Historically Hot or Not? Let's Post Random Hotties/Notties from Yesteryear

That's just the way gals wore their hair way back then.

Um.... hello!

Let's see how far we get before Stalin appears.

1920s.

He's a little.. intense.

OP’s guy looks a bit like Viggo Mortenson

A young Ernest Hemingway

An oldie but a goody. Lincoln conspirator Lewis Payne

Lucy (the Australopithecus afarensis)

Royal Air Force officer, 1940

Ooh, so far r9 wins!

Beautiful CSL.

^ C.S. Lewis?

R9 is Colton Haynes, right?

Smoke break for a hot construction worker on the Empire State Building.

Dapper young man from the Victorian era.

A young Peter Tchaikovsky, composer of "The 1812 Overture" and the music for Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and The Sleeping Beauty,

Nazi field officer Joachim Peiper. Reminds me of young Christopher Plummer a bit.

Men were so handsome back then. Now we have a bunch of fatties and precious snowflakes.

Unknown soldier, probably WWII

R19, wow! Where did you find that pic? He was beautiful

^^ the man in R19 has a Star of David patch on his arm, maybe early Jewish soldier in Palestine, pre-Israel?

Look up Hermann Rorschach, of the test. You won't regret it.

R7 looks like Jeffrey Dahmer.

Italian composer, 1890, Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni

R8 never fails! lol Thanks for the lol hun!

R11CSL is not C.S.Lewis. Although he was cute as a youngster too.

Aussie soldier WWI

How about these naked 3?

NSFW naturally.

Fingers crossed 🤞🏻 link works!

For R22, Hermann Rorschach, the Brad Pitt of his day.

Let's UP the sexiness.

Depression era beauty Anthony Sansone.

Judging from his biography if he were around today he would DEFINITELY have an Only Fans account.

This won't be a historical hotties thread without the obligatory young hipster Stalin post:

Great thread! Better than the usual Historical Hotties because it's not only the celebs.

Hottie grandpa

Let's get back to R9, who is movie star handsome. Who is he? (who was he, who does he want to be?). R9, where did you find this fab photo?

What's so handsome about R35?

He's an average looking guy with good lighting.

Because he looks better than half the guys posted here.

Manfred von Richthofen

CSL = cock sucking lips

R36 Ramon Navarro was correctly thought to be a handsome man.

Hi Stalin! Marry me!

[quote]Men were so handsome back then. Now we have a bunch of fatties and precious snowflakes.

Says the fattie snowflake.

R9 Looks like a lot like Colton Haynes.

This colorized picture of Lewis Payne makes him look like a present day Calvin Klein model. Felons were hot, even in the 1800s!

They don't make presidential sons like this any more...

The team...

[quote][R36] Ramon Navarro was correctly thought to be a handsome man.

My mistake. I know who RN is, but didn't recognize him. It's certainly not a good choice of photo to make the case that he was handsome, though.

And anyway, do movie stars qualify as "random hotties?"

That dude in OPs photo is UGLAY.

R46, FDR, Jr. was hot!! What gutters!!

British poet Rupert Brooke:

Ezra Pound

Sweater man.

This thread fits in nicely with the "is sex socially constructed?" thread. It's not sexual attraction that can be socially constructed, it's hair styles, fashion, etc. that can be socially constructed.

Even Winston Churchill had his moments:

Assumed to be the world's first selfie, as it's the first known photographic portrait.

Photographer Robert Cornelius in 1839. Strangely contemporary, no?

The young Henry James before he lost his hair

Prince Philip

This thread should be titled, "A Celebration of Average White Guys throughout History... and Young Hot Stalin."

Ezra Pound was a racist.

IOW, an official Datalounge hottie.

On what planet is r44 so called hottie a hottie.

R19, I don't think that was WWII...looked more like Civil War to me...or maybe 1918?

Young Spaniard

Op that was a jelly roll...popular in the 1950s.

Japanese youth

Light-eyed man in a warm suit.

R58 (who has not posted any non-whites) apparently doesn't know where Lucy was dug up.

OP's guy is creepy-looking in that way old-timey folks often were (at least in photos).

R9 not sure if you're kidding or not, but that's obviously a modern photo that's been altered to look old

[Quote][R9] not sure if you're kidding or not, but that's obviously a modern photo that's been altered to look old

Oh shit, r67 is RIGHT.

Maurice Barrymore, father of John, Lionel and Ethel, grandfather of John Drew Barrymore and great-grandfather of Drew Barrymore, among others.

sailor

Swiss artist Hugo Siegeart, circa 1895.

President Gerald Ford and his hot teammate.

[quote]apparently doesn't know where Lucy was dug up.

Let me guess -- West Jamestown?

William Michael Spartali Stillman

The cutest picture of Ernest "Papa" Hemingway in the Red Cross hospital.

R33 , your grandpa was smokin' hot for sure!

[quote] I don't think that was WWII...looked more like Civil War to me...or maybe 1918?

Found this pic on Pinterest. Someone wrote that it was an unknown Italian soldier during WWII and he has a Star of David emblem on the side of his arm. His skin looks tan like he's been out in the sun a lot, in the Mediterranean area. Most soldiers didn't grow beards, did they?

