Mickey’s future home
Seventeen years after this 1954 aerial photograph was taken, the Walt Disney World resort opened at this location in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Today, this landscape...
"No laughing matter"
In 1964, the Department of Labor, in an effort to protect American jobs, instituted restrictions to make it harder for foreign musicians to enter the country. The...
Shocking and "very objectionable"
Shock Suspense Stories was rated "very objectionable" because of its depiction of crime and violence.
Singing in America
Maria von Trapp became a household name when her story was turned into the 1959 musical, The Sound of Music, but before that, she and her family immigrated to...
The Princess and the actor
Princess Diana dancing with Hollywood actor John Travolta at a White House dinner for the Prince and Princess of Wales on November 9, 1985.