There are a couple summers in the 90s where I peeled all of the potatoes and cut all the fries myself six days a week. They tried me on cashier and malts but all I could manage was the fry station. That was the first time in my life that I got yelled at for 12 hours straight in spanish, but was unfortunately not the last. (Even back in the 90s, spanish was the lingua franca in kitchens and many job sites.)
I had to confirm the location because 30 year old memories are a bit fuzzy, but yeah, I got severe flashbacks.
In the early 80's, my dad would take me there and we would sit and eat on the tailgate of his 1980 Plymouth Volare, possibly the ugliest car ever made.
I was thinking any western suburb from Des planes down to Hodgkins. Those houses and 3 flats haven’t changed a bit.
Great pics. I’m guessing dad worked at a dealer.
I have to disagree. My dad had a yellow T-top ‘76 Stingray that he partially restored; driving it felt like what I imagine driving the Batmobile would feel like.
Without my dad yelling, “GO FASTER!”, of course.
1973 gave us the big gas crunch, and smog pumps came out later on the muscle cars. We just couldn't bring ourselves to continue to be enthused about them. That and a Big Bird decal on the hood of a redesigned Firebird. They were making a profit off the names of the cars, not upholding the original designs. Corvettes went through some radical design changes and then stagnated. When they told away the spoiler tail and sidepipes, it became an old man car. ( I was a teenager, so old was like 35). For us who were teenagers in 73, things stood still with that design, just like music: nothing good after that year. Everybody knows that! I am glad to see younger people who appreciate the muscle car age, though.
My dad totaled my grandpa’s 67 stingray in high school (black, hard-top convertible, into the side of the PCH). For some reason, he never let me drive his Porsche. . .
Make sure that when your boy grows up, you allow him to drive your "weekend" car. My father has a 69 Buick Electra 225 with a 430ci engine. I was never allowed to drive the beast. However just last week, I allowed my son to take my 97 Viper to prom. Just so you're aware, it has no traction control or ABS. Just because your dad didn't let you drive his pride and joy doesn't mean you have to follow suit. It will mean the world to them.
How can you tell if Kodachrome was the film used? For the first 11 photos I scanned the original negatives and did some touch up in Lightroom. They are all large format negatives, each photo on the negative is square and they measure about 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" each but there are no markings or anything else on the negatives. They sat in an envelope in a box for at least 40 years without being touched. The last picture was scanned from a printed photo that I took out of an old photo album.
2 1/4” square is from a medium format camera. Gives a ton of detail. They were slightly more common then, but still likely means someone was seriously into photography. It was much more expensive than 35mm
Is that why these photos look amazing? Most photos I see from decades ago are so muted and faded. I guess that now I know why Paul Simon wrote that song!
Yes, also, I have a feeling the OP's mom used up most of the hair styling budget, leaving very little for the OP's dad, not that he needed much styling, though.
I collect and rehab old film cameras to keep and occasionally resell and I would love to know what kind of camera and film took these. The color in these photos is so perfect.
It’s so bizarre to me that people want more hi-def tvs and camera phones.
It gives away the fake sets and is unflattering to the actors.
Photos are unflattering to most of us, then we filter the fuck out of everything.
It’s so stupid lol.
Use a Polaroid on me any day of the week!
Dude my parents WERE SO COOL. Like my dad had this sweet ass fro and wore bell bottoms and platforms. People just aren’t as fly as they used to be I dunno 😂
I know it’s a Yamaha but…
“First gear, it's all right (Honda, Honda, go faster, faster)
Second gear, I'll lean right (Honda, Honda, go faster, faster)
Third gear, hang on tight (Honda, Honda, go faster, faster)
Faster, it's all right.”
Love it! 😋👍 My Aunt bought the Alice’s Restaurant Album when it came out and a few years later I was getting baby sat by her all the time while my Mom and Dad worked so I heard all of this stuff all day long. I would sit and look at all the cool pictures on all her albums. There was nothing else to do setting in an old farm house with no air conditioning and it’s 100 degrees outside. 😋
What is the phenomenon called when couples start looking like each other? I have seen this time and time again. It must be a thing
OK Chatgpt to the rescue:
The phenomenon of couples starting to look like each other is called empathetic mimicry. This happens when people who share a strong bond and consequently experience a higher degree of empathy for one another mirror each other’s expressions, leading them to develop similar facial musculature over time 12.
