Loretta Young, born Gretchen Michaela Young in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1913, arrived in Hollywood at the exact time that Hollywood began to define itself. After her parents’ separation, Loretta, her sisters and mother relocated the family to Southern California, where Young and her siblings started their film careers as children. By the timeContinue reading “Loretta Young: A Hollywood Survivor”
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The 1950s – A Great Time to Live in America
A family and friends somewhere in the United States are seen enjoying some watermelon. Life in America during the 1950s is most often remembered as a period of incredible optimism and stability, influenced by postwar recovery and prosperity. After the hardships brought on by the Great Depression and World War II, many American families finallyContinue reading “The 1950s – A Great Time to Live in America”
The Building of the Kansas Pacific Railway
Image: Engineer camp at the Zuni Pass, in the Sierra Madre, N.M., 975 miles west of Missouri River. The Kansas Pacific Railway and the Struggle to Become a Transcontinental Line In the decade after the American Civil War, few ambitions loomed larger in the imagination of railroad promoters than the dream of a second transcontinentalContinue reading “The Building of the Kansas Pacific Railway”
