Like those ghostly footprints and missing-link hominid bones that surprise lucky paleoanthropologists in the African desert, the vestiges of L.A.’s mid-century design heritage are beacons to the urban ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In post-war America, the typical middle-class neighborhood was characterized by dinners on the patio, lots of kids, and laidback ...

Summertime picnics and barbecues demand fun, not only of the entertainment kind, but also with the food you prepare and the dishware you choose to serve it on. Most popular back in the 1950s and '60s, ...

'Just one word: plastics.' As moviegoers in 1967 heard that classic line spoken to Dustin Hoffman's character in "The Graduate," plastic tableware was falling out of fashion. Dishes made of melamine, ...