Check out that sweet ride!

And is that not the most old-school dad you’ve ever seen? Or is he the car salesman?

No, wait, a woman wouldn’t be choosing a car for herself in the 50s! Gasp! But she does have a waistline to die for.

How many miles to the gallon you reckon’ that bad boy gets?

This photo was taken at the Edgecombe Community College Library in North Carolina.

Aside from the hair, the clothes are pretty on-trend for these days.

Pardon us while we reminisce about the card catalog…

Look at these fine young men outside of Dublin’s O’Meara’s Public House back in the 60s.

They have nostalgia in other countries too, ya know.

We’re sure they were off to do something very responsible and upstanding with their time after this photo was taken, as all young men did back in the 60s.

Between the commitment to Boy Scouts literally weighing on him and the thick glasses, we don’t know what kind of childhood this kid had, but we’re glad to have this amazing photo.

The cool thing about this is that his kids can wear that uniform now and their friends will think they’re referencing Moonrise Kingdom, but dad will know they’re just trolling him.

We’re just going to say it, even if it makes us sound old – the way people dress on vacation is atrocious these days.

Boomers, you should have taken a page from your parents’ vacation handbook when it came to looking good on the Acropolis AND passed that on to the next generation!

Could this be any more wholesome? We just want to put this memory between two slices of Wonder Bread.

In all seriousness, the kids were probably miserable and everyone was sweating, but what an absolutely fabulous photo!

It’s certainly one that must bring out the family stories around the holidays.

Look close and you’ll see a few generations present in this photo.

Aside from the cars and the tucked in shirt, we’re not sure a group of men headed off to work – or do whatever manly thing they were off to do – would look much different these days.

Well, it’s safe to say that if you set someone from 1957 down in today’s version of Times Square they wouldn’t recognize it one bit!

We certainly don’t recognize this 50s version – in fact, it wasn’t until we saw the Flatiron Building that we believed it was really NYC.

Hey, we’d be happy with a bill that was itemized at all from the hospital instead of wondering just how many digits managed to sneak into the total.

Everything about this is pure old school – from the number of days mom stayed in the hospital (4!) to just how little it cost to do it.

What a difference a decade makes!

This side-by-side of the same man is so incredible because you can see a difference in every little thing – from the collar on his shirt to…well, all that hair!

We love this – and yet the messy room, short skirt, hair ribbon…all still pretty much the same for a teenage cheerleader.

We’ll grant you the sweatshirt makes it a little more wholesome, but it was probably a cold night. We give them sweatshirts today too.

This has got to be the kind of photo you look back on with a smile. You and your bestie, on the painfully bright red couch that you didn’t even know was ugly.

He sure does look comfy for a kid who no doubt has to get up every few minutes and fix the antennas though.

Remember those days?!

There’s nothing like getting out near the ocean for some sunshine and the smell of exhaust on the beach.

Looks like you had to head for the water if you really wanted some fresh air.

Kids still dance in their parents’ living rooms.

They just try not to knock over the 72″ flat screen television while they do it.

Remember when you couldn’t knock over a TV even if you tried?!

And, oh, those curtains!

Gotta love this Volvo ad from the late 50s. It would be a while before we were all forced to wear seatbelts, but at least one car company gave people the option (and they lent the patent to other companies as well).

Whatever happened to driving gloves anyway? Can we bring those back?

We know, it’s a sore subject right now.

But wow! Without a $30 million recreation center on every corner of campus, it turns out college could be affordable.

But then what would donors put their names on?

You’ve probably only used these if you’re interested in history and had to read something that hasn’t been digitized yet. And these readers still look the same today!

That hair, on the other hand…

We don’t know if this was taken during the holidays or if they had just released some Cabbage Patch Dolls, but that’s one chaotic K-Mart!

The main difference is that all the parents are forcing their kids to behave – and the parents are behaving too.

We just love this on so many levels.

Can you imagine how much that a wine of that vintage might be worth these days?

Cheers!

Before Hardee’s there was the Indianapolis-based Burger Chef.

Have you ever seen someone look so happy and fulfilled handing over a soda and 5000 calories worth of food?

Whoa, ladies! That’s a lot of decollete to show off!

What a fabulous photo though – we wonder what the occassion was.

This was taken before these gentlemen went in to watch Muhammad Ali fight for the first time at Madison Square Garden.

And they looked slick as all get-out!

Too bad it wasn’t Ali’s best showing – but at least he kept fans entertained for 15 rounds!

This brings back memories of cheap soda (or pop, if you will), but it also reminds us of a time when we were allowed to go off and play with our friends at a pretty young age.

Now someone would call the cops in just about any neighborhood if they saw kids this young on their own.

It doesn’t look too different from today.

That is, until you see the prices!

And who, exactly, is ordering asparagus at the beach?!

They might have been gawked at and not everyone dressed like this, but let’s not pretend women today are doing something different by wearing short shorts and midriffs.

Some of these old school photos will make a hypocrite out of a parent or grandparent real fast.

Wow, the color…the patterns. It hurts a little!

But 7/11 is still there for us when we forget the milk on the way home.

