Good Morning, Oppo [Update]

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 04/02/2020 at 09:56 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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The White Zone is for A-4 parking only.

This A-4 Skyhawk belonging to Marine Attack Squadron 133 ( !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ) was parked outside the 12th Naval District offices on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay.

Anybody care to guess the year? You could click on the photo credit, but that would be cheating.

Update: s hop-t eacher got the date. It was taken in 1979.

vondon302 > ttyymmnn 04/02/2020 at 09:09

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1984

facw > ttyymmnn 04/02/2020 at 09:13

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Was going to say ‘84, but vondon’s got it so let’s try ‘83 instead.

InFierority Complex > ttyymmnn 04/02/2020 at 09:14

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It’s just crazy to me to think that the oldest thing in the picture is the jet.

facw > ttyymmnn 04/02/2020 at 09:40

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Same jet:

And it still exists, though it is now on display at Encinal High School in Alameda:

This is just outside the former NAS Alameda, so I assume they had children of naval aviators (and today they are just a short walk from USS Hornet :

shop-teacher > ttyymmnn 04/02/2020 at 09:47

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I’m going with '79.

user314 > facw 04/02/2020 at 09:54

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Alameda? Where the Navy had their nuclear wessels?

ttyymmnn > facw 04/02/2020 at 09:54

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Great follow up. Thanks!

ttyymmnn > shop-teacher 04/02/2020 at 09:55

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facw > facw 04/02/2020 at 09:56

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shop-teacher > ttyymmnn 04/02/2020 at 10:07

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Yes!!!

The white Malibu is the newest vehicle in the pic. That body style came out in '78, but I decided there would be more of them on the road in '79.

ttyymmnn > shop-teacher 04/02/2020 at 10:07

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I had to confirm, since I thought that Malibu was very much a product of the 80s.

vondon302 > shop-teacher 04/02/2020 at 10:17

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Nice one! We had a four door one but brown in 84.

shop-teacher > ttyymmnn 04/02/2020 at 10:41

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They did sell them through most of the 80's. I think '87(?), so that was a reasonable line of thought.

shop-teacher > vondon302 04/02/2020 at 10:46

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The Malibu itself could place the picture anywhere from late ‘77, until the early or even mid 90's. It was the fact that it was the newest vehicle in the picture, that steered me earlier. I figured ‘78 or ‘79 were the most likely. I went with ‘79 figuring more Malibus  would be on the road by then.

ttyymmnn > shop-teacher 04/02/2020 at 10:52

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I started driving in 1979, which was when I started paying more attention to the cop cars on the road, and our local police department drove Malibus. That whole period, to me, is the 1980s, so I was surprised to learn that particular Malibu style began in the late 70s.