The people we aspired to be decades ago were much different than the celebrities young people looked up to today. The values of our past have nearly vanished, but I’m hoping that if everyone sees this, they might think differently about what “cool” was yesterday and what is considered “cool” today. . . really isn’t.
Share and remind everyone what “cool” used to be like!
Jim Waggaman
6 time Golden Globe winner Paul Newman boating in Venice during a film festival (1963)
Children of Chicago (1941)
The gorgeous necklines of the 1950s
A young Harrison Ford
A young boy stealing the show, back when middle school kids knew how to dance (1950)
Clint Eastwood with actresses Olive Sturgess and Dani Crayne in San Francisco, 1954
The original way to ‘text’ in Class (1944)
A gang of greasers in NYC, 1950
Teenagers and their first car (1950s)
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his cabinet – 1968. These men knew how to wear a suit.
Sophia Loren, one of the only actresses to win an Oscar, Grammy, and Golden Globe awards.
A famous quote of hers: “Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.“
A man ice skating in a suit (1937)
This is how teenagers dated in the 1950s
High school fashion feature in Life Magazine (1969)
Frank Sinatra stepping out of a helicopter with a drink
Dean Martin and Angie Dickinson on the set of Rio Bravo, 1959
Girl with typewriter and a smoke
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip at the horse races (1968)
Muhammad Ali looking dapper
Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger sit opposite each other on a train to Bangor . (1967)
Girl on a scooter (1969)
The definition of old school cool. Cary Grant in the 1950s