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42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

While it might be hard to accept that Star Wars is now a relic from history, it does make it easier to gracefully enter old age knowing that what you loved as a kid is still cool today.

By Nathan Johnson

Published 1 year ago in Ftw

While it might be hard to accept that Star Wars is now a relic from history, it does make it easier to gracefully enter old age knowing that what you loved as a kid is still cool today. 


Though this can't be said about everything from our childhoods, it's always fun to take a trip down to the old time vault and share what we can find. 


From pictures of old cash to old photos of children's toys, it won't take you long before you realize that things today are not like the used to be. 


And if you were lucky enough to be alive before movies had color, you're going to feel right at home here. 

  • 1

    Here is a vaccine card from 1909.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 2

    Here is what it looked like to record the first roaring lion MGM logo in the 1920s.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 3

    Here's an atomic energy kit for kids from back in the '50s.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 4

    This is what a children's car seat from the 1950s looked like.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 5

    Here's what gas masks designed for children looked like during World War II, called the "Mickey Mouse" mask.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 6

    Here's what one of the first physical versions of Mickey Mouse looked like — along with Donald Duck.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 7

    And here's Minnie, Goofy, Clarabelle Cow, and Pluto with Mickey.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 8

    Here's the very first version of Kermit the Frog, which creator Jim Henson made out of one of his mom's coats.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 9

    Here are the Apollo 11 flight plans.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 10

    Here's the player (Jerry West) that the NBA logo is reportedly based on.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 11

    Here's the original McDonald's mascot — whose name was Speedee.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 12

    This is what the original Ronald McDonald looked like.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 13

    Here's what the original McDonald's menu was.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 14

    Here's the letter the United States dropped on Nagasaki before the atomic bomb.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 15

    Here's what the original Edison bulb from 1914 looked like.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 16

    This is what the original Michelin Man looked like.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 17

    Here are T-4 statements from 1959, showing a couple's income — with inflation, this would be about $30k a year today.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 18

    Here are examples of questions Black voters were asked in order to vote during the Jim Crow era.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 19

    Here is a reservation to a flight to the moon that Air Canada offered in 1969 (Pan Am did something similar, and believed they would be able to offer flights by the year 2000).

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 20

    Here's what Old Spice canisters used to look like.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 21

    Here is an old KKK membership form.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 22

    Here is what Red Bull used to look like, back when it was called Krating Daeng after being invented in Thailand.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 23

    Here is the infamous original cover for the VCR edition of The Little Mermaid, which is famously rumored to contain a phallic symbol that was removed from later posters and DVDs.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 24

    Here's what a dollar bill used to look like.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 25

    Here's what Confederate currency looked like.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 26

    Here's one of the early editions of Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope, back when it wasn't part of a series and it was just called Star Wars.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 27

    Here's what Lysol used to look like.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 28

    And here's what 7UP used to look like.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 29

    Here's what it cost to give birth in 1954 (with inflation, this would be about $830 today).

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 30

    This is what Times Square looked like in 1958.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 31

    Here are the original drafts for the game Pac-Man.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 32

    Here are air hostess requirements from the 1940s.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 33

    Here's what the original toys that inspired Pooh and his friends looked like.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 34

    Here are people lining up to see the first film.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 35

    Here's an old drug identification kit for customs officials.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 36

    Similarly, here's a doctor's medicine bag from the 1930s.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 37

    Here are the rules to writing Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner shorts, straight from creator, Chuck Jones.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 38

    Here's what a Woodstock ticket looked like.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 39

    Here's an old ad for radium in a hair product before it was known to be unsafe...

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 40

    Here's an old stain remover that literally used lighter fluid.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 41

    Finally, we'll end on two that were eerily prescient — this newspaper article from 1953...

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

  • 42

    This ad from 1996.

    42 Amazing Images Pulled From the Vault of History

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