Recently we asked you to send us your pictures of your grandparents acting cool in their younger days, and you certainly didn't disappoint us. Now we're bringing you more examples of your grandparents being super smooth in their heyday. From grandmas chilling with Ernest Hemingway and modeling Volvos in the 1950s to grandfathers sledding through Antarctica, pulling off motorbike stunts, and even playing with their pet polar bears, this list, compiled by Bored Panda, will make you wonder just what on earth you're doing with your life. Don't forget to vote for the coolest character!
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Grandma Sent Me A Picture Of My Grandpa At My Age To Make Me Feel Like Shit
My Great Grandfather Gave Einstein Violin Lessons
This is why I like so-called old people. They have the absolute best stories.
My Grandparents Wearing Each Other's Clothes, 1943
My Grandmother, 1940s
Granny On The Wing Of My Dad's Cropduster Plane. She Did This A Few Times That I Know Of
My Grandmother. This Picture Was Next To Her Coffin At Her Funeral (Late 60s Or Early 70s)
My Granny (Nicknamed Kidd) Wasn't Allowed To Join The Air Force Because She Was A Woman. So She Taught Young Men To Fly In Stephenville, Texas During WW2 - 1940s
My Grandfather The Day Before He Shipped Out With The Marines, 1941
My Grandmother Right After She Ran Away From Communistic Bulgaria To Germany (1978)
Photo Of My Grandfather Exiting His Plane After Getting Shot Down
My Favorite Picture Of My Grandmother, 1942. She's Strong, Raised Six Children On Her Own After Leaving An Alcoholic Husband. Worked 7 Days A Week As A Cook In A Gas Station From 3 Am - 5 Pm. I Would Stay Every Weekend With Her And Sleep On The Floor Of The Gas Station Back Then. She's Amazing
please pass on my *absolute* respect to her. She did all of that in an era where there were no shelters for those leaving domestic abuse, there was no daycare, and divorced women were not looked on postively. She was, and IS, a truly courageous woman. I hope she has managed to create a really positive, peaceful, happy life for herself. :) <3 <3 <3
My Crazy Grandfather
This is my crazy grandfather. Hands down, the funniest old coot that's ever existed. On his deathbed, he told us (his grandkids) "Don't be cheap. Spend 25 cents and buy the paper. The Times promised me a big spread." He worked as a photographer for the LA Times for 50+ years and had many famous photos, including the first published photo of an atomic bomb explosion.
He was a man of many stories and an unforgettable sense of humor. After laying his wife and two sons to rest, he stayed strong and kept his spirit high. He battled prostate cancer for 20+ years and lived to see his 92nd birthday and his great grandchildren. RIP Grandpa
My Grandfather Was Into Cosplay Before It Was "The Thing To Do"
My Very Cool Grandpa In The 1950s Holding A Fish, Smoking A Cigarette, With A Book Tucked Into His Pants And Cigarette Pack In His Sleeve
My Grandma Smoking Her Cigarette On The Farm. Wearing Pants And Doing Whatever The Hell She Wanted, 1938
WW2 - My Badass Grandpa With A Car He Stole From Nazis
I Recently Lost My Grandmother To Cancer. This Will Always Be One Of My Favorite Photo Of Her
My Grandmother With Then-Mercury 7 Astronauts John Glenn, Gus Grissom, And Alan Shepherd (September 14th, 1959)
My Great Grandfather Showing Off One Of The Horses He Trained For WW1 - Petawawa, ~1922
My Great-Great Grandfather, The Samurai Of A Small Coal Mining Town In Kyushu, Posing With My Grandmother And One Of Her Sisters ~1900
My Great Grandmother, Working As A Welder During WW2
My Grandfather Died Today. I Want To Tell You What A Fucking Badass He Was
