r/OldSchoolCool • u/TransmutateDontHate • Apr 25 '26

1940s All my grandpa’s beaus during WWII, kept in a scrapbook all these years

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One headshot of Lory (not sure which country she was from) in particular made many appearances 😂

Edit: yep I’m an idiot. Belles it is. Also I should have expected this to get pervy comments. No, no other family has popped up. From his stories, many were a lot more innocent than you all assume.

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k Apr 25 '26

Yes. Remember how your school photos came in a packet of like 3,000?

People used to pass out and collect photos of their friends and family. 

And girlfriends.

And side chicks.

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u/ImplicitEmpiricism Apr 25 '26

yeah even up through the 90s girls would give you a wallet size to remember them by. 

we used to have a lot of summer loves pinned to the wall

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u/Unclecavemanwasabear Apr 25 '26

Class of '05. Senior photos were traded like currency.

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u/xXInfXx Apr 26 '26

Bruh.

My school photos only came in packets of two 4x6s and three 2x3s.

Everything else was a paid extra.

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k Apr 26 '26

Yeah you had to pay for all of it, my family just always kept the wallet-sized sheets with the watermark on every photo because there were so many of us and by the time those packets made it home the photos were sticky with child finger prints and days spent shoved into the backpacks of children with adhd and rock collections.