People Are Sharing Pics Of Life Decades Ago That Reveal Lots Of New And Amazing Perspectives

There's nothing as good as sometimes looking at the pictures taken in the past and recalling a great time. For many people, things that happened years in the past very much define who they are at the moment. So, even though the only things that remain now may be memories and a few pictures, those are still as important and treasured as ever.
If you are interested in things in the past, there's a corner on Reddit called r/TheWayWeWere for you to visit. Here's the place where people share pictures of, sometimes, very distant times in the past. And thanks to that, we can get to know how life was at the time when our grand or great grandparents lived. In the list below are 25 pictures that are taken at least 50 years ago. They're like the scopes that allow you to look backward in time. Each picture carries a story that we believe you will enjoy. So, let's scroll down and have a look.

#1 My great-grandmother in the early 1900’s. Thought she looked too awesome not to share

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#2 Sisters in skirts, 1950s

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#3 This 1955 photo is one of Walter Chandoha’s most famous shots. “My daughter Paula and the kitten both ‘smiled’ for the camera at the same time. …But the cat’s not smiling, he’s meowing”

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#4 London's first black police officer, PC Norwell Roberts, on point duty near Charing Cross Station, 1968

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#5 Dad showing off his skill to the surprise of his little daughter in Melbourne, Australia, ca. 1940s

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#6 1945: The Day Daddy Came Home. Gunner Hector Murdoch had been gone over four years, most of it as a prisoner of war in Singapore. His wife Rosina and son John hadn't known if he was dead or alive. He got home on his birthday

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#7 Gay men pose for a photo while being detained at a police station for being homosexuals in Mexico, 1935

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#8 Two pals (1920)

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#9 Protesting the high school dress code that banned slacks for girls, Brooklyn c.1940

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#10 My Great-Great-Grandmother sometime in the 1890s

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#11 A Native American girl of the Kiowa tribe, Oklahoma, 1894

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#12 Cats Blackie & Brownie catching squirts of milk during milking at Arch Badertscher's dairy farm in Fresno, California, 1954

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#13 My Mom on her wedding day November 1951

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#14 My ridiculously attractive grandparents sitting for a portrait in the early 1940s

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#15 Mary Wallace: First female bus driver for Chicago Transit Authority (1974)

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#16 This is Hazel, my grandmother-in-law. 1916

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#17 My Great-Grandfather was too poor to afford a suit in Sicily, so he had to pose in front of a cardboard cut-out, 1930s~

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#18 My Grandfather, Great-Grandfather, Great-Great-Grandfather, and Great-Great-Great Grandmother, ca 1918

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#19 My grandpa (left) and his best friend Willie Hall during the Korean War. Those smiles say it all

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#20 My parents’ wedding photo, Okinawa, 1964

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#21 My mother made us matching dresses for a fancy party back in 1954

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#22 Grandma and Papa in 1937. She passed away today at 100 years old

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#23 A sailor "meets" his baby for the first time after fourteen months at sea, 1940s

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#24 “Our Michael”, 1938

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#25 My grandmother and mom circa 1974. My grandmother took my mother to national parks over the course of a few months, just the two of them

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