My Grandma Recently Passed. My Grandpa Sent Me This Picture So I Could Know What Man Looks Like When He Is In Love. They Were Married 60+ Years
If I Could Only Be Half As Badass As My Grandfather This Memorial Day, Circa 1960
My Great Grandpa Eddie. Omaha 1939
My Grandma As An Air Traffic Controller. She Would Have Been 97 On 3/11
My Grandfather's Badass Swandive, 1930
My Finnish Grandfather Smoking A Cigarette And Holding A Wild Fox That He Befriended (Circa 1975)
This Photo Always Puts A Smile On My Face. Our 86-Year-Old Grandmother Back In The Day
My Grandma Modeling In Her Flight Attendant Uniform - 1972
My Great-Grandmother In Her New Car. She Was Most Likely The First Indian Woman In The Western US To Own A Car (April 7, 1916)
Grandmother Died Last Week, She Was A Naval Nurse
My Grandparents In 1960, On A Date. My Favorite Picture
So Apparently My Grandpa Was A Badass
My Grandmother On Her Harley In 1926
My Grandpa's FBI Academy Photo. He Worked As A Spy Recruiter During The Cold War
My Grandmother Demonstrating The Three-Point Belt As A Model For Volvo In 1959
The Last Photo In My Grandparents Wedding Album (1954)
My Grandfather Defusing A Bomb On Martin Luther King's Porch. He Was Buried Three Years Ago On MLK Day
My Grandmother Turned 98 This Week. This Is Her In Her Full Nursing Uniform During WW2
My Stud Grandfather Circa WW2. He Watched Pearl Harbor Happen In Hawaii, Joined Up And Fought On A Gunboat At Iwo Jima That Was Hit By Enemy Fire. He Surfed With Legends In Honolulu. He Was A Barber For 60 Years
Ernest Hemingway And My Grandma Having A Chat In Havana, Cuba 1952
My Friend's Grandparents, California, 1940s
My Grandmother Looked Like Arya Stark In 1936
My Grandfather On A Motorcycle He Stole From A Nazi, Weeks After American Troops Liberated Him From A Concentration Camp In Landsberg, Germany (May 1945). He Had Spent 4 Years In Concentration Camps Around Poland And Germany
My Grandmother With Sultan, Her Favorite Lion From Her Troop, In Front Of Her Plane She Flew Just After WW2 (1947)
My Grandfather After Winning 1st Place In The County Beard Contest. The Hat Was His Prize. Circa 1954
I Would Always Call My Grandmother On Mother's Day, And Have Missed That Call For A Few Years Now. Thought I Would Share This In Her Honor
My Grandma (Top) Was A Badass In Ww2 (1940s)
Don't Mess With My Great Grandmother Emma Hagen, Woman Homesteader In North Dakota, 1910s
My Grandmother (Left) Kissing Louis Armstrong 1954/55
A Photo Of Herself That My Grandmother Sent To My Grandfather When He Was Away At War, 1943
My Grandmother Singing Backup For Frank Sinatra, 1949
My Grandfather In 1958 With His Fresh New Haircut And 5 Pet Flying Squirrels
One Of The Only Photographs Of My Grandmother. I Only Wish I Had The Pleasure Of Meeting Her
My Great Grandfather, Clearly Quite Impressed With Himself, Had Just Built His Perkins County, South Dakota Homestead When This Photo Was Taken In 1909
Constance, My Great Grandmother, Living It Up In Brooklyn - 1920s
Apparently My Grandpa Was A Badass - He Dove Under Submarines In The North Atlantic Carrying Heavy Welding Equipment
Found This Magazine Clipping Of My Grandmother. She Used To Model And No One Ever Knew This About Her
Wow!! Gorgeous for sure!! But, Now I'm even MORE intrigued to know... Just HOW in the World did NO ONE EVER know this about her!!?? And, if she never let anyone know this part of her life, (which Definitely doesn't seem to be Anything to hide or be ashamed of!!) ...then WHY didn't she ever share this with her Family & Loved ones? And furthermore, What OTHER sorts of COOL, EXCITING, NEAT, ADVENTUROUS things did she have "Hidden in her Closet of Secrets"!!?? Bet whatever there is, It WILL BE FASCINATING for you & all your Family if u do dig and find anymore!!
