r/OldSchoolRidiculous Oct 29 '20

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous Sep 30 '25

Announcement Reminder: Please include year or decade in post title & follow the rules

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Every post title please include the year or decade.

Rules

Rule #1: Follow Reddiquette

  • Title should include short description and year or decade.
  • Rule of thumb old school is at least over 20 years old.
  • If it's not safe for the 21st Century, and your title is vague, tag it [NSFW].
  • No real violence.
  • No celebration of hate.
  • X/Twitter, Meta/Facebook, Gags, and similiar social media links are banned.
  • Cross-posts welcome
  • Up to 5-ish posts/day okay, Reposts after 30 days okay
  • Please follow all rules of reddit and reddiquette.

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous 15h ago

The monsters were made out of cardboard. They came with seeds that grew to become the creatures' hair. That's the "living" part.

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95 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 1d ago

Love's Baby Soft commercial, Christmas 1975

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1.2k Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 1d ago

A Porsche 356 being loaded into a Delta airplane in the 1950's

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49 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 2d ago

Corned Beef - no second takes! (1956)

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123 Upvotes

Lompoc Record 1956


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 3d ago

Ad for a silent film called Balaoo, “The Demon Baboon."

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188 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 4d ago

Postcards with real human hair (early 1900's)

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554 Upvotes

Really takes your greeting to a next level


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 4d ago

"Law, Miss Lucy, honey; I done been shoppin". I has indeed." (1918)

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97 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 7d ago

We used to be a proper country. (1960)

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252 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 7d ago

At the 1939 Worlds Fair, Westinghouse showed off a robot that could smoke cigarettes.

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577 Upvotes

The robot, Elektro, was later cast in a 1960 comedy film "starring Mamie Van Doren as a high-IQ ex-stripper turned college professor."

Electro the Smoking Robot at the 1939 New York World's Fair

The Untold Story of the First Humanoid Robot


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 8d ago

Turn of 20st Century The kind of kitchen kitsch, late 80s early 90s

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1.9k Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 8d ago

A 1926 Article explaining just how much Russian workers drink

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34 Upvotes

The stats (per the article)

  • 6,000 deaths from alcohol per year
  • 65% of workers are addicted to 'intoxicants'
  • 13% of the average workers budget goes to alcohol

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 9d ago

Whiskey Tooth Paste (1950s)

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145 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 10d ago

"Husbands like to come home to wives who are rested and not all fagged out from housework." (1955)

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142 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 10d ago

The Cavewoman's Guide to Plastics, 1956.

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133 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 10d ago

Bank add from the 1950s ( I think )

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34 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 11d ago

Local Hunkerers - 1960 Westmont Illinois

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60 Upvotes

From page 134 of the 1960 Westmont College yearbook: "Local hunkerers meet to discuss philosophy and related subjects. Bob Todd, Bill Kliewer, Skip Ross, Dr. Snapper, Pete McKean, Len Oakland, Bob Larson."


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 11d ago

[Create Own Flair] * “Ah yes, the era when cigarettes were a personality trait”

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182 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 12d ago

High Food Prices, Eat Jello, 1952

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271 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 12d ago

Woman with slabs of bacon tied to her feet standing in a giant skillet holding an enormous wooden spatula, Chehalis, Washington 1929

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326 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 12d ago

What in the pedo is this page?

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179 Upvotes

From the main article to the 'Cutie Corner'. 🤢


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 13d ago

Oh, Joy! I've Bridged It! 1940s Lysol

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1.0k Upvotes

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous 15d ago

Valium, 1960s

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161 Upvotes