Take The Visual Equivalent Of A Smoking Break With These Cool Vintage Celebrity Photos

Sometimes there is just too much going on in the world. Conscientious news-following and awareness of the world and its nuance are necessary, but sometimes a short, superficial breather is needed. Personally I’d usually go for a cigarette, but having just quit that’s not an option anymore; so here’s the next best thing: The Best, Most Salacious Pictures Of The Kardashians!

Just kidding, it’s actually just some cool vintage photos of celebrities. Now pass the nicotine gum.

Thelonius Monk, 1959

‘Zee Zee Top’ playing their high school prom, 1971

Lauren Bacall, 1945

Dolly Parton, 1960s

Newly elected Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, being a ski instructor, 1997

George Harrison takes a selfie at the Taj Mahal, 1966

Diana Ross in the 1980s

Noam Chomsky, looking a little bit like Hugh Hefner, 1969

Sam Cooke and Muhammad Ali

Neil Degrasse Tyson in his wrestling days, late 1970s

Frida Kahlo welcoming Trotsky and his wife to Mexico

Jack Nicholson being Jack Nicholson, 1975

Paul Newman, looking better than…just about everyone else in the world? 1963

Margaret Hamilton, ‘nuff said

Louis Armstrong serenading his wife, colourised

Hunter S Thompson, 1974

BB King, 1950s

Not sure who these people are

I don’t know about you, but that was a hell of an overload of cool. There’s only one thing that could possibly top all that:

Happy Thursday! And look out for those bees.