The Vintage News Jun 13, 2018 Steve Palace Getty Images If you were to hail a cab in New York City in the early 1970s, you might well have noticed the brooding driver in his 30s at the wheel of your ride. He wasn’t exactly a household name at the time, but the movie Mean Streets (1973) had … Read more
The Vintage News Jun 13, 2018 Patricia Grimshaw Traveling down the B3098 near Westbury, in Wiltshire, England, a curious sight greets drivers and passengers alike as they round a corner. Up on a hillside, in clear view, is a large, white horse. Not an actual horse and not a statue, but a carving, in the earth, … Read more
The Vintage News Jun 1, 2018 Stefan Andrews Getty Images If you’re looking for the world’s record-breaker when it comes to the oldest tree on the planet, experts say head to the Great Basin National Park in the United States and search for a bristlecone pine with an age determined to be a flabbergasting 5,065 years. … Read more
The Vintage News Jun 1, 2018 Andrew Pourciaux Chocolate milk is one of those delicious treats that few can resist, no matter their age. In A Christmas Story, young Ralphie spends an inordinate amount of energy on consuming Ovaltine, a brand of chocolate milk mix, in order to get a decoder ring that ends up being just another … Read more
The Vintage News Jun 11, 2018 Nikola Budanovic Charles Darwin is the father of evolution science and a biologist whose studies set a milestone in explaining the origins of all living forms on Earth. His theory of natural selection turned the 19th century science world upside-down and has been a subject of lively debate and numerous … Read more
The Vintage News Jul 26, 2018 Stefan Andrews Public execution and torture as criminal punishment goes back a long way in European history. Often the sentence was engineered to fit the crime, in some unthinkably gruesome ways. In France, during the period from 1789 to 1799, hundreds of thousands of men and women were arrested and … Read more
The Vintage News Aug 11, 2018 Barbara Stepko Horseshoe Falls Over the years, people have gone down Niagara Falls in a wide variety of contraptions: wooden barrels, a rubber ball, a kayak, even a Jet Ski. But the most impressive descent took place on July 9, 1960, when seven-year-old Roger Woodward went over the Falls wearing … Read more
