The easiest way for us to get a glimpse into the good old days is to open up our family’s photo album. But what if we go through the images and instead of calming down our curiosity, they only fuel it? Easy. We open up the subreddit r/TheWayWeWere next.
It’s a place where folks share pictures from 50, 100, and even more years ago to show what everyday life looked like in the past. Featuring old photos, scanned documents, articles, and personal anecdotes, this subreddit has become one of the biggest vintage archives online.
Continue scrolling and check out why 528K people subscribe to r/TheWayWeWere.
#1 Mary Wallace: First Female Bus Driver For Chicago Transit Authority (1974)
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#2 My Ridiculously Attractive Grandparents Sitting For A Portrait In The Early 1940s
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#3 My Mom On Her Wedding Day November 1951
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#4 Cats Blackie & Brownie Catching Squirts Of Milk During Milking At Arch Badertscher’s Dairy Farm In Fresno, California, 1954
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#5 A Native American Girl Of The Kiowa Tribe, Oklahoma, 1894
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#6 My Great-Great-Grandmother Sometime In The 1890s
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#7 Protesting The High School Dress Code That Banned Slacks For Girls, Brooklyn C.1940
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#8 Two Pals (1920)
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#9 Gay Men Pose For A Photo While Being Detained At A Police Station For Being Homosexuals In Mexico, 1935
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#10 1945: The Day Daddy Came Home. Gunner Hector Murdoch Had Been Gone Over Four Years, Most Of It As A Prisoner Of War In Singapore. His Wife Rosina And Son John Hadn’t Known If He Was Dead Or Alive. He Got Home On His Birthday
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#11 Dad Showing Off His Skill To The Surprise Of His Little Daughter In Melbourne, Australia, Ca. 1940s
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#12 London’s First Black Police Officer, PC Norwell Roberts, On Point Duty Near Charing Cross Station, 1968
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#13 This 1955 Photo Is One Of Walter Chandoha’s Most Famous Shots. “My Daughter Paula And The Kitten Both ‘Smiled’ For The Camera At The Same Time. …but The Cat’s Not Smiling, He’s Meowing”
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#14 Sisters In Skirts, 1950s
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#15 My Great Grandmother In The Early 1900’s. Thought She Looked Too Awesome Not To Share
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#16 My Parents’ Wedding Photo, Okinawa, 1964
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#17 My Grandpa (Left) And His Best Friend Willie Hall During The Korean War. Those Smiles Say It All
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#18 My Grandfather, Great-Grandfather, Great-Great-Grandfather, And Great-Great-Great Grandmother, Ca 1918
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#19 My Great-Grandfather That Was Too Poor To Afford A Suit In Sicily, So He Had To Pose In Front Of A Cardboard Cut-Out, 1930s~
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#20 This Is Hazel, My Grandmother-In-Law. 1916
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#21 My Grandmother And Mom Circa 1974. My Grandmother Took My Mother To National Parks Over The Course Of A Few Months, Just The Two Of Them
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#22 “Our Michael”, 1938
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#23 A Sailor “Meets” His Baby For The First Time After Fourteen Months At Sea, 1940s
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#24 Grandma And Papa In 1937. She Passed Away Today At 100 Years Old
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#25 Last Picture Of My Great Uncle Kennith, Before He Drowned In The Buffalo River, 1940’s. He Gave His Life Saving My Grandpa
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#26 My Mother Made Us Matching Dresses For A Fancy Party Back In 1954
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#27 Saw This Photo Posted Here.. Noticed I Have The Photo The Grandmother Took That Day. (Bought At An Antique Shop Years Ago In Phx)
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#28 A Parisian Woman With Her Cat In Her Cannabis Garden, 1910
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#29 This Is My Grandma Dorothy. She Was A Dress Designer In The 50s Which Always Made This Photo More Funny To Me. She Passed Away Today At Age 89. A Life Well Lived
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#30 Vintage Photo From A Family Album, Freeport, Il
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#31 Me And My Best Friend Rocky Watching TV, 1959
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#32 Ladies At A Lesbian Club In Chelsea, 1953
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#33 A Mostly Happy Family Outing At Chicken Bone Beach, The Segregated Section Of Atlantic City’s Beach Area, New Jersey, 1950s (Photographed By John W. Mosley)
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#34 1976 vs. 2018; 42 Years And We’re Still Going Strong
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#35 Young Oyster Shuckers, Port Royal, South Carolina, 1909
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#36 Reddit Seems To Love My Taita (Grandma), So Here Is Another One Of Her From 1950’s Beirut
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#37 The Wedding Rings Of My Ggm, Gggm, Ggggm, And Gggggm Oldest Dating Back To 1832!
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#38 Police Officer Unaware Of The Imminent Danger, Chicago, 1959
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#39 After Spending More Than Five Years In A North Vietnamese Camp, Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm Is Reunited With His Family At Travis Afb, March 13, 1973
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#40 My Grandpa’s Schoolhouse In Texas Ca. 1930’s. He Was Always Embarrassed Of This Picture Because He Was Too Poor To Afford Shoes
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#41 Women Trainees Of The Lapd Practice Firing Their Newly Issued Revolvers, 1948
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#42 Dublin, 1962
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#43 Caught On The Firescape, 1946
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#44 Offerings To The Unknown Dead, Kyoto, Japan, 1963
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#45 The 70s Transition: My Parents In 1968 And Again In 1970
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#46 My American Grandmother Visiting Athens In The 1960s
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#47 Listening To The Radio On The Beach, Circa 1940s
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#48 The Rolled-Stockings Trend Of The 1920’s Brought On A Fad Of Hand-Painted Knees
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#49 Class Divide In Britain, 1930’s
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#50 Me Ready For Friday Night Lights, 1969
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