Here’s a favorite childhood memory, and other memorable downtown Lancaster thoughts from the mid-1950s. I remember catching the 10:14 bus (that’s the time it stopped at Roseville Road and Lititz Pike) ...

Summer is a time when many of us like to relax; when we tend to be a bit more carefree. Kids are off from school, enjoying summer vacation and parents often take time off from their hectic work ...

Picture a classroom that smells like chalk and floor wax, where milk cartons sweat on the lunch line and seat belts are optional. Advice in the 1950s felt rock solid; parents, doctors, and teachers ...

In 1944, Marie Paneth, an Austrian-born art therapist, imagined a scheme whereby London’s bombsites would be used by local children for building huts and caves and for growing vegetables which they ...

Dubbed one of the "10 most dangerous toys of all time," a miniature atomic energy lab is said to have been a widely sought-after children's toy in the 1950s – and it reportedly included four small ...

In a recent post I contended that a major cause of the continuous rise in teens’ suicides from 1950 to 1990 was a continuous decline over this period in opportunities for kids to engage in the sorts ...