Month: August 2024

Just After WWII, These Beautiful Color Photos Show What Life of the U.S. Looked Like in the Late 1940s

With the war finally over, life in the United States began to return to normal. Soldiers began to come home and find peacetime jobs. Industry stopped producing war equipment and began to produce goods that made peacetime life pleasant. The…

New York Cafeterias From 1975 and 1985 Through Marcia Halperin’s Lens

One frigid day in February 1975, Marcia Bricker Halperin, a budding street photographer, was shooting storefront windows on Kings Highway in Brooklyn. With her fingers practically frozen to her Pentax, she slipped into a Dubrow’s Cafeteria to defrost. “I took a…

Black and White Photos Show the Life at the School Bus Stop in New Jersey in the Early 1970s

American photographer Ralph Morse took these lovely photos that show the life of children at the school bus stop in New Jersey in 1971. Life at the School Bus Stop in New Jersey Life at the School Bus Stop in…

Hokey-Pokey Everywhere – 20 Interesting Vintage Photos Show Mobile Ice Cream Vendors Over the Years

‘Hokey-pokey’ was a slang term for ice cream in general in the 19th and early 20th centuries in several areas, including New York City and parts of Great Britain, specifically for the ice cream sold by street vendors, or ‘hokey-pokey’…

SCOTUS Hands GOP Victory, Enforces Proof Of Citizenship Requirement For Arizona Elections

In a big win for the GOP, the United States Supreme Court ruled 5 – 4 on Thursday, August 22 that the Republicans attempting to enforce proof of citizenship when voting in Arizona can enforce the Arizona law requiring such…

Pelosi Claims Election Against Trump Is Like American War Of Independence

Speaking on MSNBC on Thursday, August 22, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said that the Democrats fighting former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election and winning in November is comparable to the fledgling United States warring with England…

How the economy will sway voters in battleground Pennsylvania

If elections are about “the economy, stupid,” Ben McDuffee has not had the kind of confidence-boosting year that would make him feel good about keeping Democrats at the top of the ticket for four more years. And he is a Democrat. The…

Hawaii on alert for Tropical Storm Hone, extreme heat travels across country

Hawaii is on alert for Tropical Storm Hone while extreme heat is expected to expand from the South to the Midwest, leaving 25 million Americans under heat alerts this weekend. A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the Big Island…

4-year-old stabbed multiple times in New Jersey home now in stable condition, police say

A 4-year-old stabbed “multiple times” in Paterson, New Jersey, is now in stable condition, as law enforcement continue to investigate, police say. Paterson police responded to a report of a child who had been stabbed at a residence on Friday…

Tim Walz gives rural Democrats hope for winning swing states

Len Fatica is a member of a political species that’s practically extinct in deep red Statesboro, Georgia — a rural Democrat. ABC News traveled to the biggest city in Georgia’s southeastern Bulloch County, with a population of around 34,000. It boasts…