60 Photos From the ’60s That Are Pure ‘Old School Cool’
All aboard! Our time machine is set for the 1960s! We’re going to be touring the entire decade rather than getting too focused on the summer of love or Beatles mania. We’ve assembled a list of what we think was extremely cool, stylish, or just undeniably 1960s. As always, we’ve included some celebrities, but we tried to share some of the focus on what life was like for ‘the rest of us.’ Buckle up, and I hope you enjoy it!
1. “Clint Eastwood circa late 60s”
2. “Debutante ball. Harlem, early 60s”
3. “A man being a man in the 60s”
4. “My mom’s senior picture in the late 60s.”
5. “My uncle Jim showing off his Christmas present. Vinyl for a ’60s pop group.”
6. “A culture clash in London in the 60s”
7. “My hippie mother holding someone’s pet raccoon sometime in the late 60s”
8. “Johnny Cash, 1961”
9. “My mom sometime in the 60s”
10. “Hippie Dad walking with his daughter. Amsterdam, 1968”
11. “At the grocery store in 1962”
12. “Martha Stewart in the 60s”
13. “Disneyland used to have mermaids (1962)”
14. “Groovy 60s”
15. “Louis Armstrong signs a teen with a mohawk in France in 1961.”
16. “Nasa before PowerPoint in 1961”
17. “Dolly Parton in the late 60s”
18. “My dad and his pet monkey in Vietnam, 1966.”
19. “1962, my first day of Kindergarten and I was very nervous!”
20. “Linda Ronstadt in 1968”
21. “A selfie from 1966 of George Harrison in India”
22. “Bruce Lee with his master Ip Man in the 60s”
23. “London Pub in 1967”
24. “The Supremes in 1968”
25. “Cashiers at the Piggly Wiggly supermarket in Encino, California in 1962”
26. “Audrey Hepburn, 1961”
27. “Hotdog stand in New York in 1963”
28. “Betty White’s smile in 1963”
29. “Tim Burton’s Halloween costume in 1967”
30. “American Airlines stewardess in 1967”
31. “Jeff Goldblum on a family vacation in Miami in the early 60s”
32. “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Jamaica in 1967”
33. “New York, 1961”
34. “My mum market shopping in Hong Kong in 1966”
35. “Bobby Fischer playing 50 opponents simultaneously in 1964.”
36. “The inventor of the Lava Lamp with his wife in 1963.”
37. “Steven McQueen in his Jaguar in 1963.”
38. “My grandfather in 1967 with the 101st Airborne Division”
39. “Daniel Elmore, a 72-year-old handyman, being congratulated by two of his daughters on graduation. All 10 of his 10 children got college degrees. 1964”
40. “My brother dressed as a robot in February of 1965”
41. “Stephen Hawking and his wife in 1964”
42. “Disneyland ticket booth in 1962”
43. “Frank Sinatra exiting a helicopter with a drink in hand in 1964.”
44. “7-year-old George Clooney in 1968”
45. “My dad working at the original Tower Records in Sacramento, California in 1964.”
46. “You’ll never be ‘John Glenn just orbited the earth and landed in the Atlantic Ocean’ cool. 1962.”
47. “My excited grandmother kissing her ticket to a Beatles concert in 1964”
48. “The Paramount Pictures logo on the day it was originally painted in 1965”
49. “It was 1965. I was 21, and I had a hot new Mustang. I thought I was cool.”
50. “Paul Reubens (PeeWee) in 1967”
51. “My parents in 1963”
52. “Man experiences irony in 1966”
53. “Farmer in South Korea in 1965”
54. “My grandfather embarrassing my grandmother in 1965”
55. “Date night 1960. Mom and Dad at 22-years-old”
56. “My grandmother as a teenager, posing on a motorcycle in the 60s”
57. “Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder in Detroit in 1962”
58. “A skateboarder in Central Park in 1965”
59. “Patrick Stewart at the age of 23 in 1963”
60. “Down on his peanut farm, future-president Jimmy Carter (1960)”
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