From Sears Roebuck (once the largest retailer in the world) to Marshall Field's (the Chicago institution that invented the bridal registry) to Woolworth's (the original five-and-dime), several iconic American retailers…
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Sam Goody, Sharper Image, Borders, The Limited, Wet Seal, Sports Authority, Suncoast, and Warner Bros. Studio Stores were inescapable in the '90s. Each one collapsed for a specific business…
7 American foods that were everywhere in the 1970s and have completely vanished from grocery shelves
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From the diet soda that outsold Diet Coke to the snack bar that went to the Moon with Neil Armstrong, these were household names in their time. Here's what…
From the California desert to the Florida swamp, mid-20th-century real estate developers laid out roads, dug canals, and platted hundreds of thousands of lots for residents who never came. The…
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Carmel-by-the-Sea, California has no McDonald's, no street addresses, no streetlights outside the downtown core, and a permit requirement for wearing high heels. The town's residents wouldn't have it any…
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In 1962, a dump fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania, reached a coal seam underground. It's still burning today, and it may burn for another 250 years. Here's the real…