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Me posing with President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter after I gave his wife a bouquet of roses to welcome them. (1989)
Teddy Roosevelt, 1910. He may be know for being shot and then giving speech whilst being wounded, but he was also a cowboy, a police commissioner in New York, invented the forward pass in American football, climbed a mountain while on his honeymoon and had a tattoo of his family's crest on his chestSubmitted by AbruptCedrus906 t3_117uk2w
My mom getting her Airborne pin, 1981.Submitted by pennylane_9 t3_117qqbx
Adolf "Adi" Dassler - German founder of Adidas (1915)Submitted by paperpenises t3_1176u8a
The slide at recess just hit different back in the 70's and 80's.Submitted by Cemeterywind666 t3_116wg2n
George Carlin and Richard Pryor appearing on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, 1981. Which four standups would you put on the Mount Rushmore of comedy?
My stepmom, 1971Submitted by vintagecheesewhore t3_114zkri
Skate punks waiting to see At The Drive In perform in a basement, Iowa summer 1997
A Cough drop salesman on the streets of London, 1877. “One Night Cough Syrup” was sold in the late 1800s, and it contained alcohol, cannabis, chloroform, and morphine. This mixture was available over the counter and promised to eliminate your cough in one night so you could sleep.Submitted by dannydutch1 t3_114ka4b
President Richard Nixon smelling a package of marijuana. Circa early 1970’s.Submitted by pingu68 t3_1149sst
Vice President Kamala Harris in the 1980sSubmitted by candyroxnrulz t3_1146tio
Some of the cast of the movie Heat, sans Al Pacino, circa 1995Submitted by knownothingwiseguy t3_1146g9i
Denzel Washington as honorary police chief during a Boys Club trip to a NY police station (1960s)
The only person to ever win a Nobel prize in two different fields, and her husband. C 1895
Nine-year-old Emmett Till (1950) enjoys time with his mom, Mamie Till Bradley. A white woman accused Emmett of offensive, flirtatious advances, and the local white men responded by abducting, beating, mutilating, shooting, and sinking Emmett in a nearby river. They were found “not guilty” of murder.Submitted by AdSnoo9734 t3_113ha3u
Jo-Raquel Tejada, a timeless bombshell (1970)Submitted by xenosthemutant t3_11397t0
My Wife (l) and friends at 80s frat partySubmitted by Big-Selection-676 t3_111o8ty
Bruce Willis taking a call on the set of Die Hard with a Vengeance (1994)Submitted by 1ks t3_111e4mn
Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star (1993)Submitted by Cool-Swordfish7223 t3_111dwuj
Me, 1980’s on a jungle airstrip in Belize, Central AmericaSubmitted by Glasspar52 t3_110pugw
My Bachelor party getting ready to board the RV we took to Vegas March 1990. Mistakes were made.
The Spice Girls, 1998.Submitted by hawktremor t3_10zxzuq
Shirley Temple posing by a painting of young Shirley Temple. 1945Submitted by vingins t3_10zp4et
Anti-communist militia fighter chasing down Securitate agents down the streets of Bucharest with an acquired AK-74 during the Romanian Revolution (December 1989)
Detroit Tigers Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson, age 50, 1984Submitted by nategolon t3_10yybgh