2. Take a look! Vintage View-Master reels & viewers
3.Sarah Weinman on Women Crime Writers of the ’40s and ’50s, and the sweet smell of suspense
4. Rare color photos from 1930s-40s
5. Top 10 Historical Events of the 1940s
6. Wessels Living History Farm 1940s
7. 1950s George Wythe High School graduate leaves behind big donation
8. The Year 1950 from the People History
2. 20 Most Dangerous Kids Toys Ever Sold
3. Rare 1970s Commercials
4. Retro Bikes
5. Sensations 70s – Today Perth News
6. Jane Pauley Gene Shalit Iran Crisis II Retro 1979
7. Kids React: Rotary Phones
8. Fire destroys the Miralago ballroom in the “No Man’s Land”
2. Raspberry Pi transforms upright piano into a retro loop player
3. Retro News Round-Up – September 201
4. The Unrealized Horror of Population Explosion
5. Video: Retro Music is Hard-Wired Into Your Brain Because of Science, Not Just Because It’s Awesome
6. 10 Best Sitcoms From The ’90S
8. “Frank Kelly’s poster for Queen’s “News of the World” tour, 1977.”
2. BJ the Chicago Kid Goes Retro in Quirky New ‘That Girl’ Music Video
3. Live Aid: Bob Geldof’s Original Response to SPIN’s 1986 Exposé
5. The Worst U.S. Storms of All Time
6. What Was the First Movie Ever Made?
7. The first ever recorded song : Au Clair De La Lune. Original and mastered noise filtered audio
8. The First Car Ever Made – Still Runs
9. How the world’s first rock concert ended in chaos
10. Home Sweet Stone-age Home: Britain’s first house at 10,500 years old is uncovered by archaeologists
Retro News Wednesday Just For You
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
1. Demolished 1920s Carlton Tavern ‘should be rebuilt’
2. 1920s Silent Film, Native American Cast Get Due Decades Late
3. Secret service officials discussed smearing Labour party in 1920s
Papers show top UK intelligence committee, whose members included
Winston Churchill, discussed ‘anti-red activities’ following Zinoviev letter incident
4. World War I, the 1920s and Modern Cool
World War I tore down old traditions and gave counterculture a chance to begin again.
6. 1920s V: Al Jolson & Two Landmark Hits
7. Duke students’ blood donations paid off in the 1920s
8. HIV’s origins traced to Kinshasa in 1920s
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Retro News Wednesday Just For You
Wednesday, March 01, 2015
2. Top 10 Historical Moments of the 1960s
3. This is the man who designed the 1970s
4. 7 technologies to thank the 1970s for
5. 1970s Christmas in Teesside: Top telly, turkey and a Tomahawk bike
6. 50 Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 1970s
7. “Brady Bunch” Star Barry Williams Revives 1970s un Great American Country’s “A Very Barry Branson”
8. Childhood in the US ‘safer than in the 1970s’
9. Dietary advice from the 1970s found to be a big fat mistake
10. Top 10 books about the 1970s
Retro News Wednesday Just For You
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
1. The Ferry: A Civil Rights Story
2. Jack Kevorkian Dies, Leaves Controversial Legacy, No Successor
3. 1950s American cars aren’t collector’s items in Cuba
5. Original Rolling Stones to rock Old Capitol
7. What Women Used to Wear to Play Sports
As these vintage photos show, turn-of-the-century sportswear was much different than today’s performance gear.
8. Bing Crosby Sang Me a Lullaby
A chance encounter on a train led to an unforgettable photo.
Retro News Wednesday Just For You
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
1. From Gitmo to an American Supermax, the Horrors of Solitary Confinement
2. Ancient ‘lost city’ home to a vanished civilisation found deep in jungles of Honduras
Expedition of archaeologists accompanied by ex-SAS survival experts makes stunning discovery of fabled “White City” where locals may have once worshipped a monkey god
3. American Architecture & Business News
4. American life in 1914: How we lived a century ago – Why America Is Not Normal
5. ISIL video shows destruction of Mosul artefacts
Five-minute clip shows group of men using hammers and drills to smash several large statues in Iraqi museum.
6. Pharaoh of “Lost Dynasty” Died Brutal Death, Forensic Study Reveals
Forgotten pharaoh may have been earliest Egyptian ruler to die in battle.
7. Nihiwatu – On the edge of wildness | The story.
9. Darth Vader, Renaissance Man? How ‘Star Wars’ Could Have Looked Centuries Ago
10. Pictures: New Pyramid Found With Vivid Murals, Stacked Tombs
Retro News Wednesday Just For You
Wednesday, March 04, 2015
1) Historic Bath:
Edna Ferber and the James Adams Floating Theatre
2) 6 Gross Foods from a 50’s Cookbook (That We Taste Tested)
4) Last British troops withdraw from Egypt
6) [Article] Basketball and the Bull Market
7) Music: What are the saddest songs?
8) Books: Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues, an Electronic Edition
9) Food: “It’s Just a Jar of Peaches”
On Thanksgiving Eve, as we were getting ready for bed, there was a knock on our door.
10) Vintage Circus Photos of Life Under the Big Tent
Take a special look at the public and private life of circus people in the beginning of the 20th century.
Retro News Wednesday Just For You
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
1) Sequins, retro elegance, Cinderella jostle for attention at second day of London Fashion Week
2) Chicago’s Paradise of Retro Toys
3) Alum was victim of Waltham triple homicide
4) Brookline Clinic Shootings: December 30, 1994
5) The endurance of Camelia Sadat
6) The Man in the Rockefeller Suit
7) Women and the Warsaw Ghetto: A Moment to Decide Marjorie Wall Bingham
9) Patriots & Traitors: What Can We Learn from the Lessons of History?
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