Toys from the 1960s were built from heavy-gauge steel, solid hardwood, and die-cast metal — materials chosen for function, not cost-cutting. Post-WWII manufacturing infrastructure made durable raw ...

While the 1960s was perhaps the greatest decade for rock music, the era was also fabulous for Christmas songs. In part because the two crossed over in major ways, with big-name rock groups writing and ...

One of the most cherished things about Christmas is making it come alive in your home with decorations and traditions. I believe, like many Southerners, that the best holiday decor items are the ones ...

Johnny Gondesen got to play a live version of "Christmas Is Here" on a radio station in Houston on Dec. 4 Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital. She has been with ...

"Those magic days before Christmas... days full of great anticipation. We discovered that there is as much joy in giving as receiving." Christmas began for me, as a child, when the Christmas annuals ...

Tucked away on a quiet neighborhood road is a little piece of Raleigh Christmas history dating back to the 1960s. If you lived in Raleigh in those years, you might recognize the mysterious miniature ...

In the Mom On Pop podcast, Bonney Teti—mother of A.V. Club senior editor John Teti—shares her unfiltered thoughts on the pop culture of the day. In the previous installment of Mom On Pop, Mom and I ...

Buying a Christmas tree has always been a holiday tradition, but the price attached to it has changed dramatically over the decades. In the 1960s and 1970s, a real tree was a small, almost forgettable ...

Television has been part of people’s homes and lives for decades. And that makes it an intriguing part of everyday life and cultural history – even if you don’t think there’s anything on worth ...

In 1960, Christmas fate smiled on Rudisill School at Spy Run Avenue and Ruth Street and delivered its largest tree: a 21-foot behemoth felled in a community member's yard. A student, Brian Davis, ...