9+ hour, 57+ min ago  (308+ words) In 1955 the Queen Elizabeth was the largest ocean liner in the world, ferrying more than 2, 000 Americans to England and France with each passage. LIFE wrote about the ship as part of a broader story headlined "Europe, Here We Come," about…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (561+ words) In 1938 Hollywood was still in its infancy. While cinema had long evolved from the point where most movies were simply filmed plays, the industry was just beginning to demonstrate what movies could do as a distinct art form. A LIFE…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (377+ words) For LIFE's July 17, 1939 issue Bourke-White documented another industry: the telephone business. This was back in the day when the ability to talk to anyone anywhere by dialing some numbers wasn't yet taken for granted. "Even in this age, when mechanical…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (280+ words) The Woodstock music festival was one of the signature moments the 1960s. Site owner Max Yasgur, a farmer and the concert site owner, memorably declared that the gathering proved that "a half a million young people can get together and have…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (370+ words) Why was LIFE interested in this process? Well, in 1937 the demand for newsprint was skyrocketing because of the newspaper industry was in its heyday. The U. S. had 2, 084 daily newspapers that year, compared to 938 in 2025. A worker prepares logs to be moved…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (306+ words) The Making of a Mermaid, 1948 Actress Ann Blyth had her legs coated in grease before a plaster mold was made of her legs as part of the crafting of a state-of-the-art mermaid's tail for the 1948 film "Mr. Peabody and the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (321+ words) In 1951 the people of Goose Rocks Beach wanted to move a meeting hall from nearly Kennebunkport up the coast to use as a community house. The question was, how to get the structure to its new location? The innovative answer:…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (227+ words) Michael Jackson and Donald Trump. When Jackson died in 2009, the future President told TIME magazine, "He's not going to be remembered for the last 10 years; he's going to be remembered for the first 35 years." The biopic Michael, being released on…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (157+ words) The celebrated'Route 66 turns 100 in 2026.'It's a milestone worth noting because the fabled highway captured the spirit of the age when car culture came to America. Ever since Henry Ford began mass-producing his revolutionary Model T and made car ownership accessible…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (396+ words) And that was not all. Thirty-two states barred margarine makers from dyeing their product yellow (its natural color is white)with Vermont, New Hampshire and South Dakota adding the extra requirement that margarine must be dyed pink. (The U. S. Supreme Court…...