My Grandparents Travelled The World In 1961. They Did It Again 35 Years Later And Wrote A Book About It. They Inspire Me
My Great-Grandfather Albert. He Was Shot, Stabbed, Gassed, And On This Day In 1917, Was The Only Man To Return From A Trench Raiding Party
My Nana, My Best Friend, Passed Away Last Week At The Age Of 77. Here She Is At 18 During Her Modeling Days
Found A Bunch Of My Grandfather's Bodybuilding Photos! He's Going To Be 98 This Year And Still Rides His Exercise Bike Daily
Just My Grandfather As A 19-Year-Old DJ In Tripoli, 1948
My Badass Grandpa
My 4-Greats Grandpa Was Handsome And Dangerous (Circa 1860)
I Found A Picture Of My Grandparents Back In The '30s Looking Awesome
My Grandfather Died Last Week, We Found A Photo Of Him From His Younger Days. Classy As Fuck
My Grandparents Traveling For National Geographic
My Grandfather Surveying In Alaska 1950. He Was A Cartographer For The USGS
Realizing I’ll Never Be As Cool As My Grandparents (1949)
we had it all but you could be like them just keep your jeans up around the waist lol
My Grandfather (Left) And A Friend Of His In Front Of The Central Station In Hamburg, Germany. He Was A Chimney Sweeper. This Picture Was Taken In 1948
Chim chim-in-ey, chim chim-in-ey, chim chim cher-ee! A sweep is as lucky, as lucky can be!
My Grandparents Taking A Mirror Selfie In The Mid 1960s On Their Super8 Camera
My Grandparents In The 1950s With One Of Their Motorcycles
My Grandpa With His Sled Dogs In Antarctica 1953(Ish)
So Proud Of My Grandfather - WW2 Vet With Class
The World Needs To See This Picture Of My Grandfather Waterskiing
Oh my gosh! I water skii and I just... The sheer gall of this picture! And the wipe out afterwords would have been spectacular! He was a real BA
My Grandpa And Grandma Circa 1950
Since You Guys Liked Him, Here Is My Grandfather Again, Mapping The Continental Divide. Colorado, 1953
I Found Out That My Grandfather Was In Circus (Second Man On The Left). He Was Wilhelm Metz, The Most Flexible Man In The Europe. I Can't Even Touch My Toes With The Tip Of My Fingers, So It Does Not Seem To Run In The Family
My Grandma Posing With Her Corgis (1970s)
My Grandparents Circa 1950s. They Never Had Much Money And Would Throw Parties Making Fun Of Rich People
Grandma Was A Gangster
My Grandmother, About 13-Years-Old, Playing Evil Queen In School Play, Just Before The Outbreak Of WW2
My Grandpa (Far Left) With Some Babes On Babes, 1940s
My Great-Grandparents. Original Gangsters In Uniontown, Washington
My Great-Grandmother And Her Sister Going For The Creepy Twin Look
My Great Aunt Posing, While My Grandpa Fixes His Car, 1940s
My (Now) 94-Year-Old Grandma Smoking A Cigarette In The 1940s
My Grandfather Lived In Greenland And Had A Pet Polar Bear Which Is Kind Of Badass
This Photo Is Of My Badass Grandpa Sending It Down Grouse Mt Back In 1938. On Skis He Made Himself
Ladies And Gentlemen, I Present You You My Grandmother
My Grandfather And His WW2 Hand Welded Motorcyle Navy Seabees
My Grandfather, The Magician (1940s)
My Dad Doing A Handstand On My Granddad's Arm
My Grandmother Passed Away This Week And We Were Going Through Old Photos After The Funeral And Found This Little Gem Of Her And My Grandpa
This made me smile, they look like they are having a good time here!
