What musician do you consider to be both a soulful artist and kind of a jerk? For me, it's Van Morrison, seen here in 1968. Frank Sinatra and Kanye, too.3wk ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Staunch advocate for African-American rights Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, 1792-1868. His early draft of the 14th Amendment included the Equal Protection Clause, the Privileges and Immunities Clause, and the Due Process Clause. All Americans are in his debt.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ 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
Conan O'Brien engages in fisticuffs in front of the Harvard Lampoon castle, 1984.2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ 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
Australian outlaw Ned Kelly in 1880, the day before his execution. [1200 x 1728]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Russian writer Alexander Pushkin and French writer Alexandre Dumas. Each had a Black ancester who was a general in a European army. An old rumor claimed that Pushkin faked his 1837 death in a duel, moved to France, and became Dumas. [1200 x 696]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Percentage of Ukrainians voting yes in the country's 1991 referendum on independence.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/MapPorn
Was there ever a better match between endorser and product? 19951yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Rosalynn Carter as First Lady, 1977. She and Jimmy have been married for 77 years.7mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Mike Judge directing Jennifer Aniston and Ron Livingston in Office Space, 1998.7mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Jimmy Carter stands between Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin during the 1978 Camp David Conference, at which Egypt and Israel agreed to end thirty years of hot and cold war between the two nations. [1073 x 711]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Frederick Douglass with his musician grandson Joseph Douglass, 1894. [2000 X 2948]2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Soviet Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, 1960. Destroy Nazi Germany, win valuable prizes. [1561 x 2111]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Jason Alexander, left, as an acting student at Boston University, 1979.10mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Ernest Hemingway, Alec Guinness, and Noel Coward in Havana, 1959. [586 x 664]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
U.S. Admiral David Farragut. He began his naval career as a nine year old boy in 1810. He remained on active duty until his death in 1870. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! [1200 x 1658]2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Richard Nixon's loyal secretary Rose Mary Woods takes one for the team as she demonstrates her implausible claim that she erased part of an incriminating White House audio tape when she answered the phone while transcribing the tape. 1974 [1280 X 852]3yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Dolores Cacuango, known as Mama Doloreyuk, at age 87 in 1969. She was a tireless Ecuadorian activist who fought for the rights of laborers, women, and indigenous people. [1280 x 1284]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler performs his 1966 #1 hit Ballad of the Green Berets on The Ed Sullivan Show. [1648 x 2048]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Later British Admiral Jacky Fisher as a Midshipman in the 1850s. His career spanned the Crimean War to World War I. He guided the Royal Navy from the era of wooden sailing ships with muzzle-loaded cannons to steel-hulled battlecruisers, submarines and early aircraft carriers. [1280 x 1926]2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Willie Nelson and Amy Irving, 1980. Their onset romance during the filming of Honeysuckle Rose temporarily ended her relationship with Steven Spielberg, causing her to lose the female lead in Raiders of the Lost Ark.10mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Al St. John, 1918. Once his deadpan persona became established, Keaton avoided smiling in front of a camera. [1080 x 781]3mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Harper Lee and Truman Capote, 1960. The authors had been childhood friends in Monroeville, Alabama. [1799 x 1799]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The 1985 cast of SNL. Some talented people, but not a group that clicked.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, circa 1910. When a Southern town charged him a then ridiculously expensive $50 for speeding, he peeled off a $100 bill from his bankroll and said Keep it. I intend to come back this way.4yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Douglas MacArthur with Col. Dwight Eisenhower during the clearing of the Bonus Marchers, 1932. Eisenhower described his time under MacArthur as studying dramatics. Mac called Ike the best clerk he ever had. [677 x 900]2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The deteriorated West Side Highway in lower Manhattan, 1973. Later that year, an overloaded dump truck fell through the elevated road, forcing its permanent closure. [1024 x 752]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, 1953. He gained fame covering the London Blitz during WW2. He later reported on McCarthyism and migrant workers. He even hosted a celebrity interview show. Color original. [722 x 521]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
