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TheGoldenEra.net

The place where nobody tries to put the bite on you, showcasing some of the best of The Golden Age. Come on in. Everybody here is just like you...only more so.

Port Halcyon

Port Halcyon is your online refuge from the modern world. Their online town feeds your need for vintage music, fashion, culture and lifestyle with articles, reviews, shopping, discussion, contests, entertainment, and more. Dig in!.

Now in its 7th year, BoomerCafé is the Internet's most popular online magazine for baby boomers! Are you a boomer? If you were born between 1946 and 1964, you are!

Coury Turczyn's Excellent Pop Cult site is a repository for really good, journalistic pop culture writing. A Must See for Pop Culture 'true believers'.

At BadFads.com browse through the fun and fascinating fashion, collectible, activity and event fads of the last 100 years. They are constantly updating the site, so enjoy your visit and come back often because these are the fads you wished would stay forever (or never come back)

Past Times is a quarterly newsletter which celebrates the classic movies, vintage music, old time radio shows and other popular entertainment of the 1920s, '30s, '40s and early '50s.

Hot Rod Nostalgia's print "magalog." Part magazine, part catalog, HRN combines the features, photos, cartoons, columns and event coverage of a magazine with more than 1000 quality collectibles for sale.

At DriveInMovie.com you can rediscover the wonder of Theater Under the Stars. Drive-in theatres have dwindled, but are being rediscovered and are recovering; offering romantic cinema al fresco under the stars, larger screens, a nostalgic alternative, and also a greater value for your dollar. The Drive-ins offer an experience that is larger than merely SEEing a movie, and choosing to see a movie at the Drive-in is an opportunity to support a fragile tradition and to help preserve the presence of the Past.

On The Jazz Age Page you can listen to sound clips from the past together with people and historical events in the Jazz Age!

Kansas Public Radio's Retro Cocktail Hour. A weekly nod to the Space Age Pop revival. Here you'll find vintage recordings from the dawn of the Hi-Fi Era - imaginative, light-hearted pop stylings designed to underscore everything from the backyard barbecue to the high-tech bachelor pad.

Lisa's Nostalgia Cafe: The 1930's
"One Comment--wow! We need more of these pages from Lisa"

Roads!de Peek. "An Adventure in Time". Roadside Peek will take you on a roadside journey in time. As you travel, visit old motels, bowling alleys, drive-in theatres, neon signs, petrol pumps, googie sites, tiki villages, and much more.

Fifties Boulevard is a Graphic Portrait of the Fifties in America. Come home to the fifties you remember with food, fashion, cars and much more.

At the Jivin' Lounge you'll find one of the smoothest sites to help out in many ways in the retro scenes. If you're into the great scenes from the 40's - early 60's like (Swing, Rockabilly, Exotica, Lounge, and many others). This cat's got you covered. From what clubs and bars are the hippest to some of the smooth fashions from those eras. We can't forget the fabulous drive-ins; they were some of the keenest places to hang out at during that time.

It could use a little work, but what site can't? But as far as keeping a site jam packed full of the worst and so-so movies from the Drive-In era, there are few sites on the internet that offer as much on the subject.

Brian's Drive-In Theater is a fascinating look back at the movies that drove all of us to neck instead of watch.

BoomerWeb.net. The OTHER Index Database for forties, fifties, sixties, seventies Nostalgia, Vintage and Retro Sites.

Truth In Advertising is a bittersweet commentary on the Cigarette Advertising of the '40's, '50's, and '60's. Ascerbic, but accurate, it's a poignant depiction of the power of advertising in a void of oversight.

Lost America. "The Abandoned Roadside West". Troy Paiva's captivating site is a must see for both lovers of nostalgic roadside America, as well as lovers of truly beautiful and compelling photography.

The Baby Boomer Generation site is a source for trends, research, comment and discussion of and by people born from 1946 - 1964

RetroFuture.com is an interesting reflection our concepts of what the future might bring during the 50's through the 80's. Beautifully updated ( in full-out retro fashion, naturally ), this site has become a fascinating and beautifully structured tribute to the 'future' of yesteryear.

Yesterland. Did you ever wonder what happened to Disneyland's Mine Train, Flying Saucers, or Indian Village?

