Heath Ledger's Polaroid selfie with Larisa Oleynik, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Julia Stiles on the set of 10 Things I Hate About You. (1999)2mo ⋅ kylah910 ⋅ 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!4yr ⋅ Tcherry1234 ⋅ 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]3yr ⋅ kay-el-sea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Horace Hart in 1895. Horace was the inventor of the Oxford comma, and looks like the type of man to have the swagger to start an argument that lasts decades. Do you, or do you not use the Oxford comma?2yr ⋅ Daqlumpk ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Civil Rights leader Medger Evers, who 60 years ago today in 1963 was murdered by the KKK. His killer escaped justice for over 30 years before finally being convicted in 1994.11mo ⋅ MulciberTenebras ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Receptionist waits at her desk. General Motors Technical Center, 19655yr ⋅ mossberg91 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Before going solo, Britney Spears was in an all-female group called Innosense (1997)7mo ⋅ dreamon86 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Yearbook photo from prom 1996, just before we faced teenage pregnancy. We beat the odds and today we’ve been married 27 years. I’m damn lucky she still looks at me like that.4mo ⋅ oldboy_and_the_sea ⋅ 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 Dundee3yr ⋅ MinerHills ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
40 years later, this badass would fix my pigtails and play Barbies with me. This was my grandpa, a Boilermaker on USN destroyer during WWII.3yr ⋅ Mercurial_Girl ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Yuri Knorozov, the linguist who deciphered the Maya script, 1953. He listed his cat Asya as a co-author on his work but the editors always removed her. He always used this photo with Asya as his author photo and got pissed whenever editors cropped her out2yr ⋅ Scaulbylausis ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Ex POW John McCain, fractured both arms and a leg, before getting bayoneted and having his shoulder crushed. Despite torture by beatings every few days, he refused repatriation unless every man taken before him was also released, 19747mo ⋅ eaglemaxie ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
68 year old Barney Frye lifts three women (Joan Greenman, Sherry Lee Evans, Kim Curtis) on the boardwalk, Muscle Beach, 19561yr ⋅ eaglemaxie ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Hot Dog Stand, Little Italy, New York, 1963 (Photo by Evelyn Hofer)2yr ⋅ realhiphopfiles ⋅ 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!4yr ⋅ wishingwellington ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My mom with her brother in June 1966. He was 19 and she was 22 at the time.7mo ⋅ ecobot ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Kevin Bacon and his wife Kyra, photographed with their son in the 90s 2wk ⋅ riskyricket ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
A couple dancing at Tiananmen Square before the tanks rolled in, 19892yr ⋅ KaamDeveloper ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
A punk, a “rude boy” and a skinhead hanging out together in England c. 1980.4yr ⋅ Guygan ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My Grandmother Nancy on her honeymoon near Capitan, NM. Taken by my grandfather on a Kodak Kodachrome, 19493yr ⋅ YiddishThunder ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My Grandpa & Grandma in Puerto Vallarta, 1950’s. She was from an affluent British family, engaged to another man, and while on vacation there, my grandpa stole her away and took her back to New Orleans. He was there on the G.I. bill becoming a muralist. It was true love all the way till the end!1yr ⋅ vroomapunk ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Wally Amos, founder of Famous Amos Cookies outside the original store in Los Angeles, 90s4yr ⋅ defactosithlord ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My Dad and I when it was still allowed , scaled the pyramid of Chichen Itza in 1983. Doing this now would put you in a orange jumpsuit. But in 1983 it was allowed.1yr ⋅ MartianMaterial ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My grandparents going on their honeymoon in the 50s looking like movie stars2mo ⋅ Leaderofmen ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My mom voting for the first time in a presidential election in 1972 in Indiana, PA3yr ⋅ jokesbyjo ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My Grandmother and Her Then Boyfriend, 1960, New Jersey. A lot going on in this pic.1yr ⋅ GrabEmByTheYuumi ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
1955, women waited in line for hours to try to get the trial vaccine for their kids polio10mo ⋅ EfficientChoice4415 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Wooden Leg (Kahamaxeveohtahe) in Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Montana. 19272yr ⋅ 305FUN ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My grandmother was orphaned at birth in 1900. These three men, known as “The Uncles”, could neither read nor write, but they raised her with much love on the family farm. Her sons and many others in subsequent generations are their namesakes1yr ⋅ AppreciableAppendage ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Theodore Roosevelt's high-spirited daughter Alice, 1903. Her father said of her I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both. In 15 months she attended 407 dinners, 350 balls and 300 parties.2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My photographer Father set the timer perfectly for his proposal to my Mother, 19794yr ⋅ bz_treez ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Wedding photo of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson in 1988. They are still married to this day 😊1yr ⋅ MaximumJones ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Paul Newman in Washington where Dr. King delivered his ‘I Have a Dream Speech’ August 28, 19632yr ⋅ eaglemaxie ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Eddie Murphy, Charlie Murphy, Mike Tyson circa late '80s, early 90s1yr ⋅ maestroxjay ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Major Dick Bong, US Ace of Aces in WWII, with his wife Marge in his P-38 - also named Marge. Bong had 40 confirmed kills in the Pacific Theater and won the Medal of Honor.1yr ⋅ Duck_Size ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