FDR visits a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, 1933. In 9 years, 3 million poor young men joined the CCC. They were fed, housed, and paid a wage that was mostly sent to their families. Their efforts improved public land to this day. [1022 x 575]2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Harpo Marx with three of his four adopted children in 1954. When he was asked by George Burns how many children he planned to adopt, he answered, I'd like to adopt as many children as I have windows in my house. So when I leave for work, I want a kid in every window, waving goodbye.5mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Ray Magliozzi and Tom Magliozzi, early 1990s. As Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers, they made Car Talk, a local Boston automotive advice show, into a hit for NPR.2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Alexander Kerensky, 1917. During that year, he was a key figure in the governing coalition from the February Revolution that saw the Tsar's abdication until the October Revolution by the Bolsheviks. Kerensky spent the next 50+ years in exile, dying in New York in 1970. [1000 x 1327]2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Carolyn Jones and John Astin as Morticia and Gomez Addams, 1964. One of the first married couples on TV who never lost their spark.3yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Alexander Gardner's photograph of Allan Pinkerton, Abraham Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand, at Antietam, 1862. [1280 x 1790]11mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
1945 mug shots of war criminals Albert Speer and Rudolf Hess. They were among the seven high ranking Nazis who were held in Spandau Prison in Berlin after their trial in Nuremberg. [1000 x 1019]6mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The four chaplains who died aboard the S.S. Dorchester after it was torpedoed in the North Atlantic in 1943. The men, a Catholic priest, two Protestant ministers, and a Jewish rabbi, gave up their life vests and helped soldiers into lifeboats. They were last seen praying together with linked arms.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Tonya Harding, Kristi Yamaguchi, and Nancy Kerrigan, 1991. [3986 x 4776]3mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Gabe Kaplan and Joyce DeWitt discuss strategy, Battle of the Network Stars, 1978.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
The great actor John Cazale with his romantic partner Meryl Streep during the filming of The Deer Hunter, 1978. He died of lung cancer later that year.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
The names of more than half of the United States derive from the languages of indigenous peoples.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/MapPorn
Two future presidents among a group of first-term Congressmen taking part in a radio broadcast, 1947. [980 x 552]6mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The 1980s, when you went to the games instead of the games coming to you. [1187 x 839]10mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The smallest American state, Rhode Island, superimposed on the largest American state, Alaska.9mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/MapPorn
As a reminder that political loyalties change, here is the 1976 presidential election map for the race between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. A faithless elector in Washington state gave Ronald Reagan one vote.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/MapPorn
Sammy Davis, Jr. embraces President Richard Nixon during Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign. [828 x 1051]6mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
300K people thronged the streets of Milan for the burial procession of Giuseppe Verdi, 1901. Earlier, as the 87 year old composer had lain on his deathbed, Italians gathered nearby and spontaneously sang Va pensiero, the patriotic hymn from the Maestro's early opera Nabucco. [1280 x 906]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Ava Gardner with her three husbands: Mickey Rooney in 1942, Artie Shaw in 1945, and Frank Sinatra in 1951. [1600 x 1600]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Mark Twain and his long-time friend John T. Lewis, main inspiration for the character Jim in Huckleberry Finn, 1903. Colorized, source in comments. [800 x 800]2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Lynne Thigpen and Greg Lee teaching geography to Millennials on Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, 1991.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Curly Howard of the Three Stooges with his wife Valerie and their daughter Janie, 1949.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Alvin Shipwreck Kelly, who, in 1924, began a fad of pole sitting. [711 x 900]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
General George Marshall, 1946. As Army Chief of Staff, he was one of the half dozen people most responsible for defeating global Fascism. Later, as Secretary of State, he was one of the half dozen people most responsible for containing Stalinism in Europe. [891 x 1350]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Character actor Dick Wilson played fictional grocery store manager George Whipple on Charmin commercials from 1965 to 1989. Redditors of a certain age viewed these ads thousands of times.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Franklin Roosevelt with his 1940 running mate, Henry Wallace. In one of American history's big hinge moments, in 1944, party centrists convinced FDR to replace the progressive Wallace with Harry Truman. [2407 x 1850]6mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Route of the U.S. Army's 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy. The trip included 81 vehicles. It lasted 62 days. 282 men took part, including Dwight Eisenhower.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/MapPorn
Richard Nixon commits a foot fault while bowling at the White House alley in a tie and dress shirt, 1971.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Onlookers in Marseille watching French battle flags being taken for transport to Africa after the German conquest of France, 1940. [1100 x 816]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Long-distance swimmer Gertrude Ederle. In 1926, she became the first woman to swim the English Channel, beating the best time of previous men's crossings by two hours. She died at 98 in 2003, after a life teaching fellow deaf swimmers. [2660 x 4236]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Gene Kelly and Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu, 1980. It was the 68 year old Kelly's final time dancing on-screen.3yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Bananarama may not have been one of the most successful bands of the 1980s, but it certainly was one of the most 80s bands of the 1980s.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Franklin Roosevelt chilling on a Gulf of Mexico fishing trip, 1937. [962 x 1344]3mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. Abraham Lincoln, 18652yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Humpty Hump, a/k/a Shock G, a/k/a Gregory Jacobs, 1990. He once got busy in a Burger King bathroom.11mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Jim Varney, 1994. His Ernest P. Worrell character first appeared in a local ad in Kentucky, then in commercials across the U.S., before spawning a movie franchise and kids' show. KnoWhutImean, Vern?1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
