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r/OldSchoolCool

18,638,526 subscribers — /r/OldSchoolCool **History's cool kids, looking fantastic!** A pictorial and video celebration of history's coolest kids, everything from beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers. And everything in between. If you've found a photo, or a photo essay, of people from the past looking fantastic, here's the place to share it.

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Top posts this week

The 10 highest-scored posts from the last 7 days — ranking by real score over a week naturally filters out posts that got removed shortly after posting.

PostScorePosted
My mom and I, Ukraine, late 1980s317616d ago
My uncle “fly” on opening day of his record store, mid 1980s144677d ago
Some old bodybuilding pictures of my grandpa (early 1950s)124475d ago
1992 HS graduation123944d ago
Elvis meets two fans paralyzed from polio.Girl in the wheelchair presents him with a scrapbook made with her mouth, 1957122626d ago
1984. Me at the mall. Beauty contest.119977d ago
A British punk pays his respects after the death of Princess Diana in 1997107573d ago
Special effects designer Douglas Trumbull, pictured with the model of the Tyrell Corporation’s pyramid building on the set of "Blade Runner" (1982)95952d ago
Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano, and Jennifer Tilly bound together in a hot tub in 1996.86886d ago
Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte for “Tan” magazine (1955)77976d ago

Posting rules

  • Rule 1 – Must be 25 years old or more
  • Rule 2 – Must have year or decade in the title
  • Rule 3 – No offensive comments, offensive submissions or repost spam
  • Rule 4 – Don't mention death of relative in title
  • Rule 5 – No reposts less than 6 months old
  • Rule 6 – Must feature a person
  • Rule 7. No publicity photos of celebrities - (photos of celebs living life are fine)
  • Rule 8 - No TV clips, movie clips or stills ( videos of live performances + home video are fine)

Pull this with the API

1 credit per page — this exact request:

curl
curl "https://api.threadsnoop.com/v1/posts?subreddit=OldSchoolCool&limit=25" \
  -H "x-api-key: ts_live_YOUR_KEY"

See /docs/posts for pagination, filtering with q=, and full response shape, or /docs/subreddits for the rules endpoint used above.

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