38 Vintage Photos of Drunks Blacking Out in Black and White

Alcohol has always been a huge part of society. Back in the Middle Ages, clean water was hard to come by, so most people including kids, drank beer and hard cider. This golden age ended, but getting drunk was cemented in the collective human culture as something that’s really really fun to do.

Most of our parents and grandparents don’t admit to going too hard during their party days, but all that drinking made them forget – there were still cameras back then. Here’s some photographic evidence of the binge drinking your ancestors did, maybe even while they were pregnant with you!