50 Pics Of People From Years Ago That Give Us A Look Into How Things Have Changed (New Pics)
Old photos can transport you back to the past like nothing else. Whenever you're nostalgic, you can just open a photo album and let those memories flood you. It might also tell a story if you're not the person in the picture.
The subreddit r/TheWayWeWere creates bittersweet, nostalgic emotions, similar to opening up a photo album. In the group, people share their most cherished moments from the past in a photo format. Without further ado, check out our collection of these memorable pics.
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Native Woman And Child. King Island, Alaska. Photo Taken Between 1915 And 1925
My Grandmother In Her First Portrait, 1886
Biracial Family Circa 1900
Farm Boy With A Newly-Born Lamb :: 1940
Dancing In Paris, Circa 1951
Navajo Girl Wearing Silver And Turquoise Squash Blossom Jewelry, 1950
Lace Making In Brittany France 1920
Proud Community Grocery Store Owner, Harlem, 1940
My Dad As A Baby In 1928. This Little Guy Lived To Be 94! He Had A Very Good Life
Young Woman Dressed For An Evening Out, Detroit, 1968
Te Ata,“Bearer Of The Morning", Of The Chickasaw Nation Was Born In 1895, Near Emet, Oklahoma. She Was A Storyteller For 60 Years, Relating The Myths, Legends And Chants Of Her People, While Also Pursuing A Stage Career
My Grandparents' Marriage (1951, Tripoli, Libya). Today Is Their 72nd Wedding Anniversary And They Are Still Going Strong!
The outfits! Is your grandpa dressed up in Scottish clothes? Or is it Libyan? I'm confused now, but very in love
Damascus, Syria Mid 1970s
A Little Girl Sits On The Lap Of Her Great-Great Grandmother, Mississippi, C. 1936
Woman Talking On A Payphone, 1980s
Mommy's Girls, C. 1940's
Couple, Photo Booth, 1960s
Fireman Rescues Torah Scrolls From A Burning Synagogue, 1940's
My Mom - Italy, 1963
My Mom On Her Wedding Day, 1947
Debutante Ball. Harlem, Early 1960s
At The Puppet Show, Paris 1963
So cute how the cheeks must be kept warm at all costs but the knees are left to freeze! :D It's an adorable photo. I love how they are holding hands at the scary part.
This Is A Picture Of My Great Grandparents On The Night They Got Engaged. Circa Early 1900s I Believe?
My Great Grandmother’s Portrait Probably Taken Sometime In The 1920s
Woodcutter Spending His Saturday Night At A Bar In Craigville, Minnesota (1937)
My Mother Working As A Secretary In Los Angeles County, 1980
Young Couple At A Club In Mali. Photo By Malick Sidibé Dec. 24, 1963
Me Posing With My Sweet Grandmother Sixty-Four Years Ago Today On The Occasion Of My Fifth Birthday, 1958
Verrazano Narrows During Construction, Early 60s
Greenland Tots. 1973
Adorable Series Of Mother And Daughter Photographs From 1900
The Closed Bed, Or Box Bed, Was A Traditional Piece Of Furniture. In Houses With Only One Room, The Box Bed Allowed A Certain Intimacy And Helped To Keep Warm During The Winter. Due To Fashion And The Cost Of Their Manufacture, Box Beds Were Gradually Abandoned In The 19th And 20th Centuries
My 17 Year Old Mom On Her Wedding Day In 1966
Teddy Girls In 1955 - Their Subculture Centred Around A Still-Bomb-Damaged London
Television Shopping In 1974
My Grandparents Wedding Photo From The 1940s. Poor Farmers They Couldn't Afford A Real Wedding Dress, So Grandma Wore Her Best Sunday Dress Which Happened To Be Navy Blue
My In-Laws In The Early ‘70’s
Happy Family Taking Home Their Book Haul From The Cincinnati Library Bookmobile In 1940
Christmas, 1964, Poor But Happy
My Dad And His Sisters, Late 1950s. Dad Was The Last To Go- We Lost Him Last Week. ❤️
My Grandmother, An Appalachian Woman At Heart Always, Born In 1945
There Were No Mobile Phones In The 1970′s, So Students In This Girls' Dormitory Often Lined Up To Make Calls To Friends And Family
My Grandmother At 16 , The Japanese Had Already Invaded Guam And At 14 She Was Assigned To Take "Care" Of Japanese Officers
Star Trek Show Crew With Enterprise Ship Prop 1964
Wow, they even look younger....they must have done a slingshot maneuver around the Sun.
