Comments on: Detroit 1982 (Single link Flickr)

Detroit 1982 (Single link Flickr)

zzazazz — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:33:17 -0800

A fun photo set of drunk 20 year olds touring the Motor City in 1982 and taking pictures.

By: TheWhiteSkull

TheWhiteSkull — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:40:09 -0800

By: rh

rh — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:46:54 -0800

Where exactly does Candis Berkley have warts? I can't figure out that last word, but I guess this is how she got them.

By: NationalKato

NationalKato — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:52:38 -0800

These are fantastic. Poor Candy.

By: Potomac Avenue

Potomac Avenue — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:53:32 -0800

Faved this before reading it. After looking at the photos, unfaved and refaved several times in quick succession while chanting HO-SER HO-SER HO-SER. Now the air smells like brats and Lowenbrau and I have to lie down for a minute.

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:54:24 -0800

Folks, it appears the individual about whom you're speaking still lives in Detroit, perhaps, in the interest of not dragging someone's name through the mud, we might not want to go down this particular road, eh?

By: Potomac Avenue

Potomac Avenue — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:54:34 -0800

Where exactly does Candis Berkley have warts? On her purse.

By: maryr

maryr — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:54:44 -0800

I didn't know those Breakfast Club style shades and slouched posing were so inspired by real life.

By: Wordwoman

Wordwoman — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:55:03 -0800

So wait...Instagram has a feature now where they don't just age your photo, but they insert you and your hipster buddies into a series of historical stock photos of different landmarks? That's pretty bleeding edge, there. Oh, indeed, this is necessary because hipsters are so radically different from the actual 20 year olds of 1982. /sarcasm

By: p3t3

p3t3 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:06:58 -0800

Who's up for some Tootie Fruitie fruit cup?

By: pcrsweetness

pcrsweetness — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:12:04 -0800

This is a really cool concept and I loved looking through these, but is this an ad for Stroh's?

By: Seamus

Seamus — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:15:34 -0800

If it is an ad for Stroh's, then they needed to work on the product placement in their own ads!

By: mjklin

mjklin — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:22:26 -0800

BURGER THANG

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:23:18 -0800

You know, Stroh's (it's fire-brewed) used to be my go-to shitty beer. It almost tastes a little like hops somewhere among the burnt-tire. Plus it comes in 15-packs. But then we did a blind taste-test of just about everything we can get cheaper than Bud, and Schaefer (the one beer to have when you're having more than one) came out on top of everybody's list by miles, and costs $6.49/12. Can't beat that. Also, if you told me these pictures were taken last week, I'd believe you, except for the price list in the bar.

By: junco

junco — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:27:15 -0800

Also, if you told me these pictures were taken last week, I'd believe you, except for the price list in the bar. And at the "BURGER THANG". Part of it's not visible, but I believe it says 3 burgers for $1.25.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:34:41 -0800

Sorry. I tried. I'm not really seeing the appeal of this photoset.

By: These Premises Are Alarmed

These Premises Are Alarmed — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:36:42 -0800

I thought Detroit only got shitty after George W Bush was elected? (Not really, the first time I was propositioned for sex was in Detroit circa 1995.)

By: Tell Me No Lies

Tell Me No Lies — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:40:16 -0800

If being propositioned for sex makes someplace shitty, I don't want to live somewhere nice.

By: marxchivist

marxchivist — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:56:48 -0800

Whew! Not me! I fit that timeframe, locale, & mindset.

By: argonauta

argonauta — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:07:51 -0800

If you'd like a soundtrack to go with these pictures, here are the #1 songs of 1982. I'm not the only one who can sing all of these by heart, am I?

By: ericost

ericost — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:09:19 -0800

Sorry. I tried. I'm not really seeing the appeal of this photoset. No apologies necessary, I loved it for you!

By: nonmerci

nonmerci — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:21:00 -0800

I could not love this more.

By: IvoShandor

IvoShandor — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:22:31 -0800

Dammit. I wish I'd known that Steve Perry, Steven Tyler and Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off formed a supergroup.

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:25:52 -0800

I'm so glad that no pictures of me from that era have surfaced.

