People just seemed to look older 60 years ago, than they do today. I have wondered about this, as I am 10 years older today than I remember my grandfather as a child, and he looked like he was in his 70's!:

Twitter thread claims people aged faster in the past with pictures of 20-year-olds looking

Brandon McCarthy, of California asked Twitter whether people looked older in the past than they do now. People shared snaps of their parents looking middle-aged when they were just 20. Pictured clockwise from top left: A father from Tennessee, aged 21; a Los Angeles grandmother in her 50s; a father from Virginia aged 45; a mother aged 17 from San Diego; parents from Sherman Oaks aged 23 and a couple in their 40s in Oakland.

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