Not only looks alike but stands the same as well.
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Must have been one of those hidden pockets beyond the reach of Ladybird Johnson's Make America Beautiful campaign.
I'm surprised no one had stolen it. Don't leave props lying around in public for 50 years.
The comments here lol . Just funny that both guys on the left are wearing overalls
Amazing that some aerospace company hasn't tried to build an actual large-scale operational replica of this ship.
Operational in what sense? You could do it on the ground as a theme hotel, but the shape doesn't work for flying in atmosphere. (They designed it that way on purpose, and invented the transporter beam, so they wouldn't have to blow their special effects budget landing the ship every week. Gene Roddenberry was a pilot, so he had some knowledge of aerodynamics.) I have no idea whether it's possible to keep something that shape in orbit, but even if it is, you have to get it up there somehow.
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It's a different model. The tips of the warp nacelles are clear instead of red, the bridge is a slightly different shape, and there are additional windows on the saucer section.
You were downvoted. But that was my initial thought as well. And maybe rightly so, since a new CG model, built from caliper measurements of the original eleven-foot physical model, was created for use in the remastered and recreated version of The Original Series. So it is indeed possible.
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A Couple Of Victorian Travellers, 1890s
Beach Party, 1970s
5-Year-Old Harold Walker Picks 20 To 25 Pounds Of Cotton A Day, Oklahoma, 1916
The Panama Slide In Coney Island After It Was Built In 1908. Very Popular At Time, Especially With Adults!
My Grandfather In His Recliner Next To The Old Wood Stove. 1980. He Was 86
My Life’s Journey, From A Kid In The 1950’s To Current Day. I’ll Be 68 This Year. It’s Been A Great Ride
They Never Should Have Eliminated Nap Time. 1950s
I remember nap time in secondary schools in the 70s - only we called it "Geography"
My Parents In The Mid 1940s. I’ve Always Loved This Picture
Schoolgirls In Hyde Park Protest Caning, 1972
The Oldest Photo In My Family, Taken Around 1845 Of My 5th Great Grandparents
My Mom, 1972. She Would Have Been 69 Today
This Woman On The Beach Has A Very Contemporary Look About Her Despite The Fact The Photo Is From The Mid 1920s
Dating On The Fire Escape, 1946
Children Wearing Straw Capes On Their Way To A New Year's Event In Niigata, Japan In 1956
My Grandma In The 1940’s. She’s 99 Years Old Now And Still Going Strong
My Grandfather (Center) On His Family Farm In The Catskills With Some Friends Circa 1915
My Mam, Her Whole Life Ahead Of Her, 1970s
'irish Traveller Family', Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland, 1954
A Boy And His Dog Ready To Go Camping, Southern California, July 1969
Forced Perspective On The Beach, Circa 1943
Father And Son Goofing Off, 1910s
My Grandma, Born 1920, Was In Her 20s Here. She Worked As A "Rosie The Riveter" During Wwii!
My Father And His Dog "Thunder" In 1929
Got to love how serious this photo is until Thunder's facial expression!
My Grandpa Getting Shaved In Ww2 By His Buddy
My Paternal Grandparents Swimming, 1951
My Great Grandparents, Together Since High School. This Was About 1945, She Passed Away Last Year
Corona Del Mar High School Students, Newport Beach, California, 1969
I remember my mom had those tights with white go go boots & short shorts.
