Here’s a favorite childhood memory, and other memorable downtown Lancaster thoughts from the mid-1950s. I remember catching the 10:14 bus (that’s the time it stopped at Roseville Road and Lititz Pike) ...

On Halloween night, pumpkins on porches were the only yard decoration. It wasn’t until the 1980s that other scary decorations ...

In a recent post I contended that a major cause of the continuous rise in teens’ suicides from 1950 to 1990 was a continuous decline over this period in opportunities for kids to engage in the sorts ...

Picture sun-bleached boardwalks, pastel cottages, and kids on cruiser bikes with baskets. That’s Seaside, Florida, a walkable Gulf Coast... The post This Coastal Village Looks Like the Set of a 1950s ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Curt Simmons, the last surviving member of the 1950 Philadelphia Phillies Whiz Kids team, has died. He was 93. His death on Tuesday at his Ambler, Pennsylvania, home was confirmed by ...

Shoe-shining ain’t for fun in Pittsfield — even if you’re a kid. Sure, there are a lot of fly-by-night brogan-buffers who take out their 15-cent license, work for a day or so and then quit because ...