History

1989 ended up being a very significant year for blockbuster films. It closed out trilogies, brought comic book properties back into the spotlight, marked the start of a creative renaissance, and more.

Through war and peace, booms and busts, fuel lines, fads and the cyber-revolution, the RV lifestyle has endured and is still going strong, even in today’s challenging economic times. Here’s what trailer life looked like in the 1960s.

Marriage in medieval times was very different from what we would define as “marriage” today. For one, women didn’t have a choice in terms of who they married and didn’t even know the man before they wed. Simply put, marriage wasn’t based on love and romance back then.

Most of these 90s nostalgia relicts are hardly available now, so we have to keep their memories alive. And what better way to do so than creating funny memes?

During the Cold War, the entire world on was on a hair trigger, and there were tons of close calls and nuclear threats.

No doubt, the ’80s were a colorful, creative, and interesting time, full of experimentation and discovery.

“The original Mad Max Interceptor sitting in a wrecking yard in South Australia 1984”

Of course, I don’t mean to imply that you aren’t already happy right now in present day. I certainly hope you’re all doing great! But if you’re like me, taking in some culture from youth always brings a little smile …

A collection of parents and their kids doing things that would horrify the mommy and daddy bloggers and Instagrammers of today.

The Colossus was a 104ft tall triumphal statue of Greek sun god Helios built over Mandraki Harbour in Rhodes on 49ft marble pedestals allowing ships to pass between his legs.

oday’s technology now enables us to “colorize” historical photos, giving us our only chance at seeing what the world really looked like back then. And it was truly spectacular.

These fascinating black and white photos Lance Nix took people at the Mission Bay beach on a day of August 1970.

Awesome photos that capture the nostalgia of the past.

Here below is a collection of impressive black and white photos that Scherer documented everyday life of Paris in the 1950s. h/t: vintag.es