When I was young I knew a lot more than today
"Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn on location in Africa for the filming of The African Queen, 1951." Photo by Eliot Elisofon for Time/Life magazine
Posted 30th Apr 2026r/OldSchoolCool
Scene during Court Martial of 64 members of the 24th Infantry United States of America on trial for mutiny and murder of 17 people at Houston, Texas August 23, 1917. [3000x2010]
Posted 30th Apr 2026r/HistoryPorn
A Consolidated PBY Catalina in Dutch Navy colors flying at the Royal Netherlands Air Force Days June 11, 2016 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. Credit to Micha Klootwijk
Posted 29th Apr 2026r/WWIIplanes
Former Screen Actors Guild (SAG) presidents outside their new headquarters at at 7065 Hollywood Blvd in Los angles 1986. Front row, left to right: Ed Asner, William Schallert, Dennis Weaver. Back row: Leon Ames, Dana Andrews, Charlton Heston.
Posted 29th Apr 2026r/OldSchoolCool
Crispus Attucks High Schooler and future NBA Hall of Fame inductee Oscar Robertson at the State Finals, Butler Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana 1955. This is the same venue where the movie "Hoosiers" was filmed.
Posted 28th Apr 2026r/OldSchoolCool
An auto mechanics class working outdoors at the Atlanta School of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. Photo taken by W. M. White on April 27, 1919. Can anyone explain the manner of dress of the students? Is this some sort of reserve training for the Army maybe?
Posted 28th Apr 2026r/TheWayWeWere
Post hippie but pre Disco teenager. Photo taken by American photographer Harold Gee San Diego in around 1971 to 1975. Second image she is with friends
Posted 27th Apr 2026r/TheWayWeWere
Bea Dixon as photographed by Lora Webb Nichols in Encampment Wyoming, 1929.
Posted 26th Apr 2026r/TheWayWeWere
A 1965 Ford Mustang as featured in the March 8, 1965 edition of Life Magazine
Posted 25th Apr 2026r/vintageads
"Dang me, dang me. They oughta take a rope and hang me. High from the highest tree. Woman, would you weep for me?" April 26, 1965: Roger Miller and a friend. Photo by Ralph Crane for Life Magazine, color by mm81
Posted 25th Apr 2026r/OldSchoolCool
Someones dad in the 1970s. What's playing on the 8-track?
Posted 23rd Apr 2026r/70s
Sharp looking lady with beautiful hair posing by her car circa 1940. Can anyone ID the car? A found and restored photo from Steve Given.
Posted 22nd Apr 2026r/TheWayWeWere
Instructor and students at Meacham Field in Fort Worth, Texas, in January 1942. Original color (Kodachrome)
Posted 16th Apr 2026r/wwiipics
A Curtiss SBC-3 of Scouting Squadron Six (VS-6) from USS Enterprise (CV-6) Flies low past the USS Mustin (DD-413), during exercises on 26 May 1940. A number of SBC-3 were still in service in December 1943, they were all withdrawn by October 1944.
Posted 14th Apr 2026r/WWIIplanes
A little off topic but apparently Rob Reiner was a Brewer fan? Here with actor John Cusack on the set of The Sure Thing, 1985
Posted 10th Apr 2026r/Brewers
Los Angles barber shop owned by Ernest O. Christie circa 1910s.
Posted 10th Apr 2026r/TheWayWeWere
The time when a Burlesque dancer known as Lady Godiva, rode her horse, Melody, to court following an arrest for a "lewd performance" at a fraternal stag party circa 1951. I do not know if she performed on stage with the horse which would have been cool!
Posted 8th Apr 2026r/OldSchoolCool
"This "top-kick" strikes a pose beside a captured German 75mm SdKfz 233 (8 Rad)...a US white star has already been applied. Note the M-1918 trench-knife conveniently slotted in behind his .45 auto in its russet leather M1916 holster. Tunisia, 1943." Photo by Eliot Elisofon for Life magazine
Posted 2nd Apr 2026r/wwiipics
Debbie Harry the band Blondie, posing next to a 1954 Buick at a gas station in New Jersey. This photograph was taken in March 1978 by Bob Gruen
Posted 1st Apr 2026r/OldSchoolCool
The Comper Swift was a British small sport airplane made from 1930 to 1933 with a total of 45 manufactured per the wiki entry.
Posted 29th Mar 2026r/WeirdWings
The intersection of King Street and Yonge Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, filled with pedestrians and traffic in September 1961.
