A series of storms during the Christmas holiday 60 years ago this month and spilling into the New Year led to widespread flooding in parts of Oregon, Idaho, Washington Nevada and Northern California ...

Iconic images from natural disasters evoke emotions, even decades after an event. One such photograph, of an Oregon National Guard soldier carrying a newborn to safety during a hospital evacuation, ...

This is a Christmas story, but it has nothing to do with Santa Claus or Gene Shepherd or Mariah Carey. It’s a Christmas weather story. Dec. 25, 1964, was the warmest Christmas ever recorded in ...

It started on Dec. 21, 1964, in Humboldt County. A warm wet system dumped inches and inches of rain locally. Rivers and creeks rose. And the flooding began. It didn’t stop until January 1965. Linda ...

The Christmas season of 50 years ago was marked by highway tragedies, Easter-like weather and a gesture of Yuletide kindness by local police. Batavia's infamous Urban Renewal project wouldn't begin ...

Editor’s note: Celebrities have long made news in Aspen. In December 1964, Jackie Kennedy caught national attention when she came for a two-week vacation in Aspen, a little more than a year after her ...

Here's a seasonal holiday post from CD last year at about this time, and with a link today from Art Carden in a related post at the Mises blog: To put that in perspective, the pictures below ...

Spend the Winter Solstice with this 1964 classic Christmas Film. It will run ALL DAY on the Big Screen in back. Come see this Cult Classic! ALL AGES! Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is a 1964 ...

Some holidays happened so long ago in my lifetime, I carry them today as just fragments of memory. The photo above is a good example of this. It was taken in December 1964 and yes, that's me seated on ...

Pictured above are some color TVs from the 627 page 1964 Sears Christmas Catalog, available here at WishbookWeb along with many other Christmas catalogs from 1933 to 1988. The original prices are ...