Nostalgia

Photo credit: Morn, NBC Universal, Wikimedia Commons – David Hasselhoff, left, and his car KITT from "Knight Rider."

Culture, Nostalgia

The ‘Knight Rider’ car somehow got a speeding ticket even though museum owners swear it hasn’t moved in years

Cecily Knobler

5/14/2026
Daniel Hatoum (left) and Sarah Chen with son Mills (right)

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Meet the second-generation immigrants who are helping protect your civil rights.

Sarah Watts

7/8/2026
From holding the phone on your shoulder to folding a map to knowing what "cornflower" and "goldenrod" are, here are pre-Y2K skills at their finest.

Culture, Nostalgia

People born before 1990 are sharing their now-useless (but 100% nostalgic) skills

Annie Reneau

5/8/2026
Mr. Rogers went to put on his shoes and found they didn't fit.

Culture, Nostalgia

Mister Rogers’ crew once pranked him during his opening song. His reaction was so very him.

Annie Reneau

5/7/2026
Photo credit: Canva – The red ball in many Gen X sports games.

Culture, Nostalgia

Gen Xer asks if people can ‘hear a still photo’ and the responses are undoubtedly so very Gen X

Cecily Knobler

5/7/2026
Photo credit: Canva/Wikipedia – Close-up of jean rivets (left) Jacob W. Davis (right)

Culture, Nostalgia

The fascinating 150-year-old reason why all your jeans have those weird metal buttons on them

Heather Wake

5/6/2026
Photo credit: Canva – What do you do when you see a town name on a map but it doesn't actually exist?

Culture, Nostalgia

Fake towns on real maps: Why ‘phantom settlements’ exist and how one became real…sort of

Annie Reneau

5/4/2026
Photo credit: @AllThings1990s on YouTube – The children of 90s kids can now get free pizza for reading books.

Culture, Nostalgia

’90s kids rejoice as Pizza Hut’s BOOK IT! program returns for a new generation of readers

Erik Barnes

5/1/2026
Photo credit: Photo by lil artsy/Pexels – Older people are sharing memories of wild behaviors and norms that would be considered "boundary crossing" today

Culture, Nostalgia

Gen Xers and Boomers share outrageous behaviors that used to be considered ‘normal’

Annie Reneau

4/20/2026
Photo credit: Mike Shaw, Wikimedia Commons – Retro '50s-styled bathroom.

Culture, Nostalgia

Millennials are ditching ‘boring grey’ for this joyful mid-century color

Cecily Knobler

4/17/2026
Photo credit: Elmer Holloway, NBC, Wikimedia Commons – Comedian Carol Burnett in a 1958 TV sketch.

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A young girl tells Carol Burnett ‘hello’ from her neighbor. It happened to have been Carol’s biggest crush.

Cecily Knobler

4/15/2026
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons & Flickr – People reflect on what it was like to “summer” away from home in the 1950s.

Culture, Nostalgia

Did 1950s families really ‘summer’ away from home à la ‘Dirty Dancing’? Yes, and not just the rich.

Evan Porter

4/15/2026
Photo credit: Image via Reddit/MyDogGoldi – Vintage casserole recipes from Gen X and boomer childhoods.

Culture, Nostalgia

15 old-school casserole recipes that feel like home for boomers and Gen Xers

Emily Shiffer

4/12/2026
Photo credit: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Wikimedia – A Thanksgiving dinner in the Great Depression was anything but depressing.

Culture, Nostalgia

8 Depression-era Thanksgiving meal ideas that still hold up today

Heather Wake

4/12/2026
Photo credit: Wiki.com – A vintage ad for McDonald's Onion Nuggets.

Culture, Nostalgia

A failed ‘nugget’ experiment explains why you’ll never find onion rings at McDonald’s

Heather Wake

4/9/2026
Photo credit: ~ tOkKa/Flickr, Canva – Halloween costumes in the 80s were terrifyingly terrible.

Culture, Nostalgia

Gen X woman describes what Halloween was like in the 80s with perfect accuracy

Annie Reneau

4/9/2026