25 Old School Cool Pictures Of What It Was Like To Be A Kid Back In The Day
I was born in 1982. Things are changing at such an exponential rate that it’s hard to even explain what it was like to be a kid before social media, the internet, and even having a phone all the time.
These old school cool pictures encapsulate what it was like to be a kid through various nostalgic time periods before all this modern technology.
1. Friend of mine told me to post here. Me in the mid 80’s.
2. Me in 1990. I will never be this cool again.
3. In 1991, my Alabama school photo featured me bursting through a paper wall, on a skateboard with no back wheel, sporting what some might call a mullet.
4. My dad and friends look like the cast of Stranger Things (1982)
5. Halloween back in the late 90’s when South Park first aired on television.
6. Mother helping her son through a tough level in Super Mario Land on Gameboy from 1989.
7. Here’s my mom coming to see me during her lunch break for my kindergarten graduation in 1988.
8. I was not a popular child. 1995.
9. Christmas 1981 – I had been begging for an Atari for months but was sure my mum couldn’t afford it. Was I ever surprised!
10. Little boy poses proudly on his nice 2 piece suit with matching hat and two tone shoes. Wachington D.C. 25 of April 1948.
11. My Dad, Shoveling Snow in 1932. He turned 96 Yesterday.
12. Incredibly sharp looking kids in Harlem, 1970
13. My father took a picture of me after my first girlfriend punched me in the eye – 1991
14. 1979. 13th Birthday. Mom made me the best cake ever.
15. 1967 – Me (front) and my Dad’s band. Dad is left rear.
16. My father and I carrying the 1984 Olympic torch.
17. Picture of a brother and sister in Chicago, 1945
18. Christmas 1983. My grandmother gives me the Atari 2600
19. Me in the 90’s. Why did my parents have to do me this way?
20. (1989) Me, age 4, so stoked for a Ghostbusters toy from my mom that I went full derp.
21. My dad doing his best to celebrate my 2nd birthday in 1995, when it was just the two of us for a while.
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23. First Day of First Grade – Me and my Mom 1974
24. 1979 – my middle school bus driver was the coolest.
25. Kids dressed for Halloween on a school bus. 1980s.
