Old School Cool
History’s cool kids, looking fantastic! A pictorial and video celebration of history’s coolest kids, everything from beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers. And everything in between. If you’ve found a photo, or a photo essay, of people from the past looking fantastic, here’s the place to share it.
Leonard Nimoy with his parents on his 36th
Leonard Nimoy with his parents on his 36th birthday, March 1967. They were giddy about all the attention from the press & fans but simply could not figure out what Star Trek was all about.
The “Owls” were an African American women’s
The “Owls” were an African American women’s softball team formed in the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first Washington State women’s Softball Championship in 1938, and then were renamed the “Brown Bombers” and won the state Championship again in 1939.
My aunt, who escaped from a convent as a teen,
My grandfather was set up in an arranged marriage to a woman he didn't love. He had two children with her. Then he was stationed in Britain between the world wars and met my grandmother there, who was a factory worker at the time. He divorced his wife and essentially abandoned his children from that …