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Recently we asked you to send us your pictures of your grandparents acting cool in their younger days, and you certainly didn't disappoint us. Now we're bringing you more examples of your grandparents being super smooth in their heyday. From grandmas chilling with Ernest Hemingway and modeling Volvos in the 1950s to grandfathers sledding through Antarctica, pulling off motorbike stunts, and even playing with their pet polar bears, this list, compiled by Bored Panda, will make you wonder just what on earth you're doing with your life. Don't forget to vote for the coolest character!
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#1
Grandma Sent Me A Picture Of My Grandpa At My Age To Make Me Feel Like Shit
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#2
My Great Grandfather Gave Einstein Violin Lessons
#3
My Grandparents Wearing Each Other's Clothes, 1943
#4
My Grandmother, 1940s
#5
Granny On The Wing Of My Dad's Cropduster Plane. She Did This A Few Times That I Know Of
#6
My Grandmother. This Picture Was Next To Her Coffin At Her Funeral (Late 60s Or Early 70s)
#7
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, Texas During WW2 - 1940s
#8
My Grandfather The Day Before He Shipped Out With The Marines, 1941
#9
My Grandmother Right After She Ran Away From Communistic Bulgaria To Germany (1978)
#10
Photo Of My Grandfather Exiting His Plane After Getting Shot Down
#11
My Favorite Picture Of My Grandmother, 1942. She's Strong, Raised Six Children On Her Own After Leaving An Alcoholic Husband. Worked 7 Days A Week As A Cook In A Gas Station From 3 Am - 5 Pm. I Would Stay Every Weekend With Her And Sleep On The Floor Of The Gas Station Back Then. She's Amazing
Pseudo Puppy 7 years ago
please pass on my *absolute* respect to her. She did all of that in an era where there were no shelters for those leaving domestic abuse, there was no daycare, and divorced women were not looked on postively. She was, and IS, a truly courageous woman. I hope she has managed to create a really positive, peaceful, happy life for herself. :) <3 <3 <3
#12
My Crazy Grandfather
This is my crazy grandfather. Hands down, the funniest old coot that's ever existed. On his deathbed, he told us (his grandkids) "Don't be cheap. Spend 25 cents and buy the paper. The Times promised me a big spread." He worked as a photographer for the LA Times for 50+ years and had many famous photos, including the first published photo of an atomic bomb explosion.
He was a man of many stories and an unforgettable sense of humor. After laying his wife and two sons to rest, he stayed strong and kept his spirit high. He battled prostate cancer for 20+ years and lived to see his 92nd birthday and his great grandchildren. RIP Grandpa
#13
My Grandfather Was Into Cosplay Before It Was "The Thing To Do"
#14
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
Dave Elswood 7 years ago
Almost expect them to spring into a song and dance lol very South Pacific lol
Nancy Massi 7 years ago
Handsome guy, looks like a cross between Paul Newman and Marlon Brando.
Charlotte Hukvari 1 year ago
Even the unattractive people back then were attractive. What does that say about us?
Jeannette Calderon 5 years ago
Looks like he was in the Navy, so was my dad ... Papi-en-Be...817c8c.jpg 
Lucy Shupe 5 years ago
Seriously this looks like it could be a scene from one of the silly movies that they made about WWII.
Maverick rudometkin 7 years ago
1950's = Manly men/ 2017 = Ew what is that thing wearing skin tight skinny jeans.
Sable miner 7 years ago
Lol no doubt. These metrosexuals as I call 'em- Not a good look but whatever. Just add another thing that modern world is sucking at
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Priscilla Winslow 7 years ago
Are all of these gentlemen in the Navy? They're dressed like they are!
