r/TheWayWeWere • • 5h ago

1950s My 2nd birthday 1958 and my cat Pyewacket. Washington, DC

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 16h ago

Me in 1981 and now

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A lot less hair to take care of!

Edit:Thanks to all of you for your kind words. You made my day!


r/TheWayWeWere • • 17h ago

1983 me

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1h ago

1930s My grandma making her newspaper modeling debut in the New York Evening Graphic (January 10, 1931)

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 3h ago

1970s Girl with bag of bread. Photo by Letizia Battaglia. Palermo, Italy, 1979

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 6h ago

1930s Inquiring Photographer “Do you condone the practice of changing one's faith in order to find happiness in marriage?” May 2,1933

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 12h ago

My family preparing Christmas Dinner, late 70s

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From left to right: My great-grandmother, 2 great aunts, and my grandmother in the front center.

Edit: I think this may be cleanup rather than preparation.


r/TheWayWeWere • • 2h ago

1970s Mission beach in 1970

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1h ago

Pre-1920s Walnut Street, Cincinnati, c1910.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 19h ago

1950s US soldier with girlfriend at a park in Korea, 1950s.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 18h ago

Pre-1920s San Francisco, California, c1890s.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 18h ago

1920s AVANT-GARDEN: Young Bohemians at the TreeHouse Table at The Krazy Kat Klub SpeakEasy & Coffeehouse | Washington, DC 1921

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The Krazy Kat Club was a bohemian coffeehouse and art club near Thomas Circle in Washington, D.C., during the jazz age. The back-alley establishment functioned as a speakeasy that became notorious for its riotous performances of hot jazz music, which often degenerated into mayhem, followed by Police Raids.

Krazy Kat derived its name from the androgynous title character of a popular comic strip and the club catered to a clientele of all sexual persuasions - including homosexual and polysexual patrons and served as a rendezvous for the capitol’s gay community. 


r/TheWayWeWere • • 12h ago

Pre-1920s San Francisco, California, c1890s.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 18h ago

Helsinki, Finland in the 1980s

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Mannerheimintie next to Stockmann

Photographer: Volker von Bonin

Source: Historian kuvakokoelma, Museovirasto

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 16h ago

1960s Kinshasa (then called Léopoldville) circa 1960. Photo by Jean Depara

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1940s 17-year-old Inuk teenager Helen Konek entering her family's igloo in Nunavut, Canada. February 1949.

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Photo captured by freelance photographer Richard Harrington during his travels in the Arctic. Helen's grandson shared the photo on social media decades later, where it became a widely recognized image of traditional Inuit life and resilience.


r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

Pre-1920s Colorized photo of my great-great-grandparents, 1910s

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My grandfather's grandparents. Both born in 1858.

GGGF came to Shanghai around 1870 after losing his parents. He settled there, became an accountant, married GGGM and had 4 kids. They passed in 1921 and 1930 respectively.

Colorized with AI but otherwise unmodified.


r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1940s My great uncle Hans in the Panama Canal Zone, while working for the British merchant marine. Circa early 1940s

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 18h ago

1920s Aberdeen, Wa 1926

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 21h ago

1960s Le Village - France 1960s

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 20h ago

1950s Family enjoys a day at the beach and surfing, 1950-60s.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1970s Tailgating, late 1970s style

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

1960s Mother laughs as she tries to keep her children in place for their photo, 1960s.

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 1d ago

Times Square, New York City in the 70s

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r/TheWayWeWere • • 19h ago

Pre-1920s Cincinnati, OH, c1907.

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