Nostalgia — 50 Plus Hub

Before the GTO, there was no such thing as a muscle car. Three Pontiac engineers smuggled a big engine into...

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The 1969 Dodge Charger was menace made metal — a car so aggressively beautiful that Hollywood put it in a t...

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The 1970 Plymouth Barracuda was the muscle car that the other muscle cars were afraid of — a redesigned wea...

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You heard it before you saw it — that tinkling melody floating through the summer air like a musical telegr...

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The 1969 Camaro Z/28 was not a car for reasonable people. It was a 302 cubic-inch declaration of war agains...

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The station wagon was not a car so much as a mobile extension of the American home — a vehicle that carried...

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Woolworth's, Kresge's, and Ben Franklin — the five and dime stores were America's original everything store...

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Under the mirror ball and the black lights, on a wooden floor polished to glass, the roller skating rink wa...

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S&H Green Stamps turned every grocery receipt into a treasure map. You licked them, stuck them in books, an...

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The Wurlitzer jukebox stood in the corner of every diner and bar like a stained-glass window — chrome arche...

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Edwin Land's Polaroid camera produced a miracle that no smartphone has truly replicated — a physical photog...

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Two white knobs, a glass screen filled with aluminum powder, and the terrifying knowledge that one wrong sh...

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