Some jobs were so common, you couldn’t imagine a world without them. But once technology improved and daily life sped up, many of those roles quietly faded out. Here are six jobs that were once a ...

Despite Ford, Chevrolet, and other automakers getting cars to the masses, plenty of people in the 1950s were unsure of how to ...

The tax wasn’t always nine-tenths of a penny. Sometimes it was a smaller fraction. But by the 1950s, gas stations started rounding up to the 9/10 pricing, “squeezing the buck as far as they ...

Robert Norris’s 1950’s vintage gas station, in all of its rust and dust-covered glory, is attracting visitors to northeast Wisconsin. They're on the hunt for nostalgia and a sweet spot for a ...

The EPA has published a description of the lot on the southwest corner of the intersection. It had been a gas station “since at least the early (1950s),” complete with underground storage tanks.