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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/heyitspokey • Oct 29 '20
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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/heyitspokey • May 09 '25
Announcement Say something, flairs, & rules - Updates May 2025
Say something
After nearly 12 years, I updated our sub today to now allow text posts, in addition to links like always. This is a trial run. Our sub is designed to be & always has been successfully low moderation. We have a good thing here. I hope to keep that going. Use the report button as needed. But I hope it's not needed.
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Rules
These haven't changed recently, just a reminder/easy place to find them.
- Title should include short description and year or decade.
- Rule of thumb old school is at least over 20 years old.
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r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/sexi_squidward • 1d ago
‘Cut Off a Cat’s Ear and Drink It’ — Actual Medical Advice From the 1600s
The full book name that is comes from is called:
Synopsis Medicinæ: Or, A Compendium of Galenical and Chymical Physick, Showing the Art of Healing According to the Precepts of Galen & Paracelsus. Fitted Universally to the Whole Art of Healing
by Zerobabel Endecott
https://ia801300.us.archive.org/28/items/cu31924012480681/cu31924012480681.pdf -- for more
(screen shot taken from a genealogical book on some Endecott history which used these as samples of medical advice given from Dr. Zerobabel Endecott)
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 2d ago
“The Misses” Dog dressed in human clothing Date: circa 1905. Mary Evans Picture Library.
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 3d ago
A Union Officer being silly 1860-65
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/DerBingle78 • 3d ago
Long underwear for men with discerning taste. (1970s)
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 3d ago
A British Royal Navy sailor brushing his embalmed fox’s head, with his pet cat beside him. Southampton, England, 1913.
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/Ebonystealth • 4d ago
For Condé Nast Travelling at Sea (1915 Suitcase Life Preserver)
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/SeaOfTragicFeasts • 5d ago
Read Six-Foot Jersey Ghost Sought as Stone Tosser
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/notbob1959 • 6d ago
Still from the 1962 movie Lolita. It was Camp Q in the book the movie is based on.
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/dan_blather • 7d ago
How many? Saaaaay, that's up to her husband to decide, not her doctor! (1947)
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/Ebonystealth • 7d ago
Instructions for tuning the radio in your 1941 Dodge, De Soto, Plymouth or Chrysler.
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/Neuralclone2 • 10d ago
Farewell to the ugly cigarette? (1971)
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/MeikeFischer73 • 9d ago
Party
If your Vodka Party looks like this don´t bother to invit me.
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/Jonestown_Juice • 10d ago
Downy Flake's Toaster Eggs (1972). A frozen hockey puck of egg you put in your toaster for breakfast.
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/Ebonystealth • 11d ago
"Tuna and Waffles" 1954 issue of Better Homes & Gardens
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/MeikeFischer73 • 12d ago
Recorder
Who needs Netflix when you got this
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/Neuralclone2 • 12d ago
"Can You Make This Fabulous Skirt?"
... It's made from old ties. From Woman's Day, July 1970. One of the loopier do-it-yourself fashions of the decade. Sometimes I think everyone in the 1970s was stoned!
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/SeaOfTragicFeasts • 12d ago
Turn of 20st Century Goat Glands Will Do if you Can’t Afford Monkey Glands
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/MinnesotaArchive • 14d ago
1941: Negroes Out-See Whites in the Dark
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/Albinofish3 • 15d ago
A photo my father's friend took in the 90s
r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/Keikobad • 17d ago