Woman and a Veteran Embrace at the Dedication Ceremony of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 19825mo ⋅ Kill_Seeker ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Found this old picture of my dad from back in 1976. I feel like the picture captures an awful lot and tells a story. Figured this was probably the best place to share it. Have a Merry Christmas!6mo ⋅ ventface ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
A guy with a pony came around my neighborhood selling pictures. I begged my mom to get one - 19832mo ⋅ Treefittygaming ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My grandfather lighting himself a cigarette in a double-exposure self-portrait (1950s)8mo ⋅ midnighteyesx ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My Uncle Billy just turned 90, so here’s him on his boat during the early 80’s1yr ⋅ jeffpeepgrass ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My deaf father, hugging a speaker to his chest to feel the vibrations of music. Early 1970s.1yr ⋅ LoveMinerals ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Early 90s No idea what kind of pose I was doing but I was sure doing it2mo ⋅ KintsugiPanda ⋅ 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.1yr ⋅ always-aimee ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My hippie mother holding someone’s pet raccoon some time in the late 60s2mo ⋅ matthewsteez ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Terry Crews and his classmate, voted Most Likely to Succeed in his yearbook (1986)2yr ⋅ Phenziox ⋅ 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)1yr ⋅ musland ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My grandma hanging out with Albert Einstein in her backyard. Taken around 19453mo ⋅ OGnilla ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Freddie Mercury said to Mary Austin in his will: “If things had been different you would have been my wife, and this would have been yours anyway.” (1984)6mo ⋅ Iangator ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Milla Jovovich answers fans questions in an online chat on AOL, February 13, 1995.1yr ⋅ Sumit316 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg testifying before a Senate committee hearing on the Homelessness Prevention and Revitalization Act of 19902mo ⋅ Str33twise84 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Princess Diana’s iconic ‘revenge’ dress, worn the night Prince Charles publicly admitted to being unfaithful to her [1994]1yr ⋅ gob-bluth-jr ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Marilyn Monroe visiting injured troops in Japan in 1954. This poor guy had a broken back and had to heal facedown.1mo ⋅ rose_signets ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
African-American Man Protests Labor Discrimination at Bowman Dairy, Chicago 19411yr ⋅ _iPood_ ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Dolly Parton in the 70's, offstage, relaxed, and looking simply angelic.10mo ⋅ tomjulio ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Rick Steves: Here I am, heading off to Europe the day after high school graduation in 1973 — with a budget of $3 a day, a ten-week Eurail pass in my pocket, and the biggest backpack I could find, jam-packed. I came home with no money, a malnourished body, and an enduring love of Europe.7mo ⋅ OregonTripleBeam ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My dad taking a selfie, using a piece of wood to activate the shutter, circa 19579mo ⋅ RAZORBACK_69 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
The Paramount Pictures logo on the day it was originally painted. [1965]3yr ⋅ awfulmspaint ⋅ 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.1yr ⋅ Pariahdog119 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My mom and dad building their house in 1953. My mom (91 now) still lives there.1yr ⋅ Brack_vs_Godzilla ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Claude Monet in his garden, 1905, colorized photo by Jacques Ernest Bulloz6mo ⋅ dikarich ⋅ 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. 19902yr ⋅ 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.1yr ⋅ lyricistlibrettist ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
I found this cleaning out my Nana’s condo. She recently suffered a stroke and is struggling with dementia, but when I showed her this she remarked “look at that wasn’t I something?” and smiled :) [Circa 1958]9mo ⋅ kay-el-sea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Receptionist waits at her desk. General Motors Technical Center, 19652yr ⋅ mossberg91 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My grandpa Jack turned 100 today. WWII fighter pilot, shot down in the pacific and holds the world record for oldest person to have braces at age 98!1yr ⋅ Tcherry1234 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
2 years ago I posted a photo here that my grandfather had taken of The Three Stooges in Yellowstone. Yesterday a Yellowstone librarian messaged me on Reddit with more photos of my grandfather with The Three Stooges that we had never seen before. He’s the park ranger in the middle. 1969.2wk ⋅ CaptainOutstanding ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Friend showed me a picture of her parents in the 80's...and it is truly PURE 80's.1yr ⋅ tomjulio ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Christmas 1981 - I had been begging for an Atari for months but was sure my mum couldn’t afford it. Was I ever surprised!11mo ⋅ wishingwellington ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My Grandmother Nancy on her honeymoon near Capitan, NM. Taken by my grandfather on a Kodak Kodachrome, 19497mo ⋅ YiddishThunder ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Daniel Elmore, 72-year-old handyman, is congratulated by two daughters on graduation. He saw to it that all 10 of children got college degrees. (1964)5mo ⋅ Ninjakick666 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Wally Amos, founder of Famous Amos Cookies outside the original store in Los Angeles, 90s11mo ⋅ defactosithlord ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My mom voting for the first time in a presidential election in 1972 in Indiana, PA7mo ⋅ jokesbyjo ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My folks celebrating their first married Christmas together. 1968, New York6d ⋅ danooli ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My photographer Father set the timer perfectly for his proposal to my Mother, 19791yr ⋅ bz_treez ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Ralph Foody on the set of “Angels With Filthy Souls,” the fictional gangster movie seen in Home Alone. C. 1990.6mo ⋅ LazeLinez ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
