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Storefronts and parked cars in Logan, West Virginia, a small town in the 1970s.

15 Things You Remember if You Grew Up in a Small Town in the 1970s

A screen door slaps shut. A bicycle rattles over the driveway. Somewhere down the street, somebody’s mother is calling a …
A woman carries a grocery tote beside a frosty parked car on a snowy driveway.

8 Things You Should Never Leave in Your Car During Freezing Weather

An unplugged portable electric heater stands upright on a clear tiled floor.

10 Dangerous Space Heater Mistakes People Make Every Winter

A heating technician holds a clipboard beside a closed furnace in a basement utility room.

8 Warning Signs Your Furnace Needs Professional Attention

Christmas toys title graphic featuring a Nintendo 64 console and controller, photographed in 2014.

The Christmas Toys We Wanted in 1977, 1983 and 1996

Illustration of friends meeting beside a fountain in an early-1990s shopping mall.

A Saturday at the Mall in the Early ’90s

Illustration of a paper photo envelope, printed snapshots and film negatives on a table.

Getting Your Photos Back Was an Event

Sears Magnolia kit home in Benson, North Carolina, with tall white columns.

You Could Order a House From Sears. Here’s What Actually Arrived.

15 Forgotten Candies From the 1960s, 70s and 80s, Mental Scoop title graphic over an AI-created candy-shop scene.

15 Forgotten Candies From the 1960s, 70s and 80s

A family Thanksgiving in 1940, told through real photographs: white Mental Scoop headline over Jack Delano’s archival photograph of pies and a family reflected in a mirror.

A Family Thanksgiving in 1940, Told Through Real Photographs

Boot scraper at 13 Chestnut Street in Boston, photographed circa 1865–1914

12 Strange Features Found in Old Houses and What They Were Used For

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