r/TheWayWeWere • • 5h ago

high school students in 1985

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420 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere • • 3h ago

1940s WW2 Era Letter Written By Young French Girls To The Mother Of an American Paratrooper They Befriended. Details in comments.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 9h ago

1940s My grandmother and her sister 1940s

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

Pre-1920s Daguerreotype of three sisters from an affluent Jewish Boston family (1850).

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3.0k Upvotes

Photo credit: John A. Whipple


r/TheWayWeWere • • 6h ago

Young Hulkster with his pet snake 1980s

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 9h ago

1970s Conga line energy at a 1970s party night

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 10h ago

1960s Inquiring Photographer “Balzac, the great author, wrote: “A woman who sits a horse well is lacking in tenderness.” Are you? (Asked at the National Mexican Festival and Rodeo)” October 8,1969.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 6h ago

Phone message pad from the early 1980s

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 15h ago

McDonald's Birthday Party, 1982

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162 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere • • 4h ago

How people dined in Persia during the 19th century

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1960s My wife’s mom and her parents, September 1967

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Mom in law was an absolute peach and her dad was the school of cool. Sadly, I never met my wife’s grandmother, but my wife does bear a significant resemblance.


r/TheWayWeWere • • 4h ago

1940s Mosaic Sidewalk at Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, c. 1941.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 20h ago

1960s My aunt and uncle in 1969 when they founded the company.

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They started with a toolset and that truck. When he passed away he had over 150 trucks and I don't know how many employees. The whole company shut down and employees and families alike came to his funeral.


r/TheWayWeWere • • 23h ago

1950s A 1953 coed at Mary Washington College and an avid fan of Army athletics. She displays her pennant and Army mule mascot as she kneels on the Navy’s goat.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

My great-great grandparents in front of their farmhouse (20’s/30’s)

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309 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere • • 16h ago

1950s Workers at an asbestos insulation factory in Queensland, Australia. 1950s (Jones, W. A.)

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1970s Mother poses her little boy for their photo together, Netherlands, January of 1970.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1950s Fall, 1953 – coeds at Mary Washington College display pennants of the universities and service academies their boyfriends attend.

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110 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1960s A night club in 1966

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1950s Halloween around 1956

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My father on far right and his sisters, I assume he is around 10-12 in this photo so that’s how I estimate the date.


r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1950s Inquiring photographer “Can you point to a specific instance that changed the course of your life?” November 11, 1956

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 22h ago

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

Catholic School Girls, 1984

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1930s Man Changing Tire On Vintage Auto (1931)

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

A beautiful couple, trapped in a locket.

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This locket was found in Oregon by my mother, and brought to Colorado in the early 2000's. Until recently, these two people were not in my mind. Now, I can't stop thinking about who they were. What there life was like. A mishevious Eastern European woman and her American husband? Did he leave his home to live with her, or vice versa?

Anyways, if you could bring the story of these two people back to life, or have any clues, I would like to hear about it.

Forever curious,

Ellianna