I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees - Emiliano Zapata (Mexico City, 1914)Aug 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #Mexico-City #Mexico-City,-1914 #1914
A member of the 369th Infantry Regiment (aka Harlem Hellfighters) holds a puppy that he saved during World War I (1918)Aug 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #1918 #369
“Life has become immeasurably better since I've stopped taking it seriously - Hunter S. ThompsonSep 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/pics
Lucille Ball twice overruled her Desilu board of directors to finance and produce Star Trek in 1964Sep 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/pics ⋅ #1964
When Einstein met Chaplin, Einstein said, “What I admire about your art is its universality. You do not say a word yet the world understands you. “It's true” replied Chaplin But your glory is even greater! The whole world admires you even though they don’t understand a word of what you say (1931)Sep 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #1931
Vicki Vickers - Female Skateboarder of the Year (1978)Jul 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #1978
Before the bitterness; Capablanca and Alekhine playing their first game together (Savorin Cup, 1913)Aug 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/chess ⋅ #Savorin-Cup #Savorin-Cup,-1913 #1913
Tom Crean, an Antarctic explorer who with Ernest Shackleton, sailed 17 days in a lifeboat through 800 miles of storm-tossed Drake Passage to save 22 men. Shackleton later recalled, He always sang when he was steering and nobody ever discovered what the song was...but somehow it was cheerful - 1915Sep 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #1915 #800 #17 #22
Before C3PO, there was Maria - Actress Brigitte Helm cools off while filming Metropolis in 1927Aug 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/pics ⋅ #1927 #3
British tattoo artist George Burchett, known as the King of Tattooists, was the most famous tattooist of his era. Among his customers were King Alfonso XIII of Spain and King Frederick IX of Denmark (Picture taken 1930)Aug 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #Picture-taken-1930
Army Air Force 332nd Fighter Group (“Tuskegee Airmen”) in a briefing room in Ramitelli, Italy 1945Jul 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/pics ⋅ #1945 #332
Debbie Harry of Blondie at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City (1978)Dec 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/pics ⋅ #1978
“I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.” — Gordon Parks (1948)Sep 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #1948
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. - Claude Monet (in his garden at Giverny, France 1905)Sep 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #in-his-garden-at-Giverny #in-his-garden-at-Giverny,-France-1905 #France-1905
Shortly after the birth of the word teenager to describe adolescents - youths were creating their own unique subculture in post-war Britain. Here is 14 year old Jean Rayner in the exploratory stage of Teddyism. They were colloquially known as Teds, Teddy Boys, and Teddy Girls. (1955)Dec 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #1955 #14
The space shuttle Endeavour and its six-member STS-134 crew head toward Earth orbit and rendezvous with the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 8:56 a.m. (EDT) on May 16, 2011, from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (Photo Credit: NASA)Dec 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/interestingasfuck ⋅ #EDT #2011 #134 #56 #39 #16 #8
“There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend” ― Bob RossAug 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/pics
Anna Coleman Ladd founded the Studio for Portrait Masks in Paris where she created prosthetic masks for soldiers whose faces were disfigured in combat (1918)Aug 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #1918
A gypsy family on their horse drawn caravan. One of the girls holds a fox in her lap. (1926)Dec 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/pics ⋅ #1926
Amelia Earhart prior to becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean - 1928Jul 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #1928
Back in 1945, they didn't just save the world from tyranny and fascism - they jumped out of exploding planes while saving the world from tyranny and fascism (The pilot of a US Navy F6F Hellcat escapes after a crash landing on the USS Lexington aircraft carrier during WWII)Aug 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #F #The-pilot-of-a-US-Navy-F6F-Hellcat-escapes-after-a-crash-landing-on-the-USS-Lexington-aircraft-carrier-during-WWII #1945 #6
Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko (aka Natalie Wood) in NYC - 1961Aug 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #aka-Natalie-Wood #1961
Actress Pat Priest, aka Marilyn Munster from TV's The Munsters, with the Munster Koach (1960s)Aug 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #1960s
Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history (1897)Jul 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #1897
A Drink in the Driveway: an unidentified Scottish expatriate dressed in a long jacket over his pajamas sits on a deckchair with a glass in one hand, a pipe in the other, and a pair of glasses perched on his forehead (Apia, Samoa, 1955)Sep 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #Samoa #Apia #Apia,-Samoa,-1955 #1955
Four years ago and days before Trump's inauguration, China nailed it. He was a giant cock after all.Dec 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/pics
If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with (Woodstock, 1969)Jul 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #Woodstock #Woodstock,-1969 #1969
With American men sent to the battlefield in WWI, women stepped up to perform their jobs - 1918Aug 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/pics ⋅ #1918
Diane patiently waits on Jack before dribbling off her Bobbie Brooks behind a shady tree [Austin, Texas - 1963]Aug 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #Austin #Austin,-Texas---1963 #Texas---1963
ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer that was Turing-complete was a 30-ton behemoth covering 1,800 sq ft, used 20,000 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, 1,500 relays, 6,000 manual switches, consumed 150 kW of electricity, and required six women programmers (c. 1940s)Sep 2020 ⋅ WhileFalseRepeat ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool ⋅ #1940 #150 #800 #500 #000 #10 #20 #30 #70 #6 #1
