How many of us understand time is the greatest resource that we have? It flies incredibly fast at a speed that even we can’t think of! Unfortunately, only a very few understand this. It’s when we look back at our old pictures that we realize how much things have changed. Yet, there’s a big online community who’s interested in fascinating old pictures.
We found an online community named ‘The Way We Were’ with over 725k+ members in it. The community regularly posts a lot of rare vintage photos of normal life in the past to make people understand how much things have changed. Keep scrolling to witness some amazing pictures that have been taken 50,100 or even more years ago!
#1 These Two Are My Beautiful Grandparents Who Were Sitting For A Self-Portrait In The Early 1940s.
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#2 Brownie And Blackie Catching Squirts Of Milk At Arch Badertscher’s Dairy Farm, Fresno, California In 1954.
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#3 This Is My Pretty Great-Great Grandma In The 1890s.
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#4 These Gay Men Were Detained For Being Homosexual In A Police Station In Mexico In 1935.
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#5 This Is The First Female Bus Driver For Chicago Transit Authority In 1974; Mary Wallace.
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#6 A Native American Girl Who Belongs To The Kiowa Tribe, Oklahoma, 1894.
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#7 This Picture Was Captured By Walter Chandoha In 1955. It Says, “My Daughter Paula As Well As Her Kitten Smiled At My Camera Together…But The Kitten Was Meowing Not Smiling!”
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#8 High School Girls Protesting The High School Dress Code Which Banned Slacks For Them, Brooklyn C.1940.
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#9 A 1940s Picture Showing A Sailor Meeting His Baby For The Very First Time Right After 14 Months At Sea.
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#10 Sisters Wore Skirts, 1950s.
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#11 Best Friends, 1920s.
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#12 My Mom’s Big Day November In 1951.
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#13 1945: The Picture Shows Gunner Hector Murdoch’s Re-Encounter With His Family. He Had Been Gone For More Than 4 Years, And Most Of It As A Prisoner Of War In Singapore. Thus, The Family Was Not Aware If He Was Dead Or Alive. However, He Got Back Home, Surprising Everyone On His Birthday.
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#14 My Great-Grandfather Was Not That Wealthy To Afford Such A Suit, That He Had To Pose In Front Of A Cardboard Cut-Out, 1930s.
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#15 These Two Are My Mom And Grandmom. My Grandmom Had Taken My Mom On A Trip To National Parks Over The Course Of A Few Months In 1974.
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#16 “Our Michael” In Oct, 1938.
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#17 Dad Surprised His Little Girl With His Skill In Melbourne, Australia, Ca. 1940s.
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#18 PC Norwell Roberts, London’s First Black Police Officer On Point Duty Near Charing Cross Station In 1968.
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#19 My Parents On Their Wedding Day In Okinawa, 1964.
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#20 My Grandfather With My Great-Grandfather, Great-Great-Grandfather, And Great-Great-Great Grandmother, Ca 1918.
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#21 Once I Saw This Post, I Remembered My Grandmother’s Photo That She Took That Day. (Bought At An Antique Shop Years Ago In Phx)
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#22 This Is My Smart Great Grandmother In The Early 1900’s.
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#23 This One Wearing A Barrel Is My Grandma Dorothy, Whose Profession Was Dress Designing In The 50s. She Passed Away Recently At The Age Of 89. She Had A Well Spent Life.
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#24 This Is My Grandpa (Left) Posing For A Photo With His Best Friend Willie Hall During The Korean War.
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#25 My Mom And I Wore Matching Dresses For A Fancy Party In 1954.
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#26 Grandma Posing For A Photo With My Grandpa In 1937. She Passed Away When She Was 100 Years Old.
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#27 My Grandma-In-Law, Mrs. Hazel, Back In 1916.
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#28 The Last Picture Of My Great Uncle Kennith Who Drowned And Sacrificed His Life To The Buffalo River To Save My Grandpa In The 1940s.
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#29 Rocky Watching TV With Me In 1959.
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#30 Caught Them On The Fire Exit In 1946.
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