/r/OldSchoolCool
History's cool kids, looking fantastic!
A pictorial and video celebration of history's coolest kids, everything from beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers. And everything in between.
If you've found a photo, or a photo essay, of people from the past looking fantastic, here's the place to share it.
History's cool kids, looking fantastic!
A pictorial and video celebration of history's coolest kids, everything from beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers. And everything in between.
If you've found a photo, video, or photo essay of people from the past looking fantastic, here's the place to share it.
PLEASE READ OUR SEVEN QUICK RULES:
1: Photos and videos must be over 25 years old.
2: Please put the year or decade in title, otherwise your post will be removed.
3: Spam, racist, homophobic, sexist and offensive comments, as well as brigading, consistent reposting and shitposting, will result in a lifetime ban. Offensive comments include anything about pimping, about people's moms and scoring women. Nobody cares about your sexual impulses, least of all the OP.
4: All posts highlighting, in the title, that someone has recently passed away or titles trying to evoke sympathy upvotes will be deleted. Please add the info in the comments.
5: All reposts less than six months old and all reposts less than a year old from Top 100 will be removed.
6: All posts must feature a person.
7: We reserve the right to remove any post that doesn't showcase historical coolness. This includes photos, which are not obviously retro and portraits of famous young women doing nothing but posing.
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American Rifleman December 1969
Stumbled into a collection of old American Rifleman magazines and all of the covers are pure gold!
15:27 UTC
1959 Tarkovsky - Student Film [french sub]
15:16 UTC
This is my seven year old Daddy (1959). He always had such wanderlust…I just look at this photograph and already see the Jack Kerouac in him ❤️🛣️
15:08 UTC
Grandfathers’ Senior Project (1963)
15:04 UTC
George Hackenschmidt, inventor of the hack squat and credited for popularizing the bench press, here in 1952 at the age of 74 doing jumping drills
14:51 UTC
Gettysburg 1913. Standing at the Bloody Angle where 3000 soldiers died. Title of picture : reunited as brothers.
14:50 UTC
Pam Grier, 1973.
14:32 UTC
Father Guido Sarducci on Weekend Update - SNL - [1979]
14:16 UTC
Growing of telephone poles in the 80s
A funny gag/april fools day joke by those supporting telephone poles in the 80s.
14:15 UTC
A woman using an early car seatbelt in the 1950s.
At least she has airbags....
14:03 UTC
My great grandaunt Myrth. 1960s
13:22 UTC
Marilyn Monroe in Niagara Falls (1953)
13:17 UTC
The Chemical Brothers (Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons) in 1997.
13:13 UTC
Pink Floyd in the 60s
13:12 UTC
Lynda Carter and Henry Winkler at the Golden Globes, 1977. Having lived through that era, I can testify that giant clip-on bow ties were a thing.
13:07 UTC
Gregory Peck with his dog, Slip who delivered a litter of puppes (1949)
11:03 UTC
11-12-year-old Isaac Allal, the only survivor of the plane crash in Hurum, Norway. On 20 November 1949, a Douglas DC-3 carrying 28 Jewish children from Tunisia to Israel crashed into a mountainside during fog.[220x330]
10:41 UTC
Two german soldiers igniting their cigarettes with a flamethrower (1940s)
09:08 UTC
"Cujo" stuntman Gary Morgan 1983
06:58 UTC
My Mom, 1950s
She is 85 now.
06:32 UTC
My grandfather and his batch mates from Loyola College, Chennai from the 1950s
06:30 UTC
My grandfather (circled in red) at the 1982 World’s Fair with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
05:33 UTC
My mom at 15 🌻
05:32 UTC
Illustration of my Grandpa when he was a British POW in occupied France 1940. He went on the run because they found he was Jewish.
04:14 UTC
KC and the Sunshine Band. 1975.
04:12 UTC