Old family photo albums can sometimes ignite our curiosity instead of calming it down. That’s what happened with a couple of people. Thus, they opened up the subreddit r/TheWayWeWere.
This subreddit features pictures from 50, 100, and even more years ago to give us a glimpse of how life back then looked like. Scroll down to check out these vintage photos.
Protesting The High School Dress Code That Banned Slacks For Girls, Brooklyn C.1940
Mary Wallace: First Female Bus Driver For Chicago Transit Authority (1974) 
My Ridiculously Attractive Grandparents Sitting For A Portrait In The Early 1940s 
Gay Men Pose For A Photo While Being Detained At A Police Station For Being Homosexuals In Mexico, 1935 
Cats Blackie & Brownie Catching Squirts Of Milk During Milking At Arch Badertscher’s Dairy Farm In Fresno, California, 1954 
Two Pals (1920) 
My Great-Great-Grandmother Sometime In The 1890s 
Dad Showing Off His Skill To The Surprise Of His Little Daughter In Melbourne, Australia, Ca. 1940s
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 
My Mom On Her Wedding Day November 1951 
A Native American Girl Of The Kiowa Tribe, Oklahoma, 1894 
My Parents’ Wedding Photo, Okinawa, 1964 
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”
Sisters In Skirts, 1950s 
My Great-Grandfather That Was Too Poor To Afford A Suit In Sicily, So He Had To Pose In Front Of A Cardboard Cut-Out, 1930s~ 
My Great Grandmother In The Early 1900’s. Thought She Looked Too Awesome Not To Share
A Sailor “Meets” His Baby For The First Time After Fourteen Months At Sea, 1940s 
London’s First Black Police Officer, PC Norwell Roberts, On Point Duty Near Charing Cross Station, 1968 
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