With Her Husband At War, Mom Works On The Woody, Ca. 1944. (Life Magazine)
My Great Grandparents On Their Wedding Day, 18 Days Before Pearl Harbor. She Was 22, He Was 20. Both Lived Into The Next Century
My Grandpa (Right) Being A Goof With One Of His Shipmates, Wwii
Class Photo, Missouri Rural School In The 1920′s. Many Bare Feet
I See A Lot Of People Post Flattering Photos Of The Past, This Ain't One Of Them. Here Is My 5 Year Old Grandmother (Bottom Left) And Her Family In 1924 In Tucker County Wv That I Found In An Ancestry.com Search
Summer 1979. Me And The Old Man Sitting Down For Lunch
Model Wearing Sweater With Heart Pierced By Jeweled Dagger. (1947) Photo By Nina Leen For Life. Colorized
Rural American Life In The First Half Of The 20th Century, By Mike Disfarmer, Whose Life Was A Mystery, And Whose Work Was Only Discovered Posthumously
Both Men And Women That Came Along To The Many Divorce Ranches In Nevada, Were Referred To As "Dudes". These Two Dudes Were Staying At The Flying Me Ranch In Washoe Valley, During Their Respective Divorces. 1947
A Young Man Demonstrating Against Low Pay For Teachers, Ca. 1930. “I Left School To Earn $21 A Week. My Teacher’s Pay Is $17.78 A Week.” Photo: Paul Thompson
In 1903 My Great Grandparents Family Went On Holiday From Long Island To Florida. In A Journal They Wrote Several Times About The Heat. You Can Almost Feel Their No-Ac Exhaustion In This Photo
The Crowded Beach Of Atlantic City Photographed In 1908
July, 1942: Children Leaving School. Dunklin County, Missouri
At The Beach. 1920's
Lovely.....she could be any girl in any era. Could have seen her on the beach this summer......very modern in so many ways.
Sandwiches For Sale. London, 1972
My Dad - Family Trip Across Canada 1974
Teenagers At An Elvis Presley Rock Concert In Philadelphia, 1957
My Mom Is Back, This Time Wishing You A Happy First Day Of Winter, And To Confess That She Took All The Tinsel During Christmas 1958
We had to stop putting tinsel on our tree because our dog would eat it like spaghetti and have sparkly poop.
Opal Cooper Baking And Canning In The Kitchen Of Her Farmhouse Near Radcliffe, Iowa, September 9, 1957
My Parents When They First Met
A Moment With My College Dormmates, 1972
Seventeen Year-Old On Her Wedding Day (1956)
I can't believe people used to marry that young! No school for you!
My Parents In August 1964
My Dad At 22-Years Old Cruising With His New Wife (My Mom) In 1958. [oc]
![My Dad At 22-Years Old Cruising With His New Wife (My Mom) In 1958. [oc]](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/64dcbb97aecad_kdkccadixtia1__700.jpg "My Dad At 22-Years Old Cruising With His New Wife (My Mom) In 1958. [oc]")
Coal Miner's Child Using A Hole In The Door To Enter A Bedroom ,1938
The Unexplained Photo, Circa 1955
Mom Keeping An Eye On Us Kids While On A Family Road Trip, 1963
Me At Age 17, 1953, Colorised (I Have The Original On My Profile)
This Great Photo Was Taken Near Allentown, Pennsylvania. I Am Certain Of The Date Because It Is Written On It, February 13, 1905. This Is One Of My Favorites And I Made Wallpaper Out Of It I Liked It So Much
A Young Girl Holds A Skunk At Summer Camp, 1963
As adorable as the skunk is, I'd be terrified of his poot hole to hold him
North Carolina Tobacco Queens In 'Tobacco Bikinis', 1950′s
People Of New York City At Lunchtime, Photos Taken Circa 1977-1980 By Charles H. Traub
1930. My Father, Age 25. He And My Mother Were On A Sight-Seeing Trip From Canton, Ohio To Niagara Falls. (I Think For Their 1-Year Anniversary.) They Stayed Overnight At These Cabins
My Great-Grandfather’s Mugshots, After He Was Arrested For Bigamy. December 1926, Australia
Photos From Previous Owner Of Our 1953 Home
Mugshot Of My 18yo Grandad From 1925
Continuous Matter Of Servitude - Airlines Terminal, Atlanta, Ga 1956, 2am Est
I have to comment, Growing up we had a woman come to our home 2x a week to clean, She would often also watch me. Bless you Georgie, you made a huge difference in my life. And I wish I knew you as an adult, So I could have thanked you.
