Jennifer
While we don’t always think of older people as being “cool,” we have to remember that our grandparents were once young too and they were just as into fashion, technologies of the time, and cultural trends as we are today. Sure, things may have been different back then, but cool has been around for millennia.
If ever you had any doubts as to whether your own grandparents were once dripping with swag, here are 26 examples of nanas, pop-pops, grandmas, grandpas, memaws and pepaws who were killing it in their younger years (and likely still are today).
1. The granddad who taught Einstein to play the violin
My great grandfather gave Einstein violin lessons from r/pics
2. The granddad whose six-pack puts us all to shame
Grandma sent me a picture of my grandpa at my age to make me feel like shit. from r/pics
3. The samurai grandpa
My great-great grandfather, the samurai of a small coal mining town in Kyushu, posing with my grandmother and one of her sisters ~1900 from r/OldSchoolCool
4. The WWII welding grandma
My great grandmother, working as a welder during WWII from r/OldSchoolCool
5. The daredevil grandpa
6. This stylish AF grandma
This photo always puts a smile on my face. Our 86-year-old grandmother back in the day.
7. This angsty pre-war grandpa
my grandfather the day before he shipped out with the Marines, 1941. from r/OldSchoolCool
8. This grandma who taught men how to fly planes
My granny – nicknamed Kidd – wasn’t allowed to join the Air Force because she was a woman. So she taught young men to fly in Stephenville, TX during WWII – 1940’s. from r/OldSchoolCool
9. This grandma who DGAF
I see your granduncle and raise you my grandmother. This picture was next to her coffin at her funeral (late 60s or early 70s) from r/OldSchoolCool
10. This crazy adventurous grandma on the wing of a plane
11. This beautiful bombshell grandma
12. This hilarious grandma and grandpa sharing clothes
My grandparents wearing each other’s clothes. (1943) from r/OldSchoolCool
13. This grandma who looks like she could be a catalog model
My grandmother right after she ran away from communistic Bulgaria to Germany (1978). from r/OldSchoolCool
14. This grandad in a chicken suit
My grandfather was into cosplay before it was “the thing to do”
15. This hot sailor grandpa
My very cool grandpa in the 1950s holding a fish, smoking a cigarette, with a book tucked into his pants and cigarette pack in his sleeve. from r/OldSchoolCool
16. This cigarette-smoking, pants-wearing grandma
My grandma smoking her cigarette on the farm. Wearing pants and doing whatever the hell she wanted. 1938 from r/OldSchoolCool
17. This grandpa with a stolen Nazi car
WWII- my badass Grandpa with a car he stole from Nazis from r/OldSchoolCool
18. This super sexy grandma
I recently lost my grandmother to cancer. This will always be one of my favorite photo of her.
19. This badass horse-training grandpa
My great grandfather showing off one of the horses he trained for World War 1 – Petawawa, ~1922 from r/OldSchoolCool
20. This tiger-taming grandpa
If I could only be half as badass as my grandfather this Memorial Day, c. 1960 from r/OldSchoolCool
21. This air traffic controller grandma
My Grandma as an Air Traffic Controller. She would have been 97 on 3/11. from r/OldSchoolCool
22. This FBI agent grandpa
My grandpa’s FBI Academy photo. He worked as a spy recruiter during the Cold War. from r/OldSchoolCool
23. This WWII nurse grandma
My grandmother turned 98 this week. This is her in her full nursing uniform during WWII. from r/OldSchoolCool
More funny grandparents:
- A Scammer Pretended To Be His Grandma So This Guy Trolled Him Right Back
- A Guy’s Grandma Found His Sex Toys And Ended Up Wearing Them As Socks
- 11 Facebook Grannies With Unintentionally Hilarious Bios
- ‘Plant-Sitting’ Mom Drops Not-So-Subtle Hints About Wanting Grandkids
- This Grandma Had To Be Rescued By The Coast Guard After Her Ice ‘Throne’ Floated Out To Sea And Twitter Is Cackling