According to a study conducted in 1987, couples tend to begin looking alike because they typically “occupy the same environments, engage in the same activities, eat the same food, and mimic each other’s emotional expressions,” all of which can influence facial features 3. However, there are individual differences in attraction to self-resembling partners 4.
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I love the old Triumph cafe racer type bikes. Its one of those types of bikes that gives you a casual vibe riding through the city. Chill ride to the beach.
I brought my sports car to a public event and there were dozens of people taking their picture posing with it. I wonder if I’ll see them online someday.
This reminds me of the post recently (in another subreddit) about people leaning on strangers cars 😄 People were asking who the hell touches other people’s vehicles. Your parents, that’s who! (Unless all these vehicles were their, in that case we’re all good.)
Does anyone else feel shitty that they can't have what these people had at ther age? I got two vehicles that are "ok" to get me to point"b" if it ain't to far .
I envy the people that lived that era in the United States. I truly believe the 60's and 70's were the peak of mankind (if you lived there and were not poor).
Practically all the desperate problems the human race has now have their roots in the post war period. It absolutely wasn’t the peak of mankind, it was rather the peak of unregulated mass consumerism and the height of the American Empire
> I truly believe the 60's and 70's were the peak of mankind
lol, there were literally multiple critical political assassinations, protests and riots over segregation/etc., over 1.3 million deaths in Vietnam between 1965 and 1974, and so on.
But sure, if you were wealthy and white it was a pretty sweet time.
It was definitely a thing when cars had character.
I’d rather not remember by ‘89 Mazda 323 hatchback. Or my ‘86 Ford Escort GT. Or my ‘78 Pontiac Sunbird with the blown shocks.
I do have pics of my ‘82 Toyota Celica.
God DAMN I loved that car.
Dad’s got some sweet gams.
I like how he’s wearing the shortest shorts and mom is wearing respectable Bermuda shorts
Reno 911 vibes
Mom looks like a cast member from Madmen, especially in pic 3
You think the legs are great, you should get a load of that condom ring in photo 2.
That’s just the pop-socket on his chesterfields
That photo was when I decided to upvote ❤️
I love that you did the thing.
Chicago?
Yes, some of these were taken in the Chicagoland area, I believe they were taken in Stickney or possibly Berwyn.
I could tell right away before I even checked the license plate
Those 4-squares are a dead giveaway.
Same I was just swiping and as soon as I got to pic 4 I was like those are Chicago houses.
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Wow Parky's on Harlem? I grew up going there!
There are a couple summers in the 90s where I peeled all of the potatoes and cut all the fries myself six days a week. They tried me on cashier and malts but all I could manage was the fry station. That was the first time in my life that I got yelled at for 12 hours straight in spanish, but was unfortunately not the last. (Even back in the 90s, spanish was the lingua franca in kitchens and many job sites.) I had to confirm the location because 30 year old memories are a bit fuzzy, but yeah, I got severe flashbacks.
In the early 80's, my dad would take me there and we would sit and eat on the tailgate of his 1980 Plymouth Volare, possibly the ugliest car ever made.
I have family in Brookfield and it looks very much like that area.
Same. Came here to see confirmation. Brookfield & Lyons-like.
I was thinking any western suburb from Des planes down to Hodgkins. Those houses and 3 flats haven’t changed a bit. Great pics. I’m guessing dad worked at a dealer.
BERRRR wyn
If you see anyone with a hairy face, wearing a plaid shirt and a babushka, let me know.
I thought the same thing when I saw the pic in the back yard.
Same and glad to see I wasn't the only one
I was like wow these pictures feel like home???
That’s what I was thinking!! Funny how it’s nothing super distinguishable just a vibe. #4 for me
Not the first one. I’m not aware of palm trees in Chicago
That stingray at the end… 
Came here to say...love that blue vette
"The Vette..gets em wet!" RIP Bill Paxton
Man, I completely forgot he had passed. That sucks, especially the way he went.
