A lot of us are obsessed with vintage stuff nowadays, from clothes to music to generally wishing we had grown up in the 60s. We often forget, however, that our dear old parents were the ones who started all those trends we now admire.
Internet users are now sharing photos of their parents when they were young and hip, and it's pretty much safe to say that they were about a hundred times cooler than us. Maybe it was all the psychedelic rock, Mustangs, and mullets. Maybe it was the fact that, as one user commented, they "played outside and didn't have memes." Either way, the days of peace and love certainly look a lot more blissful than where we're at now.
Scroll down to take a walk back in time, and if you've got photos of your parents looking too cool for school, add them to our list.
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I Found A Photo Of My Dad Cooking A Barbecue On Top Of A Moving Submarine
My Dad Sculpting A Bust Of My Mom 1980s
A Friend Of My Father's, Telling Off A Klan Member. Auburn AL, 1985
My Mom In Moscow 1975. From All The Stories She's Told Me About Her Travels, I Wouldn't Be Surprised If She Was A Spy
My Dad's First Car, A 1939 Ford. He Bought It With His Own Money That He Earned Farming (And Drove It Daily). He Was 11 When He Bought It, So This Photo Was Taken In 1948
My Dad Wasn't Famous, But His Moves Were Pretty Cool (1977)
My Dad In Saudi Arabia In The 70's Working As A US Military Contractor Diving In The Red Sea
My Dad In The 70's Doing What He Loves. Father To 4 Boys. More Man Than Myth Or Legend
My Moms Selfie Before It Was Cool (1989)
My Mom When She Lived In Alaska With Her Husky Puppy, Okie
Mom's 'Garden' 1980's
Me Looking Up To My Fighter Pilot Dad In The Late 1980's
So I Was Going Through Some Old Photos And I Found This. My Dad Holding Magic Johnson And Looking Incredibly Bad-Ass While Doing It
My Mom Working At Nasa, 1974
My Mom Skating With A Broken Wrist In The Late 70's
Mom Wasn't The Pilot, But She Was A Tech On The F-4 Phantom Back In The 80's
My Mom Winning The Pie Eating Contest By Beating All The Boys, 1950
yeah! show 'em who's the boss! Girls are not only dresses and cooking ware! XD
My Father In 1982. When I Asked Him What He Was Doing In This Photo, He Said, "Shooting An Album Cover. Duh"
My Mother And Father Being Young And Awesome On Santorini Island, Greece, 1985. I Was Conceived There
My Dad And His Cousins, Back In The Day. I Don't Think The Cool Gene Was Passed Down To Me
When My Dad Was 16, He Entered His Name In A Drawing, For What He Thought Was A Sports Jacket, At A Local Shoe Store. The Drawing Was Actually For A 1967 Shelby GT500. He Won
My Friend's Dad Trained Seals In The Navy. This Was What His Everyday Job Looked Like
So he was working for the NAVY SEALS training real seals? That's amazing !
My Dad And His Pet Monkey In Vietnam, 1966
If that'd been my dad, he wold show this pic to everyone and he'd be like: "look, a photo with me and my newborn son " xD
My Mom Circa 1986
My Mom Thinks She Is So Hardcore In Her Fleetwood Mac Tank Top At Age 18, 1982
My Mom Being Infinitely Cooler Than I'll Ever Be... Without A Saddle (Late 70s)
My Dear Mom In The 70s With Her German Shepard And Manta
My Mom Bought A New '63 Corvette On Her Own At Age 20. She Owned Her Own Hair Salon In Midland, Tx
My Father Got Drunk With Some Friends And Caught A Record Breaking Tuna In Newfoundland, 1972
Found This In An Old Shoe Box At My Dad's. It's My Parents, 1990
My Dad Was A Legit Ski Instructor In The 1970's
Apparently My Dad Used To Ride 3 Wheeled Unicycles In Parades
I hurt myself just looking at this picture. How the hell does this even come to exist...
My Girlfriend's Dad After Flipping His '73 Mustang On The Highway
My Dad Giving A Thirsty Bear Some Soda Sometime In The 50's
Back then, people were walking around bears and cheetas like it was nothing. Nowadays some people are afraid of chocolate eggs with toys inside.
My Dad In Northern Montana, 1989
Here Is A Bad Ass Picture Of My Dad From The 80's. Gatorade In The Can Doing A Control Burn. He's The Shit And My Hero. My Grandfather Was A Firefighter Too Rip. The Real Heroes Are Firefighters, Cops And All Military!
My Dad When He Was 17 In A Small Village In The Netherlands, 1981. He'd Meet My Mom A Year Later
My Dad And His Fox Patricia (1987)