My Grandpa At The Age Of 17 In 1947
My Grandfather Circa 1950. Super Suave
My Grandma In 1973 When She Was 40
My Wonderful Grandparents In A Photo Booth In 1952
My Granddad Took A Selfie In 1924
My Korean Grandparents At Their Traditional Wedding, 1950's
My Grandma On Her Horse
My Grandpa On His 1957 Triumph Trophy. He Still Has It Today (Early 60s)
My Grandma At A 1920's Party
My Grandma Looking Stylish Atop Her Ride, 1950s
My Nana, Florence Recher - Left Home At 14 To Dance - Ended Up On Stage With Sally Rand In The 30s. This Was Taken Around 1928 Or So.
To Sergui "here I will combine two into one (there are two submissions of the same grandmother)" Courtesy Google translate.
My Grandpa And Grandma Circa 1949, Captured After A Movie In Fort Worth. They're 88 And 91 This Year And Still Fantastic
My Grandfather's Best Friends In High School Were Troublemakers, Not That This Picture Would Imply It (1939)
My Grandma Circa 1938. Grandpa Carried This Picture In His Field Book During WW2
Grandpa At The Lake House (1962)
What My Grandfather Drove Back In The Day
I'd Like To Share My Late (Badass) Grandpa. Taken In Ellensburg, Washington, On His Family's Settlement. Love You Gramps, Miss You So Much. Circa 1950's I Believe
My Grandpa, Rolling Hard Through Germany Near The End Of WW2
Great Grandfather Looking Dope In His 20's (1910s)
My Grandfather Passed Away Yesterday. We Found This Today
My Granddad & Darth Vader
My Grandmother In 1927
This photo is absolutely what "Abuelas revolucionarias" by María Herrera-Sobek portrays!
Miss Magnolia, My Grandma. She Was A Beauty Queen In The 30s And 40s And Was Miss Magnolia And Runner-Up Miss Arkansas (I Think In 1939 But I'm Not Sure). Sadly, I Never Got To Meet Her But Have Heard Great Stories Over The Years
My Grandma Being A Badass In The Early 40s. She Will Be 95 Next Month
You are so fortunate to still have her! Have her tell her stories to you, and write them down.
For Mother's Day I Present My Badass Grandma
My Best Friend's Grandparents Dressed Up For A Costume Party On A Cruise Ship In 1954
My Grandpa Could Drink You Under The Table, Then Kick The Shit Out Of You
My Gorgeous Granny Back In 1963, Right When Bikinis Started To Be Acceptable
My Granddad Just Showed Me His First Selfie
My Grandma Killing The Plaid Game (1942)
With Her “Soulmate” (Not My Grandfather!) In San Diego
My Grandfather Casually Looking On As Nuclear Weapon Detonates In The Distance
My Grandfather In Venice In The Early 50's
My Grandfather & His Friend, Circa 1942
My Grandparents In The 40s
Badass Grandad. This Is Him Breaking In And Standing On The Roof Of Belfast City Hall To Raise Money For Charity During Rag Week In Med School
Would have paid good money to see this, maybe even now. Awesome to see something from here for a change :)
My Grandpa Jack In 1945 On The Uss Essex.
My Grandpa In 1970
My Grandfather Lighting A Cigarette From A Street Lamp. What A Dude
My Grandpa On His Harley Ca. 1955. Grandma Made Him Sell It After My Dad Was Born.
My Grandmom On Atlantic City Boardwalk In The 40s
I think the middle and left we're sisters. Same nose and shape of face.
My Grandfather Was A WW2 Pilot, This Is My Grandmother Posing On The Wing Of A Plane
My Grandpa Would've Been 95-Years-Old Yesterday. Here He Is In The 1940s Looking Like A Boss
My Great Grandfather, Posing With His Bicycle In 1894
My Great Great Grandfather Looks Like A 2016 Hipster (1920s)
My Grandmother In The Late 1950s - Early 1960s. This Was Around The Time She Went On A Date With George Carlin While He Was A DJ Out Of Shreveport
My Grandmother In WW2. Northern Winter 1944/45
other than freezing her legs off this women looks equal to the men. not American i take it. but she shouldnt be pointing that gun at that dude.
Found Out My Grandma Was On The Cover Of A Bowling Magazine
Awesome Picture Of My Grandfather Who Was A Golden Gloves Champion Boxer (Circa 1936, Brooklyn, N.Y.)
