Woman shopping in a Safeway grocery store in Washington State (6/26/1972)7mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
The computer radio. At 6:00 AM, it’s smarter than you are. General Electric. October 19791yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/vintageads
Penn Arcade. NYC. April 1975. Photographer unknown. Original Kodachrome / collection of Susan Fensten.3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/nyc
McDonald’s drive-thru menu board, circa 1983. Photo courtesy of Pleasant Family Shopping on Facebook1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/80sdesign
1978 ad for the Gay Bob doll, he was created in 1977 by former advertising executive Harvey Rosenberg and marketed through his company Gizmo Development. Bob's packaging box is decorated like a closet and included a catalog from which additional outfits could be ordered.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/OldSchoolRidiculous
I REFUSE to be seated next to a carnist: Will someone please think of the breadsticks?5yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/insanepeoplefacebook
Coaches from the “Hundley Stage Line” outside the “Halfway House”..(Saloon & Stable)..in Cripple Creek, Colorado......in 18931yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/Colorado
Today in 1972: Yogi Berra & Sandy Koufax happily pose together after they learn that they’ve been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.5yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/baseball
Sears on Geary, San Francisco (1972) Photo by Richard Longstreth3mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/sanfrancisco
Burger King AM radio with Burger headphones. These were produced exclusively for Radio Shack in 1983.2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/80sdesign
A man shovels snow from a driveway in Albuquerque, New Mexico (December 5, 1969)1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/Albuquerque
LA Raiders linebacker Matt Millen punching former New England Patriots general GM Patrick Sullivan after the 1985 divisional-round playoff, where the Patriots pulled off a upset 27-20. Millen was apparently not happy with Sullivan's trash talking of Howie Long during the game.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/raiders
A delicatessen selling hamburgers on 42nd Street, NYC (Mid-late 1960s) Photographer-Byron Coroneos3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
GENERATION X (1993): Xers may like to call themselves the 'Why Me?' generation, but they should be called the 'Whiny' generation... As a baby boomer, I'm fed up with the ceaseless carping of a handful of spoiled, self-indulgent, overgrown adolescents. Newsweek, Oct. 19931yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/90s
Simpsons-Sears Catalogue telephone operators - Toronto Control Centre (1972)7mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/toronto
Photograph of a Wendy's fast food restaurant at 3118 Main Street (Kansas City, MO), not long after the date it opened in 1983.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/80sdesign
East 42nd St. & Park Avenue, Outside Grand Central Terminal, NYC, 19654yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Lumberjill Jeri Smith won first place at the Timber Days Festival in Sutherlin, Oregon (1953)2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Thanksgiving dinner. Lakeland Cottages in Lakeland, Florida (1948). Photo courtesy of Lakeland Library Collection.4yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A typical Circuit City location. Circa 1985 Circuit City Stores Inc. photo. Photo courtesy of Pleasant Family Shopping on Facebook.3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/80sdesign
The IBM exhibit at the 1964/65 World's Fair in Queens. A tuxedo-clad host made a startling arrival, descending from the roof above on a slender pedestal that lowered and raised hydraulically. Photo: Bill Cotter.3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/nyc
Voters flocked to the polls on November 7, 1944 in Los Angeles, California. Here is a scene in the polling place in the Hall of Justice.3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
4 years before disaster, Space Shuttle Challenger being towed along street in Lancaster, California, 19828mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A cocktail waitress stops for the camera inside Whimsy's Disco in Boston in the mid 70s. Photo by MJ Finlan.3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/boston
34th St, NYC. A Christmas Eve shopper tries to hail a cab outside Macy’s with a wooden crated rocking horse (December 24, 1946) AP photo, Carl Nesensohn, photographer.3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/nyc
NE 39th Avenue (NE Cesar E Chavez Boulevard) and NE Sandy Boulevard, 1988.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/Portland
Myrtle Avenue Elevated Train, NYC, 1969. Photo by Patrick Culinan1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Sears, Shoreline (Seattle area), WA, circa 1967, as photographed for their annual report. Kind of a perfect photo, don’t you think?3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/SeattleWA
December 1925. Washington, D.C. -- Western Electric Co. group Christmas party. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Christmastime at Westfarms Mall in West Hartford, CT, circa 1983. Shared from the I Remember New Britain FB page.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/80sdesign
