/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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My Dad teaching me how to ride a bike, 1996
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McDonald's Employees (1977)
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In 1974, Sweden won the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time, thanks to a group called ABBA
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Granddad, 1940's
My grandfather, a B-26 Marauder bombardier in the European Theater during World War 2. After crash landing, he narrowly avoided capture by the Nazis with help from the French Resistance. A card-carrying and lifelong New Dealer, he was awarded the Purple Heart and the Silver Star. I'm very glad that he didn't live to see 2016, much less 2025.
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My great great grandfather on his porch in Puerto Rico in the late 1910’s.
My Great Great Grandfather John Finlay on his porch in San Juan Puerto Rico sometime in the late 1910’s.
My favorite picture of my great great grandfather and his cat. John Finlay was born in Spain to a Spanish mother and retired British naval officer father. He grew up in England and moved to Puerto Rico in 1865 and started the firm Finlay, Waymouth and Lee Inc with his brother.
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1970's living room
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My father celebrating becoming a licensed general contractor, age 30, 1997
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The kind of cool - Steve McQueen 1975
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My dad in 1976
Smoking a Marlboro Red and drinking the champagne of beers. RIP pops!
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my dad, 1978, somewhere in France
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Ham the Astrochimp goes to space on today's date in 1961.
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My mum and dad in England- 1978 or 1979
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Jayne Mansfield poses proudly with her mother Vera Jeffrey in the 1950s.
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Saundra Brown, the first black woman on the Oakland police force, 1970
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Nancy Wilson of Heart, 1987
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Before Rock and Roll, there was the Lindy Hop in the 1940s. Couple showing off at the dance floor.
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I don't know who they are, but this picture was in my grandpa's photo album. 1940s
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Italian film sensation Claudia Cardinale, 1959
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Ellen Berryman does a skateboard headstand during a competition in February 1977.
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Paul Newman 1967
Steve McQueen, James Dean, Robert Redford, Frank Sinatra, Lee Marvin, yeah sure—all cool.
But this guy. The coolest.
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William Shatner (Captain Kirk) and Judy Garland (Dorothy Gale) in 'Judgement at Nuremberg' (1961)
Kirk has met Dorothy
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Alice In Chains - Man In The Box - Live at Moore Theatre [1990]
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Baseball legend Ted Williams in his fighter pilot uniform during the Korean War. 1953
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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!
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