Are Worth Reselling

By Rachel Schneider on June 3, 2025

A smiling family of three sits on the front porch of a house. The woman sits cross-legged, the man sits beside her holding a young girl who stands behind him, all appearing happy and relaxed outside their home.

The New American Dream: This Is What Middle-Class Success Looks Like Now

By Alina Wang on June 2, 2025

A vintage black-and-white photo shows eight men in 19th-century clothing posing for a group portrait. Some wear hats and hold objects, with a neutral studio backdrop behind them.

10 Captivating Photos of America’s Gold Rush

By Alina Wang on May 30, 2025

Three children ride tricycles in a row on a sidewalk, following an adult on a bicycle in a residential neighborhood with green lawns and brick houses.

10 Photos That Show How Simple Life Was for ’70s Kids

By Erin Kuschner on May 28, 2025

Aerial view of downtown Detroit, Michigan at sunset, showing modern skyscrapers, historic buildings, and the Detroit River with a white boat docked along the waterfront.

What It Takes To Be Middle Class in Every State

By Alina Wang on May 27, 2025

A woman in a yellow dress sits on the hood of a red vintage convertible parked in front of a mid-century house; a black cat walks on a patio table with an umbrella and chairs in the yard.

13 Things the Middle Class Can No Longer Afford

By Alina Wang on May 21, 2025

Vintage Coca-Cola advertisement reading, "Drink a bottle of Coca-Cola and be lucky." Offers a chance to find a cash coupon under the cork, with prizes from 5¢ to $1. Two glass Coke bottles are shown on each side.

12 Vintage Ads From 1914-1939 That Survived War, Boom and Bust

By Erin Kuschner on May 19, 2025

A woman stands in front of a group, holding plastic containers, demonstrating their use to an audience of women seated in a living room decorated with plants and furniture.

14 Photos of 1950s Tupperware Parties

By Alina Wang on May 15, 2025

Four girls and one boy dressed in colorful, vintage 1960s-style clothing walk on a sidewalk past a suburban house with a church steeple in the background on a sunny day.

15 Photos of Church Outfits From Back in the Day

By Alina Wang on May 13, 2025

A family portrait from the 1980s shows three children sitting in front of a man, with a woman standing behind them. The group is indoors, surrounded by vintage decor and patterned wallpaper.

17 Awkward and Hilarious Family Photos

By Alina Wang on May 13, 2025

An elderly man with white hair and a beard, wearing a denim shirt, pushes a shopping cart and selects items from a grocery store shelf.

23 Things That Shouldn’t Be This Expensive

By Alina Wang on May 11, 2025

A group of smiling children with backpacks eagerly run beside a parked yellow school bus on a sunny day.

10 School Items Every Middle-Class Kid Had in the ’90s

By Alina Wang on May 9, 2025

A family stands by a light blue car in a driveway. The father loads a suitcase into the trunk, while the mother and three young children, dressed in 1950s-style clothing, stand nearby in front of a suburban house.

10 Retro Photos of the Middle-Class American Dream

By Alina Wang on May 7, 2025