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History's cool kids, looking fantastic!

A pictorial 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 from the past of someone looking fantastic, here's the place to share it.

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[–]nthensome 10 points11 points ago

Graduating kindergarten?

He's like 8 in this pic.

[–]PaysonFry 24 points25 points ago

He's Big for his age.

[–]steve0suprem0 22 points23 points ago

Notoriously

[–]nthensome 4 points5 points ago

Or he failed kindergarten a few times.

[–]username_redacted 1 point2 points ago

I was gonna say 12, but yeah.

[–]drie1827 7 points8 points ago

I want that couch.

[–]nubbled21 15 points16 points ago

God Dammit, man! Cool as the other side of the pillow is probably my favorite expression in the entire world. Thank you kind sir.

[–]aleatorictelevision 5 points6 points ago

look at all that vinyl. it's all makin sense now, plus I want to listen to all that vinyl.

[–]Mylaptopisburningme 6 points7 points ago

That is not the way to treat vinyl.

[–]JAM13 4 points5 points ago

Was this during the time period he read Word Up magazine?

[–]Darth_Saltine 1 point2 points ago

Definitely before Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis

[–]Belvyzep 3 points4 points ago

I'm more of a Tupac guy, but not many kids can so successfully pull off a pink suit, even at such a young age.

[–]volsjebnik 0 points1 point ago

how sweet.

[–]BobThingamy -1 points0 points ago

Too cool for school!

[–]boddah87 0 points1 point ago

you think all those records contributed at all to his badassery?

[–]Arx0s 0 points1 point ago

I cringed at the sight of the exposed vinyl. Also, pretty sure I wore a Snorlax shirt once when I was in kindergarten.

[–]ANALINSTIGATOR 0 points1 point ago

That is a nice suit. Salmon color looks damn good.

[–]TheLadyEve 0 points1 point ago

That couch is the pimpinest couch I've ever seen.

[–]Darth_Saltine 0 points1 point ago

I saw this last night and hoped it'd make the way over to this sub

[–]mattyboy138 0 points1 point ago

He knew it was going to be his only graduation picture.