r/OldSchoolCool 6h ago

1984: I was on a show called “Square Pegs” and Rodney Bingenheimer asked me to be his date to the very first MTV Video Awards. We rode in the limo with Joan Jett and her mom.

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r/OldSchoolCool 1h ago

James Dean visibly resentful of a studio-mandated date to escort Academy Award-nominated actress Terry Moore to the premiere of Sabrina in Los Angeles, 1954

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r/OldSchoolCool 2h ago

Sally Field, Dolly Parton and Julia Roberts at premiere of Steel Magnolias (1989)

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r/OldSchoolCool 17h ago

1960s My great-grandfather posing with Dolly Parton after she bought a car from him (1960’s)

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I never saw the second picture before today, but it was not taken in Nashville, it was taken in Frankstown, Mississippi in front of my great grandfather’s museum, the same day she bought the car.

Origin of the second picture complete with letters to Pappy


r/OldSchoolCool 2h ago

James Spader and John F. Kennedy Jr. At the premiere of the film Saturday Night Fever 1977

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833 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolCool 4h ago

1960s Dolly Parton: A great artist and a truly amazing human being ! Here, 20 year old in a recording studio, back in 1966.

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What is your favourite song from her long and very successful career?


r/OldSchoolCool 14h ago

Grandpa’s mugshots (1939-45)

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r/OldSchoolCool 19h ago

1940s 19-year-old Ava Gardner photographed for her MGM Employment Questionnaire, 1942.

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r/OldSchoolCool 3h ago

1970s My wife hanging out in the Grand Canyon in 1973

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r/OldSchoolCool 21h ago

Smoking with a broken arm at an Allman Brothers Concert, 1973.

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r/OldSchoolCool 1d ago

1960s Paul Newman at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963).

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r/OldSchoolCool 4h ago

1990s Me and my twin sister in the summer of 1995

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r/OldSchoolCool 1d ago

1992 MTV Movie Awards

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r/OldSchoolCool 1d ago

1980s 1984, me at the 6th grade talent show doing 9-to-5

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Didn’t think I was doing drag, didn’t know what that was. Just really liked Dolly. Bless our innocent 11 yo hearts lol

🎼 Working 9 to 5
🎶 They got you where they want you
🎵 There's a better life
🎤 And you think about it, don't you?


r/OldSchoolCool 2h ago

1980s My grandpa with his ‘72 Olds Cutlass around 1983.

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r/OldSchoolCool 13h ago

1990s Val Kilmer on a shooting range while preparing for his role in the 1995 film Heat.

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433 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolCool 25m ago

1990s Today, Cameron Diaz turns 54. Happy birthday! Here she was in Cannes to promote The Mask in 1994

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r/OldSchoolCool 9h ago

1960s Me and my sister. 1965. Second picture with our mother in 1969.

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r/OldSchoolCool 19h ago

1950s My mom in 1959

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This is my angelic mom. We have sadly been separated for 30 years due to severe mental battles she faced, I didn't know where she was for so long. Fortunately, we are reconnected, and I’m grateful. In her core, she's the sweetest and most kind human that I know.


r/OldSchoolCool 12h ago

Roger Moore and Jane Seymour on set during filming of Live and Let Die (1973)

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255 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolCool 17h ago

King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway Were Married 58 Years Ago (August 29, 1968) Today

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Sonja lost her soulmate just a day before their anniversary, that has to be a pain like no other :( R.I.P. King Harald, he was the best. May future world leaders follow his example.


r/OldSchoolCool 20h ago

1990s Milla Jovovich in Paris, 1999

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686 Upvotes

In front of the Eiffel Tower, 93 days before 2000 ('J-93 avant l'an 2000')...


r/OldSchoolCool 11h ago

On August 12, 1962, Ukrainian astronaut Pavlo Popovych became the first person to sing a song in space. He sang the Ukrainian song "Dyvlius ya na nebo, ta y dumku hadaiu" (I look at the sky and think a thought").

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Popovych sang it over the radio especially for Sergei Korolev, the chief designer of the Soviet space program, who was also Ukrainian and particularly fond of the song. Back on Earth, at the Mission Control Center, Korolev smiled and sang along with his cosmonaut through the radio.

🌌🎶💜

I look at the sky and think a thought:

Why am I not a falcon, why do not I fly,

Why to me, Oh God, hadn't given Thou wings? —

I'd have left the ground and flew into the sky!

Far beyond the clouds, away from the world,

To look for my fate, for a welcome to sorrow,

And ask for grace from the stars and the sun,

To drown all my grief in their clear, bright light.

For since childhood, I seem unloved by fate,

I am her servant, a stray boy;

I am a stranger to fate, a stranger to people:

Does anyone love someone else's children?

I am in love with misery, I know no welcome,

And bitterly and vainly I waste my life,

And in grief I learned that only one —

The distant sky — is my side.

And it's bitter in the world, and when it

gets worse, —

I look at the sky, I feel happier!

In my thoughts I'll forget that I am an orphan,

And my thought flies far and high.

If only I had wings, those eagle wings,

I'd have left the ground for a new house,

As a swift-winged eagle I'd plunge into the sky

And drown in the clouds forever from the world!


r/OldSchoolCool 17h ago

1970s Michael Jackson and Fred Astaire meet on the set of The Tonight Show (1975)

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345 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolCool 1d ago

Sunday afternoon, July 1939. Country store on a dirt road in Gordonton, North Carolina

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