In 2015, I read that George H.W. Bush was throwing things at the television because of the mean things Donald Trump said about Jeb. I wrote Bush Sr. a letter telling him some of the things that I, a liberal Democrat, admired about his life and presidency. Here is his redacted response.5mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/Presidents
Victoria Woodhull. First woman to run for president, in 1872, with Frederick Douglass as her running mate. A spiritual healer, stockbroker, abolitionist, women's rights advocate, proponent of free love, author, editor.4yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
In the 1980s, Nixon Plumber G. Gordon Liddy and psychedelics advocate Timothy Leary toured the college lecture circuit billed as Nice Scary Guy vs. Scary Nice Guy. [523 x 452]6mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Cassius Marcellus Clay, 1810 - 1903, the Kentucky abolitionist after whom the future Muhammad Ali was named. He fought off several assassination attempts that resulted from his opposition to slavery.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Richard Nixon walks on the beach during his 1969 - 1974 presidency. [2048 x 1376]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The only known photograph of South American liberator Jose de San Martin, 1848. [1920 x 2158]2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Forty-eight states permit drivers to pump their own gas. New Jersey prohibits drivers from pumping their own gas. Oregon is of three minds on the issue.2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/MapPorn
George Carlin and Richard Pryor appearing on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, 1981. Which four standups would you put on the Mount Rushmore of comedy?1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Population distribution in New York City by race/ethnicity of residents, circa 2015.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/MapPorn
David McCallum and Robert Vaughan in The Man from U.N.C.L.E., circa 1964. McCallum died this week at age 90.7mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Director Terry Gilliam and star Robin Williams on the set of The Fisher King, 1991. If you haven't seen this sad and funny movie about a man driven mad by grief, do yourself a favor and watch it.5mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Calvert DeForest as Larry Bud Melman as Roy Orbison, 1987. David Letterman's NBC Late Night show had a looseness and anything could happen quality that didn't make it to CBS.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Director Ron Howard with the cast of his movie Cocoon, about old people rejuvinated by alien pods,1984. Cocoon was a big hit, but is not widely available due to music rights. Wilford Brimley, far left, was 49 during filming of his senior citizen role.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Former Monkee Mike Nesmith with Harry Dean Stanton on the set of Repo Man. Nesmith was the Executive Producer of the 1984 indie film.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Italian/French explorer Pierre de Brazza, 1852-1905. Noted for the, at the time, rare humanity with which he treated Africans. In his honor, the Republic of Congo kept Brazzaville as its capital's name after gaining independence. [500 X 692]3yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Deee-Lite, 1990. The chills that you spill up my back keep me filled with satisfaction when we're done; satisfaction of what's to come. I couldn't ask for another.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart lead a group of Hollywood figures who flew to Washington, D.C. in 1947 to protest the House Un-American Activities Committee and the emerging blacklist. [1600 x 901]2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Donna Douglas learns that her cosmetic surgery failed, and that she's doomed to live as a hideous freak, in the Twilight Zone episode Eye of the Beholder, 1960.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
When you were sick and home from school in the 1970s, one of your TV options was the proto-Zoom meeting known as the Hollywood Squares.3yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
22 college students cram into a telephone booth, 1959. How young people had fun with their phones before the internet. [1500 x 1556]9mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Reba McEntire and Michael Gross protect what's theirs, 1990.6mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Al St. John, 1918. Once his deadpan persona became established, Keaton avoided smiling in front of a camera.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Fans of the ultimate cult classic, 1975's The Rocky Horror Picture Show.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Georgia State Sen. Jimmy Carter hugs his wife Rosalynn, 1966. The couple has been married for 75 years. According to family lore, the two met the week she was born in 1927. His mother was a midwife who helped deliver her. [1440 x 1080]2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini. The inventor of Sherlock Holmes and the escape artist became friends in 1920. A rift developed between them because the credulous Doyle believed in supernatural phenomena that Houdini knew to be clever trickery. [3144 x 4565]3mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Robin Williams in The Fisher King, 1991. An astonishing, heartbreaking performance by a man whose life brought so much joy, and whose death caused so much sorrow.2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
1977 Amy Irving, Carrie Fisher, and Teri Garr raise the bar on old school cool.3mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
