For most people who grew up in the suburbs, a trip to the grocery store looked and felt like a completely different experience than what it is today. Children often accompanied—or rather, were dragged ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Throughout the mid-to-late 20th century, a trip to the grocery store — or supermarket, depending on your vernacular — was a very ...

There was a time when outside many American storefronts, 25 cents could buy a child a two-minute ride on a stallion, an Indy racecar, or a giant rabbit. Though most did nothing more than jerk back and ...

GLADEWATER, TX (KLTV) - You just don't see them much anymore. They've nearly gone the way of the tube TV or 8-track tape: Kiddie rides. You know, the horse or car rides you put a quarter in to shake ...

A wistful trip back in time costs only a quarter in Rehoboth Beach. Consider it the deal of the century. Drop a coin into a metal slot at the Funland and saddle up Champion, a vintage, coin-operated ...

The vintage kiddie coin-operated ride, Champion, the Wonder Horse, at Funland in Rehoboth Beach goes back to the 1950s. It only costs a quarter. DiMeo Pizza in Wilmington reaches Final Four of Munch ...

Richard Alcala looks over his pair of 1950s mechanical pony rides every day before opening Alcala’s Western Wear on Chicago Avenue. They’re the coin-operated variety of horse-flesh—”coin-op” in ...