40+ Photos That Show People in History Had More Class

There’s cool, and then there’s an “old school cool.” We’ve come a long way in the past decades, but sometimes we’ve forgotten what it’s like to be real classy and cool.

Let’s take a look at these 45 masters of old school cool. Enjoy!

1. Six-time Golden Globe winner Paul Newman boating in Venice during a film festival (1963)

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2. Elspeth Beard, shortly after becoming the first Englishwoman to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle. The journey took 3 years and covered 48,000 miles.

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3. Marlon Brando’s screen test in “Rebel Without A Cause” (1955)

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4. The gorgeous necklines of the 1950s

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5. Ernest Hemingway’s striking passport photo (1923)

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6. An old family photo from the early 1900s

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7. A salesman having his motorized roller skates refueled at a gas station (1961)

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8. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip at the horse races (1968)

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9. Cosmos host and astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson at a college wrestling match

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10. Clint Eastwood with actresses Olive Sturgess and Dani Crayne in San Francisco (1954)

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11. The original way to ‘text’ in class (1944)

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12. A young Sean Connery relaxing on the couch

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13. A gang of greasers in NYC (1950)

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14. Caroline Kennedy walks ahead while her father, the most powerful man in the world, carries her doll (1960)

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15. Teenagers and their first car (1950s)

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16. Diana Rigg (Olenna Tyrell from Game of Thrones) in 1967

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17. Jack Nicholson from the film “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” (1976)

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18. Sophia Loren, one of the only actresses to win an Oscar, Grammy, and Golden Globe awards

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19. Ellen O’Neal, the greatest woman freestyle skateboarder in the 1970s

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20. A man ice skating in a suit (1937)

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21. A businessman doubling as a graffiti artist

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22. The Beatles before they were famous

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23. This is how teenagers dated in the 1950s

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24. Writer Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp and Vincent Gallo during the 25th anniversary of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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25. Leather-clad English rocker girl

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26. Frank Sinatra stepping out of a helicopter with a drink

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27. On the way to Woodstock (1969)

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28. Dean Martin & Angie Dickinson on the set of Rio Bravo (1959)

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29. Girl with typewriter and a smoke

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30. A couple on Michigan Avenue in Chicago (1975)

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31. Novelist Raymond Chandler who created the cool detective Philip Marlowe (1946)

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32. Wilt Chamberlain after setting the NBA record with 100 points in a single game (1962)

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33. David Bowie’s mugshot

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34. Muhammad Ali looking dapper

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35. Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger sit opposite each other on a train to Bangor (1967)

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36. F1 Timekeeper (1969)

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37. A young Michael Caine in 1959

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38. Brigitte Bardot visits Pablo Picasso at his studio near Cannes in 1956

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39. A couple dancing in a 1950’s “Be Bop” theater as everyone looks on

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40. Jimi Hendrix backstage at Monterey Pop Festival (1967)

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41. The definition of old school cool. Cary Grant in the 1950s

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42. Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino on the set of Godfather II (1974)

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43. James Dean and his Porsche 550 Spyder

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44. Evel Knievel’s famed jump over the fountains at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in 1967; he was unconscious for a month afterward.

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45. Theodore Roosevelt (1885)

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