Seriously Awesome Photos Of Epic Grandmothers We Should All Aspire To Be Like
Talk about role models
If you look at the grandparents you've grown up with, you see parental figures who have lived lives you know very little about (usually, anyway). You notice their wrinkles and age, and you almost have no clue what you've missed out on!
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That's where pictures come in handy—precious memories from a time lost to us in a world where gratification has become so instant. Seeing pictures from the '70s, '50s, or even the early 1900s is quite a blast from the past.
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Seeing your own family members in those pictures is something incredible, especially when it turns out they were 100 times cooler than you were at a similar age!
1. “Here’s my grandma being a meme innovator in Oklahoma in the 1940s!”
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2. “My totally ripped great-grandmother in the circus, 1950s.”
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3. “My grandmother was a code girl during WWII. It was her best-kept secret until 2017.”
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4. “My wonderful grandma, Lola, in the Marines, 1954.”
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5. “My grandma was the Underwood Typewriter girl (1945). She got her hands on one recently and took it for a spin.”
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6. “My grandmother was the first woman to change the female meter maid uniform in the 1960s.”
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7. “My grandma after learning to fly in 1949 or 1950—she was around 19 years old in this photo.”
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8. “My grandmother was in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in 1942.”
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9. “My biker grandma sometime during the '60s.”
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10. “My grandmother working as one of America’s first international flight air hostesses, 1938.”
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11. “My grandma (third from the left) and her girls’ high school basketball team, 1915.”
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12. “My grandma driving a tractor in a parade, 1949.”
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13. “My grandma and the tuna she caught, 1956.”
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14. “My grandma with John Travolta in the '70s.”
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15. “My grandmother in her hippie days (in the '70s).”
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16. “My Japanese grandma back when she was a flight attendant, 1960.”
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17. “My grandma (17) interviewing Frank Sinatra for her high school newspaper, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1952.”
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18. “My grandmother and Elvis in the 1950s.”
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19. “My Mexican grandma in the 1950s—she was part of the Aeromexico flying crew.”
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20. “My grandma in her senior year of high school, 1971.”
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