Some of the greatest Christmas memories from our childhoods are what we found waiting for us under the Christmas tree from year to year.
1957 Back-to-School Fashions
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Whether the start of school fills you with great excitement and anticipation or with a profound sense of dread, each year we must start anew. With a new school year comes the inevitable shopping trips for new school clothing. Store circulars fill the mailbox and are stuffed into the daily newspapers – it would be [...]
Remember When:Local NE Ski Hills – Gone But Not Forgotten
Spicket, Methuen & Landry’s Ski Hills There was a time in New England when it seemed there was always a local ski hill right around the corner. When I was a kid we skied a couple of times at Spicket Hill in Salem, NH. I don’t remember much about it except it was very small [...]
Dunkin’ Donuts Then And Now
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We have a pretty large collection of restaurant-ware coffee cups at the Retroplanet.com offices. When looking it over one day I could not help but think about how much Dunkin’ Donuts has changed from the old days. Dunkin’s opened its first store in Quincy, MA in 1950. Probably 35 years ago or so, my friends [...]
Remember When: First Road Trip
A trip like this can make memories to last a lifetime.
The Spaghetti Western
From B Movie to Respected Movie Genre The Spaghetti Western is a film genre that originated around 1960. The genre encompasses movies with a Western theme that were made primarily by Italians, but has also come to encompass any Western made in continental Europe. The American Western had always been a favorite movie genre for [...]
Coca-Cola Bottle Shapes Over the Years
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Coca-Cola’s Different Bottle Shapes Coca-Cola was first bottled by the Biedenharn Candy Company in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1894. The proprietor, Joseph A. Biedenharn, was a customer of The Coca-Cola Company, buying Coca-Cola syrup and serving the soft drink to customers at his soda fountain. He came up with the idea of making Coke available to [...]
Route 66 – America’s Highway
From Chicago to Los Angeles… Also known as “The Mother Road” and the “Will Rogers highway”, Route 66 was a national roadway that extended from the eastern region of the United States to the west coast. Its purpose was to connect both rural and urban streets to a major roadway system. The idea for a [...]
New York Automat Food Vendor Machines
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“I have always thought that the Automat in New York has the best scrambled eggs in the world.” — Gregory Peck
Fisher-Price Vintage Pull Toys Make A Comeback
Reproduction Fisher-Price Pull Toys for Today’s Kids In 1931, Fisher-Price released its first product line at the International Toy Fair in New York City. The sixteen toys, all made of wood, were quite successful, despite tough financial times for most Americans. Fisher-Price’s goal was make durable action toys that children would want to play with, [...]
Drive In Movie Theater Memories
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Drive-In Theater New England Memories Do you remember the first time you went to the drive-in theater? Back in the ’70s in our area of New England we probably had 6 or 8 of them that were close enough to get to on a Friday night. Today I think there are only 4 or 5 [...]
