r/TheWayWeWere • • 8h ago

People used to dress up when they flew (1982)

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 11h ago

1940s My Dad in the 1940s. He was evacuated from Coventry to the countryside near Sheffield.

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He had a fabulous time with some really lovely people - they may look a bit grim but my Dad always said he loved his years there.


r/TheWayWeWere • • 14h ago

1970s Family picnic in Poland, 1970s

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 13h ago

1960s Two friends enjoy their trike together, Toronto, Canada, 1960s.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 9h ago

1940s Children playing on the street in front of a crooked house on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, photographed by Russell Lee in April 1941.

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Credit: sebcolorisation on Instagram


r/TheWayWeWere • • 7h ago

1970s July 4th, 1978 block party and bicycle parade

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 19h ago

1920s A young musician. 1920s

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 13h ago

1950s 2 Ladies enjoy the sun and their boat ride, 1950s

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 13h ago

1950s Photographs of everyday life in Finland in the 1950s and 1960s

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Photographer: Pekka Kyytinen

Source: Kansatieteen kuvakokoelma, Pekka Kyytisen kokoelma, Museovirasto


r/TheWayWeWere • • 7h ago

1920s My 2nd great grandfather George (muddle, sitting) at the Caldwell coal mines. Late 1920's

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George was a Croatian immigrant and he was a lifelong coal miner. He owned only one automobile his who luge but he never drove it because he had a bad experience with cars.


r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

My four grandparents when they were young

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 16h ago

1970s The Railway Square in Helsinki, Finland in 1973

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Photographer: Kari Rainer Pulkkinen

Source: JOKA Journalistinen kuva-arkisto
Kari Pulkkisen kokoelma, Museovirasto


r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1920s Photograph of my great grandmother (~1920)

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1950s My grandparents’ wedding, 1956. My grandma made her dress herself.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

My sister and I won the community center Halloween contest in the 70s 🤟😆

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 21h ago

My parents, ~1983

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 13h ago

Pre-1920s Donald O. Dunn, graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, class of 1916 with a degree in architecture.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 22h ago

My dad & a golden VW bug in the late ‘70s in Mission, Texas

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1970s With my brother in 1979

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I was in the hospital this week with pneumonia and he had a heart attack yesterday. This stuff is rough.


r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

Pictures of all 4 of my paternal great grandparents, my paternal grandparents with my dad, and me and my dad.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

Pre-1920s Campbell sisters in Kentucky. Sometime in the 1800s.

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My mother has this hanging in her house. Said her father's great-great-grandmother is in this picture. Mom was born in Indiana in the 1940s.

The women seem to be wearing black mourning wristbands. The family's name is Campbell and they're in Kentucky.

Would love any idea on the possible year, but i really struggle with fashion history.


r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1970s Brown leather vest and belt; Yellow turte neck, black shoes and multi color pants dressed boy smiles for his photo, 1972. Can't look more 70s.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 21h ago

1970s Inquiring Photographer “After the near tragedy in space, does being an astronaut appeal to you?”June 12,1970.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 21h ago

1960s Me and my Dad..circa 1964-65

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 22h ago

My grandparents & great-grandparents at Christmas in Texas. Unsure of year, perhaps early ‘50s.

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L-R my grandmother, her mom, my grandfather, and my great grandfather. I never met my great grandparents. My grandparents both passed in 2009. I miss them so much. I wish I’d had more time with them. I wish I had even a little bit of my adult life with them. My grandmother passed in March of ‘09 and my grandfather was never the same after that. Truly died of a broken heart a couple months later in August of that year.