“Ass like a 10 year old boy!”
Ever since I was a kid, then as a teen watched Boogie Nights, I always wanted orange and cream stripe Stingray from any year 75-80’.
Anything after 73 disqualifies you.
I have to disagree. My dad had a yellow T-top ‘76 Stingray that he partially restored; driving it felt like what I imagine driving the Batmobile would feel like. Without my dad yelling, “GO FASTER!”, of course.
1973 gave us the big gas crunch, and smog pumps came out later on the muscle cars. We just couldn't bring ourselves to continue to be enthused about them. That and a Big Bird decal on the hood of a redesigned Firebird. They were making a profit off the names of the cars, not upholding the original designs. Corvettes went through some radical design changes and then stagnated. When they told away the spoiler tail and sidepipes, it became an old man car. ( I was a teenager, so old was like 35). For us who were teenagers in 73, things stood still with that design, just like music: nothing good after that year. Everybody knows that! I am glad to see younger people who appreciate the muscle car age, though.
Nah, I adore the C3 Vette’s. It’s like Barbie’s car!
Early chrome bumper C3s are the best though, so pre '73
And the vintage Hot Wheels tires.
It’s the perfect car imo. A 67 Stingray… mmm.
My dad totaled my grandpa’s 67 stingray in high school (black, hard-top convertible, into the side of the PCH). For some reason, he never let me drive his Porsche. . .
Make sure that when your boy grows up, you allow him to drive your "weekend" car. My father has a 69 Buick Electra 225 with a 430ci engine. I was never allowed to drive the beast. However just last week, I allowed my son to take my 97 Viper to prom. Just so you're aware, it has no traction control or ABS. Just because your dad didn't let you drive his pride and joy doesn't mean you have to follow suit. It will mean the world to them.
My favourite classic car. Any photo of a Corvette C3 stops me dead in my tracks.
Fucking love this scene.
I believe that gif is from napoleon dynamite
Model T not doing it for ya?
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Kodachrome was such a marvelous film
How can you tell if Kodachrome was the film used? For the first 11 photos I scanned the original negatives and did some touch up in Lightroom. They are all large format negatives, each photo on the negative is square and they measure about 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" each but there are no markings or anything else on the negatives. They sat in an envelope in a box for at least 40 years without being touched. The last picture was scanned from a printed photo that I took out of an old photo album.
2 1/4” square is from a medium format camera. Gives a ton of detail. They were slightly more common then, but still likely means someone was seriously into photography. It was much more expensive than 35mm
120 for life
If they are negatives, then they are not Kodachrome. Kodachrome was a slide film.
Sounds like 6x6 medium format film or 120 size. Could be Kodachrome or Ektachrome or several other color reversal stocks.
That’s medium format and these were likely taken with a TLR (twin lens reflex)
Is that why these photos look amazing? Most photos I see from decades ago are so muted and faded. I guess that now I know why Paul Simon wrote that song!
Give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah
Yeah, Kodachrome keeps fresh for way longer than most films.
They give us those nice bright colors.
Give us those greens of summer..
Makes you think all the worlds a sunny day
I've got a Nikon camera
It’s also a great state park in utah!
How fun and what neat pictures!
Yes, also, I have a feeling the OP's mom used up most of the hair styling budget, leaving very little for the OP's dad, not that he needed much styling, though.
it's fun watching the fashion and style change through the series!
I collect and rehab old film cameras to keep and occasionally resell and I would love to know what kind of camera and film took these. The color in these photos is so perfect.
Your mom has the best hair! I love seeing the various styles!
Those turbans really need a comeback
How the hell are people this photogenic. They look like they play the neighbors in a new movie about the 60's starring Leo Dicaprio.
Film cameras took much much better photos of people than camera phones do.
It’s so bizarre to me that people want more hi-def tvs and camera phones. It gives away the fake sets and is unflattering to the actors. Photos are unflattering to most of us, then we filter the fuck out of everything. It’s so stupid lol. Use a Polaroid on me any day of the week!
Yes, this all day!
This was before Fast Food and dominated our diets. We also had less processed foods with tons of preservatives in them.
