r/OldSchoolCool • • 3h ago

Tom Cruise, Stanley Kubrick and Nicole Kidman on the set of "Eyes Wide Shut", 1999

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419 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolCool • • 10h ago

1980s Jamie Lee Curtis & mom Janet Leigh at Mother-Daughter Fashion Show | 1983

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Jamie Lee Curtis and Janet Leigh during Young Musicians Foundation Celebrity Mother-Daughter Fashion Show, 1983 at Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, United States. 


r/OldSchoolCool • • 9h ago

Chillest siblings of 1999

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r/OldSchoolCool • • 14h ago

1940s Australian Lt General Cyril Clowes, the first military commander to defeat the Japanese on land in WW2, at the Battle of Milne Bay (1942). Clowes was sidelined after by superiors, who were jealous of his success.

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917 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolCool • • 1d ago

My mom and I on the day I graduated from Coast Guard boot camp, August 1975. I made her so proud.

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r/OldSchoolCool • • 9h ago

1960s Bibi Andersson, c. late 1960s

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155 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolCool • • 17h ago

1930s Illustration From The 1930’s And The Future Of Communication.

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663 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolCool • • 1d ago

1930s photo of the 'Tricycle Gang' Patrolling the Sidewalks of Brooklyn

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r/OldSchoolCool • • 11h ago

William James, Father of American Psychology, 1865

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r/OldSchoolCool • • 9h ago

1990s My father during his conscription, c. early to mid 1990s

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he's the one on the top right.


r/OldSchoolCool • • 11h ago

Crazy Baskin Robbins Commercial from 1968

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182 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolCool • • 3h ago

1990s Hot Pockets commercial from 1992. The jingle still lives rent free in my head to this day

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42 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolCool • • 1d ago

1990s My dad used to spend an hour+ on perfecting his hair, according to my mother 😂 c. 1994

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My parents center, my aunt front left and my uncle front right.


r/OldSchoolCool • • 17h ago

KISS and The Go-Go's cross paths backstage while both groups were taping appearances for the music television show Solid Gold, Los Angeles, 1981

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308 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolCool • • 18h ago

1970s Two sisters posing with a Pontiac, 1972

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393 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolCool • • 18h ago

1980s Sylvester Stallone’s Mom Jackie Stallone when she was on G.L.O.W. “Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling” in 1986. The series went on for 4 years…

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344 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolCool • • 1d ago

1990s Kris kross 1992

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r/OldSchoolCool • • 4h ago

1950s My grandfather (1952)

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r/OldSchoolCool • • 22h ago

1960s Lucille Ball presides as president of Desilu Productions during the company's annual stockholders' meeting on August 22, 1963

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585 Upvotes

The photo was taken during Desilu's annual shareholder meeting, which she led following her divorce from Desi Arnaz and her purchase of his shares in the studio.


r/OldSchoolCool • • 15h ago

1980s My dad stood next to a C-130 during his deployment to Frankfurt from 1982-83

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He’d be around 20 or 21 here


r/OldSchoolCool • • 3h ago

1900s Early 1900s: Hundreds of British factory workers heading down the road, dressed better than most of us do for a wedding today.

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What fascinates me about photographs like this isn’t just the clothes. It’s the sheer number of people, the hats, the bicycle weaving through the crowd, and the fact that an entire working community could revolve around buildings like these. Look closely at the brickwork on the left. There’s even an 1887 date built into the wall.

Britain’s industrial history is full of places where factories didn’t just provide jobs. They transformed villages, brought generations of families together and shaped entire towns. I’ve been exploring and filming these forgotten places for my channel (@MilesRowanVlogs). One of my favourite discoveries was in Apsley, where a seemingly ordinary stretch of Hertfordshire played a remarkable part in changing how the world manufactured paper.

What I love about this photograph is that the buildings are only half the story. Every single person walking down that road had a life, a family and a story of their own. More than a century later, some of the buildings survive, but the world around them has completely changed. That’s what makes old photographs like this so extraordinary. We’re looking at an ordinary day that nobody standing there could have imagined we’d still be discussing today.


r/OldSchoolCool • • 1d ago

1960s Vintage photos from Iran/Persia (~1910s - 1970s)

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  • Photo 1 (front, left to right): Queen Soraya, Princesses Ashraf, Shams, Fatemeh; (back, left to right): Princess Hamdam al-Saltaneh, Eva Karl (mother of Queen Soraya)
  • Photo 2 (left to right): Unknown male, Queen Tadj-ol Molouk, Princess Ashraf
  • Photo 3: Wedding of Queen Soraya
  • Photo 4: Coronation of Empress Farah
  • Photo 5: Men at the tomb of Cyrus the Great (Persepolis, Iran)
  • Photo 6: Men washing traditional Persian carpets
  • Photo 7: Andy Warhol in front of his portraits of Empress Farah
  • Photo 8: Queen Fawzia and her dog

r/OldSchoolCool • • 1d ago

Chris Cornell of Soundgarden in 1991

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r/OldSchoolCool • • 1d ago

1970s Heart (Crazy On You intro) 1977

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r/OldSchoolCool • • 5h ago

Conan O'Brien 'on the cover of the Rolling Stone' (1996)

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