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LOOK: Vintage Ad 'Splains How Men And Women Differ

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.22.2013 | Women

Women and men respond differently to everything, so the sexes should have their own magazines. At least that's the premise of this Ladies Home Jour...

What My Mom Did In The 1950s

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.14.2013 | Women

We're always interested in the kind of jobs women held back in the day, both to get a sense of what life was like before anti-discrimination laws and ...

Mad Men Season 6: Kathleen Hale Marries Donald Draper

Kathleen Hale | Posted 04.02.2013 | Comedy
Kathleen Hale

AMC recently released the teaser for season six of Mad Men. It got me thinking. What if I were married to Donald Draper?

The Woman Who Saved My Life

Molly Lindquist | Posted 03.27.2013 | Women
Molly Lindquist

It wasn't until my own diagnosis of breast cancer in 2011, at the age of 32, that I started to ask more questions about the experience my grandmother likely had as a patient 56 years before me.

Mickey Mouse Gets a Retro Makeover for the Disney Channel's New Series of 2D Animated Shorts

Jim Hill | Posted 05.12.2013 | Entertainment
Jim Hill

Expect to see a pie-eyed Mouse starring in all-new animated adventures that will take these classic Disney characters from Paris to Tokyo to the Alps and NYC and all points in between.

PHOTOS: Florida's Era Of Technicolor Motels

Posted 03.04.2013 | Travel

Florida has always attracted a steady stream of sun seekers, but the beachcombers and the cities they visited looked exceedingly different only a half...

Why Are Cocktails Important?

Tom Macy | Posted 04.09.2013 | New York
Tom Macy

The main complaint about cocktails these days is that they're pretentious. This image is only perpetuated when they're served by a bunch of seemingly elitist bearded bartenders who obsess over antiquated drinks that cost the price of an entree.

Why Modern Airports Have to Change

Peter Mandel | Posted 04.03.2013 | Travel
Peter Mandel

The fact is that the everyday-ness of today's airports is exactly the opposite of what we flyers need. Don't wall us off, you builders, from where we are and what we are about to do. We may be frightened but we are not dumb.

More Than Vintage: Wives With Beehives Promotes Out-of-Date Ideals

Aleida Fernandez | Posted 03.05.2013 | TV
Aleida Fernandez

It depresses me to think that people -- especially women -- in the 21st century believe that these out-of-date gender roles should be reintroduced as the norm. And It depresses me even further that TLC felt like this was an appropriate show to air.

'Wives With Beehives': 50s Lifestyle So They Don't 'Whore Around'?

Posted 12.28.2012 | TV

There's a nostalgia in entertainment about the 1950s, and especially on television. The worldview presented via the black-and-white images sent across...

JD McPherson: An Old-Fashioned Success in the New Media Musical World

R. Clifton Spargo | Posted 02.25.2013 | Fifty
R. Clifton Spargo

With a performance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman earlier this month and a debut record that reached #47 on the Billboard album charts, JD McPherson is enjoying one heck of a pop cultural high.

The Dave Brubeck Quartet Changed My Life (and I Didn't Know It)

Doug Bradley | Posted 02.09.2013 | Fifty
Doug Bradley

"Time Out," it said in big bold letters under the band's name. Even the cover was intoxicating -- strange shapes and bright colors and bizarre objects that you couldn't quite figure out. I looked at Steve, a question on my face.

Remembering 1950s Sexuality Through Call the Midwife

Lea Lane | Posted 12.07.2012 | TV
Lea Lane

I was thinking about my earliest feelings of sexuality because I'm hooked on the new Sunday PBS series Call the Midwife, set in slummy East-End London in the 1950s.

LOOK: Amazing Retro Photos Of The First-Ever McDonald's

The Huffington Post | Drew Guarini | Posted 10.08.2012 | Small Business

Sometimes we at HuffPost Small Business feel a little stigmatized as, well, "tiny." It helps to remember, on those days, that you have to start somewh...

Mad Women: 'The Best of Everything' at HERE Arts Center

Bess Rowen | Posted 12.03.2012 | Arts
Bess Rowen

The Best of Everything is a well-acted piece that gives you a glimpse into the rather frightening world that women encountered only 65 years ago.

Sands of Time on Dirty Beaches

Gideon Resnick | Posted 11.12.2012 | Arts
Gideon Resnick

Badlands provides a quick visit to this world, eight songs amounting to a 27 minute capsule in time, a brief pit stop on the highway Alex Hungtai's character - and perhaps himself - calls home.

Newspapers Used To Think It Was Okay To Promote Spanking Women

The Huffington Post | Posted 07.11.2012 | Women

For every bit of gratitude one might feel for the gifts of the 1950s and 60s -- rock 'n roll and Mad Men, to name a few -- there's a friendly reminder...

World on a String

Doug Bradley | Posted 08.15.2012 | Fifty
Doug Bradley

Music, then and now, became a salve. It healed the pain, drove out the demons and cast my childhood in a glow of sunshine and hope and melody.

Our Need for Nature

Ginger Ross Breggin | Posted 06.04.2012 | Healthy Living
Ginger Ross Breggin

Remember this, when beset by the endless days of February or by other of life's burdens: Nothing is forever. Life brings change. Nature is nearby.

Everything Began in the 1950s

David Macaray | Posted 07.09.2012 | Home
David Macaray

Portraying the '50s as intellectually stunted not only misses the point, it wildly misrepresents what really happened. Not only was the decade not an era of mindless conformity, it was the diametric opposite.

Bandstand and the Headband

Lea Lane | Posted 06.20.2012 | TV
Lea Lane

I remember dressing the morning of the show, putting on my snappiest outfit, aware that the TV cameras would probably do head shots of the audience, as they often did in the smaller Philadelphia studio.

Romney Says He Will "Restore" America... But, to What?

Paul Abrams | Posted 06.11.2012 | Politics
Paul Abrams

Mitt Romney, whose business experience enabled him to be 47th in the nation with respect to job growth when he was a one-term governor of Massachusetts, has told us that he is going to "restore" America.

It's All Eddie Cochran's Fault!

Binky Philips | Posted 05.26.2012 | Entertainment
Binky Philips

Eventually, just the way I discovered Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, through the Rolling Stones, I did the same with anyone The Who were covering. That led me to Eddie in late 1967. Hunting down his albums in New York back then was almost impossible.

Woman (Of a Certain Age) Writes Great American (Erotic) Novel

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring | Posted 04.24.2012 | Books
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring

Well, OK: "Great"? I know, I know: my readers, the novel's readers, will be the judge of that, I hear you saying. But, for me, it had to be that pa...

Obesity Epidemic: Is Your Mother to Blame?

Nancy Wurtzel | Posted 04.17.2012 | Fifty
Nancy Wurtzel

And, tomorrow, when I eat a piece of double-layer spice cake with cream cheese frosting (just for example), I will curse my mother. She smoked like a fiend, fasted when pregnant with me and probably force-fed me formula from a bottle.