My mom is the coolest person I know, and I only have to list 1 reason to prove it: In college she had a pet raccoon. A FU*KING RACCOON

Not only were they cooler, they were also better looking with no to minimal make-up.

Every single one of these people look like they could have a movie based off their lives. And I would watch Every. Single. One.

When the pictures of the 1970’s look better than others from 1980’s and 1990’s

Isn’t it amazing that these pics were taken while we were actually doing something instead of just posing for a selfie

Long before social media define our society, and the definition of "cool"

I envy the people back in the day, they didn't have endless entertainment at their fingertips so they actually went out and found it. I also feel like we have been babied a LOT compared to them. As well as the fact that the world has gotten so darn dangerous that people feel like they can't let their kids go outside.

to think our parents were once teenagers too, we're just like them

Growing up in the 60's and 70's, we had actual HEROES to look up to...today, kids heroes are people that make more money, spend more time on social media and criminals. We were the lucky ones.

All Natural. All living life at their fullest. No Facebook. Never cared for likes or dislikes. Just live life and savour every moment.

The only reason I think my mom is cooler than me is bc she has THE BEST comebacks and insults and I am always like "Please take pity, I am your daughter."

My dear departed Mother married at 16, I was born when she was 20. We grew-up together. She was and remains my very best friend. We were the same size but I was one inch taller and about 10-15 pounds lighter. My Mother rocked Hot Pants, halter tops and GoGo Boots when I was in high school. When it was time to get dressed every morning the first one to hit 'our closet' had dibs for that day. Being the same size, including shoes/boots, doubled our wardrobe. When I moved into my first apartment Mother and I were shocked how our wardrobe diminished. I made new velvet blazers in every color for Mother, she felt she needed variety. Plus that was the only way I would have any of the original velvet blazers. I flew with my parents to San Francisco for the first time in 1970. Mother was always well-dressed. Each and every day people stopped her on the street asking for her autograph. I finally asked Mother to just say 'of course' and give them the autograph so we could continue our sightseeing. (Canterbury Hotel staff constantly asked me 'what's her stage name?'. I always replied 'to me she is Mother'.)

I found a book one time about the size of a yearbook. It had the USMC seal on the outside. I opened it and it was, in fact, a yearbook that contained different photos and just as a high school yearbook, an entire section was dedicated to the boot camp graduating classes of 1972. I flipped through the pages of the soldiers in their dress blues. On the next to the last page, I saw him. There was my Daddy, also in his dress blues. He was expert at both the rifle and pistol. His specialty was working on and operating amphibious vehicles. Sadly, he was given a medical discharge a couple years later with the rank of PFC. That was the moment that I realized that my Daddy was much cooler than I would ever be. He was a Marine. He was one of the few, the proud. Most of all, he was my Daddy.

My mom always got straight A’s, won a beauty contest and already had a boyfriend at my age. And where am I? Watching videos in KZfaq and playing Minecraft instead of working on my essay that I have to deliver this Friday.

The photography skills had a downfall throughout the years. Look at these photos, gorgeous

We didn't do things to be cool. We just didn't live life in front of a screen then. "Cool" just kind of came with the territory.

My dad Is a pilot and he is now inactive due to COVID. He told his boss he’ll be practicing.....he took my half-asleep ass on a jet and flew away:)) it was 1.am:)) I regret nothing:)) my dad is cool:)

This would have been way better if they showed their parents today as well.

3:11 IMAGINE BEING SO GEUNIS THAT YOU CAN BUY YOUR OWN CAR AT 11 IM RUINED

They all looked so good! And free . They seemed effortlessly awesome. Those were happier times it seems. I love these pictures, thank you for sharing.

I had a house fire during the Freddy Gray riots. (I live in Baltimore) The only things that I was able to save were my pictures, everything that my 3 sons made me while they were in school, (Mother's Day cards etc…) and my dog who saved ME in the fire by waking me up. Pictures are your memories. Im so blessed to have been able to salvage all 3. The pics and the kids stuff was in the closet right at the front door. All these pics were awesome.

these photos are so special because they're one of a kind. today we've got our selfies posted everywhere a million times a day, so when our kids and grandkids look back, it wont be as special to them. also these people are actually out doing things. Edit: AMAZING things.

Actually tbh my grandfather was more cooler than my parents and me as he had a freaking tiger as his pet...in the 70s....

Every generation in their 20s thought they were way cooler than everybody else. It's the folly of youth

I found put that my mom use to sneak out of the house just for a freestyle dance competition, she was also in a gang who teaches guys who harasses girls a lesson, she was also feared in her high school and college days

No matter how many times my dad shows us photos he took of my mom, I’m always amazed at how well my mom knows her angles and how much better of a fashion sense she has than me :’)

The Ryan Gosling one killed me! LMAO!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

the girl waiting for her date. my exact same age that year, it wasn't that great. i had a decent life compared to some, and lived through it (the best part--you know Viet Nam and all). today i turned 70, a ton of regrets, but would still go out and do some of the stupid crap i did then. life is good, overall. you only get one chance at it.

