Skip to main content

Subreddits

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.

Search r/OldSchoolCool live, no signup →Get a free API key

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
American Painter Robert Henry De Niro and his little boy Robert Anthony De Niro, 1946.157084d ago
Patrick Stewart and a rescue dog named Blackie in London 1970115834d ago
Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter at work on a Habitat for Humanity project in the 1980s114273d ago
That legend in the front row…? That was Chuck. (Rural Ohio, 1989)92006d ago
Frederick Douglass's 1881 tribute to his late friend John Brown. Douglass declined to participate in Brown's ill-conceived but galvanizing 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia.84435d ago
Tim Burton and Lisa Marie Smith (1997)83197d ago
[NBA] Kareem Abdul-Jabbar rocks a rookie in his face (1976)77305d ago
Charles Bronson, age 48, smoking a pipe in 1969.76843d ago
Kitten Natividad 1970s actress61653d ago
Kathy Ireland. 198759946d 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.

Data above refreshed 3h ago — for real-time data, use the API or the Playground link above.