R19/77 may be a solider in the army of the short-lived Italian Republic of Salò, the puppet state the Nazis put Mussolini at the head of when Italy switched to the Allies in 1943. For some reason, despite the complete factitiousness of the state, the photos of its soldiers tend to be hot, like this fellow.

Young Igor Stravinsky.

More Stravinsky. Legend has it that he sent a nude photo of himself to Diaghilev while trying to secure a commission for a score.

John Payne in Kid Nightingale, 1939. Photo by Hurrell?

Young violinist in NYC, 1900.

There was nothing random about John Payne.

German pilot soldier 1940

Let's avoid celebrities and historical figures, guys.

Random anonymous hotness is more fun.

My Civil War BF looks a bit like Paul Newman's even hotter brother.

Major Urban Ben Drew, American ace fighter pilot, first pilot to shoot down enemy jet-power aircraft in WWII.

Poseidon, arguably the hottest dad among the gods of classic mythology.

Shorpy hunk

Cute. Probably dead now. Or gaga.

Holy shit, R87's guy is movie star hot... actually, he's better looking than a lot of today's modern stars.

Just look at that smile!

The actor Harry Montague. He's referenced in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence as appearing in a play The Shaughraum which premiered in New York in November 1874.

Louis Payne looks like Tobey Maguire!

This one will forever be my favorite "historically hot" picture - that beautiful little World War II gunner:

The power r94 must have felt, nude in that hot cockpit!

I wonder what the photographer looked like?

R82 Thanks for introducing me to Jan Kubelick. It turns out that he had quite a distinguished career.

US soldier in Vietnam. The average age was 19 years old. 58,000 American soldiers died. I wonder if this guy made it.

someone had posted a pic of her hot Grandpa during the Korean war and the picture went viral.

Anonymous 19th century fox...

Robert Todd Lincoln

Half of these guys look like serial killers. Really?

Very sad. Died young and left a beautiful corpse.

Franz Schubert

Sorry, the above is Johannes Brahms.

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

Mr. Codreanu's tragic life.

Random hottie.

Rupert Brooke, English poet of WWI

Jack Kerouac

American Air force, Korean War

You may have used the wrong pic but you had the right idea R103.

However, either Schubert just didn't age well or this portrait of him at 16 was EXTREMELY flattering because he sure as hell didn't look like this in paintings just 10 years later.

old-time hottie

Maude Fealy, famous stage and silent film star actress.

Mata Hari, famous WWI spy

Walter Tull, first black British army officer, WWI

R114, that isn't Mata Hari. I saw her biography and she looked just like Greta Garbo.

Eugene Bullard, who moved to Scotland to to serve as a combat pilot during WWI. He ex looks pretty similar to him.

Sicilian youth by von Gloeden

Navajo hottie

Soldier bros

Blurry but hot WWII soldier

1960s Japanese model

Oh my. My my my...

Love this guy on the far left, I am sure he never saw a day of combat in the Civil War, but he sure looks dandy.

This guy, Colonel Robert Shaw, to me looks a lot like Jason Priestley from Beverly Hills, 90210.

Hanging from a tree, would love to know the story behind this picture. You have to click on the picture to see his face.

R128 those two were a pornmaker’s dream come true. So handsome and sexy

I don't think R128 is from the olden days.

"Men were so handsome back then. Now we have a bunch of fatties and precious snowflakes."

As opposed to ugly, fat Republicans who whine about "snowflakes" like you?

[quote] Men were so handsome back then.

Did you ever stop to think that many of these photos of handsome men survived because the men were handsome? On top of that these are photos that people have posted on the internet because the men are handsome, why would they post pictures of average or ugly men?

Young Winston Churchill, man he sure let himself go to hell.

Whose son is he r45 ?

Winston Churchill was never hot. Pasty with fetus face when he was young.

R11 looks like David Lochary’s grandfather!

Actor C.M. Hallard

R77’s photo suggests a young Richard Gere.

R45 is Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr

Edward S. Curtis below

This ad is just too funny

Now with extra large snack sack!

I always thought the young FDR was very handsome.

That's also FDR Jr. with young Gary Cooper at r133.

R130 I think you're right. A few other pics near them also.

R133 is very nice. But it's photoshop. Those two weren't together in one pic.

Why would anyone bother to photoshop a photo of Gary Cooper and FDR Jr.?

r128 - gorgeous!!!

R148, have you seen some of the stuff that's online? Why would anyone bother to do most of it.

Hottt

That pic in R128 is a modern pic, photoshopped to look old.

Jack Chevigny, Notre Dame player who won one for the Gipper. Killed in action on the first day of the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

Meh!

R143 Even the poodle is thinking WTF!

How about the young Gustav Klimt? I'd sure give him a Kuß!

Relatively obscure Roviet composer and pianist, Alexander Goedicke.

Would you lick Søren Kierkegaard?

Buster Crabbe

I always thought Almanzo Wilder (Half-Pint's husband) was sexy