Back when people have to get out of the house to do something...

My mom had the coolest childhood, and she loves to tell stories about it. One of my favorites is the time that she and her friends dug up a grave, or the time when they found a motorcycle in the woods and took a joyride on it. Yeah, she's pretty cool.

Does anyone miss the times before technology f-ed us up

I was born in the 60s, was a teenager in the 70s, and spent my 20s in the Miami club scene in the 1980s. It was a great time to be alive. We actually were always doing something because there was no cable tv, no computers, no cell phones, no social media. We had to be self reliant. A different world were you tried new things instead of sitting home watching other people supposedly doing new things. Lol.

I look at some of these pictures and picture myself in those same situations. The life of boomers in the 60's and 70's was so different back then. Riding motorcycles, horses, driving muscle cars, surrounded by pot plants taller than you were, and living life to it's fullest without the need of of smart phones and social media. Other than the Vietnam War, one cannot help but look back to those times and smile...or cry when you realize those times are gone forever.

The pilot and his son was my favorite

I'm so old that pictures of '70, or '80 would be like 2-3 years ago ;) I'm so happy for you and your great parents. I'd be proud having such children.

Love this series. I truly believe we had more fun back then. No phones, no social media…..just living life to the fullest.

My grandfather, dad's father, served in WWI and was brought back to active duty in WWII. He was a Lt Colonel, but my grandmother was cooler. We found out in the 80s that my grandmother had held a higher security clearance than he did. Never did know exactly what she did. When asked she said "It's called a SECURITY CLEARANCE!." But, she was doing it raising my dad and my uncle alone while my grandfather was away in the war. Apparently, my grandfather didn't even know. We only found out going through some of her papers after she had a stroke. She slept with her father's Colt 44-40 revolver under her pillow into her 80s. She would take us fishing when we were little. We would be bombing down a two lane black top and she would whisper "oops." We asked what and she said, "had to slow down I was doing 90. Don't tell your mother." Her last car was a Cutlass with floor shift automatic, bucket seats, mag wheels, and a CB radio. She used the CB regularly. You did not challenge her to a stop light drag race unless you were willing to tell your friends you were roasted by a white haired old lady with a sweater around her shoulders. At the next light she would lean forward so they saw who beat them. She could cuss out a sailor without batting an eye or be the perfect lady in a formal evening gown. I stopped by her house once on the way home from college. She had been complaining about some man who kept calling her phone looking for some woman and he refused to believe he was dialing the wrong number. The phone rang while I was standing there and she answered it. It was the man. My grandmother told him. "she can't come to the phone, she's in the bed with Big Ed." She hung up and said, "I don't think he'll be calling anymore, but boy he was mad."

It's a strange feeling how our cool parents get so busy earning for us that they even forget how they were back in the days, Cool and Badass.

I don't have any pics of my dad being a badass drummer, but his hero is the late great Neil Peart from the band Rush, and his playstyle reflects it. My dad can drum like nobody's business.

People weren’t so sensitive and easily triggered back then

Wow, it's so interesting and humbling to see old pictures of our parents, and remember that they had a life before us ❤️

My dear mom was a soldier (communications) and my dear dad was usual truck driver,but I am proud of them and I was,I am and I will never be so cool and great as they were for 52 years of their marriage and 67 years of knowing each other...

The 70's were a magic time👍

my Dad, a farm boy, came off the farm at 18 and flew fighter planes (Spitfires) in Europe in WW2 in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He came back, got married and made us. He almost never said a word about his experiences - he let others do the talking. On my best day I am about 1% that cool. RIP, Dad. We love you.

Our parents raised themselves: out all day till the streetlights. They fixed thier own bikes with allowance money. They cooked for siblings. Most of The things they did in a normal day would be illegal by today's standards. Heros in my book

I’ve always known my mom was cooler. She had and still has more friends than me. Just two days ago my friend called my mom instead of me for dating advice lol. My mom was such a cool SoCal girl. She moved from SoCal to Hawaii despite not knowing anyone and ended up meeting my dad.

These are spectacular! I loved my era!!!!

1:44 a true band kid

My dad, uncle, and grandpa were all in a successful Bluegrass band, and my dad joined his dad's original band when he was only around 14 or so. Then a couple years later he started his own, and that one was more famous than the last.

I love watching these videos. I'll be 65 next weekend. Funny it's truly seems like just 10 years ago. I've got to say tho, Boy howdy do yall have some absolutely gorgeous Dads. We were a bunch of good looking older ones!!!

