Back in the day, nearly every grocery store had a coin-operated kiddy ride out front. A way to improve the shopping ...

For most people who grew up in the suburbs, a trip to the grocery store looked and felt like a completely different experience than what it is today. Children often accompanied—or rather, were dragged ...

Throughout the mid-to-late 20th century, a trip to the grocery store — or supermarket, depending on your vernacular — was a very different experience than today. Parents almost always dragged their ...

There was a time when outside many American storefronts, 25 cents could buy a child a two-minute ride on a stallion, an Indy racecar, or a giant rabbit. Though most did nothing more than jerk back and ...

Richard Alcala looks over his pair of 1950s mechanical pony rides every day before opening Alcala’s Western Wear on Chicago Avenue. They’re the coin-operated variety of horse-flesh—”coin-op” in ...