#15
My Grandma Smoking Her Cigarette On The Farm. Wearing Pants And Doing Whatever The Hell She Wanted, 1938
#16
WW2 - My Badass Grandpa With A Car He Stole From Nazis
#17
I Recently Lost My Grandmother To Cancer. This Will Always Be One Of My Favorite Photo Of Her
#18
My Grandmother With Then-Mercury 7 Astronauts John Glenn, Gus Grissom, And Alan Shepherd (September 14th, 1959)
#19
My Great Grandfather Showing Off One Of The Horses He Trained For WW1 - Petawawa, ~1922
#20
My Great-Great Grandfather, The Samurai Of A Small Coal Mining Town In Kyushu, Posing With My Grandmother And One Of Her Sisters ~1900
#21
My Great Grandmother, Working As A Welder During WW2
#22
My Grandfather Died Today. I Want To Tell You What A Fucking Badass He Was
#23
My Grandma Recently Passed. My Grandpa Sent Me This Picture So I Could Know What Man Looks Like When He Is In Love. They Were Married 60+ Years
#24
If I Could Only Be Half As Badass As My Grandfather This Memorial Day, Circa 1960
#25
My Great Grandpa Eddie. Omaha 1939
#26
My Grandma As An Air Traffic Controller. She Would Have Been 97 On 3/11
#27
My Grandfather's Badass Swandive, 1930
#28
My Finnish Grandfather Smoking A Cigarette And Holding A Wild Fox That He Befriended (Circa 1975)
#29
This Photo Always Puts A Smile On My Face. Our 86-Year-Old Grandmother Back In The Day
#30
My Grandma Modeling In Her Flight Attendant Uniform - 1972
#31
My Great-Grandmother In Her New Car. She Was Most Likely The First Indian Woman In The Western US To Own A Car (April 7, 1916)
#32
Grandmother Died Last Week, She Was A Naval Nurse
#33
My Grandparents In 1960, On A Date. My Favorite Picture
#34
So Apparently My Grandpa Was A Badass
#35
My Grandmother On Her Harley In 1926
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#36
My Grandpa's FBI Academy Photo. He Worked As A Spy Recruiter During The Cold War
#37
My Grandmother Demonstrating The Three-Point Belt As A Model For Volvo In 1959
#38
The Last Photo In My Grandparents Wedding Album (1954)
#39
My Grandfather Defusing A Bomb On Martin Luther King's Porch. He Was Buried Three Years Ago On MLK Day
#40
My Grandmother Turned 98 This Week. This Is Her In Her Full Nursing Uniform During WW2
#41
My Stud Grandfather Circa WW2. He Watched Pearl Harbor Happen In Hawaii, Joined Up And Fought On A Gunboat At Iwo Jima That Was Hit By Enemy Fire. He Surfed With Legends In Honolulu. He Was A Barber For 60 Years
#42
Ernest Hemingway And My Grandma Having A Chat In Havana, Cuba 1952
#43
My Friend's Grandparents, California, 1940s
#44
My Grandmother Looked Like Arya Stark In 1936
#45
My Grandfather On A Motorcycle He Stole From A Nazi, Weeks After American Troops Liberated Him From A Concentration Camp In Landsberg, Germany (May 1945). He Had Spent 4 Years In Concentration Camps Around Poland And Germany
#46
My Grandmother With Sultan, Her Favorite Lion From Her Troop, In Front Of Her Plane She Flew Just After WW2 (1947)
#47
My Grandfather After Winning 1st Place In The County Beard Contest. The Hat Was His Prize. Circa 1954
#48
I Would Always Call My Grandmother On Mother's Day, And Have Missed That Call For A Few Years Now. Thought I Would Share This In Her Honor
#49
My Grandma (Top) Was A Badass In Ww2 (1940s)
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Kira Leseman 7 years ago
So awesome. I need more. Make this a permanent sub category. It would be a huge hit I bet.
Hallak65 7 years ago
if you want more, go to reddit where this is from originate.
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Marianne Moreau 7 years ago
bottom of the 17th page is a picture from the Army of Darkness movie. ar-5a0b90a4846f2.jpg 
Steve Roberts 7 years ago
The last one...#162 is B.S.That's Bruce Campbell from Army of Darkness
Lou Kief 5 years ago
Wow, just wow. As kids we always though old people had always looked old. Now that I'm old too, I have become invisible to the younger generation, just as they were invisible to me as a youth. How nice to see beautiful people who grew old and kicked a*s. Thanks for posting these.
