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What were the biggest Christmas toys of the 1950s?

The toys below were some of the decade’s biggest — and they’ve stayed popular ever since. The skinny, wide-eyed, green ...

Deer hunting: Old rifles still effective

If you want a good working deer rifle for a low price, there are a lot of store-brand rifles circulating that are of ...
Highbrow Magazine

Inside the Forgotten Space Program That Made Landing on the Moon Possible

The crucial and groundbreaking Gemini missions came after the swaggering heroics of the Mercury flights, immortalized in book ...

The toys that topped the bestseller lists through the decades

When I think back to break time in the 1970s, I remember my hands – so icy cold I can hardly feel them – stiff and red in a ...

Arthur's Toys still a favorite Fresno memory, years after beloved store closed

Thousands of Fresnans have nostalgic memories of visiting Arthur's Toys, which carried everything from Lionel trains to ...
The New York Times

Burt Meyer, 99, Dies; Made Lite-Brite and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots

Starting in the 1960s, he collaborated on the designs of classic toys like Mouse Trap, Toss Across and Mr. Machine. By Richard Sandomir In the early 1960s, the toy inventor Burt Meyer went to an ...