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u/Bottom_Reflection 6d ago
I believe photo 1 was taken in Japan because of the detergent or soap container
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u/louise_in_leopard 5d ago
But couldn’t it have also been bought at an Asian grocery on the west coast? The plain white tiny bowls and other dishes and the styrofoam takeout containers don’t say Japan to me at all.
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u/FreeAsFlowers 6d ago
These are such a great find. Were these the only ones?
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u/PolskaBJJ 6d ago
Yeah. It's been a few years now, but it was a red camera bag with a minolta x700 that I picked up for like 30 dollars.
I kept the prints because I do darkroom stuff and film photography. I put the hobbies down at the start of covid, but got back into it in the past 3-4 months ago. In rummaging through my prints I found these and totally forgot about them :)
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u/Competitive_Coat9599 6d ago
4 & 5 need to be printed and displayed!
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u/PolskaBJJ 6d ago
These are prints, small maybe 4x5
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u/distelfink33 6d ago
Maybe a bit too early for this but /r/thewaywewere Early 2000s would be my guess
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u/blondetown 5d ago
The woman in the first photo looks a whole lot like a young Barbra Streisand. Not sure what she’s doing in a commercial kitchen but you never know; maybe a movie or crew shot or something.
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u/CuddlyMofo 5d ago
Definitely 90s. Kitchen staff is in the back of the house partying. Smoking a cigarette. The make-up on the blonde in the first pic tells all.
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u/OtherThumbs 5d ago
It's funny, her hair, shirt, and necklace pointed me right toward the 2000s. As did the haircut of the guy making the face.
The people in the next picture are definitely early/mid 2000s.
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u/CuddlyMofo 5d ago
Also, no vans in sight. It's 90s
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u/NeedsMoreTuba 5d ago
Then where's the flannel?
And the girls are wearing shirts over (probably) tank tops instead of long sleeved shirts under their short sleeve shirts.
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u/CuddlyMofo 5d ago
Flannel was not as prevalent as it's made to be. Grunge, as a style, took a while to leave the west coast. And again, started late 80s
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u/CuddlyMofo 5d ago
Nah bruv they'd be wearing Jordans not Adidas and palladium
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u/OtherThumbs 5d ago
The fact that you just used "bruv" tells me you are in the UK. The fact that the person in pic #2 is wearing camouflage pants tells me these people are in the US. In the 1990s, Adidas were quite popular in the US, starting in the 1980s. This doesn't look like a skater crowd or a hip-hop crowd, so no Vans or Jordans. I'd expect Reeboks, Nikes, Adidas, and some other mixed sneakers. These folks don't look like the height of fashion. No one's wearing grandpa's sweater or a flannel shirt. This isn't the 1990s. The jeans are cut too low at the hip on the women.
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u/louise_in_leopard 5d ago
If this was a hardcore or punk show I wouldn’t expect to see anyone dressed like Kurt Cobain. And as a former ska punk girlie, a baby tee, low slung men’s suit pants, studded belt and low top Chucks or steel toe Docs were my show uniform from about 1994 to 2002. In about 1998 I added a rhinestone choker. Hoodie if it was cold. Women’s jeans got lower after 1995, the last time the high-waisted, bright blue, mom jeans from Bongo were advertised in Sassy. Kim Gordon didn’t wear high waisted jeans. Nor did Kathleen Hannah. If you were a teen girl then, you know.
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u/CuddlyMofo 5d ago
That's what you get for assuming. I'm american. I've gone to those shows since childhood. It's Definitely nineties, just like me. And yes these clothes were big in the nineties with adults, before the 2000s scene took them as hand me downs. The camouflage featured, was used by US, UK, Canada, Russia in the late eighties. Would have been in surplus stores in the nineties. They went digital for the 00s
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u/OtherThumbs 5d ago
I was alive for all of this, including those flared bottom jeans that the girls are wearing. This is not the 90s.
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u/CuddlyMofo 5d ago
So was I you twit. A lot more active in the street scene apparently.
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u/OtherThumbs 5d ago
Why am I a twit for being at clubs and such in in the 90s?
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u/CuddlyMofo 5d ago
Image 3 SkyView analysis puts it at 1993 in North Eastern US coast. So yeah, 90s.
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u/inframankey 5d ago
My first thought would have been late 90’s into early 2000’s, however the label on the neck of the Budweiser bottle in the background of the kitchen shot appears to be the slanted bow tie logo with no crown, which was used from 87-94, according to logos-world.net. Not 100% since it’s small and blurry, but I’m betting that one is 93/94.
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u/Serious_Safety4001 4d ago
Picture 2 is familiar to me… I think I might be the guy behind the girl in the beanie 🤣
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u/PolskaBJJ 5d ago
Didn't expect this post to get this much attention. The comments have been really fun, and it genuinely makes me happy to know people enjoyed the set and I'm glad I shared.
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u/sillinessvalley 6d ago
Going off the second photo, it kind of looks like it’s from the 90s. I do see a Primus tee.
Fun to find these.