Terry Crews and his classmate, voted Most Likely to Succeed in his yearbook (1986)1yr · Phenziox · r/OldSchoolCool
My Uncle Billy just turned 90, so here’s him on his boat during the early 80’s3mo · jeffpeepgrass · r/OldSchoolCool
My deaf father, hugging a speaker to his chest to feel the vibrations of music. Early 1970s.3mo · LoveMinerals · r/OldSchoolCool
My Mama circa '83. This explains why I'm the uncoolest person ever, cos she took it all! Oh and that bike? She built it.2mo · always-aimee · r/OldSchoolCool
The Paramount Pictures logo on the day it was originally painted. [1965]2yr · awfulmspaint · r/OldSchoolCool
My grandfather always disliked his white strand of hair because as a kid he was teased for it. But I always thought it looked really cool. (1950's)2mo · musland · r/OldSchoolCool
A 1934 staged photo by photographer A.L. Whitey Schafer, mocking the Hays movie censorship Code by violating as many of its rules as possible in a single image.9mo · Pariahdog119 · r/OldSchoolCool
My grandma always used to tell us about this kid that would sing at the resort on her vacations in Hawaii. Turns out that kid was Bruno Mars. 19901yr · Trickydicknick · r/OldSchoolCool
In 1991, my Alabama school photo featured me bursting through a paper wall, on a skateboard with no back wheel, sporting what some might call a mullet.7mo · lyricistlibrettist · r/OldSchoolCool
A punk, a “rude boy” and a skinhead hanging out together in England c. 1980.4mo · Guygan · r/OldSchoolCool
My photographer Father set the timer perfectly for his proposal to my Mother, 19798mo · bz_treez · r/OldSchoolCool
Friend showed me a picture of her parents in the 80's...and it is truly PURE 80's.2mo · tomjulio · r/OldSchoolCool
Before he was Morpheus, he was Cowboy Curtis on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. 1986.5mo · PM_ME_FOODPICZ · r/OldSchoolCool
French woman pouring tea for a British soldier fighting in Normandy 19446mo · onepersononeidea · r/OldSchoolCool
My son and I in the early 90s. We couldn‘t afford a camera, so we periodically went into a photobooth.1yr · askalottle · r/OldSchoolCool
In 2012 I came home one day with a new motorcycle, nobody in my family was happy about it except for my Nonna which was suprising. Not long after she dug up this picture of her in Italy shortly after ww2.4mo · puggernault · r/OldSchoolCool
My grandmother was a code girl during WWII. It was her best kept secret until 2017.3mo · Aek2332 · r/OldSchoolCool
Talking with my mom about Ozark and she told me she went skiing with Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) back on New Year’s Day 19872mo · bhuge33 · r/OldSchoolCool
Me and the homies before going to see Straight Outta Compton. The tour, not the movie. Circa 19891yr · iaintsaidshit · r/OldSchoolCool
My weight lifter great grandpa holding my grandpa over his head - 194711mo · brentgolding · r/OldSchoolCool
My dad on this day 49 years ago, waking up after getting hit in the head with a croquet mallet to find out he was unconscious through the whole moon landing2yr · Uraniumrainbow · r/OldSchoolCool
Inspired by others I saw so I though I'd share my early 90's family photo1yr · c0grm15 · r/OldSchoolCool
How about something other than celebrities and parents? LA, ca. 198011mo · OuijaAllin · r/OldSchoolCool
Franceska Mann, arrived at Auschwitz in 1943, when ordered to strip, she did so provocatively, distracting the guards. She grabbed the roll call officers gun and shot him dead, then wounded one more before other prisoners joined her rebellion, before all being shot dead, 1940's1yr · allthekos · r/OldSchoolCool
In 1938, L.A. Kindergarten teacher Helen Hulick went to jail for wearing pants in a courtroom. She was a witness scheduled to testify against two men. When she arrived in slacks, her testimony was rescheduled; the Judge ordered her to go home and return in a dress. She refused, noting inequality.7mo · Res_Ipsa77 · r/OldSchoolCool
My polish grandpa before and after WWII. It is supposed to be 7 years between the pictures according to my mother. He survived concentration camp and had an ID-tattoo. Never wanted to talk about which one. Something about his eyes tell me more than any history book ever could. Wanted to share.8mo · DontDeadOpen · r/OldSchoolCool
When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin in 1931, Einstein said, “What I admire most about your art is its universality. You do not say a word, and yet the world understands you. “It's true.” Replied Chaplin, But your fame is even greater. The world admires you, when no one understands you.1yr · bittybambi · r/OldSchoolCool
