vintage

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maia Storm, of Maia’s Makery. It has been edited for length and clarity.In January, my dad, with whom I have always had a strained relationship, died unexpectedly.For the last few years, my dad had been homeless on and off. Throughout that…

Becca Stern loved buying vintage lockers, but found they weren’t very practical for home storage.She and her sister, Jess Stern, had often talked about starting a business together and saw an opportunity to reinvent them into something beautiful and functional for people to use in their homes. “Once we made…

By the 1980s, McDonald’s had already become a well-established fast-food chain with a well-known menu and distinctive branding.Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald’s franchise location in Des Plaines, Illinois, on April 15, 1955. That year, he also founded McDonald’s System, Inc., which would become the McDonald’s Corporation we know today. By 1958, McDonald’s…