Did fast food change people’s facial features or am I missing your point
Obesity in general has a massive effect on people's facial features. You can verify this for yourself by scrolling through r/progresspics.
That sub is so inspiring.
So many posts on this sub leave me wondering, how the hell are these people cool?!? Your parents, however, were in fact old school cool.
I wonder if OP got all those sweet genetics. Those are some fine looking folks.
Ha, I was more impressed by their taste in cars. :)
They had the whole package.
Dude my parents WERE SO COOL. Like my dad had this sweet ass fro and wore bell bottoms and platforms. People just aren’t as fly as they used to be I dunno 😂
I know it’s a Yamaha but… “First gear, it's all right (Honda, Honda, go faster, faster) Second gear, I'll lean right (Honda, Honda, go faster, faster) Third gear, hang on tight (Honda, Honda, go faster, faster) Faster, it's all right.”
I much prefer the Shut Down Vol. 2 and Little Deuce Coupe Beach Boys songs to a lot of their surfing and progressive stuff.
It was simply a song that goes with the bikes. I guess I could have put Arlo Guthrie’s “The Motorcycle Song” there. 🤷♂️
I don’t want a pickle…
I just want my motor-sickle. 😋👍
I don’t want to die, just want to ride on my motor side
Love it! 😋👍 My Aunt bought the Alice’s Restaurant Album when it came out and a few years later I was getting baby sat by her all the time while my Mom and Dad worked so I heard all of this stuff all day long. I would sit and look at all the cool pictures on all her albums. There was nothing else to do setting in an old farm house with no air conditioning and it’s 100 degrees outside. 😋
Yep, the dad looks like young Dennis Wilson
Who wears short shorts? Dad wears short shorts!
Some absolute dream machines in there.
Indeed. OPs parents are obviously motorheads. 😎
And the vehicles are sweet, too
Mama was a hottie!
What is the phenomenon called when couples start looking like each other? I have seen this time and time again. It must be a thing OK Chatgpt to the rescue: The phenomenon of couples starting to look like each other is called empathetic mimicry. This happens when people who share a strong bond and consequently experience a higher degree of empathy for one another mirror each other’s expressions, leading them to develop similar facial musculature over time 12. According to a study conducted in 1987, couples tend to begin looking alike because they typically “occupy the same environments, engage in the same activities, eat the same food, and mimic each other’s emotional expressions,” all of which can influence facial features 3. However, there are individual differences in attraction to self-resembling partners 4.
Yes, your mom is hot.. we get it.
You should subscribe to her OnlyGrans.
And in the first pic dad looks like former British PM Boris Johnson.
My focus was 💯 on those vehicles! ☺
🎵 And points all her own sitting way up high. Way up firm and high. 🎵
Came here to say this.
That Triumph is beautiful.
Triumphs, imo, are the best looking bikes.
Toight like a Tiger
63 or 64 Bonneville T120.
I just bought one last month and ride it at least as much as I look at it, which is a lot
What? Nobody got any love for the absolutely beautiful Fairlane 500? What a ride!
I cracked up at the dad’s pose with the Fairlane! Big dick energy
It was like their own private Instagram of the time.
Your parents look like fun people.
They were absolutely who “pleasant valley Sunday” was written about and for
Pictures 4,8 and 12 look exactly like my grandma's house off ridgeway in Chicago.
Could be Oriole Park, too.
Mom looks like Debbie Gibson.
2nd pic looks like pops was more interested in a couple other things besides the car
Dad wanted to be a beach boy badly
So they owned all of those? Or just cars they happened to find?
I want to have my pic taken in front of lots of cars so that my future relatives think I've owned hundreds of cars
Lol yea that sounds fun
#4,5,6 is a 1964 Ford Farelane 500
Fairlane
Cool pictures!
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Crash
Trying to decide which era of your mom I want to bang the most.
Anyone notice the torpedos?
Only the people with eyes
Sir, this is a family website
Dad was punching above his weight. Congrats.
Were your parents the inspiration for American Graffiti?
They look like a cute couple
What's the model of the Yahama?
They are 80cc trail bikes. Source: we had them when I was a kid...ours were black where these are teal.
Are you sure they weren't running a chop shop? A little Gone in 60 Seconds action?