My Grandfather Outside His Butcher Shop In Downtown St. Louis In The 1940s. I Miss Him
My Grandmother, Wearing Her Adventure Pants
Grandma And Grandpa During Their Day
My Grandpa On Base In Korea During The Korean War
My Grandmother And Grandfather On Their Wedding Day, 1956. They Originally Met When She Was 13 And He Was 16
My Grandfather In His Navy Days, 1940s
My Grandmother Would Have Been 94 Today And She Was Badass
My Grandpa As Drummer In A 4-Man Band
My Grandmother Sometime In The Early 50's. I've Heard She Was A Hell Of A Shot
My Grandfather And Grandmother George And Jennifer Stricker
Taught My 96-Year-Old Grandfather The Word "Selfie" Today After He Showed Me A Picture Of Himself From 1947. You're Awesome, Grampy
Grandfather Circa 1940. You Can Smell The Testosterone
My Grandfather Was The Coolest Guy I've Ever Known. This Is Him After Winning A Boxing Match For The National Guard During WW2
Grandma Posing On The Car
My Grandma On A Fake Bucking Bronco
Do you know where this was taken? I have one of my grandma on this exact horse! We’re from Canada but I suspect it was taken in the USA
How Cool Is My Grandfather George
So awesome. I need more. Make this a permanent sub category. It would be a huge hit I bet.
if you want more, go to reddit where this is from originate.
Load More Replies...bottom of the 17th page is a picture from the Army of Darkness movie. ar-5a0b90a4846f2.jpg
The last one...#162 is B.S.That's Bruce Campbell from Army of Darkness
Wow, just wow. As kids we always though old people had always looked old. Now that I'm old too, I have become invisible to the younger generation, just as they were invisible to me as a youth. How nice to see beautiful people who grew old and kicked a*s. Thanks for posting these.
Imagine what grandparent photos will look like 50 years from now, haha. "Here is my grandma taking a selfie in front of the toilet wearing her new leopard print cardigan." "Here's my grandpa in his hipster phase eating a muffin."
Why are there no black and native American grandparent's represented?
My grandmother Kip was a Women Air Service Pilot in WWII. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Airforce_Service_Pilots ) If the US military used it, she could fly it. She and her sister WASPs ferried planes all over the world to free up men pilots for military actions. She flew all her life, until we lost her - much too soon - in 1980. She used to fly planes UNDER the bridges on the Hudson River... definitely bad a*s. 😎 9221-5d767...1dc63d.jpg
This Grand parents's article is awesome, even better that the parents' article. I loved it! It has me wondering who are all these ppl who had these awesome, badass & good looking grand parents????!! And are they just has goodlooking, bad a*s and awesome???!!
This is a wonderful list. It has marvellous pictures and warm, loving comments. It was a joy to see - thank you!
This is amazing. Each photo is a book or a movie story. What am I about to show my future grandkids? This is a grandpa and his avocado sandwich and on the other 53 photos, you have the same sandwich just different angle...
Please add more folks! Not a Reddit fan so I'd love to see more here instead.
Picture # 8 -- is that right? The tires and rims on that car she's leaning against looks modern. Also I think that's a modern day model.
So many beautiful women and macho men.....the history here just drips from this article...love it!!!
My Mom - circa 1940 - she was a Messing Officer in the RCAF. Mom-May-19...78350a.jpg
Love these photos. We tend to look at older people and think we invented everything but these oldies probably did more in their day than we ever will
I have my doubts about the authenticity of some of these photos, but I'm impressed.
#162....so, your grandpa was Bruce Campbell (has both arms) in Army of Darkness?
#162 Is a photo of actor Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead! https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/bruce-campbell_612x380_1.jpg?w=612
#162 is Bruce Campbell from Army of Darkness - if that's BS how many others are BS?
If you have the time use tineye.com and find out.