George Carlin being arrested after performing the controversial routine Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television May 27th 19725mo · Sleeeepy_Hollow · r/OldSchoolCool
Back in the 80’s my in laws won a contest from collecting milk caps and got a visit from Ernest P. Worrell as the prize!7mo · fatal_fame · r/OldSchoolCool
My stepdad did the all the flight rigging for Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies. He's 70 this year and going strong as an ox. This is him with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis.5mo · CoyoteTango89 · r/OldSchoolCool
My grandpa worked as a park ranger in Yellowstone, where he took this photo of The Three Stooges when they visited. 1969.1yr · CaptainOutstanding · r/OldSchoolCool
If you look closely you'll just be able to make out Shaq in his 1989 high school basketball team photo.7mo · Lobsterbib · r/OldSchoolCool
Jonas Salk didn’t patent his 1955 polio vaccine so that it would be affordable for all people. As a result, he lost an estimated 7 billion dollars. Saying in an interview: “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”5mo · onepersononeidea · r/OldSchoolCool
Colorized by me: Albert Einstein teaching at Lincoln, the United State's first Historical Black University, 19462yr · veggytheropoda · r/OldSchoolCool
Here’s the “8th Wonder of the World” André the Giant, goofing around with his best friend (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s 315lb grandfather), High Chief Peter Maivia. - 1970’s11mo · wick720 · r/OldSchoolCool
My dad never talked about his childhood, but this picture of him gives me hope it wasn’t all bad. Lake Michigan beach,1950’s.4mo · RufRufRufio · r/OldSchoolCool
My mom in ‘78, Glendale, CA. Newly immigrated from Japan and working her butt off -but still managed to save up and buy this Chevy Impala for $500, from a little old lady who only drove it to and from church. I love her!!10mo · ijayl · r/OldSchoolCool
My grandparents being a controversial Caucasian and Hispanic couple in the early 1950s8mo · nessachez · r/OldSchoolCool
LAPD officers dressed up as women to go undercover to catch a purse-snatcher 1960.1mo · Iangator · r/OldSchoolCool
Leonard Nimoy The makeup folks put ears on my son Adam to surprise me. A precious moment while shooting the original series 1960s1yr · eaglemaxie · r/OldSchoolCool
Shoe shine boys listen to Civil War veteran tell his war stories, 1920s5mo · onepersononeidea · r/OldSchoolCool
My dad (front) in Vietnam in 1971. Didn’t know this photo existed until I came across it randomly on the internet. He cried when he saw it. Hope this is the right place to post it.2yr · strawberrygnome · r/OldSchoolCool
The creation of the recycling logo by G. Anderson, 23 at the time. [1970]7mo · dragonoid296 · r/OldSchoolCool
My Dad 1969 Bronx, NY. Speaking against the Vietnam War. He became an Anthropologist/Archeologist, was taken hostage on 2 separate digs, saw a man trampled by water buffalo, crawled into a leopard den for ancient pottery and so much more. He was my own Indiana Jones.9mo · Valkerieus · r/OldSchoolCool
These students were suspended for protesting the Vietnam War. They brought it all the way to the supreme court and won. (1968)9mo · vectorfour · r/OldSchoolCool
Bride leaving her recently bombed home to get married, London, Nov 4 19402yr · notbob1959 · r/OldSchoolCool
Peter Dinklage when he was a singer in the punk/funk band Whizzy early 1990's1yr · phoeab · r/OldSchoolCool
My auntie graduating from Cal Berkeley In 1952. My grandmother walked from Sierra Mojada, Mexico to the US. She didn’t have an education of any kind but all 7 of her daughters graduated college and most of them got advanced degrees.2wk · jmonty156 · r/OldSchoolCool
Today is Hedy Lamarr's birthday (would've been 103). Became a movie star, got bored, then got into science. Helped the Allies during WWII, developing spread spectrum/frequency-hopping technology. Her work created basis of modern Wi-Fi & Bluetooth. (1940)2yr · ILoveRegenHealth · r/OldSchoolCool
The first love. Photo of my mother took by my father in the late 70s.6mo · IzzaKieb · r/OldSchoolCool
A Scandinavian Stewardess examines a new uniform proposal for Scandinavian Airlines in 1964. It was not approved.2yr · dustofoblivion123 · r/OldSchoolCool
Somewhere between Apocalypse Now and The Matrix, don't forget Laurence Fishburne was Cowboy Curtis on Pee Wee's Playhouse in the 80s1yr · kevinsweeneyrvt · r/OldSchoolCool
(1989) Me, age 4, so stoked for a Ghostbusters toy from my mom that I went full derp.1yr · xDanSolo · r/OldSchoolCool
