Alcohol, cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and other skillfully combined ingredients. It sounds like a recipe for disaster. Or the toxicology report from a coroner. But no. It’s neither.
What you just read was once the concoction that people casually consumed to treat a cough back in the day.
It’s just one of many strange and somewhat ridiculous norms once held in high regard. And the “receipts” for them can be found on a page aptly called Old School Ridiculous. The online community has more than 159,000 members who are there to laugh at the past. And while some of the history posts are no laughing matter, many of them are so ludicrous that it is genuinely laughable.
Bored Panda has put together a list of the most bizarre pictures from the page. So keep scrolling and be prepared to be blown away by the things that humanity once found quite normal, but in reality, show just how backwards we were, and how far we’ve come.
#1 Ella Fitzgerald Arrested After Singing To An Integrated Audience In 1955
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#2 Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Was Arrested For Protesting In 1961
She was tested for mental illness because law enforcement couldn’t think why a white woman would want civil rights.
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#8 The 1903 Mugshot Of Bertha Liebbeke, A Woman Who Would Approach Wealthy Men In Crowds And Pretend To Faint In Their Arms — Then Would Relieve Them Of All The Valuables In Their Pockets
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#18 A Sign In A Hotel Room Warns The Occupant That Snoring Is Forbidden, 1926
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#19 The Michelin Band Performs At The Opening Of The Michelin Hour Radio Program, 1928
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