These and other attractions, restaurants, and shops are now collected in Yesterland, a theme park on the Web




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Defunct Amusement Parks wanted to provide information on parks that are gone. There are books about parks that have gone out of business but there is little general information or any list of defunct parks & rides anywhere. Hopefully this will be the start.

63 Years of the USO in Pictures. For sixty years the USO has meant a little bit of home in a faraway place. Where Americans have gone, the USO has gone. A private in the U.S. Army provided a succinct testimonial to the USO when he wrote in 1941: "Golly, it was good to have a bath ... We soldiers will be thankful for it the rest of our lives."

The Palm Springs Preservation Foundation was established in 1997, as a non-profit educational foundation, to identity and recognize historic sites, which set Palm Springs apart from other desert communities. Their "Village" history, reflected in unique architecture is as distinctive and diverse as is their population growth. Since then, it's scope of awareness has grown to include the entire Coachella Valley, especially pertinent since the senseless demolition of Neutra's Maslon house in the city of Rancho Mirage in 2002.

ConeyIslandUSA.com is based in the amusement park area of the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn New York. Since 1983, Coney Island USA has developed a number of different programs such as the Mermaid Parade and the Coney Island Circus Sideshow. Coney Island USA also operates the Coney Island Museum and produces Ask the Experts, Burlesque at the Beach, the Coney Island Tattoo and Motorcycle Festival, Creepshow at the Freakshow, and the Coney Island Sideshow School.

The Authentic History Center is a project of High School Teacher, Michael S. Barnes, to assemble as much material as practical to aid students in their study of Popular Culture. It's an interesting site of interest to anyone.

At The Museum Computer Network you'll find Links to over 1,700 international museum and museum-related WWW sites

Norfolk and Western Historical Photograph Collection (6650 image records). These images are available in TIF format unless otherwise noted. ca.1905-69. ft. Collection contains ca. 30,000 photographic images taken by the Norfolk and Western Railway''s Public Relations Department. Subjects include locomotives; cars; coal mines; stations; cities and towns; Roanoke, Virginia; farm scenes; resorts; train wrecks; colleges and universities; group and individual portraits; and caves and caverns. Some photographs date from as early as the 1880s, and a large group of glass plates dates from the early 1900s, but the bulk of the photograph collection dates from the 1920s or later.

Northwestern University's exceptional collection of World War II Era Posters. You'll find over 300 well annotated and catalogued WPA, Civil Defense, and World War II Propaganda posters here.

The purpose of The American Sign Museum is to preserve, archive and display a historical collection of signs in their many types and forms. The Museum also documents and surveys the products and equipment utilized in the design and manufacture of signs, and offers biographical information of the people who have contributed to the industry.

AirStream Trailers--even the 2007 models--positively scream nostalgia while merely sitting there. Few objects from the Golden Age or Radio have survived relentless updating and fiddling with like the AirStream Trailer. You'll find every Airsteam resource you could hope for here.

317x is an interesting little site with a couple hundred of scanned LP covers from the '50's, '60's, and '70's. A small, fast, effective site that does just what it purports to do.

The Museum of Nostalgia Artifacts at m-o-n-a.com. For your first visit to the museum you will be introduced to each of their current exhibits.  As you’re soaking in the overall ambience, you'll be provided with a peek at a few precious pieces from their collections.  And in the months to come you can look forward to more specialized, in depth tours. Each month or whenever they get around to it they feature additional priceless artifacts from the Mona Lisa.

The PaperPast Archives is a great source for public domain retro graphics images. Most communities in the fifties had small town print shops that doubled as printers of local news and advertising papers. These printers could not afford graphic artists so they used stock clipart supplied by large companies who distributed common graphics for use in advertising sections of the papers. They were provided for the printer in lots of categories to meet any advertiser’s needs. Hundreds more of these advertising “cuts” will soon be added. Make sure you bookmark this site for your future retro clipart source.

1950's British Radio Nostalgia from the BBC.

Nicks Fonts caters to creative web and print developers and artists. You'll find some wonderfully unique and fresh retro type fonts, graphics and themes. Check it out!

The Font Diner. Offers a wonderful selection of hard to find retro fonts. A beautifully designed site. A must see.