I'm 57, a woman, and was a teen back in the 1970's. I miss that era so much. People actually paid attention to each other while in a group...and not to some digital device. Rock music was awesome as was much of the clothing. Anymore it seems like most people just wear ripped jeans a t shirt and a baseball hat. Back then, there were all kinds of cool looking clothes, and patterns and colors. Yeah there was some bad looks, but no one blinked an eye if someone in a fringed brown suede jacket and a 'Billy Jack' hat walked down the street. : ) Those hats were far more cool than the stupid baseball caps so popular now.

My dad once tried to make a robot claw back then and I only recently knew and didn’t expect it. My mom yelled at some person who was making a speech at school for making fun of her country. My aunt is an amazing roller skater.

The dude taking an "album cover" in the sea is brilliant, I love that one, all the sports and action shots aren't really my thing, but humour and originality is.

I loved these..im going thru my old photos tonite. Great shots. FUN MEMORIES!!

AWESOME! I have always known my parents were cool. My father was a river boat pilot in ALASKA in the 50's. At 29, he proposed to my mom in the wheelhouse of the boat, she was 19 and worked as a waitress on another boat on the river. He built her a cabin up there, I think maybe even two of them. We have slides of us the kids in boats floating near the cabin that was built on stilts or oil drums in case the river flooded, which it did. When my mom got tired of the cabin, 4 or 5 kids with no running hot water she did not want to go anymore, so they bought a house in Santa Barbara in the 70's. My dad worked hard, we were not rich by any stretch of the imagination, just frugal. Santa Barbara is considered the "Riviera of the Western hemisphere" I have always felt quite thankful and blessed to have such AWESOME parents. AND, the best thing, they stayed married and never, never cheated on each other, they had morals and integrity not often seen today. Proud of my parents.

I got a pic of my dad from highschool and former gf. He was infamous for both skipping school for surfing and dating the prom queen as a freshman.

“When I was your age” on a whole other level lmao

Really different way of life from just a matter of a few generations. It was a really, really good time....had a blast! Great video, thanks!

I enjoyed that immensely. Thank you for putting that together. Made me cry.

I see too many people making excuses about technology and how people are wrong to say that technology has messed with us as people. But how many of those people have ANY photos like these? Not many. They make fun of older generations for looking back at times with lesser technology but in reality they are right; no matter how good the technology may be today, social media and technology have really made everyone lethargic.

Now we just whine ... incessantly ... about everything.

Just put a trident in the hand of the "Dad in Hawaii, Late 1970's" (1:26) and you have the statue of King Neptune at the Virginia Beach, VA oceanfront! The likeness is mind-blowing!

My parents were infinitely cooler than I am... 👀👀👀 [love them!]😁

Hey kids, just so you know. The cool gene never fades away. It lays in wait.

They lived, they loved. Make the most out of your life while you can, we only get one shot, do your best.

Wonderful photos that bring back the times of living free and in the moment, taking it easy, the natural look and long hair on manly men. Those were great times.

I'm so glad I was a kid/teen in the 80s and 90s. The last generation to enjoy a life free from social media technology. We use to be outdoors all the time...riding bikes in the quaint neighborhood with no fear...building forts...horseback riding... man I miss those times and the people in them.

1:10. real heroes aren’t just firefighters, military etc., what a blind thing to say. My dad was a postman. The kind of postman that were loved by everyone on his route. Everyone knew him. He’s my hero. I don’t need to list every thing that makes him a hero because it isn’t a competition.

My dad like in the 1960s when he was in college he'd do a bunch of cool stuff like those cool car races youd see just like a movie and he's always win, and him saying that just makes me want to go to that time period 🙏

Found a photo of my dad from the 60s, standing on top the walls of alicante in Spain, sporting a rugged beard and a roguish smile, it was like seeing an entirely different person

At 0:35, my first question was "Is that a SHELTIE in her arms?!" I love shelties. They're adorable!

@ 2:43 , let's give a big applause for the man for telling off that guy....

WOW, you people had some AWESOME LOOKING PARENTS!!!! My mother was GORGEOUS TOO, but more of a "HOMEBODY".

This video is "as advertised." These folks are so cool. Such interesting lives.

