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.

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  • Title should include short description and year or decade.
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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 1d ago

This ad, advertised in Marvel Comics in the 70s, was too much for Stan Lee.

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 1d ago

"Bumperniks" (1962)

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 4h ago

Ayds advertisement

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 1d ago

Now this is old school lol I still have my 1978 Panasonic top loader VHS VCR, along with my 1981 RCA SelectaVision Videodisk Player and my 1985 Sony Trinitron television and all have been well maintained and working nicely…

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 1d ago

Star trek merchandise, you say? How about a patch...

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It boldly goes on your pants, jacket, backpack, etc


r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 1d ago

To boldly merchandise what Star Trek had not (probably) merchandised before. (1994)

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 3d ago

In 1980, Montgomery Ward accidentally mailed nearly 8 million catalogs containing the word “Fuck" hidden in a bedroom photo. The company believed it had been deliberately slipped into the artwork by a disgruntled employee and somehow made it past everyone before printing. Can you find it?

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 3d ago

Panel from Jack T. Chick's Christian evangelistic comic booklet, "A Demon's Nightmare" (original version from the early 1960s/1970s)

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 3d ago

OP found two oddball tapes...

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 3d ago

The Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand in Cairo 1896 pretending to be a mummy

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 4d ago

a Scotsman struggling to keep his kilt down in the wind and rain. Postcard, early 20th century.

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 5d ago

Behold! The grotesque freak of nature known as the Stegosaur!!

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(This was published in The Washington Post on June 23rd, 1912, for anybody curious!)


r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 5d ago

U.S. stamp issued in 1974

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 5d ago

René Gruau, Ad for Hepatior, 1930s

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 5d ago

Windows 95 launch event

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 5d ago

Bobbi Gibb applied to run the Boston Marathon in 1966. Her application was rejected as “women were not physiologically capable" of running marathon distances. She ran it regardless, hiding until the race started. The other (male) racers are said to have been supportive of her running the race.

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 5d ago

Canadian PSA from nonprofit organization Concerned Children's Advertisers about proper nutrition during their "Long Live Kids" campaign - February 10, 2006

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 5d ago

A 1951 Civil Defense film showing children how to "duck and cover."

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 5d ago

"Women and Carrots have one enemy in common" (1941)

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Rabbits?


r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 6d ago

X-Rated Atari 2600 Games [1980s]

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 6d ago

In 1979, a Boston organization began promoting “helper monkeys” for severely disabled people. Fueled by phony media stories, it continued thru 2020!

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 6d ago

Competition to "sleep" with Donald Trump - Playgirl 1990

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • • 6d ago

"Dr Paul Bouchard's Flesh Reducing Soap" (1929)

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