May 9, 1932. Exhausted contestants try to keep moving, at least a little, during a grueling dance marathon that began March 31 - more than 900 hours earlier - at the Fordham Palace, 2505 Jerome Avenue in the Bronx. Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images.3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
1974 ACC championship game: David ‘Skywalker’ Thompson grabs a rebound against the Terrapins5yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/CollegeBasketball
West 3rd Street, NYC. Young woman in polka dots, white jeans on her motorcycle (1968). James Jowers, photographer. George Eastman House.4yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A view of downtown from a restaurant inside the Sheraton Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, circa 1976.4yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/Atlanta
Blind teacher Alice Samaniego (with her faithful guide dog Kora), 24, teaches sophomore English in Los Angeles (April 14, 1983)7mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Provincetown, Massachusetts - 1986. Photo courtesy of Bobby Cole2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/massachusetts
The Big Mac hat! (McDonald’s translite sign, 1984). Courtesy of Consumer Time Capsule on Twitter1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/vintageads
City carrier delivers a letter to a customer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ca. 1908.3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Waitresses serving cocktails at the Cafe Langer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1974.2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Thanksgiving menu from Norfolk House. Boston, Massachusetts in 1900. From the New York Public Library5mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/boston
Protestors demonstrate in front of the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Signs read, Where have all the good seats gone? To the rich & corporate, and 20 years of loyalty means nothing to Jerry Buss. Photo dated: December 12, 1999.7mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/lakers
The Lee family of Anaheim, CA enjoying their Thanksgiving dinner, circa 19703yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Cartoonist and Simpsons creator Matt Groening in his Bat Cave Venice Studio, California, 19877mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Ketchikan, Alaska, late 1950 from the collection of Mary Emily Sturhahn. Photo courtesy of David Haggard2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
McDonald’s in Charlotte, NC (1981) Photo courtesy of Pat Richardson at Charlotte Eats on Facebook2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
The brand-new Sears at the Tri-County Shopping Center in Springdale (Cincinnati), Ohio, as it appeared during its first Christmas season in 1967.2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/cincinnati
McDonald’s drive-thru menu board, circa 1983. Photo courtesy of Pleasant Family Shopping on Facebook1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/80s
'Let's Have A Prune Party' ad from the California Prune Advisory Board in 1958.2mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/vintageads
Burger King AM radio with Burger headphones. These were produced exclusively for Radio Shack in 1983.2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/80sfastfood
Walgreens, circa 1975, from their annual report. Photo courtesy of Pleasant Family Shopping on Facebook.7mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
NYC, Man squeezing past a couple of corner blockers, giving the side eye. (1980) Terry W. Barczak, photographer.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Philadelphia, July 1908. “Delaware Avenue, foot of Market Street.“4yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/philadelphia
Albertsons Halloween t-shirt, from 1995. Photo courtesy of Dinosaur Dracula.8mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/90s
A Bell Phone Center Store within Sears, in a circa 1982 AT&T Corporation photo. Photo courtesy of Pleasant Family Shopping on Facebook1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Supermarket employee handing out pound cake slices. A&P, New York City, circa 1975, from their annual report. Photo courtesy of Pleasant Family Shopping on Facebook.2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
The shopping mall at Polo Park shopping centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba (1961)7mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/Winnipeg
New Orleans circa 1937. Courtyard at 1133-1135 Chartres Street. Young and old, hangin' with the laundry.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/NewOrleans
Preview of a promising new Nintendo 64 game called GoldenEye 007 -- a cross between Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire -- in the March 1997 issue of GamePro magazine.5yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/nintendo
Taco Bell Express inside a SuperAmerica convenience store/gas station in 1989.2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/tacobell
Steve Martin, Liberace and Bob Einstein (a.k.a. 'Super Dave Osbourne') backstage at The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, 19692yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/OldSchoolCelebs
Cartoonist and Simpsons creator Matt Groening in his Bat Cave Venice Studio, California, 19877mo ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheSimpsons
The Big Mac hat! (McDonald’s translite sign, 1984). Courtesy of Consumer Time Capsule on Twitter1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/80s