Rocky Davies 5 years ago
Imagine what grandparent photos will look like 50 years from now, haha. "Here is my grandma taking a selfie in front of the toilet wearing her new leopard print cardigan." "Here's my grandpa in his hipster phase eating a muffin."
Lee Brownell 5 years ago
Why are there no black and native American grandparent's represented?
Leigh Todd 5 years ago
My grandmother Kip was a Women Air Service Pilot in WWII. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Airforce_Service_Pilots ) If the US military used it, she could fly it. She and her sister WASPs ferried planes all over the world to free up men pilots for military actions. She flew all her life, until we lost her - much too soon - in 1980. She used to fly planes UNDER the bridges on the Hudson River... definitely bad a*s. 😎 9221-5d767...1dc63d.jpg 
Kimlan Lau 5 years ago
This Grand parents's article is awesome, even better that the parents' article. I loved it! It has me wondering who are all these ppl who had these awesome, badass & good looking grand parents????!! And are they just has goodlooking, bad a*s and awesome???!!
Margaret Mason 5 years ago
This is a wonderful list. It has marvellous pictures and warm, loving comments. It was a joy to see - thank you!
Jan Jansson 5 years ago (edited)
This is amazing. Each photo is a book or a movie story. What am I about to show my future grandkids? This is a grandpa and his avocado sandwich and on the other 53 photos, you have the same sandwich just different angle...
Beth Taccia 6 years ago
Please add more folks! Not a Reddit fan so I'd love to see more here instead.
Kathy Garcia 7 years ago
Picture # 8 -- is that right? The tires and rims on that car she's leaning against looks modern. Also I think that's a modern day model.
Mitch Stephens 7 years ago
So many beautiful women and macho men.....the history here just drips from this article...love it!!!
Sue Hutchinson 7 years ago
My Mom - circa 1940 - she was a Messing Officer in the RCAF. Mom-May-19...78350a.jpg 
Carmel Macpherson 7 years ago
Love these photos. We tend to look at older people and think we invented everything but these oldies probably did more in their day than we ever will
Mike Mitchell 7 years ago
I have my doubts about the authenticity of some of these photos, but I'm impressed.
Mollie Mraz 7 years ago
#162....so, your grandpa was Bruce Campbell (has both arms) in Army of Darkness?
Sharon Hamblett 7 years ago
#162 Is a photo of actor Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead! https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/bruce-campbell_612x380_1.jpg?w=612
Dave M 7 years ago
#162 is Bruce Campbell from Army of Darkness - if that's BS how many others are BS?
Brendan Butler 7 years ago
If you have the time use tineye.com and find out.
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Candy Sheppard 7 years ago
should say something about how weak we are now compared to our heritage - today's generation is a sad thing
Kathie Cremin-Michel 7 years ago
Really fantastic photos of really good looking people that look like they accomplished at lot in their lifetime
Yvonne Torburn-Clark 7 years ago
Of all the bored panda layouts that I have seen, this one on grand parents is the best!
Герда Кошкина 7 years ago
My Grandpa and Grandma were tourist instructors in Soviet Union and to my age have travelled far more than I. But I hope to visit some mountains they have climbed.
Felix Cuvreau 7 years ago
"What do you think ?"... well now i think I want to do your grandma.
Tiny Dynamine 7 years ago
Some good ones but some people are exaggerating their claims. I'm afraid that smoking a cigarette does not make them cool.
Alexandru Sfirlogea 7 years ago
It did back then, it no longer does today; there wasn't as much evidence for how bad it is. Don't look down on them, going back in time people had much less to work with, yet some of them were still awesome.
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Stefania Abruzzi 7 years ago
Great pictures , but the persons on the picture seem to be alway different ones?!
Kira Leseman 7 years ago
So awesome. I need more. Make this a permanent sub category. It would be a huge hit I bet.
Hallak65 7 years ago
if you want more, go to reddit where this is from originate.
