Whether we like it or not, most of us will become our parents one way or another – from something as small as the way they laugh or maybe something as profound as the same career path. Some of us crumble at the notion that we could share similarities with our less hip parents – but for the kids of the parents in these vintage photos, the levels of cool exuding from their older generation are something they can only hope to aspire to.
Bored Panda presents a new photo list of times kids came across old photos of their parents only to realize their parents were cooler than them. So scroll down below to check out some old-school photo treasures and upvote your favs. Maybe it will inspire you to ask your own cool parents to show you what they were like when they were young!
#1 My Favorite Picture Of My Mom. She Was The Only Girl In Her Welding Class In 1984. Byrd High School, Shreveport, Louisiana
Image source: lizzyhaze
#2 My Mom Flew Helicopters For The Army In The 80s
Image source: completedesaster
#3 My Mother Doing A Handstand On Two Skateboards (Circa 1980’s)
Image source: Nirokie
#4 My Dad (Front) In Vietnam In 1971. He Didn’t Know This Photo Existed Until I Came Across It Randomly On The Internet. He Cried When He Saw It
Image source: strawberrygnome
#5 My Dad At His First Job At Nasa!
Image source: sonokoroxs
#6 Chuck Norris Pinned By My Dad
Image source: LanaDelRayquaza
#7 My Dad And His Veterinarian Mother, With Their Pet Lion Which They Raised For Two Years, 1959
Image source: ryanb99
#8 My Dad Diving Off The Starboard Fin Of A Submarine And Into The Pacific Ocean In The Summer Of 1983
Image source: MightyCornDog
#9 My Mom Holding Myself Whilst Writing Her Master Thesis On The Macintosh Classic II (1991)
Image source: FrenchFriesGate
#10 My Friends Parents Are Celebrating Their 47th Anniversary This Week. Here’s Them Being Badasses In The 70’s
Image source: DoubleM515
#11 My Mom Was A Homicide Detective In The 80s
Image source: gymbez
#12 My Mom, Age 15, Smoking At An Allman Brothers Concert With A Broken Arm. Watkins Glen ’73
Image source: TheCKBandit
#13 My Parents In 1972 In Front Of Their Store In Paris
Image source: RobinThomass
#14 1969 Vietnam: My Father’s Version Of A Selfie Before Selfies Were A Thing
Image source: mastiffmum
#15 My Dad A Zoo Keeper In 1992
He was the only one at the time who could call the rhinos by name and they would come running like dogs. They enjoy a scratch behind the ear like dogs too.
Image source: 8_Bit_Zombies
#16 My Father Who Shipped His Bike Over To England And Rode All Over Europe On It – 1973
Image source: lionhearted828
#17 My Mom In The Police Academy, 1984
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#18 My Mom As A Red Cross Volunteer In WWII. She Had Her Own Radio Show In The Pacific Theater To Counteract Tokyo Rose. 1944
Image source: Saved_by_punctuation
#19 My Dad’s Graduation Photo. Circa 1970’s
Image source: Mr_Goldfish0
#20 My Pregnant Mom At Gunpoint Trying To Get Home – May 1969 Berkeley
Image source: Leo_nardo
#21 Mom Spinning Records At Kwkh, Shreveport – 1977
Image source: JonSmith12345
#22 Pretty Rad Picture Of My Dad When He Was 22, In Texas, Taken In 1987. That Ghettoblaster Is Epic
Image source: peter_nincompoop33
#23 My Mom Fled Saigon In 1975. By The 90s, She Had Joined The US Air Force
Image source: cryptolingo
#24 One Of My Favorite Photos Of My Parents In The Late 70s
Image source: manderly808
#25 My Hilarious Father (With The Magazine) And My Grandfather, Grandmother, And Uncle At His Bar Mitzvah In 1972
Image source: JasonPlatz
#26 My Father Halfway Through Motorcycling Across Africa – 1980s
Image source: civil55
#27 My Dad Taking A Smoking Break While Fighting Saddam Husseins Army In The 80s
Image source: iAmReginaPhalange
#28 My Mom Said She Gave This Up When She Had Me. I’m Pretty Sure She Stopped When I Was Old Enough To Want Some (1970’s)
Image source: kingngrfgt
#29 My Dad Fishing… On A Nuclear Submarine 1966
Image source: vbisbest
#30 My Mom In The Hospital After Giving Birth To My Sister. Canada 1978. Smokes And Roasted Chicken
Image source: rookdanger
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