1. The Secret Apartment Inside the Statue of Liberty Most people know the Statue of Liberty as a towering symbol of freedom, but few realize there was once a small apartment hidden inside the torch. In the early 1900s, the […]
1. Walking to School Alone For decades, walking to school alone was simply part of growing up. Kids in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s often set off each morning with nothing more than a backpack and a quick “see you
1. Watermelon Festivals In dozens of small farming towns across the South, the annual watermelon festival used to feel like the biggest day of the entire summer. Farmers hauled in enormous melons grown in nearby fields, and people lined up
1. The Corner Hardware Store Every neighborhood seemed to have one hardware store where the owner knew exactly what you needed before you finished explaining the problem. These weren’t giant warehouse chains with endless aisles. They were narrow stores with
1. Fried Bologna Sandwiches When the refrigerator looked a little bare, fried bologna sandwiches suddenly became dinner. A slice or two of bologna would hit a hot skillet until the edges curled up like little bowls. The smell alone felt
1. Rotary Phones For decades, making a phone call meant sticking your finger into a numbered hole and slowly turning a dial. A rotary phone required patience because each number had to spin all the way back before you could
1. The Cadillac Ranch (Amarillo, Texas) If you drove along Route 66 near Amarillo in the mid 1970s or later, you probably saw a line of vintage Cadillacs sticking nose first into the dirt like some kind of mechanical Stonehenge.
