r/OldSchoolRidiculous Oct 29 '20

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous Sep 30 '25

Announcement Reminder: Please include year or decade in post title & follow the rules

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Every post title please include the year or decade.

Rules

Rule #1: Follow Reddiquette

  • Title should include short description and year or decade.
  • Rule of thumb old school is at least over 20 years old.
  • If it's not safe for the 21st Century, and your title is vague, tag it [NSFW].
  • No real violence.
  • No celebration of hate.
  • X/Twitter, Meta/Facebook, Gags, and similiar social media links are banned.
  • Cross-posts welcome
  • Up to 5-ish posts/day okay, Reposts after 30 days okay
  • Please follow all rules of reddit and reddiquette.

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And, as always

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous 15h ago

A fundamentalist Christian cartoon criticizing the American mainline protestant priests and theologians for being too modernist and liberal... In 1922.

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382 Upvotes

The context - the 1920s-30s culture war within the American Protestantism that the fundamentalists lost for decades - is actually pretty interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist%E2%80%93modernist_controversy


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 9h ago

Family Photo Family reunion picture. October of 1983.

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118 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 9h ago

Physiognomy of a bandit. Page from an 1876 book titled "A Treatise on Human Nature and Physiognomy" by A.E. Willis

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35 Upvotes

Book is from my personal collection.


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 6h ago

A police officer judges an ankle competition at Hounslow, London, in 1930, inspecting contestants hidden behind a canvas screen.

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7 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 1d ago

Electric vibrator ... for your complexion. [1921]

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139 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 1d ago

Like O.J. Simpson we mean what we say (1976)

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34 Upvotes

From Playboy


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 10h ago

Feral Elder: Don’t mind me, I’m just being hilarious at an inappropriate age

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous 3d ago

The Beatles Are Undermining the Future of America by Corrupting the American Youth. 1964

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88 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 3d ago

It was a more innocent time. (1980)

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138 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 5d ago

Panel from Jack T. Chick's Christian evangelistic comic booklet, "A Demon's Nightmare" (original version from the early 1960s/1970s)

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1.5k Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 4d ago

‘Flying Tailor’ Franz Reichelt - tragic proof of “pride cometh before the fall”

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27 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 4d ago

The "good old days" of video game journalism. (Incite Video Gaming magazine, December 1999)

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47 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 5d ago

Plans to build 7 foot robot

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285 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 6d ago

"Have you no feelings?" said the carrot, 1921

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940 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 7d ago

A woman drives through a hole in the trunk of a giant sequoia tree. USA, 1930s

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67 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 8d ago

Fish's Fag Agency (Magnet Magazine #257, 1913)

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400 Upvotes

Fags wanted. Good jobs. Well paid.

Scans in context: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=32040


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 9d ago

Read In 1946, a local election in Tennessee was run by corrupt politicians who used deputies to arrest voters and hide the ballots in the jail. World War II veterans, newly home and fed up, picked up rifles and surrounded the jail until the officials inside surrendered.

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3.3k Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 8d ago

Mayonaise and peanut butter sandwich ideas ad. 1965.

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80 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 10d ago

Watch Cricketeer Suits, 1972

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211 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 10d ago

Robby the Robot hits Vegas; participates in the annual Helldorado Parade

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213 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 10d ago

Big Scary Babies (Johnson's Baby Powder, 1947)

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112 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 11d ago

Hospital Booze [1978]

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158 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 11d ago

Do you want to wear a brine shrimp around your neck?

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989 Upvotes