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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 1980s317614d ago
Throwback to 1995 when Sandra Bullock became the first person in history to buy a movie ticket online and simultaneously came up with the concept of double-verification184146d ago
My uncle “fly” on opening day of his record store, mid 1980s144675d ago
I loved how the Superman series from 1948 made Superman fly by switching the live-action footage of actor Kirk Alyn into hand-drawn animation the moment he took off into the air.131786d ago
Some old bodybuilding pictures of my grandpa (early 1950s)124473d ago
1992 HS graduation123942d ago
Elvis meets two fans paralyzed from polio.Girl in the wheelchair presents him with a scrapbook made with her mouth, 1957122624d ago
1984. Me at the mall. Beauty contest.119975d ago
Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano, and Jennifer Tilly bound together in a hot tub in 1996.86884d ago
Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte for “Tan” magazine (1955)77974d 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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