Picture sun-bleached boardwalks, pastel cottages, and kids on cruiser bikes with baskets. That’s Seaside, Florida, a walkable Gulf Coast community that nails the 1950s beach-town vibe in the best way.

Everything in this world is more and more expensive, and even the simplest of vacations seem like they cost an arm and a leg. Even a day at Disneyland is out of hand. How did the middle class vacation ...

Gulf Shores wasn't a booming beach town in the 1950s. There were no condominiums or souvenir shops. Despite the lack of things to see, the beach area was growing. According to the Birmingham News, the ...

Your mental image of the 1950s might be reduced to a girl wearing saddle shoes and a poodle skirt, sipping a milkshake at a diner while the jukebox blares, but the decade was much broader than that.