SNL had no idea Sinead O'Connor was going to rip up a picture of the Pope because she held up a photo of a refugee child during the 1992 rehearsal.9mo ⋅ romeofantasy ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Me and the second most beautiful woman I've seen in person (1990)1yr ⋅ SaintWillyMusic ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Before he was Morpheus, he was Cowboy Curtis on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. 1986.4yr ⋅ PM_ME_FOODPICZ ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
A French man reacts to trying Coca-Cola for the first time (1950s)2yr ⋅ SalzaMaBalza ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Nov 9, 1989—My gf was at the Berlin Wall when it came down and took this pic of an East German soldier. She passed him candy thru the hole and he went away and came back with a Soviet pilotka (side cap) and gave it to her (pic in comments). Sorry for flash glare.4yr ⋅ ecafsub ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Alan Turing - British World Was II code breaking hero and computer genius, persecuted after the war for his sexuality (RIP) - late 1940s10mo ⋅ secretslut991 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Freddie Mercury and David Bowie backstage at Live Aid 1985 - 37 years ago today1yr ⋅ IdioticTendency ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
The 1992 USA men’s Olympic Basketball team, aka The Dream Team.1yr ⋅ metsnewyork19861969 ⋅ 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 1991.3yr ⋅ wishingwellington ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My Great-grandmother, graduated in 1900 with a degree in physics, rocking the puffy arms look.3yr ⋅ Last_Of_His_Name ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Chi Chi Rodriguez and his cool caddie John Lynch at the 1975 masters.1yr ⋅ Barry__McCockinher ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Arnold Schwarzenegger and two training partners in Venice Beach - early 70s1yr ⋅ The--Weasel ⋅ 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 19363yr ⋅ onepersononeidea ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Conan O'Brien engages in fisticuffs in front of the Harvard Lampoon castle, 1984.2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
George Hackenschmidt Helped Shape Modern Fitness as We Know It Today (1907)2yr ⋅ FenixDriver ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Church Minister who Famously Stood against Hitler and Paid with His Life, Being Executed at a Concentration Camp in 19451yr ⋅ HawkeyeTen ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Josef Mencik, the last knight. He lived in Czechoslovakia until 1945 like a real knight, in a castle, without electricity or cars. He even attacked german tanks on his horse in full armor during WWII.1yr ⋅ barbarousforefinger ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland, the definition of Old School Cool in the early 70s1yr ⋅ missjowashere ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My Uncle Jim showing off his Christmas present. Vinyl from a '60s pop group.1yr ⋅ Marty1966 ⋅ 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!5yr ⋅ TheCrown64 ⋅ 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.3yr ⋅ fkmcc ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
At my drafting table with my electric eraser before our office used computers, 19841yr ⋅ dittidot ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Prince Roller skating on his Tennis court at home. Photo by Jeff Katz, 19893yr ⋅ Rattlesnake_Mullet ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Greek resistance fighters during Nazi invasion of Crete 194111mo ⋅ ImpishlyFlounce79 ⋅ 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.3yr ⋅ Cameltoefiasco ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
ca. 1875 - my ancestors outside their home florist’s shop. Sadly the photo is damaged but I think they look like quite dapper!1yr ⋅ twocatsinachimney ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My dad and the Notorious B.I.G. circa 1996 when he visited my dad’s clothing store in Detroit, Michigan4yr ⋅ sloanmar ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon calling their family after winning the Oscar for ‘Good Will Hunting’, 19981yr ⋅ Naweezy ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My mom in 1966 and today. Still rocking the same shirt 55 years later.2yr ⋅ strange_invader ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
In 1999, a moderately successful Manhattan executive chef submitted an unsolicited essay entitled Don't Eat Before Reading This to the New Yorker magazine. It transformed him into a highly successful writer and television personality.1mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Soviet world champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan, who saved the lives of 20 people in 1976 when he saw a trolleybus plunge into a reservoir. 1980s1yr ⋅ GoldenChinchilla ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Lois Long (a columnist for New Yorker and flapper) getting a shocked look from a staff member of the late Victorian era, photograph taken by Edward Steichen in 1921 ✨1yr ⋅ KatyaRomici00 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
A beardless Abraham Lincoln. The photo was taken in Beardstown, Illinois in 1858. [483×630]1yr ⋅ Fresh_Coffee1219 ⋅ 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 19874yr ⋅ bhuge33 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
