The 1970s were when advertising got its Ph.D. The industry moved beyond “here is a product” into something much more sophisticated and much more debated. Fear. Nostalgia. Sex. Humor. Social causes. Celebrity. Every tool in the psychological toolkit was being tested on American consumers simultaneously. Some worked. Some backfired spectacularly. All of them started conversations … Read more20 Advertising Styles Folks Talked About in the 70s
Ask someone who grew up in the 1980s about commission salespeople and you will get a strong opinion very quickly. Maybe it is the car dealer who talked their parents into the wrong car. Or the insurance agent who got their grandparents the right policy at the right time. Commission work in the 80s could … Read more20 Commission Jobs Folks Had Opinions On in the 80s
The modern workplace offers cold brew on tap and a meditation app subscription. The 1980s workplace offered a pension, a company car, and a parking spot with your name on it. One of these is a better deal. The perks that defined 80s employment were built around a simple idea: if you give your working … Read more20 Office Perks People Remember from the 80s
There is a generation of workers who remember things that younger people simply do not believe. Carbon paper. Rolodexes. Smoke in every conference room. Bosses who were called “sir” and never asked how you were feeling. A workplace where your day ended at five and that was genuinely, permanently, the end of your workday. These … Read more20 Workplace Habits People Recall from the 70s
If you worked in the 1970s, you know the rules were different. Not subtly different. Completely different. The workplace was a place where a lot of things that would be illegal today were just… normal. Some people fought to change them. Some people fought to keep them. The fights that happened in those years shaped … Read more20 Workplace Rules Folks Debated in the 70s
The 1960s get credit for a lot of things. Career equality is not one of them. While the decade was full of movements and progress, the workplace was still running on very old software. Who got hired. Who got promoted. Who got pushed out. It was rarely about your abilities. It was about fitting a … Read more20 Career Paths People Saw Differently in the 60s
Somewhere between JFK’s tax cuts and the first McDonald’s IPO, the 1960s quietly became the most entrepreneurially turbulent decade of the 20th century. Nobody called it a startup era. Nobody used the word “disruption.” But venture capital was taking shape, franchises were multiplying like rabbits, and housewives were outselling department stores from their living rooms. … Read more20 Sales Tactics Folks Had Opinions On in the 80s
If you grew up in the 1970s, you remember what it felt like to be sold to. Not marketed to. Not influenced. Sold to. There was a handshake involved. Eye contact that lasted slightly too long. And a man who had “just one more thing” to show you approximately seven times in a row. Sales … Read more20 Traditional Careers People Saw Differently in the 70s
Mother Nature treats outdoor Texas pools like a thermostat experiment. February? Too cold. August? Too hot. Maybe April works if you’re lucky. Indoor pools eliminated the guessing game entirely. These 21 Texas towns created year-round swimming havens where consistency actually exists. No more checking weather apps before your morning swim. Just grab your towel and … Read more21 Towns With the Best Indoor Pools/Spas in Texas
Texas approaches December with the confidence of someone who never checked the calendar. Winter shows up and Texas just points at the thermometer reading 72 degrees. The state collects sunshine in December like it is a competitive sport. Meanwhile, half the country is living in what basically qualifies as nighttime. Certain Texas cities have cracked … Read more21 Sunniest Spots to Visit in Texas