SALT LAKE CITY — Pieces of Utah's past are stored in the basement of the Rio Grande Train Station in Salt Lake City. The Utah Divisions of History and Art have amassed a combined total of 1.8 million ...

Newport Beach,' screens at the Lido. It shares stories from a time when the city was a seaside playground for illegal booze ...

The history of the swimsuit is really the history of the women’s movement. Early suits with bloomers and caps were made of wool even though they got heavy — and smelly — when wet. The 1920s bathing ...

Compared to our barely clad, spaghetti-strapped swimsuit styles, the bathing costumes of the 18th and 19th century seem laughably prudish. But those days, people worried that glimpsing more than a ...

In the 1920s, it wasn’t just hemlines that were on the rise. Bathing suits were getting shorter, too. But fashion 100 years ago still looked pretty different, as these rather formal-looking togs ...

This weekend is the annual Galveston Beach Revue, but Galveston Island's history of bathing beauties on their beaches apparently goes way back. The International Pageant of Pulchritude, also known as ...

The South Bay and Harbor Area have been blessed with beautiful beaches. But if you’d gone to one wearing even a modest modern-day swimsuit a century or more ago, you’d have been carted off to jail.

Do you prefer a one-piece or a string bikini? Swim trunks or a snug Speedo? Whatever you select, your choice isn't made in a vacuum under the florescent lights of a fitting room. History has informed ...