Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images Before you could order food from across town and get it delivered right to your school ...

What does the word "vintage" conjure up for you? For us, it's homemade chocolate chip cookies, red and white checkered tablecloths, home-cooked Sunday dinners, and that whole Donna Reed fantasy life.

There was a time in American history when the lights went out. Children pouted, collectors cursed, and nostalgiaholics wept. Schoolchildren never again would know the pure joy of toting their ham ...

Our Tools of the Trade series is exploring some of the icons of schools and education. It was made of shiny, bright pink plastic with a Little Mermaid sticker on the front, and I carried it with me ...

Before you could order food from across town and get it delivered right to your school's front door, kids were clanging to and from school with their flashy metal lunch boxes. In the 1960s and 1970s, ...

What does the word "vintage" conjure up for you? For us, it's homemade chocolate chip cookies, red and white checkered tablecloths, home-cooked Sunday dinners, and that whole Donna Reed fantasy life.