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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
Tuskegee airman James Flowers, born in 1915, is still alive at age 110 and is the oldest man in the United States. He will be 111 on Christmas Day.227715d ago
circa 1970s. Little Wrestling Fan is in Awe with Meeting 'Andre the Giant'103986d ago
My wife circa 1985 after watching Ghostbusters.102803d ago
Me, nearly 6, holding Raisa Gorbachev’s hand during the historic Bush–Gorbachev Malta Summit, December 1989.98833d ago
Audrey Hepburn walking her dog, Mr Famous, in Rome in 195788304d ago
Tippi Hedren photographed in 1982 with one of the pet tigers living in her California home.87253d ago
Adrian Street with his coalminer father, by Dennis Hutchinson, 197482134d ago
My dad–197258077d ago
Anthony Hopkins with his mother Muriel Anne. 193850156d ago
Zinedine Zidane visiting his childhood neighborhood in Marseille, a few months before France’s World Cup victory, 199844356d 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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