Our grandparents always have great stories to tell, but if they are accompanied by photographs, everything becomes more exciting, because we are able to imagine them in those situations.
That is why Reddit user TheWayWeWere created a thread in which people from all over the world share images of their grandparents, proving that they were supercool And they didn’t need filters, digital challenges, or any trends to steal the attention of everyone around them.
1. Beauty at its finest
My ridiculously attractive grandparents sitting for a portrait in the early 1940s.
2. Style and attitude in the same place
Protesting the high school dress code that banned pants for girls, Brooklyn C. 1940.
3. Love is love
Gay men pose for a photo while being detained at a police station for being gay in Mexico, 1935.
4. A true man of steel
Dad showing his skill to the surprise of his little daughter in Melbourne, Australia, CA. 1940.
5. Stories full of love
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6. No touch-ups but with a lot of style
My great-great-grandmother sometime in the 1890s.
7. Attitude defines everything
My great-grandmother in the early 1900s. She thought it looked too impressive not to share.
8. Always beautiful, never inbella
My mom on her wedding day, November 1951.
9. Friends through thick and thin
This 1955 photo is one of the most famous by photographer Walter Chandoha.
My daughter Paula and the kitten ‘smiled’ for the camera at the same time… but the cat is not smiling, it is meowing.
10. Like two drops of water
My grandmother and my mom around 1974. My grandmother took my mother to the national parks over the course of a few months, just two o’clock.
11. Women making history
Mary Wallace: First bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority (1974).
12. She looked like a princess
This is Hazel, my in-law grandmother. 1916.
13. Outfits matching
My mother made us matching dresses for a fancy party in 1954.
14. Grandparents we see, stories we do not know
My Parisian great-great-grandmother with her cat in her cannabis garden, 1910.
15. Dad will always be dad
‘Meet’ your baby for the first time after 14 months at sea, 1940s
16. With the talent in the veins
Reddit seems to love my Taita (grandmother), so here’s another of her from Beirut from the ’50s.
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