Load More Replies...should say something about how weak we are now compared to our heritage - today's generation is a sad thing
Really fantastic photos of really good looking people that look like they accomplished at lot in their lifetime
Of all the bored panda layouts that I have seen, this one on grand parents is the best!
My Grandpa and Grandma were tourist instructors in Soviet Union and to my age have travelled far more than I. But I hope to visit some mountains they have climbed.
"What do you think ?"... well now i think I want to do your grandma.
Some good ones but some people are exaggerating their claims. I'm afraid that smoking a cigarette does not make them cool.
It did back then, it no longer does today; there wasn't as much evidence for how bad it is. Don't look down on them, going back in time people had much less to work with, yet some of them were still awesome.
Load More Replies...Great pictures , but the persons on the picture seem to be alway different ones?!
So awesome. I need more. Make this a permanent sub category. It would be a huge hit I bet.
if you want more, go to reddit where this is from originate.
Load More Replies...bottom of the 17th page is a picture from the Army of Darkness movie. ar-5a0b90a4846f2.jpg
The last one...#162 is B.S.That's Bruce Campbell from Army of Darkness
Wow, just wow. As kids we always though old people had always looked old. Now that I'm old too, I have become invisible to the younger generation, just as they were invisible to me as a youth. How nice to see beautiful people who grew old and kicked a*s. Thanks for posting these.
Imagine what grandparent photos will look like 50 years from now, haha. "Here is my grandma taking a selfie in front of the toilet wearing her new leopard print cardigan." "Here's my grandpa in his hipster phase eating a muffin."
Why are there no black and native American grandparent's represented?
My grandmother Kip was a Women Air Service Pilot in WWII. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Airforce_Service_Pilots ) If the US military used it, she could fly it. She and her sister WASPs ferried planes all over the world to free up men pilots for military actions. She flew all her life, until we lost her - much too soon - in 1980. She used to fly planes UNDER the bridges on the Hudson River... definitely bad a*s. 😎 9221-5d767...1dc63d.jpg
This Grand parents's article is awesome, even better that the parents' article. I loved it! It has me wondering who are all these ppl who had these awesome, badass & good looking grand parents????!! And are they just has goodlooking, bad a*s and awesome???!!
This is a wonderful list. It has marvellous pictures and warm, loving comments. It was a joy to see - thank you!
This is amazing. Each photo is a book or a movie story. What am I about to show my future grandkids? This is a grandpa and his avocado sandwich and on the other 53 photos, you have the same sandwich just different angle...
Please add more folks! Not a Reddit fan so I'd love to see more here instead.
Picture # 8 -- is that right? The tires and rims on that car she's leaning against looks modern. Also I think that's a modern day model.
So many beautiful women and macho men.....the history here just drips from this article...love it!!!
My Mom - circa 1940 - she was a Messing Officer in the RCAF. Mom-May-19...78350a.jpg
Love these photos. We tend to look at older people and think we invented everything but these oldies probably did more in their day than we ever will
I have my doubts about the authenticity of some of these photos, but I'm impressed.
#162....so, your grandpa was Bruce Campbell (has both arms) in Army of Darkness?
#162 Is a photo of actor Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead! https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/bruce-campbell_612x380_1.jpg?w=612
#162 is Bruce Campbell from Army of Darkness - if that's BS how many others are BS?
If you have the time use tineye.com and find out.
Load More Replies...should say something about how weak we are now compared to our heritage - today's generation is a sad thing
Really fantastic photos of really good looking people that look like they accomplished at lot in their lifetime
Of all the bored panda layouts that I have seen, this one on grand parents is the best!
My Grandpa and Grandma were tourist instructors in Soviet Union and to my age have travelled far more than I. But I hope to visit some mountains they have climbed.
"What do you think ?"... well now i think I want to do your grandma.
Some good ones but some people are exaggerating their claims. I'm afraid that smoking a cigarette does not make them cool.
It did back then, it no longer does today; there wasn't as much evidence for how bad it is. Don't look down on them, going back in time people had much less to work with, yet some of them were still awesome.
Load More Replies...Great pictures , but the persons on the picture seem to be alway different ones?!