Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 09/10/2019 at 09:48 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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Sherman, set the Wabac Machine for 1983, and be sure to bring your towel. Yes, the Terrible one.

Seriously, though, could this picture be any more 1980s Pennsylvania?

fintail > ttyymmnn 09/10/2019 at 10:00

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The objectively terrible facial hair and trucker caps could be present- day millennials in Seattle. The Mark IV may never come back though.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 09/10/2019 at 10:21

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If this photo is black and white, then how come I can actually see the pale yellows, maroons, and browns ?

ttyymmnn > fintail 09/10/2019 at 10:23

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In all my journeys through historical photographs, and attempted recreations, I have never seen a modern representation of a historical event that didn’t just look wrong somehow. Maybe it’s because I knew it was a reproduction. But having lived in the 80s, and visited family who lived in PGH at that time, and PA in general, there is something that is just so TRUE about this photo. There is absolutely not a single thing that is out of place, because everything absolutely belongs there--the hats, the jackets, the plaid, the car, the mustaches, the beards, the big glasses. All of it. 

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 09/10/2019 at 10:26

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Because, like General Patton, you were there.

This is a great scene. Jerry Goldsmith’s music, often imitated but never duplicated, is absolutely perfect.

fintail > ttyymmnn 09/10/2019 at 10:28

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It’s tough to get every detail right, one can usually find an anachronism in a modern period TV show/movie etc.  I am barely old enough to clearly remember the early 80s, but I remember the jackets for some reason.

This also shows how those dinosaurs depreciated, likely under 10 years old an already relegated to being a tailgate  mascot.  My mom had a T-Bird of that era, and when it developed a malady in 1985, my dad gave it away for nothing, wasn’t worth repairing nor selling.

ttyymmnn > fintail 09/10/2019 at 10:33

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But it’s not just the details or the possible anachronisms. You could take a modern person and put them in 100% period-correct clothes and it still wouldn’t look right. It’s almost as if the person is wrong. I think part of that is simply the technology of the film. Perhaps you would have to film or photograph the person with a historically accurate camera. 

fintail > ttyymmnn 09/10/2019 at 10:35

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Definitely. There’s something about digital photography that can give things away. Take this with an old 110 camera or for added grain maybe a Kodak Disc. Someone in a staged pic may also kind of look like they are “trying”, while those in this pic are just living for today and loving it.

ttyymmnn > fintail 09/10/2019 at 10:43

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I was having a discussion about photography with my brother (O.C. on Oppo) about what makes some photos so much better than others, even if the quality of the photo is poor. He said that the great photos put you there, make you feel like you are part of the scene when it happened. Perhaps it’s a sense of spontaneity. This photo is certainly spontaneous. “HEY EVERYBODY! Come outside and let’s take a picture!”

*click*

facw > ttyymmnn 09/10/2019 at 10:46

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It’s from 1990 and probably doesn’t capture the state as well but I’d still like to submit this picture of Jaromir Jagr arriving in Pittsburgh from C zechoslovakia to come play for the Penguins   because it is amazing:

user314 > ttyymmnn 09/10/2019 at 11:03

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Seriously, though, could this picture be any more 1980s Pennsylvania? 

Yes, no one’s holding a can of A r n City.

ttyymmnn > facw 09/10/2019 at 11:18

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Jagr was what, 18?

ttyymmnn > user314 09/10/2019 at 11:20

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Do they still make that? I was too young to drink back then, but I do remember my older PGH cousins referring to it as “Iron Shitty.”

facw > ttyymmnn 09/10/2019 at 11:23

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Yep. And he was still playing in the NHL as recently as 2018, and I believe is still playing professionally in the Czech Republic.

ranwhenparked > ttyymmnn 09/10/2019 at 11:23

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I grew up on the other end of the state, but thats pretty much what most of the adults around me looked like when I was a kid.

ttyymmnn > ranwhenparked 09/10/2019 at 11:31

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My dad was born in Somerset, so we would go back regularly to visit my grandparents. His sisters and their families lived in the PGH suburbs. I remember well  “One for the thumb!”

user314 > ttyymmnn 09/10/2019 at 11:53

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Yes. PBC filed for Chapter 11 back in ‘ 05, was bought out, and moved to the old Rolling Rock brewery in Latrobe in ‘09, but they’re still making Iron City and IC Light.

ttyymmnn > user314 09/10/2019 at 11:59

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From the glass lined tanks of Ol d Latrobe......