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26 Vintage Photos of What College Life for Celebrities Looked Like

26 Vintage Photos of What College Life for Celebrities Looked Like

While many celebrities rose to fame before or during their college years, others got to enjoy "the best four years of your life" with their anonymity in tact.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 7 months ago in Wow

22 Nostalgic Photos of 'the Brat Pack' in Their Prime

22 Nostalgic Photos of 'the Brat Pack' in Their Prime

We couldn't forget about them!

By Carly Tennes

Featured 7 months ago in Wow

23 Fascinating Vintage Photos of How Life Looked in Imperial Russia 100 Years Ago

23 Fascinating Vintage Photos of How Life Looked in Imperial Russia 100 Years Ago

Developing a technique called digichromatography, Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky took the world's most advanced color photographs of his time.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 7 months ago in Wow

24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

24 Vintage Photos of Fast Food Joints from Decades Gone By

When the first McDonald's opened up at the end of the 1940s, it revolutionized the way people eat.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 7 months ago in Wow

21 Earthy Photos That Show What Life Was Like for Loggers

21 Earthy Photos That Show What Life Was Like for Loggers

Lumberjacks haven't always had fancy tools to get the job done, and loggers of the early 1900s used equal parts determination and delusion to fall some of the biggest trees in the world.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 7 months ago in Wow

22 Historical Photos of Real-Life Spies

22 Historical Photos of Real-Life Spies

James Bond who?

By Carly Tennes

Featured 7 months ago in Wow

The Best Memes and Reactions to President Abraham Lincoln's Newly-Alleged Gay Lovers

The Best Memes and Reactions to President Abraham Lincoln's Newly-Alleged Gay Lovers

Seven score and 19 years ago ... The Great Emancipator was (allegedly) living his 'Call Me By Your Name' fantasy.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 7 months ago in Wow

21 'Don't Ask How I Know This' Facts

21 'Don't Ask How I Know This' Facts

This isn't your elementary teacher's history.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 7 months ago in Creepy

Pour a Glass: 21 Historical Photos Celebrating the End of Prohibition

Pour a Glass: 21 Historical Photos Celebrating the End of Prohibition

Between Jan 17, 1920, and Dec 5, 1933, Americans were no longer allowed to drink legally thanks to the 18th Amendment. And boy do those post-repeal parties look like fun.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 7 months ago in Ftw

21 Old-School Cameramen Who Did the Most to Get the Shot

21 Old-School Cameramen Who Did the Most to Get the Shot

They got their photos, come h— *and* high water.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 7 months ago in Wow

26 Nostalgic Pics and Memes to Celebrate Wayback Whensday

26 Nostalgic Pics and Memes to Celebrate Wayback Whensday

The hazy corners of your memory, photographed in focus.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 7 months ago in Wow

23 Old-Time Photos of People Absolutely Failing At Life

23 Old-Time Photos of People Absolutely Failing At Life

From vintage rodeos gone wrong to a penny farthing wipeout, here are 23 old-timey photos of people absolutely failing at life.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 7 months ago in Funny

Lost or Stolen? - 25 Priceless Items That are Missing In Action

Lost or Stolen? - 25 Priceless Items That are Missing In Action

We've all lost things.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 7 months ago in Wow

8 Cruel Yet Kind of Hilarious Public Humiliation Contraptions

8 Cruel Yet Kind of Hilarious Public Humiliation Contraptions

Who knew dressing someone up in a barrel was so popular?

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 7 months ago in Wtf

Behind Closed Doors: Steamy Photos from Studio 54's Wildest Nights

Behind Closed Doors: Steamy Photos from Studio 54's Wildest Nights

Burn baby burn!

By Carly Tennes

Featured 7 months ago in Wow

The Truth Is Out There: 8 Great Pyramid Theories That Have Yet To Be Debunked

The Truth Is Out There: 8 Great Pyramid Theories That Have Yet To Be Debunked

As a wonder of the world that dates all the way back to 10,000 BC, not everything is known about the Great Pyramids.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 7 months ago in Wow

24 240-Ounce Pics From The Earliest Days Of 7-Eleven

24 240-Ounce Pics From The Earliest Days Of 7-Eleven

From entirely too large sodas to Band-Aids, 7-Eleven has had it since the 50's. And they've always smelled the same.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 7 months ago in Wow

Wayback Whensday: Super-Fun Time Capsules We Dug Up With The Help Of Amish People

Wayback Whensday: Super-Fun Time Capsules We Dug Up With The Help Of Amish People

We've got a one-way ticket to your favorite years.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 7 months ago in Wow

20 Real-Life 'Villains' Who Were Actually the Heroes

20 Real-Life 'Villains' Who Were Actually the Heroes

History is written by the victors, and sometimes those victors can keep their narrative going for a long time.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 7 months ago in Wow

28 Party Animals Who Barely Survived Woodstock '69

28 Party Animals Who Barely Survived Woodstock '69

Three Days of Peace, Music, and so much traffic.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 8 months ago in Facepalm

21 Cool Pics Remembering Jack Russell and Great White

21 Cool Pics Remembering Jack Russell and Great White

No one ruled the '80s Sunset Strip quite like Great White.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 8 months ago in Wow

Iconic Sights: 20 Photos of Partially Completed Monuments

Iconic Sights: 20 Photos of Partially Completed Monuments

Before they were monuments, they were works in progress.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 8 months ago in Wow

'Kids These Days...' - 24 Historical Industrial Photos of Kids Working Jobs

'Kids These Days...' - 24 Historical Industrial Photos of Kids Working Jobs

Be it construction, factory work, mining and more, organizations like OSHA exist today because people died in the past.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 8 months ago in Wow

Touch Gloves, Fight! - 33 Iconic Boxing Photos to Go 12 Rounds With

Touch Gloves, Fight! - 33 Iconic Boxing Photos to Go 12 Rounds With

A look inside the ring from behind the camera.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 8 months ago in Wow

29 Old-School Photos From the 'Battle of the Network Stars' That Rival the Olympics

29 Old-School Photos From the 'Battle of the Network Stars' That Rival the Olympics

Before we had Paris, we had the 'Battle of the Network Stars'

By Carly Tennes

Featured 8 months ago in Wow

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