Load More Replies... Marianne Moreau 7 years ago
bottom of the 17th page is a picture from the Army of Darkness movie. ar-5a0b90a4846f2.jpg
Steve Roberts 7 years ago
The last one...#162 is B.S.That's Bruce Campbell from Army of Darkness
Lou Kief 5 years ago
Wow, just wow. As kids we always though old people had always looked old. Now that I'm old too, I have become invisible to the younger generation, just as they were invisible to me as a youth. How nice to see beautiful people who grew old and kicked a*s. Thanks for posting these.
Rocky Davies 5 years ago
Imagine what grandparent photos will look like 50 years from now, haha. "Here is my grandma taking a selfie in front of the toilet wearing her new leopard print cardigan." "Here's my grandpa in his hipster phase eating a muffin."
Lee Brownell 5 years ago
Why are there no black and native American grandparent's represented?
Leigh Todd 5 years ago
My grandmother Kip was a Women Air Service Pilot in WWII. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Airforce_Service_Pilots ) If the US military used it, she could fly it. She and her sister WASPs ferried planes all over the world to free up men pilots for military actions. She flew all her life, until we lost her - much too soon - in 1980. She used to fly planes UNDER the bridges on the Hudson River... definitely bad a*s. 😎 9221-5d767...1dc63d.jpg
Kimlan Lau 5 years ago
This Grand parents's article is awesome, even better that the parents' article. I loved it! It has me wondering who are all these ppl who had these awesome, badass & good looking grand parents????!! And are they just has goodlooking, bad a*s and awesome???!!
Margaret Mason 5 years ago
This is a wonderful list. It has marvellous pictures and warm, loving comments. It was a joy to see - thank you!
Jan Jansson 5 years ago (edited)
This is amazing. Each photo is a book or a movie story. What am I about to show my future grandkids? This is a grandpa and his avocado sandwich and on the other 53 photos, you have the same sandwich just different angle...
Beth Taccia 6 years ago
Please add more folks! Not a Reddit fan so I'd love to see more here instead.
Kathy Garcia 7 years ago
Picture # 8 -- is that right? The tires and rims on that car she's leaning against looks modern. Also I think that's a modern day model.
Mitch Stephens 7 years ago
So many beautiful women and macho men.....the history here just drips from this article...love it!!!
Sue Hutchinson 7 years ago
My Mom - circa 1940 - she was a Messing Officer in the RCAF. Mom-May-19...78350a.jpg
Carmel Macpherson 7 years ago
Love these photos. We tend to look at older people and think we invented everything but these oldies probably did more in their day than we ever will
Mike Mitchell 7 years ago
I have my doubts about the authenticity of some of these photos, but I'm impressed.
Mollie Mraz 7 years ago
#162....so, your grandpa was Bruce Campbell (has both arms) in Army of Darkness?
Sharon Hamblett 7 years ago
#162 Is a photo of actor Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead! https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/bruce-campbell_612x380_1.jpg?w=612
Dave M 7 years ago
#162 is Bruce Campbell from Army of Darkness - if that's BS how many others are BS?
Brendan Butler 7 years ago
If you have the time use tineye.com and find out.
Load More Replies... Candy Sheppard 7 years ago
should say something about how weak we are now compared to our heritage - today's generation is a sad thing
Kathie Cremin-Michel 7 years ago
Really fantastic photos of really good looking people that look like they accomplished at lot in their lifetime
Yvonne Torburn-Clark 7 years ago
Of all the bored panda layouts that I have seen, this one on grand parents is the best!
Герда Кошкина 7 years ago
My Grandpa and Grandma were tourist instructors in Soviet Union and to my age have travelled far more than I. But I hope to visit some mountains they have climbed.
Felix Cuvreau 7 years ago
"What do you think ?"... well now i think I want to do your grandma.
Tiny Dynamine 7 years ago
Some good ones but some people are exaggerating their claims. I'm afraid that smoking a cigarette does not make them cool.
Alexandru Sfirlogea 7 years ago
It did back then, it no longer does today; there wasn't as much evidence for how bad it is. Don't look down on them, going back in time people had much less to work with, yet some of them were still awesome.
Load More Replies... Stefania Abruzzi 7 years ago
Great pictures , but the persons on the picture seem to be alway different ones?!
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