My dad was in the navy, he never was in any extreme measures I believe, but it’s still pretty cool

2:16 Your Mum was a honey, and your Dad was Badarse! Frikken..Big Up to them! And that was the 80's, maybe not the "coolest" decade in retrospect - in fact, history has been ruthless in its' judgement of the 80's... But even so, it was the best decade to live in if you were young and riding free! Though it's not for a few more years yet, I imagine Poison's ,"Nothin But A Good Time" roaring in the background out of some 6×2 ft mega speaker! 🤟 😆🎸🎵🎶

I'm so emotional 😂 do y'all think about how their lives were back then? Like as if you were there watching it all happened. They were like us and now they're old and we'll get old as well. This made me think about my dad in the army. He has pics on top of places that you would now just see in parkour videos. There's one pic of him stand up walking normally while the rest of them are walking like a cat (legs and hands on the "floor"), with no ropes or security. There's also one of him doing australian rappel and there's another of him on a rope coming down from an helicopter. He's now 52 years old and when in my birthdays he will happily do karting or tree climbing with me. We also went camping and kayaking last year. Not many parents would be down for any of those. My dad once heard his name in a radio channel. The man said very good things about him. He was a Sargent like nobody else. He is also mentioned in a blog of a known man over here. They all say that my dad was a really good man. Even while doing his job as a Sargent he would always brighten things up and make jokes now and then. He has lots of stories and I love listening to them. Nowadays he's not in the army anymore but he works with the government and he's doing a master in a university at the same time. He's the oldest of his class. How many people can say that they're dad works with the government? Not many for sure. He's for sure the best dad of all times hehe

how do people look so good with an old camera, no make up, and doing something difficult

Thank you - yes kids forget their parents had lives

These pictures are so great, thanks for sharing

Every time I see a picture of my mom back in the 80's all I see is the coolest and most beautiful person ever ... I can't hold a single candle to her.

Wow such incredible photos & memories.

one of the pictures i have of my parents when they were at college is from circa 1990 and is them surfing in front of a “madonna shrine” looking cool af my maternal grandparents met while both traveling in europe - their parents were so suspicious of their romance that each sent private detectives after the other lmao my paternal grandparents meant to drive to woodstock in the 60s but there was too much traffic so they turned around 😑

As a senior, I'm finally transferring all my slides, negatives. and printed photos to digital (with a copy on a hard drive for each) myself so my adult kids can see that their Mom and Grandparents were 'kinda cool' at one time too. Most of the cool stuff we never took photos of either, we just lived it and enjoyed the experiences. I don't have many selfies since it was a strange and vain concept then to set up a shot of yourself and then run to pose before the timer went off. That is probably the reason most seniors scoff at Millenials taking shots of even the food on their plate and so many selfies now!

6:27 Me: Hi Mr. Wilson. That's a cute monkey. Can I pet you? Him: What? Me: What?

Awesome!....Totally enjoyed this video, thanks.

1:55 - It's a toss-up which one is cuter! 2:40 - Well flipped, sir! 5:20 - A Fox!!! Now THAT'S cool! 7:22 - Sorry to be a pain, but I'm pretty sure that's a sea lion. 7:35 - "Joint wedding". I see what you did there.

Makes ya think back to what you were doing back then. Also kind of a kick in the gut because I wish I could go back to those simpler times. Far less chaos and disagreement back then.

We got up went out and made our own fun. Not looking for someone else to entertain us.

Wow! Those were cool parents. My mom had a "garden" like that!

My Dad earned two master's and a bachelor's in engineering, designed part of the Space Shuttle, and picked up my mother in a bar when she'd just gotten off the boat from Peru. I hope my kids look up to me with half of the admiration that I have for him.

Love this cool old time. Much respect. I was caught "in a rabbit hole" watching horrific truth about Hollywood videos...this video definitely lightens the mood!

my mom’s in the army and my dad is a bilingual Mexican immigrant

what beautiful photos...what beautiful moments...many made me move and shed tears....my parents are no longer alive and I thought and loved them in their crazy and fun lives they once had

They had better economy, ofc they could travel and buy stuff on their own

I always cried when my mom tried to dress me up for events or just a casual outing. When i got older, i look at my mom's old album.. she's a freaking model!

all of these just inspired me to be more adventurous once this pandemic at least tune down enough for us to be safe outdoor. my life is boring af at the moment. before pandemic i was in college climbing the gates, roaming the campus at midnight, hanging out with the guards for no reason... damn i miss that. i already graduated last year while in pandemic so idk if i'd ever get a chance to experience that again.

Did you notice how everyone was so slim and fit. I'm class of 1981, and a fat kid was rare thing back then.

60s, 70s and 80s…the good old days ❤

My mom used to climb down the Key Bridge in DC in the ‘60s with her high school friends and write their names in chalk while hanging upside down over the Potomac; at 16 she escaped her parents one night while on winter vacation in Boston, took a bus to Cambridge and snuck into Club47 to see Buddy Guy; in ‘68 she hitchhiked from DC to Rhode Island to go to Newport Jazz and saw Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dizzie Gillespie, Ray Charles, and I forget who else; she went to Woodstock the next year just to see Ten Years After, then hitchhiked home without her friends because she didn’t care to see anyone else. She was way cooler than I will ever be. And the only thing I love anywhere close to as much as I love her (other than my dad, who had no interest in being cool) is music - thanks to her!