Yearbook From 1929. The Way High Schoolers Were
My Grandma When She Was About 40 And A Few Months Before She Passed Away When She Was 90
I know they don’t show the second pic but grandma looked incredible at 90
I always love to see those. I have a lot of them, people that I knew when I was a kid, people who died before I was born but that I knew from the stories I was told. All those people were real, each important in their own way. They were nice, or not, or anywhere in between. They all lived, laughed, cried, loved, went through sh*tty or happy times. They existed, and all of them took à part, however small, in shaping the world as we now know it.
These are great! I have a whole bunch of similar photos. My parents were born in 1928 and only had me 21 years later, so I have a weird perspective on things - from people more than a generation older than me! (My mom's sister, born 1930, is still alive and kicking.)
Photo of my grandmother from the 1930s and one of her with my son a few months before she passed. She lived to be 99! Screen-Sho...19-png.jpg 
So incredibly sweet! What wonderful memories.
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I have a picture of me early 1970's as a toddler in the family frame tent somewhere camped in Wales, UK. That tent gaves us some great affordable holidays. Had to laugh the other day as I saw a festival offering expensive glamping option were they had repurposed old frame tents similar to ours. Mind 50 plus years ago Dad had to put it up first, the beds had to be inflated then made up and there wasn't carpet with a sheep skin on it. Mind we weren't paying daft money for the privilege.
I've always loved this photo of my grandma, approx 1950. Sylvie-651...bd9a9c.jpg 
Ladies, if you ever run across something that makes you involuntarily pause, what word are you going to use to describe it? Because "stunning" currently means any photograph of any woman.
Also, not that I think it will change anything: BP pleeeease more of these and less of AITA.
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Load More Replies... I always love to see those. I have a lot of them, people that I knew when I was a kid, people who died before I was born but that I knew from the stories I was told. All those people were real, each important in their own way. They were nice, or not, or anywhere in between. They all lived, laughed, cried, loved, went through sh*tty or happy times. They existed, and all of them took à part, however small, in shaping the world as we now know it.
These are great! I have a whole bunch of similar photos. My parents were born in 1928 and only had me 21 years later, so I have a weird perspective on things - from people more than a generation older than me! (My mom's sister, born 1930, is still alive and kicking.)
Photo of my grandmother from the 1930s and one of her with my son a few months before she passed. She lived to be 99! Screen-Sho...19-png.jpg
So incredibly sweet! What wonderful memories.
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I have a picture of me early 1970's as a toddler in the family frame tent somewhere camped in Wales, UK. That tent gaves us some great affordable holidays. Had to laugh the other day as I saw a festival offering expensive glamping option were they had repurposed old frame tents similar to ours. Mind 50 plus years ago Dad had to put it up first, the beds had to be inflated then made up and there wasn't carpet with a sheep skin on it. Mind we weren't paying daft money for the privilege.
I've always loved this photo of my grandma, approx 1950. Sylvie-651...bd9a9c.jpg
Ladies, if you ever run across something that makes you involuntarily pause, what word are you going to use to describe it? Because "stunning" currently means any photograph of any woman.
Also, not that I think it will change anything: BP pleeeease more of these and less of AITA.
Load More Replies... From reading the title, I wonder what you expected to see in this article, which so many people enjoyed so much. Did you notice all the upvotes and positive comments?
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