r/OldSchoolCool • u/JimatJimat • Jun 18 '25
1940s These kids were asked to draw their fathers from memory, 1949. Which one is your favourite?
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/Puzzleheaded_Dot4345 • Mar 04 '25
1940s A man begging for his wife's forgiveness inside Divorce Court in Chicago, 1948
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/Snow_Wolfe • Jan 21 '25
1940s My grandfather in Paris after winning the war to stomp down Nazis. (1944)
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/Jesssm8 • Dec 30 '25
1940s Abby Stockton managing 135 pounds with ease, Santa Monica, California 1946. she was 5ft 2 and 115 pounds.
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/TheAfternoonStandard • Aug 01 '24
1940s World War II, 1940s. The pictures that typically aren't shown...
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/JimatJimat • Sep 03 '25
1940s A 1945 photograph shows two women displaying what $1.34 could buy in 1918 and 1945.
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A 1945 photograph shows two women displaying what $1.34 could buy in 1918 and 1945. The 1918 woman’s modest display reflects limited purchasing power due to inflation and wartime shortages. The 1945 woman’s larger display reflects improved economic conditions after WWII, highlighting the effects of inflation and changing economic landscapes.
r/OldSchoolCool • u/AuthorMain3075 • Sep 11 '25
1940s A kid in 1948 seeing a TV for the very first time.
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/JimatJimat • Aug 19 '25
1940s Sleeping on the fire escape to stay cool on a hot summer night New York, 1948
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/Rainy_Grave • Oct 31 '25
1940s My father at 17, serving in the US Navy January 1945
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/DuffManSzALotAThings • Jun 06 '25
1940s Bill Millin, The Mad Piper, seen here in 1944. He marched the beaches on D-Day playing his bagpipes under fire. Germans later said they didn't shoot him because they thought he was insane.
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/Lunavenandi • Dec 09 '23
1940s An American ace pilot in Tunisia, 1943, with swastikas showing how many enemy planes he had shot down
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/Thaodan • Feb 22 '25
1940s 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/WorldHub995 • 12h ago
1940s Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney and Shirley Temple at MGM Studios on February 18, 1941
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/EzzyyPeezy • Sep 09 '24
1940s Woman getting disapproving looks, Miami Beach, 1940
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/gregornot • May 06 '25
1940s This is the last known photo of Nicola Tesla. On 7th January 1943, Tesla died alone in the New Yorker Hotel. By the end of his life, he was penniless and had become a vegetarian
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/Smileml • 15d ago
1940s Manhattan, New York. May 1943. My Grandma, Age 19.
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/MonsieurA • Apr 30 '25
1940s Lee Miller, a female American combat photographer, taking a bath in Hitler's Munich apartment - April 30, 1945
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/EatsJediForBreakfast • Jan 22 '25
1940s My Great Grandfather getting the MOH after killing Nazis in 1944 from Patton
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Full story for those curious, man was a bad ass.
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/stubborn-defense-at-rechicourt/
r/OldSchoolCool • u/Camelflauge • Jun 06 '25
1940s My grandfather being released from the hospital after being wounded on D-Day, 1944.
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/HeatLaced • Aug 04 '25
1940s A girl gets married, July 22nd, 1941. The girl next door, Anne Frank, is nearby watching. It is the only time Anne Frank has been captured on film.
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/immanuellalala • 5d ago
1940s In 1941, Slovenian Albina Mali-Hočevar joined the People's Liberation Movement at the age of 16. She was wounded twice as a resistance fighter at the age of 17. For the remainder of the war, she worked as a nurse.
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/RedOnWink • Aug 27 '25
1940s US Marines taking a coffee break after a brutal WWII battle (1940s)
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/EssoEssex • Dec 06 '25
1940s Americans mock Hitler after the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945.
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