The architectural icon in the background gives it away, but the 60s looked pretty much the same Down Under as they did in the U.S.

You just weren’t likely to find a Vauxhall Viva skidding around the streets.

We were all connected back then too – we just didn’t have the Internet to share things in an instant.

But don’t think cultural movements didn’t make their way all the way around the world.

It looks like such an innocent time!

Little did anyone know that a few decades later some schools would send a female student home for those bare shoulders.

That is probably deeply unsafe but MAN is it cool!

We don’t even know why you’d want to sit backwards in a car, we just know that the combination of hot pink and a rotating seat is really working for us.

Ok, so these are some more realistic vehicles.

Don’t you love how literally every dad in the neighborhood came out to help hook up that boat?

We don’t know how progress is going right now in downtown Marion with the pandemic ravaging construction work, but this downtown sat abandoned for quite a while.

It’s nice to see it in its Christmas-y heydey.

Casual reading in the parking lot?

We’re not sure what’s happening here but it’s a beautiful photo of a lovely lady. And aside from the hair we’re pretty sure we have that whole look somewhere in our closet.

That looks like a spectacular birthday party!

Potato chips, cake, some dolls, The Beatles – and all the candy cigarettes you can possibly “smoke” to look cool with your friends.

Yes, Playboy was plenty risque back in the 60s, but this photos is from the magazine as well.

In this case, it’s just all about the legs. After all, no one can ride a scooter in a dress that short!

Nostolgic photos from birthday parties are always going to be great keepsakes.

We just have one question – how did girls not end up with bathing suits uncomfortably full of water with all that extra fabric around the midsections?

Yet another truly wholesome pic.

From the curlers to the nightgowns this is one sweet sleepover.

What do you think? Sunday dinner?

Or maybe Thanksgiving since it looks like there might be two sets of grandparents.

Either way, that’s one impressive stack of white bread on the table!

Sorry, we just had to include one black and white photo after all the grief Boomers have been giving young people about the way they dress when they go out.

Is the grocery store not “out”? We’re pretty sure it’s a public place.

Here, we have two elegant ladies forced to use a separate entrance just because of their skin color.

It doesn’t take long to realize this is part of a more shameful past – one that was happening side-by-side with all the rest of these fun-loving photos.

Dang, it looks like it’s Friday and the school secretary just quit her job and is showing everyone how she really likes to get down.

Props to her no matter what the situation.

Classic!

We remember lining up on those bleachers and being shifted around constantly by the class photographer.

We’re just pleased they got those epic knee socks in the shot!

We can’t decide if this looks more like a shotgun wedding or if these two friends just really didn’t want to be at prom together.

But it’s more about the fabulous formalwear anyway.

We don’t know what to say other than “wow.”

We will think of this with great bitterness next time we get on a red-eye flight and cram ourselves into 1 square foot of space.

Drunk parents on New Year’s Eve – some things never change!

But that looks like a truly excellent party!

Well that’s a heck of a tree!

Apparently that’s what passed for fancy back in the 50s.

We miss banana seats! And bike baskets!

This little girl is the picture of 70s childhood perfection in her ruffled dress.

Isn’t it great when you find a photo of your mom from the 70s?

It’s always best to look for them if you’re a teenage girl about to ask if you can wear something she might consider too revealing.

We don’t know what was going on in Nebraska in 1958 but if you can explain this photo, please do.

In the meantime, make sure you find pet-safe dye if you’re going to do something silly like make your dog pink.

Wow, that’s a majestic beehive!

We imagine you have to be really careful at the pool so you don’t mess that up.

Ok, so we’ll just go ahead and admit that air travel was better “back then.”

It’s gonna be a LOOOOONG time before we see a cheese cart on an airplane again.

That wallpaper pattern might have circled back to being in style, but we beg people not to use this color palette ever again.

Were eyes less sensitive to color clashing in the 70s?

Have fun seeing straight for the next hour after THAT flash goes off!

And can we just talk about how long it must have taken for mom to get her hair that big? We hope she’s going somewhere besides the garage.

We’re pretty sure we’ve seen her exact outfit advertised to us recently on Instagram.

His, not so much.

And we think she might be loading tapes into a computer mainframe. But honestly, we’ve never seen a computer that big in our lives.

It’s wild to see a banana board and a literal space shuttle on the same tarmac.

Apparently, there were fewer safety precautions in place in the 70s.

At least this prom couple looks happy to be together.

Not that we can see what he’s really feeling – other than ruffly.

Remember when people had that one room in the house where they took photos and did pretty much nothing else?

It usually had a piano in it.

This one has a TV though, so perhaps this dapper young man’s family really did sit on that plastic while hanging out in the evening.

Muttonchops were a legit style of facial hair in the 60s.

We don’t understand it and it seems like it would be pretty uncomfortable, but they were around in the centuries before as well, so they must have some appeal.

This looks so French!

We love dad in his suit and tie, not wanting to get dirty on the family outing.

Well, if you’ve ever been to the French quarter you know it doesn’t look anything like this anymore!

But some of those antique shops are still there!

As for saddle shoes and plaid skirts – not so much.