So glad I found this subreddit, so I thought I’d share this picture of my grandmother at 16. Somewhere in the mid 1940’s.1yr ⋅ Jtodd666 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Me on the set of Superman 3 in the Superman outfit my mom made for me in 19822mo ⋅ boopdogg ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Betty Robinson got into a plane crash and was mistakenly pronounced dead. She spent 7 weeks in a coma and it took her 2 years to learn to walk again. 5 years later, she won a gold medal in the Olympic Games 19369mo ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Harrison Ford and Sean Connery during the filming of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 19892wk ⋅ Stonewalled89 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Before he was Morpheus, he was Cowboy Curtis on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. 1986.1yr ⋅ PM_ME_FOODPICZ ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Harold, 35 years ago as an electrical engineer, before he became the meme!10mo ⋅ mtimetraveller ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My Nana, who is 92 now, in the midst of the Great Depression (1930s). She is with her dog, Rin Tin Tin, who she called Rinny.7mo ⋅ fkmcc ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Prince Roller skating on his Tennis court at home. Photo by Jeff Katz, 19898mo ⋅ Rattlesnake_Mullet ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Long before color-sensitive films were invented, Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorsky used to take 3 individual black-and-white photos, each with a filter (Red, Green, Blue) to create high-quality pictures in full color. This self portrait of him is 107 years old!2yr ⋅ TheCrown64 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
I acquired and scanned in over 500 of my Grandpa’s Ektachrome slides. Here is my Grandma in the late 1940s/early 1950s on vacation.8mo ⋅ Cameltoefiasco ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
High-rise installer on one of the largest bridges in the world, the Harbour Bridge, Sydney, 1971. The installer's name is Paul Hogan, in 15 years he will be known as Crocodile Dundee1mo ⋅ MinerHills ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My dad and the Notorious B.I.G. circa 1996 when he visited my dad’s clothing store in Detroit, Michigan1yr ⋅ sloanmar ⋅ 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 19871yr ⋅ bhuge33 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My younger brother and I after we were just adopted from Thailand in '91. It was just going to be me, but they found my brother living on the other side of the orphanage, so our parents took us both. Always joked we were a buy one get one deal.1yr ⋅ kenistod ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My grandmother was a code girl during WWII. It was her best kept secret until 2017.1yr ⋅ Aek2332 ⋅ 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 ww2.1yr ⋅ puggernault ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
A member of the 369th Infantry Regiment (aka Harlem Hellfighters) holds a puppy that he saved during World War I (1918)11mo ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Audience reaction to the chestburster scene in 'Alien', 1979.3mo ⋅ CaptainWisconsin ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
French woman pouring tea for a British soldier fighting in Normandy 19441yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Stealing a drink of wine at a wedding while my mom (behind me) isn’t looking. (1987)1yr ⋅ lanko69 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My son and I in the early 90s. We couldn‘t afford a camera, so we periodically went into a photobooth.2yr ⋅ askalottle ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Jackie & Kelso from “That 70’s Show” remind me of my parents. Here they are on their honeymoon. (1972)11mo ⋅ bdarps ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My great grandfather goofing around before going to the front - 1914.6mo ⋅ Enraged-Elephant ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Outside Dave's Art Pawn Shop in Dallas, TX, prepared to go in and videotape my then boyfriend's band with my GIANT camcorder. As you did in the summer of 1991.1mo ⋅ wishingwellington ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Christmas morning 30 years ago, when my brother and I received a NES (1990)6mo ⋅ tiretpointunderscore ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My great grandfather holding my great uncle a hundred years ago in 1919.2yr ⋅ Chopperguy ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My Great-grandmother, graduated in 1900 with a degree in physics, rocking the puffy arms look.1mo ⋅ Last_Of_His_Name ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
1976. It was a very good year for a pink polyester tuxedo with my larger than life Afro.11mo ⋅ 19266042 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
1985 & 2019. It's all I wanted for my 60th birthday (x-post /R/PastAndPresentPics)2yr ⋅ madbear ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Ringo Starr (original narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends) on set - 19844mo ⋅ haddock420 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Windows on the World, restaurant on top of the former World Trade Center, 1980s11mo ⋅ earthmoonsun ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
It’s my birthday today; here I am at the peak of my coolness, in 1984, hosting my first party in my first apartment.11mo ⋅ twodaisies ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My mother in 4th grade in the 70s. Her mother wouldn't let her bring the outfit for picture day so she brought it with her and changed at school. A patchwork cowboy shirt, a bandana and a velvet Pakistani vest.9mo ⋅ remember_8 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Slash in 1982 before Guns N’ Roses was started, and he was known as Saul!11mo ⋅ Walusqueegee ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Civil Air Patrol student pilot, Silver Lake airfield near Baker, California, 19446mo ⋅ notbob1959 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
