Boom" on an episode of "Happy Days" when he was a teen. The song, by the one-hit wonders The Chords, stuck with him. And now he and his wife, Amy, are opening a nostalgic 1950s-themed ice cream shop — ...

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I recently saw a picture of a family on Christmas Day in 1950’s Jamestown. In the picture, three children from the Bishop family sat in front of their fireplace on Hotchkiss Street, the girls grasping ...

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Harry R. Rubenstein is curator emeritus in the Division of Political History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Curators at the National Museum of American History talked ...

Bethanee Bemis Bethanee Bemis is a museum specialist with the Division of Political History at the National Museum of American History. Her current research area focuses on the Disney theme parks ...