r/OldSchoolCool is a subreddit with 19.7M members. The community frequently discusses worst, struggling, 1980s, hard time, and 1989, and the most common flair used is 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 1960s, and 1950s.
/r/OldSchoolCool
**History's cool kids, looking fantastic!**
A pictorial and video celebration of history's coolest kids, everything from beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers. And everything in between.
If you've found a photo, or a photo essay, of people from the past looking fantastic, here's the place to share it.
Popular Topics in r/OldSchoolCool
#1
Worst
8 posts
#2
Struggling
6 posts
#3
1980s
5 posts
#4
Hard Time
5 posts
#5
1989
4 posts
#6
Looking For A Job
4 posts
#7
People
4 posts
#8
1986
3 posts
#9
Looking For A Contact Lens
3 posts
#10
1970s
3 posts
Flair Used in r/OldSchoolCool
#1
1970s
: "Alice Cooper and friends by the pool 1975."
13 posts
#2
1980s
: "That legend in the front row…? That was Chuck. (Rural Ohio, 1989)"
9 posts
#3
1990s
: "Mum and dad in 1993"
8 posts
#4
1960s
: "British Prime Minister Harold Wilson with LBJ (1966). One of Wilson’s greatest successes was to resist all pressure from the US to enter the Vietnam War. This was not easy to say the least."
8 posts
#5
1950s
: "Jayne Mansfield, 1956"
6 posts
#6
1940s
: "Jack Nicholson as a child in the early 1940s"
4 posts
#7
1800s
: "My great-grandparents. Photo taken circa 1890 by a court photographer in Moscow."
2 posts
#8
1930s
: "The Great Lover (1931) Irene Dunne and Adolphe Menjou"
1 post
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Last updated: November 1, 2026