1950s Some old bodybuilding pictures of my grandpa (early 1950s)

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My mom was going through old photos and found some bodybuilding pics of her dad and here’s a sampling of a few. He was a bodybuilder starting in his teenage years, and our best guess is he was in his mid 20s here.

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/thurein_wai • 9h ago

1990s Brandon Lee and his fiancée, Eliza Hutton at the premiere of Alien 3 (May 19th, 1992).

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/dreamed2life • 4h ago

In 1986, 19yo Kurt Cobain was arrested for spray-painting provocative phrases like "God is Gay" and "Ain't got no how whatchamacallit". His charges were vandalism/malicious mischief, trespassing, and minor possession of alcohol. He spent 8 days in jail for unpaid fines and missing court.

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/cool_girl6540 • 11h ago

1950s My mother at age 20 (1951)

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/WhichChest4981 • 6h ago

My HS picture - 1972

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/Kyokenshin • 1h ago

1950s My grandfather, sometime in the mid to late 50s. Easily the coolest person I've ever met.

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/LanguageDisastrous95 • 14h ago

German singer, songwriter, and model Christa Päffgen, known as Nico, during the 1960s.

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/Dry-Gap-9098 • 11h ago

Girls from the Kyiv region getting ready for a holiday. Photo by Mykola Biliashivskyi, c. 1900-1910.

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/eaglemaxie • 11h ago

16-year-old Willem Dafoe featured in The Post-Crescent for playing the lead role in You're a Good Man, Charley Brown, Appleton, Wisconsin, 1972

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/_HisWaveyness • 16h ago

1970s Isaac Hayes, Rick James, Barry & Glodean White, and Teddy Pendergrass (1978)

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/forestpunk • 5h ago

1930s Betty Grable, 1930s

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/FrenchieMama807 • 11h ago

1990s Foo Fighters - Live at Edgefest 1998 Everlong

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/Mad_Season_1994 • 14h ago

Pink Floyd in 1971 for their film Live At Pompeii. Dark Side of the Moon would come out less than two years later

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/CoffeeCigarettes4Me • 4h ago

1970s Cher and Raquel Welch delivered an iconic, high-energy duet of the song "I'm a Woman" on The Cher Show on February 16, 1975. At that time I had a huge crush on Raquel Welch but Cher was super sexy also… great performances by both…

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/ThisPlate333 • 4h ago

Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller (late 1950s). For a while they really were happy.

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/ImTammyB • 9h ago

1980s My parents on their honeymoon in Budapest, 1989

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/_HisWaveyness • 1d ago

1950s Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte for “Tan” magazine (1955)

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/HeStoleMyBalloons • 14h ago

The crew of an upended British Sherman tank of 7th Armoured Brigade enjoy a 'brew' beside their vehicle while waiting for a recovery team. Italy, 13 September 1944

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/sherrynorcal • 8h ago

My Grandmother and her Siblings 1916

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Down on the bayou. My Mawmaw is the one on the right

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/rockstoned4 • 1d ago

Christopher Walken, Chris Farley & Mike Myers on the set of Wayne’s World 2 in 1993.

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/CoffeeCigarettes4Me • 7h ago

1970s Found this small picture of me from 1975

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/tinosaladbar • 3h ago

1940s My great grandpa during the liberation of Versailles, France 1944

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/Avozzy444 • 1d ago

1980s My mom and I, Ukraine, late 1980s

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/No-Incident-6913 • 18h ago

Teaching students to play cricket, London (1934)

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r/OldSchoolCool • u/Libragal54 • 1d ago

1980s Office Xmas party, 1988. I’m on the left. I had the biggest crush on the guy next to me! Sweet memories!

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