The Petersons and the Rumsfields extend a friendly welcome to the newest family on the cul-de-sac in The 'Burbs, 1989.2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
From his sexy club shows in the 1970s to his too early death in 2016, was there ever a performer with as much style, talent, and stage presence as Prince?2mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, John Cleese, and Michael Palin early in the run of Monty Python. Circa 1969. Notwithstanding his smile, Cleese is generally reckoned the grumpiest member of the group.11mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite, circa 1969. As the most prominent figure in broadcast news at a time of only three networks, Cronkite was known as the most trusted man in America. He wielded influence on issues such as the Space Race and the Vietnam War.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
The Temptations, The Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Martha & the Vandellas, and The Supremes at EMI Records in March 1965, for the UK launch of the Tamla-Motown label.2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Louis Armstrong with neighborhood kids on the steps of his house in Corona, Queens, 1970. [1070 x 776]2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
David Kalakaua, King of Hawaii from 1874 to 1891. During his reign, his nation prospered, but prominent American residents started the process that climaxed in the 1893 coup d'etat, ending Hawaiian sovereignty in favor of a United States takeover.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Waltz King Johann Strauss, Jr. with composer Johannes Brahms, 1894. Strauss autographed the picture for Boston art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner, sketching in the opening bars of his Blue Danube Waltz. [800 x 1005]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
For those who've seen enough Jennifer Connelly in the 1990s, here's Billy Connolly in the 1990s.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Harpo Marx and Amelia Earhart on the set of Horse Feathers, 1932.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Legendary voice artist June Foray, circa 1995, with some of the cartoon characters to whom she gave voice during her long career.3yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Oddly specific allegorical tableau in support of the Spanish-American War, 1898. Grizzled Confederate and Union veterans reconcile to liberate Cuba, represented as a blonde girl. [959 x 1389]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Military hero of Italian unification Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1866. Earlier, as a political exile in South America, he fought guerrilla wars in Brazil and Uruguay. [1280 x 1665]1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Ricardo Montalban as Khan Noonien Singh, original recipe, 1967, and big screen version, 1982.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
“Sugar-enriched flour, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, polysorbate 60, and Yellow Dye No. 5. Just everything a growing boy needs.” - Sgt. Al Powell, LAPD, 1988.2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Jim Carrey, Jeff Goldblum, and Damon Wayans examine Geena Davis in an attempt to learn whether Earth Girls Are Easy, 1988.3yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Danny DeVito and Michael Douglas, 1985. The two have been friends since 1968, when they roomed together as young actors in New York.2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Jimi Hendrix's grandparents Ross and Zenora Hendrix, circa 1910.2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Weird Al, with Fran Drescher, in his 1989 movie UHF. For those who aren't yet getting mail from AARP, low-budget Ultra High Frequency television stations used to feature local wannabe performers, and show things the networks didn't want, such as Mexican wrestling.2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
The generic cop show T.J. Hooker ran from 1982 to 1986. Pictured: Heather Locklear, Adrian Zmed, William Shatner's toupee, William Shatner.2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Ava Gardner and Mickey Rooney as newlyweds, 1942. It didn't last.2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Jack Soupy Shapiro, middle, at 5' 1 the shortest player in NFL history. In 1929, he played as a blocking back for the Staten Island Stapletons. Yes, Staten Island had an NFL franchise back then.5mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Julia Louis-Dreyfus thinking that she may have chosen a somewhat too sexy look for the 1995 Emmys.2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Motown Records founder Berry Gordy with the Supremes at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, 1967 [1077 x 860]5mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Actor/writer Rance Howard with his sons Clint and Ron, circa 1970.2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
You're building a football team of presidents in their physical primes. Who is your top draft pick? Bonus points for a convincing argument for someone other than Ford.5mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/Presidents
Pony Express riders Billy Richardson, Johnny Fry, Charles Cliff, and Gus Cliff. The service carried mail on horseback between Missouri and California. It operated only from April 1860 until October 1861. [1280 x 1987]2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
SCTV's Monster Chiller Horror Theater, 1982. Andrea Martin, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Martin Short, and Eugene Levy.2yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
John Candy and Bill Murray on the set of the 1981 movie Stripes.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Prolific character actor Bruce McGill in 1978's Animal House and more recently. Adds value to every project in which he appears, from My Cousin Vinny, to Spielberg's Lincoln, to the other 165 roles he has played.1yr ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
The Johnson treatment. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson goes all-in to persuade Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Theodore F. Green (D-R.I.), 1957.2mo ⋅ L0st_in_the_Stars ⋅ r/Presidents
