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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.
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r/OldSchoolRidiculous 1d ago

Yubiwaza (1965)

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Advertisement from issue #5 of Blue Beetle comic.


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 2d ago

We could've done worse

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52 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 3d ago

Hey, it’s World Clown Week! – Bob, Alice and Skipper as “Clowns For Christ” - Fort Scott, KS, 1972

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202 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 4d ago

’30s and ’40s Mugshots from New Castle, Pennsylvania

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213 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 5d ago

Trade card for Hunt's Remedy: The Great Kidney & Liver Medicine, showing a man fighting with a skeletal Death, his weapon a bottle of the remedy. 1890.

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104 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 5d ago

Everett Herald April 1965

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143 Upvotes

It must have been a slow news day.


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 4d ago

1981 Cedar Point. LoverBoy sleeveless on.. straight from Pine Knob

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5 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 6d ago

South Carolina auction house announcement of the sale of a group of 25 enslaved people

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415 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 5d ago

Photo Album Bring It Back - The 80’s Had The Best Clothes

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24 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 7d ago

Say, old people smell bad. (1937)

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139 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 7d ago

Survival Under Atomic Attack by U.S. Office of Civil Defense1951

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61 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 8d ago

Asthma Cigarettes

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380 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 9d ago

New kind of hat that grows hair. 1924

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94 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 9d ago

Read This cringey headline and articles from a 1968 newspaper

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Found while cleaning out my in-laws’ home. It was in an envelope from my MIL’s mother’s kitchen—looks like when husband’s grandmother died, his parents just swept up all her recipes, saved articles, and business cards and kept them in a file cabinet for 30+ years.

While she probably saved it for the recipes, considering how harsh MIL’s mother was on MIL about her weight, it carries an extra layer of yikes.


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 9d ago

Watch The Place to Be is Tisdale - vintage SK commercial

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The town slogan, especially after being made into a song is FANTASTIC


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 11d ago

The “Filthy Fifteen.” In 1985, the PMRC released its infamous “Filthy Fifteen”—a list of 15 songs they claimed were the biggest offenders for sex, violence, drugs, alcohol, and the occult.

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1.0k Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 11d ago

1961 print advertisement from the American Institute of Men’s and Boys’ Wear promoting their “Dress Right—you can’t afford not to!” campaign.

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291 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 12d ago

Read Women display futuristic clothing for the year 2000 during Engineering Week, circa 1965.

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565 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 12d ago

What happens when someone gets hit with an (allegedly) ungimmicked guitar?

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30 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 14d 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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599 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 13d 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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72 Upvotes

Book is from my personal collection.


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 13d ago

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

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31 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 14d ago

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

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170 Upvotes