Protests, war, political unrest and tensions overseas. That describes America on Christmas 50 years ago, in what some historians describe as the most tumultuous year of a tumultuous decade. In 1968, ...
1968 was a year when everything in Milwaukee seemed to be in flux. But one thing stayed pretty much the same: the downtown Christmas parade. At the time, downtown Milwaukee had had a Christmas parade ...
In August 1968, the same month that the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was rocked with riots, a young NASA manager named George Low conceived the idea of sending the second manned Apollo ...
How about a little Christmas shopping trip down memory lane thanks to advertisements in The News-Messenger of 1968. Joseph’s Department Store at the corner of Garrison and Front streets was ...
Today, Selfridges’ window displays are famous across the world, but back in the early 1900s the theatricality, scale and even the fact that these were the first store windows to be lit at night meant ...
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