Thanks to Levittown, New York, suburban life was born ... but they often fell short. The reality of life in the 1950s is much different than Father Knows Best would like you to believe.

In the 1950s, a new home cost £2,000 but an office worker's average wage was just £ 14 a week. A loaf of bread and a pint of milk was the pre-decimal equivalent of 3p, a pint of beer 9p and 20 ...

Adoptees are looking for answers years after unwed Italian mothers were pressured to give their babies up for adoption under ...

The flick is set within the ping-pong culture of the 1950, but the plot has not been ... Timothée, who splits his time between New York and California, first rocketed to fame starring in the ...

For decades, unwed mothers in Italy were pressured to give up children born out of wedlock. Thousands were sent to America.

There were so many exciting things at our new house ... After World War Two finished in 1945 life got better for children in Britain during the 1950s. The destruction of the war and evacuation ...

A New York restaurant that is popular among celebrities is celebrating 70 years of business by bringing back its 1950s pricing ... I'm with somebody new in my life, I say, 'You know, let's ...

A leak in the Queens-Midtown Tunnel and the race to plug it revealed the fragility of New York City’s aging transportation network. Donations to the New York City mayor’s re-election campaign ...

Mitzi Gaynor, star of 1950s big-screen musicals including “ South Pacific ” and “Les Girls” and of a series of beloved ...

On a trip to Sedona, Ariz., a writer tries to understand her mystically inclined mother’s beliefs with the help of crystals, ...

A 1950s New Jersey bungalow in Little Silver, damaged by Superstorm Sandy, sold for $1.3 million, even though it is uninhabitable and will be torn down. Courtesy of Stacie Bender Some folks drop $ ...