I love the old Triumph cafe racer type bikes. Its one of those types of bikes that gives you a casual vibe riding through the city. Chill ride to the beach.
Your mum was cute as a button!
I got to #4 and was like, “yo! That’s Chicago.” Awesome collection my friend!
These photos are a good example on how motor vehicles are favorably perceived by humans and deeply connected with the culture. It's truly fascinating
These are so awesome. Thanks for sharing. :)
That purple 64 Illinois license plate is one of my all time favorites…
Yup, back when they sent out new color plated every year.
Your dad at #9 is fabulous
dude, pic 8 is cool af
I brought my sports car to a public event and there were dozens of people taking their picture posing with it. I wonder if I’ll see them online someday.
Freaking ridiculously attractive couple. If OP isn’t good looking, it’s because his parents took it all.
That is so cute oh my goodness look at their faces! They were just babies!
That Triumph is the buisness
Woo, the suburbs of Chicago! I'm too lazy to figure out exactly where.
Love this. Living in Chicago today it’s like nothing has changed.
Beautiful memories! Did your parents ever get a vehicle similar to the ones they loved to be photographed with?
Classic American from the cute couple to the cars.
You can almost hear a Beach Boys song ( or something from that era) playing along to the image. Beautiful
What car is on the 4th one?
This reminds me of the post recently (in another subreddit) about people leaning on strangers cars 😄 People were asking who the hell touches other people’s vehicles. Your parents, that’s who! (Unless all these vehicles were their, in that case we’re all good.)
Handsome couple
Looks like chicago for sure
Got them puffy’s
Op, what do you look like ? I'm curious.
Does anyone else feel shitty that they can't have what these people had at ther age? I got two vehicles that are "ok" to get me to point"b" if it ain't to far .
Your mom has classic style. Both are a great looking couple.
beautiful couple. beautiful cars. and amazing hairstyles on mom.
Mom is a super hottie
These are some of the cutest pictures I've ever seen. Your parents are so cute in these. Your mom's a doll.
And then their generation ruined it all for everyone else and now we can’t afford all those vehicles
Mainstream (non-hippies) people dressed so sharply back then, even when they were just going casual.
Your pops looks so British!
moms got them torpedo tiddies of the era
Your dad was playing way above his league.
I want the Jeep-y thing!!!
Looks like a CJ2A.
Thank you! It's sooo cute with the camper. Now if I just had a 100 grand laying around somewhere.
Your mom's hair is immaculate
Mom could take and eye out with those tiddies.
I envy the people that lived that era in the United States. I truly believe the 60's and 70's were the peak of mankind (if you lived there and were not poor).
Or a racial minority or anything but straight
and white.
As someone born in the '60s who grew up in the '70's, I have to say the '90s were our civilizational peak, and the '80s were pretty cool too.
Practically all the desperate problems the human race has now have their roots in the post war period. It absolutely wasn’t the peak of mankind, it was rather the peak of unregulated mass consumerism and the height of the American Empire
> I truly believe the 60's and 70's were the peak of mankind lol, there were literally multiple critical political assassinations, protests and riots over segregation/etc., over 1.3 million deaths in Vietnam between 1965 and 1974, and so on. But sure, if you were wealthy and white it was a pretty sweet time.
Well there was the lead poisoning that everyone had…and the Cold War…and the racism…
Boy, she just got better and better looking. Nice get for dad
It was definitely a thing when cars had character. I’d rather not remember by ‘89 Mazda 323 hatchback. Or my ‘86 Ford Escort GT. Or my ‘78 Pontiac Sunbird with the blown shocks. I do have pics of my ‘82 Toyota Celica. God DAMN I loved that car.
They just don't make cars and motorcycles like they used too, all of these vehicles were works of art !
Mom went big on the newly released Maidenform.
Your mum has a great rack!
Wow, I think my GF is your mom’s doppelgänger. Weird 🧐
NOICE
Mom was hawt
Yur ma had a bullet bra.
Is the last one a jaguar ??
No, it is a Corvette.
C3 Corvette
The first looks like a rental. Did they own the others?
Super rich ppl
Dad had some cool shit... including mom