GREASE (1978): The stench of rank amateurism, rancid TV specials and putrid shows like 'Welcome Back Kotter' permeates the entire 110 minutes of this abomination...Those who make nostalgia films like 'Grease' should be condemned. Cincinnati Enquirer, June 17, 19781yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/OldSchoolRidiculous
1989 Hardee's Slimer Sundae in store promotion poster for Ghostbusters II1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/vintageads
New York Giants Vs. Philadelphia Eagles at Franklin Field - 1963. Photo Credit: Temple University Archives.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/eagles
The four major systems representing at the annual Tokyo Game Show, 2001.5yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/nostalgia
Cocktails at the Triangle Cocktail Lounge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1964)4yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
On May 20, 1989 (34 years ago today), Gilda Radner died at the age of 421yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/LiveFromNewYork
5th Avenue Looking North, New York City, (1944) Photo by Charles Phelps Cushing3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/nyc
December 1940. Starke, Florida. Construction workers drinking beer in Soldiers Joy Cafe near Camp Blanding. Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Portland, Oregon, 1948. Calvary Presbyterian Church. Completed in 1882 and now known simply as The Old Church. Acetate negative from the News Photo Archive.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/Portland
The front counter of a modern McDonald's from a mid-80s Operation Pride Guide. Judging by the Good Sports Happy Meal translite sign, this photo would have been taken in February or March of 1984. Photo and caption courtesy of Consumer Time Capsule on Twitter.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/80sfastfood
Family dining in the Pump Room at the Ambassador East Hotel in Chicago, IL (January 1949). Photo by Stanley Kubrick. Yes, that one.2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/chicago
Kevin Nash signing autographs in front of the JCPenney at Echelon Mall in Voorhees, NJ in 1998. This is a very 1998 picture3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/SquaredCircle
1975 ad for Pringles.This is prior to when the FDA ruled Pringles were not potato chips.2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/vintageads
Beach 44th St. Rockaway, Queens. Woman getting ticketed for indecent exposure by an NYPD Officer, evidently a robe was required once they left the beach. Men were subject to the law as well (1946) Sam Shere, photog. Life Magazine.3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Two students from Robertson High School in Las Vegas, New Mexico (yes, there is a Las Vegas in NM) pose for a prom photo in 1981. Photo credit: Alex Traube2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/80sdesign
Following a Beastie Boys concert in Columbus, Georgia in 1987, the local police chief expressed regret he didn't arrest the group for their lewd language and antics. (Columbus Ledger, March 5, 1987)1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/Georgia
A trayliner introducing Chicken McNuggets.(McDonald's trayliner, 1980). Photo courtesy of Consumer Time Capsule.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/vintageads
Dandy, the short-lived (1979-1981) mascot of the New York Yankees, roaming the streets of NYC in 1979. Some might notice he resembles former Yankees catcher Thurman Munson, and in fact when Munson died in a plane crash, Dandy was put on hiatus due to the resemblance.4yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/nyc
The employee parking area of a construction site in Villa Park, Illinois, early 1970s.5yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Female engineering student in library at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC (May 1968)2yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
WrestleBus 2023. I feel like a good reality show can come from this bud ride.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/SquaredCircle
Susan Brewer and Danny Stringer, mall interns, with some very 80s outfits (1986) This is likely at San Jancinto Marketplace in Baytown, TX.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/80sdesign
Andy Kaufman being carted out of the Mid-South Coliseum with a young Jim Cornette looking for the perfect shot (1982)5yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/SquaredCircle
Prince standing outside of Schmitt's Music Store, downtown Minneapolis, 1977.4yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/Minneapolis
This 1997 Akron Beacon Journal photo shows Michael Johnson, 17, trying out a Nintendo 64 display inside Target at Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, OH1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/retrogaming
A trayliner introducing Chicken McNuggets.(McDonald's trayliner, 1980). Photo courtesy of Consumer Time Capsule.1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/80sfastfood
Inside the Prestonwood Town Center shopping mall on Belt Line Road in Dallas...circa 1979. The mall was demolished in the early 2000’s.3yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/Dallas
Mrs. Handy with vegetables she has just canned. Scotland, Maryland in 1940. Photograph by Jack Delano. The image, information in the caption, and date are from the Library of Congress1yr ⋅ AxlCobainVedder ⋅ r/Canning
