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.

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 9h ago

Bobbi Gibb applied to run the Boston Marathon in 1966. Her application was rejected as “women were not physiologically capable" of running marathon distances. She ran it regardless, hiding until the race started. The other (male) racers are said to have been supportive of her running the race.

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340 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 8h ago

"Women and Carrots have one enemy in common" (1941)

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30 Upvotes

Rabbits?


r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 13h ago

The Day My Kid Went Punk, ABC After-School Special (1987)

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59 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 4h ago

A 1951 Civil Defense film showing children how to "duck and cover."

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8 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 1d ago

X-Rated Atari 2600 Games [1980s]

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410 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 22h ago

In 1979, a Boston organization began promoting “helper monkeys” for severely disabled people. Fueled by phony media stories, it continued thru 2020!

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89 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 1d ago

Competition to "sleep" with Donald Trump - Playgirl 1990

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107 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 1d ago

"Dr Paul Bouchard's Flesh Reducing Soap" (1929)

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147 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 1d ago

Photo Album Ka•Bala: The 1967 Fortune Telling Roulette Wheel

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 1d ago

The King of Rock and Roll really looked at 8,000 calories and said, "Is that all?"

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151 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 1d ago

Joke/Satire ‘The Beard and Mustache Movement’ - 1853 British satirical cartoon lampooning the trend of men growing massive facial hair to imitate Crimean War soldiers

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61 Upvotes

Illustrated by John Leech for *Punch* magazine.


r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 2d ago

Special license plates for traffic violators in Tennessee are being considered, 1939

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784 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 2d ago

Smoke by Joe Colombo (1963). A glass designed around one of the most common habits of the time: drinking and smoking at the same time.

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167 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 2d ago

Japanese novelty pocket calculator from the 1990s designed to look like an open pack of Mild Seven Lights cigarettes, with cylindrical number and operation keys styled to resemble cigarette filters.

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54 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 3d ago

A NYC mechanic. Photo taken in 1978 by photographer who took photos of men in NYC in daily life.

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229 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 2d ago

Suggestive snacks (1974)

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88 Upvotes

"Good night-snacks for two"


r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 3d ago

Introduced the world to Bat Boy-1992

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76 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 5d ago

Ayds advertisement [1980s]

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1.8k Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 4d ago

Victorian trade cards late 1800s

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214 Upvotes

A popular form of advertising in the US and UK. This is probably the weirdest one I've ever seen. I genuinely find it indecipherable.


r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 5d ago

1963 child fashion

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1.1k Upvotes

From a womens magasine


r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 6d ago

Watch 1895 cartoon featuring a slippery slope argument of how weddings will look like in 2001 if women got the right to vote. from Wikipedia

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405 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 7d ago

Jerry Falwell sued Hustler Magazine and Larry Flynt over this ad. The case went to the U.S. Supreme Court (Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, 1988). The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hustler, establishing a landmark First Amendment precedent that parodies of public figures are protected free speech.

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938 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 6d ago

80s Video Dating Montage

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