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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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If you're a fan of him you'll recognize him. EPY 1970's

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2024/12/01
06:15 UTC

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Frank Langella as Dracula and Richard Kavanaugh as Renfield in the 1977 Broadway play Dracula

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2024/12/01
05:37 UTC

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At 5'10", 1950's model Irish McCalla was doubly impressive.

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2024/12/01
05:31 UTC

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My mom in the 70s/80s before having children

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2024/12/01
05:27 UTC

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In the 1920's, Clara Bow was OldSchoolCool before any of us were even born.

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2024/12/01
04:35 UTC

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Warhol Blowing Up Silver Cloud, New York, 1966 © Steve Schapiro⁠

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2024/12/01
04:06 UTC

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Hasta la Vista... Betty. Summer of 1969

Betty Brosmer with the Terminator

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2024/12/01
03:21 UTC

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Life in the 1970s

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2024/12/01
03:11 UTC

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Johnny Depp and Salma Hayek at a party, in 1995.

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2024/12/01
02:48 UTC

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Four Generations: My Great Great Grandmother, Great Grandmother, Grandmother and Mom (tiny baby in GG Grandma's arms). Carbon County, MT 1943

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2024/12/01
02:35 UTC

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Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind, 1939, colorized photo

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2024/12/01
02:32 UTC

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For those tired of classic pinup girls, here's a blast from 1973.

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2024/12/01
02:19 UTC

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Mark Borchardt and Mike Schank, best friends and stars of American Movie. 1990s

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2024/12/01
02:17 UTC

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Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi. 1920s

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2024/12/01
02:12 UTC

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My grandpa, some time in the early 1980s

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2024/12/01
02:11 UTC

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Kurt Cobain with his girlfriend Tracey in 1980’s

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2024/12/01
02:08 UTC

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My great aunts in Kabul, Afghanistan around 1970. Before everything went bad

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2024/12/01
01:50 UTC

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My Dad’s college band, Lance and the Legionnaires (1974)

My dad is the dude in white

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2024/12/01
01:39 UTC

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Dean Martin and his family. 1950s

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2024/12/01
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Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, their son Stephen and their three dogs. 1952

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2024/12/01
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Marlon Brando with his set of bongos. 1953

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2024/12/01
01:29 UTC

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Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and their dog. 1958

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2024/12/01
01:28 UTC

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Eddie Murphy and Martin Brest on the set of Beverley Hills Cop, 1984.

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2024/12/01
01:15 UTC

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99-2-11 Middleweight Legend Freddie Steele, 22 Years Old, Becomes The Only Man To Ever Stop 152 Fight Vet Vince Dundee In A Brutal One-Sided Battering That Sees Dundee Floored 11 Times - 1935-07-30

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2024/12/01
00:59 UTC

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Well I think we can all agree this sub has officially gone down the sewerpipe. Nothing but old celebrities showing their assets. Here's great grandaunt Ruth 1924.

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2024/12/01
00:59 UTC

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The 1970s

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2024/12/01
00:39 UTC

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1942 Majorie Reynolds wearing a beautiful sparkling dress in Holiday Inn

Watching a Holiday Classic and when she comes out in this dress, it really something.

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2024/12/01
00:32 UTC

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My dad in sometime in the late 70's or early 80's

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2024/12/01
00:26 UTC

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Marilyn Monroe with some trash-eating bears (1953)

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2024/12/01
00:16 UTC

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