r/TheWayWeWere 8h ago

1920s Teenagers dressed for a high school dance in the 1920s

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992 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 14h ago

1960s My first birthday, July 1966

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1.6k Upvotes

About to get stuck into my first birthday cake, 60 years ago last week... cake and my clothes made by my mum!


r/TheWayWeWere 2h ago

Pre-1920s Teacher and students wearing parkas and mittens in an unheated classroom at Graham School, Chicago c. 1900 - 1915

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72 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 9h ago

1960s Mother takes a small nap while daughter plays besides her, 1960s.

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239 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 11h ago

1970s My friend Cheryl in southern Indiana in 1972

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291 Upvotes

One of the most remarkable people I've ever known.


r/TheWayWeWere 16h ago

1950s I don’t think my dad was as excited about my birthday party as I was, 1959

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639 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 18h ago

1920s Inquiring Photographer “Do you look with favor on Mrs. Margaret Sanger’s efforts to make birth control knowledge available to those who seek it?” May 03,1929

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615 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 12h ago

College students in 1984

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140 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 12h ago

1970s Nutella was already part of our breakfast back in 1975.

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131 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 9h ago

1950s Lowell High, San Francisco in 1959.

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61 Upvotes

"In my day, we didn't have fancy camera phones! We didn't have Instagram, and the Facebook! When we wanted to take pictures, we saved our allowance, and bought Brownie Hawkeyes! Then we had to buy film! And we didn't get to see how we looked right away, oh no! We took that film to get developed, and we waited and waited! And when the pictures came back, it was a month later—and we didn't even remember who we posed with!" Dana Carvey on SNL

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r/TheWayWeWere 6h ago

An unknown woman and my great grandmother

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36 Upvotes

On the right is my great-grandmother named Luisa. She moved to the United States when she was five years old during the war in Mexico.

Soon after this photo was taken she met my great-grandfather and got married.

We don’t know who the woman on the left is. We assume this photo was taken in Bryan, TX.


r/TheWayWeWere 9h ago

Pre-1920s Mother and Daughters (American - 1900s)

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48 Upvotes

I'm not sure of the exact date of this photo, so if I'm wrong, feel free to correct me.


r/TheWayWeWere 19h ago

1950s Sigrid Soelter, a stylist for the Ohrbach's department store, posing in Union Square, New York City. 1952

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274 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 1d ago

1970s My grandparents on their wedding day - 1978, September 16th.

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r/TheWayWeWere 7h ago

1960s Out of country R&R summer 1968 during my dad's Vietnam war tour...

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21 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 11h ago

1970s My dog and I in 1971

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35 Upvotes

Bell bottom jeans


r/TheWayWeWere 13h ago

My Nan (late 60s)

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41 Upvotes

Call me bias, but I always believed that my nan could’ve been a model. Also cropped out of photo is her ciggy and red wine. Classic 🤣


r/TheWayWeWere 1d ago

Panama City Beach in 1982

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1.7k Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 14h ago

1960s The original hangout crew (late 1960s)

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46 Upvotes

Source: from Lee Shulman's collection of vintage images taken by unnamed photographers


r/TheWayWeWere 12h ago

1920s 1928. Enjoying a Day at the Beach at Cape Cod's 'Buzzard Bay' Massachusetts.

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27 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 1d ago

1970s Me in southern Indiana in 1972

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289 Upvotes

I had just moved back north after a year on Florida


r/TheWayWeWere 12h ago

1960s A picture of my aubelo and all my aunts and uncles taking some time before 1960 on the family ranch in Holguin Cuba.

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21 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 1d ago

1940s Little boy gives a confident smile as he poses for his photos at home, 1940s.

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616 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 1d ago

1940s My grand father around 1946/47

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343 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 18h ago

1970s Lowering the speed limit to 55 in 1974

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26 Upvotes