Posted 27th Mar 2026r/TheWayWeWere
A young lad with his stick pony in the mid 1950s. (Unknown location)
Posted 21st Mar 2026r/TheWayWeWere
A B-25 over Korea July 1954
Posted 21st Mar 2026r/WWIIplanes
This man just hit the bullseye. A camera automatically takes a picture when someone performs this feat. Location is the Rockaway Playland Shooting Gallery sometime in the early 1950s. I wonder if he was an infantry man in WW2.
Posted 17th Mar 2026r/TheWayWeWere
"A Bristol Beaufighter from 404 Squadron in June 1944, bearing the distinctive D-Day striped markings that distinguished friend from foe. 404 Squadron was a Coastal Command squadron."
Posted 14th Mar 2026r/WWIIplanes
A Heinkel HE-111 Beach landing at Dueodde on Bornholm Island April 21, 1940
Posted 10th Mar 2026r/WWIIplanes
Aerial golf, for the rich only. Late 1920s near Washington DC.
Posted 10th Mar 2026r/OldSchoolRidiculous
Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad are gathered around a mixing console with their sound engineer, Michael B. Tretow. 1978
Posted 9th Mar 2026r/OldSchoolCool
Melvin & Helen, January 5, 1930.
Posted 7th Mar 2026r/TheWayWeWere
North St., Cazenovia, Wis circa 1900. Located on the Little Baraboo river this town still has the old school charm of a small town in SE Wisconsin.
Toasting marshmallows after the meal. Location is in some county park in WI. I'm on the left next to my sister with our two cousins. Jim on the end there is blowing out the flame on his as was the case for all of us at one time or another. Photo taken in the summer of 1958.
Posted 6th Mar 2026r/TheWayWeWere
A class in aircraft identification held for the Air Service Command at Daniel Field in Augusta, Georgia, July 1943. Photo by Jack Delano.
Posted 6th Mar 2026r/wwiipics
Christa McAuliffe, the “Teacher in Space”, donning her Launch Entry Helmet during training circa 1986. [1600x2460]
Posted 5th Mar 2026r/HistoryPorn
Behind the scenes of Rebel Without a Cause with Natalie Wood and James Dean, 1955
Posted 3rd Mar 2026r/OldSchoolCool
My mother, holding the package, and her sister in-law walking down Mitchell Street after leaving Goldman's department store circa 1949. Location is the Milwaukee southside.
Posted 1st Mar 2026r/TheWayWeWere
Ridgid Calendar 1950s
Posted 28th Feb 2026r/vintagepinup
Bristol Beaufort Mk.I. "First flown in the Fall of 1938, some teething problems, mainly with overheating engines, were eventually overcome and the type entered service just a couple of months after the start of the war. Circa 1800 of them, 700 of which produced by the Aussies, followed."
Posted 27th Feb 2026r/WWIIplanes
Married for 40 years, so a few photos of the wedding day prep and one after.
Posted 22nd Feb 2026r/TheWayWeWere
A group of R.C.A.M.C. Nursing Sisters in a tent. Caen, France, 4 August 1944.
Posted 22nd Feb 2026r/wwiipics
Jackpine Resort somewhere in the north woods of Wisconsin. Some intense Scrabble play going on here. Dad on the left and sister pulling on her ear. I am the one drinking the Pepsi. Don't know who the Miller High Life belongs to but probably Mom who is taking the photo.
Posted 21st Feb 2026r/TheWayWeWere
"Sam Kirk Chemist and Druggist". Taken during the Yukon gold rush circa 1898 Photo by Eric Hegg
Posted 15th Feb 2026r/TheWayWeWere
"Prof. Leslie Jones at the unique camera picturing Ross Williams, Ernest Hill, Maynard White, Paul Werner. Milk bottle lens." December 1929 (not November?)
Posted 14th Feb 2026r/TheWayWeWere
A fashion show runway event in New York City in 1957. Photos by Esther Bubley
I'm looking a little apprehensive as my aunt lifted me up to the running board of my dads dump truck. Smiley sister looking on. 1955
Posted 8th Feb 2026r/TheWayWeWere
Christmas Eve 1957 at the grandparents. L-R Grandpa, my dad, me in the bow tie, sister with her teddy bear and my Mom who just turned 100 this past November.
Posted 5th Feb 2026r/TheWayWeWere
Christmas 1957. My sister is wearing her church Xmas play outfit and I have my official Wyatt Earp outfit with two six guns in the gun belt.
Posted 4th Feb 2026r/TheWayWeWere
From a Milwaukee Road brochure 1952. The Super Dome cars were first used on the Olympia Hiawatha route.
Posted 3rd Feb 2026r/vintageads
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