/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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Joan Baez and Bob Dylan perform during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (8/28/1963).
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Jodie Foster and her body double on set of "Taxi driver" (1976)
19:21 UTC
My dad with Muhammad Ali (1978)
I guess my dad (the white guy) was selling something and MA was a potential investor. But what was the product?
19:07 UTC
Charlie Sheen and Willem Dafoe, 1986
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Alicia Silverstone in Clueless (1995)
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Caroline Bliss, 1987
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This is from a "Stump the Band" segment on the March 28, 1974 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Those slacks are from the Herb Tarlek Collection.
18:08 UTC
Found my Army Basic Training PT scores from 20+ years ago
18:04 UTC
Caroline Munro, 1978
17:57 UTC
My great-grandpa in the 70’s, in HIS 70’s, still farming like a pilgrim. Hard man!
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On September 16th 1966, the new Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opened to the public - headlining this historic event in an original opera, 'Antony & Cleopatra' was one of the greatest stars of the 20th Century, Leontyne Price. This is rare footage behind the scenes of her triumph...
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Natalya Fyodorovna Kravtsova one of the Soviet "Night Witches" (1940s)
Natalya flew 840 sorties during WW2 as part of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment. It was an all-women regiment that flew WW1-era planes to conduct bombing missions on German forces. Because the planes were slow, they would idle their engines as they approached their targets to glide in with only the noise of the wind. They would drop their bombs, and then restart their engines. Because of their low altitude and weight of the bombs, they did not carry parachutes until 1944. The planes had no instruments or navigational tools.
Because of the surprising and silent nature of the attacks, the German soldiers observed that it sounded like the women flying these planes were riding on broomsticks, and were given the nickname of "Nachthexen" or "Night Witches". Nazi propaganda at the time attempted to make fun of the Soviet military for letting women make surprise attacks while the "cowards slept in their beds", but in truth the soldiers of the front line found these women quite frightening.
At the unit's largest, it had 40 planes with a two person crew. Over the course of 4 years, the unit flew over 23,000 sorties. Natalya died in 2005 at the age of 82.
16:31 UTC
Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer in front of the Eiffel Tower in 1956, photo by Per-Olow Anderson
16:29 UTC
Photobooth portrait of a young woman in the 1940s
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Untitled photo by William Eggleston, circa 1974
16:16 UTC
David Byrne and Brian Eno, 1978
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Guy from St. Georg in Hamburg, photo by Dirk Reinartz (1981)
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Aishwarya Rai (90’s)
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1941 Travel Trailer
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1941 Kids returning home after school. Trailer park living in the 40’s.
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Anna Karina, photo by Sabine Weiss (1958)
15:38 UTC
Nose-pushing competition – streets of London - 1938
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Grandma at the Office, Late 70s
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Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon, then billed as Tom and Jerry, 1957. Garfunkel turns 83 today.
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Me ( right ) and my 2 siblings (1998 )
The Secret ingredient to a happy life is: "Don't analyze everything, just live."
15:29 UTC
Daytona 1943
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Sharon Stone in New York (1990)
14:52 UTC
Picture of me in 1986 at beach ^ + ^/
14:21 UTC
My mom in the late 70s
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Photo by Sheila Metzner in 1982
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