1. Lawn Darts (a.k.a. Jarts) If you grew up in the ’70s or ’80s, chances are someone’s backyard had a set of these. They looked like oversized darts with heavy metal tips and were meant to be tossed into plastic […]
1. The Leech Collector Back in the days when doctors believed that bleeding out your ailments was the key to good health, someone had to make sure there were plenty of leeches on hand. Enter the leech collector, a person
1. Alpine White Bar Hershey’s Alpine White Bar was one of those ’80s creations that felt fancy at the time. It was a smooth white chocolate bar filled with tiny almond pieces, making it stand out from the usual milk
1. Potato Chips Potato chips actually came about because of an unhappy customer. In 1853, George Crum was working as a chef in Saratoga Springs, New York, when a diner kept sending back his fried potatoes, complaining they were too
1. Lead-Based Makeup For centuries, women powdered their faces with lead-based makeup to achieve a pale, porcelain complexion. At the time, pale skin was seen as a mark of beauty and wealth, but no one fully realized that the makeup
1. Joyland Amusement Park, Wichita, Kansas Joyland was the kind of place where kids could ride a wooden coaster that creaked with every turn and parents could relax under the shade of the midway. It opened in 1949 and ran
1. Bologna Sandwiches Sometimes the quickest lunch was just two slices of white bread and a cold slab of bologna. If you were lucky, maybe there was a squirt of mustard or a slice of cheese, but often it was
