55 Vintage Photos That Are The Height Of Old School Cool

Our parents used up all the cool and left us with none, as evidenced by these ridiculously cool vintage photos.

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1 of 56Circa early 1980sskeleton-spotted/reddit 2 of 56internetkholeblog/tumblr 3 of 561973reddit 4 of 56Early 1960s2g00d2btru3/reddit 5 of 56TheMasterOfDonuts/reddit 6 of 56myparentswereawesome/tumblr 7 of 56Circa late 1960scherrycherries/reddit 8 of 56myparentswereawesome/tumblr 9 of 561970Caesar100/reddit 10 of 56internetkholeblog/tumblr 11 of 56myparentswereawesome/tumblr 12 of 56myparentswereawesome/tumblr 13 of 56myparentswereawesome/tumblr 14 of 56stranganjn/tumblr
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55 Vintage Photos Of Your Parents Being Cooler Than You Will Ever Be View Gallery

If you’ve ever looked through your parents’ vintage photos from when they were younger, you might have stumbled across some jarring images — proof that, in a different decade, some of them were kind of… hip, perhaps even edgy or downright cool.

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1 of 56Circa early 1980sskeleton-spotted/reddit

2 of 56internetkholeblog/tumblr

3 of 561973reddit

4 of 56Early 1960s2g00d2btru3/reddit

5 of 56TheMasterOfDonuts/reddit

6 of 56myparentswereawesome/tumblr

7 of 56Circa late 1960scherrycherries/reddit

8 of 56myparentswereawesome/tumblr

9 of 561970Caesar100/reddit

10 of 56internetkholeblog/tumblr

11 of 56myparentswereawesome/tumblr

12 of 56myparentswereawesome/tumblr

13 of 56myparentswereawesome/tumblr

14 of 56stranganjn/tumblr

15 of 56myparentswereawesome/tumblr

16 of 56myparentswereawesome/tumblr

17 of 561985DrGirlfriend93/reddit

18 of 56internetkholeblog/tumblr

19 of 56Circa 1980scompletedesaster/reddit

20 of 56fifteentango88/reddit

21 of 56Circa late 1970sJesusCriminy/reddit

22 of 56internetkholeblog/tumblr

23 of 56Meunderwears/reddit

24 of 56Tom Simpson/Flickr

25 of 56myparentswereawesome/tumblr

26 of 56FNaXQ/reddit

27 of 56imgur

28 of 56internetkholeblog/tumblr

29 of 56corey_m_snow/reddit

30 of 56internetkholeblog/tumblr

31 of 56myparentswereawesome/tumblr

32 of 56myparentswereawesome/tumblr

33 of 56Circa early 1970sWhooperSwan/reddit

34 of 56myparentswereawesome/tumblr

35 of 56Meunderwears/reddit

36 of 56beentheredidntdothat/tumblr

37 of 56imgur

38 of 56internetkholeblog/tumblr

39 of 56internetkholeblog/tumblr

40 of 56internetkholeblog/tumblr

41 of 561964niknaktoo/reddit

42 of 56internetkholeblog/tumblr

43 of 56Paul Townsend/Flickr

44 of 561968Kent Kanouse/Flickr

45 of 56Circa late 1970s8eMH83/reddit

46 of 56internetkholeblog/tumblr

47 of 56internetkholeblog/tumblr

48 of 561982funestm/reddit

49 of 561977buttsmuggler69/reddit

50 of 56foundphotosofwomen/tumblr

51 of 56internetkholeblog/tumblr

52 of 56internetkholeblog/tumblr

53 of 56internetkholeblog/tumblr

54 of 561979mollyme123/reddit

55 of 56internetkholeblog/tumblr

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55 Vintage Photos Of Your Parents Being Cooler Than You Will Ever Be View Gallery

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Nowadays, so many of us covet all things vintage. We wish we could live in the 1980s punk scene or the 1970s disco era or the free love 1960s. And, for many of us, these are precisely the decades in which our parents got to be young and hip.

While our parents didn’t have the internet back then, they did have cameras — and the fashion sense and attitude to look good in front of the lens. Of course, what our parents also didn’t have was smartphones, cyberbullying, and YouTube celebrities. Our parents lived their lives in the real world and in the moment – and were all the cooler for it.

That’s not to say that any generation, even theirs, is without worry and woe. But the pressures then weren’t quite the same — your parents only had to keep up with the Joneses, not the Kardashians.

Without Facebook and Netflix, our parent’s generation had time to learn to ride unicycles and go to mermaid tryouts at Disneyland. They grew epic beards and wore stylishly chic outfits without an Instagram profile to show it off. They lived for their friends and their cars, and they swore to never, ever be as un-cool as their parents.

Even if your parents weren’t as “hip” as those pictured in the vintage photos from the 1960s-1980s above, they probably didn’t even care. And that right there puts them in the upper echelon of cool.

For even more cool vintage photos that reveal just how hip life could be in the 1970s and 1980s, check out these raw photos from Internet K-Hole. Then, check out these vintage hippie photos that capture flower power in full bloom.

Our parents used up all the cool and left us with none, as evidenced by these ridiculously cool vintage photos.#

Our parents used up all the cool and left us with none, as evidenced by these ridiculously cool vintage photos.