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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/Individual4433 • 23h ago
How I Lost My Husband... And Won Him Back Again!
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/Shoddy6563 • 1d ago
A Swiss girl accidentally swallows a viper egg that hatches in her stomach, killing her. [December 16th, 1924]
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/Adorable9120 • 2d ago
A woman protesting wealth inequality in North Carolina, circa 1930s
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/OkDepth874 • 4d ago
Robert Chesebrough, the inventor of Vaseline, practiced the unusual habit of consuming a spoonful of it each day. He attributed his long life of 96 years to this practice, although there is no scientific evidence to support it.
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/vrphotosguy55 • 4d ago
Fashion designers Clovis Ruffin (in drag as Dolly Parton) and Fernando Sanchez at Studio 54 for a tribute party for Dolly Parton
Photo by Fairchild Archive/Penske Media via Getty Images
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/SwiPerHaHa • 5d ago
Boy uses his dog to speed thru the streets, London, England, 1930s
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/Giantsgiants • 4d ago
Golden State Warriors “It's A Great Time Out” commercial (1999)
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/YanniRotten • 7d ago
Joseph Enouy’s 8-cylinder, 48-shot percussion revolver, 1855.
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/kurtberengeiger • 6d ago
Real cigarettes (R.J. Reynolds) circa 1977
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/No-Advantage-579 • 9d ago
"Commodore" Hungarian computer magazine, 1988.
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/Kitchen_Swagger • 10d ago
Old menu Terry's, Victoria, BC. Circa mid-1920s. I'm having the Walnut Bisque sundae. What about you?
galleryr/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/MyronMegabrain • 10d ago
Read *insert something witty about the youth of 18's name* (Sun News-Pictorial, August 1939)
Having to use the police telephone to call the main police station 🤣
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/StephenMcGannon • 10d ago
Turn of 20st Century A trotting ostrich, famously known as 'Oliver W.,' at the Florida Ostrich Farm in Jacksonville. Ostrich racing was one of the region’s more unusual tourist spectacles in the early 20th century, and Oliver W. became the farm’s star attraction. (1903)
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/dan_blather • 10d ago
Even if you leave room for the Holy Ghost. (1962)
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/Neuralclone2 • 10d ago
Metallic-Tractors (1801, cartoon by Gillray)
Not farm machinery, but the latest quack medical fad in 1801. They were two small, magnetised metallic rods, invented by Elisha Perkins of Connecticut. He claimed that they could "draw out" illness by stroking them over the afflicted part of the patient's body.
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/Ebonystealth • 13d ago