By: scody

scody — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:29:37 -0800

Also, if you told me these pictures were taken last week, I'd believe you, except for the price list in the bar. And all the cars seem right, era-wise.

By: palindromic

palindromic — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:58:21 -0800

Man, this got a favorite from me just for being a photo post of Detroit that didn't try to make some broader sociological point.

By: rocket88

rocket88 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:07:48 -0800

Also, if you told me these pictures were taken last week, I'd believe you, except for the price list in the bar Indeed, one dollar draft beer is the only thing I miss about 1982.

By: jeremias

jeremias — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:20:02 -0800

If you'd like a soundtrack to go with these pictures, here are the #1 songs of 1982. I'm not the only one who can sing all of these by heart, am I? posted by argonauta at 7:07 PM on July 9 [+] [!] Sigh. I was 19 for 20. Chicago's "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" didn't ring a bell for me because even as a preteen the band triggered a gag reflex in me akin to drinking a glass of warm spit. Then I listened to the first few bars. 20 for 20.

By: xingcat

xingcat — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:25:08 -0800

These guys obviously thought that they were shooting the cover for every one of their soon-to-be-released albums. Disco sux!!!!

By: xingcat

xingcat — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:26:51 -0800

Sorry to double-comment, but I didn't know that the Solid Platinum Dancers originated in Detroit! That's almost twice the value per ounce as the Solid Gold Dancers!

By: Greg_Ace

Greg_Ace — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:30:48 -0800

argonauta: ... here are the #1 songs of 1982. Oh dear god...thanks so much for reminding me how much I loathed and despised the 80's.

By: symbioid

symbioid — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:46:46 -0800

Thanks to the top song list and net surfing, I stumbled upon this little gem... The original version of Down Under... Darker and slower. Very different. And yeah - hipsters, damn.

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:51:14 -0800

i miss the days when you could get stroh's in a bar - it was a lot better then, too i also miss hanging around detroit when i was a 20-something in the 80s - good times ...

By: TheWhiteSkull

TheWhiteSkull — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:06:16 -0800

Oh, indeed, this is necessary because hipsters are so radically different from the actual 20 year olds of 1982. /sarcasm I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I was half-assedly trying to express the feeling that these give me- a sort of deja vu where you're not quite sure if something is from the past, or a recent, eerily accurate, simulacrum. I know guys right now that look like a couple of the guys in these pictures, and I knew guys back in the '80s who look like others of the guys in the pictures. If you'd like a soundtrack to go with these pictures, here are the #1 songs of 1982. I'd have thought that Rush would be more heavily represented on the soundtrack that goes with these pictures.

By: Chrischris

Chrischris — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:06:47 -0800

1982: The last year you could wear overalls and porkpie hats without irony.

By: marxchivist

marxchivist — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:20:31 -0800

Oooh. After looking at these pics when not on my phone, I retract my above comment about year, locale, and mindset. The year and place were right, but my friends and I would have had on torn jeans and Iggy Pop t-shirts. And that list of #1 songs, that's why we were listening to Iggy Pop. And drinking Stroh's.

By: item

item — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:40:45 -0800

Apparently Candis still lives in Detroit, according to a quick Google check, and at age 50-54 I'd garner it's the.same one. I sincerely hope she's feeling better.

By: cooker girl

cooker girl — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:49:34 -0800

How in the world do these photos look so good? Did someone clean them up? Because I have photos from 1982 and they do not look this crisp and clean and as if they were taken with a digital camera.

By: peagood

peagood — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 20:11:30 -0800

Ummmmm....flex? About this photo?

By: Halloween Jack

Halloween Jack — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 20:19:46 -0800

I can't really hate on these guys, because my friends and I were taking similarly goofy pictures in Chicago at this time (we were all about eighteen). Yeah, we thought we were posing for the cover of our (nonexistent) album. And the notion that putting on shades and a spiffy hat automatically made you cool came from The Blues Brothers, of course; look, that one guy is even playing the mouthharp (or pretending to) in front of the first bit of graffiti about Candis. They probably have gotten together every five years since and had a Stroh's in remembrance, then spent half an hour talking about how it's not the same.

By: maryr

maryr — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 20:23:48 -0800

Dammit. I wish I'd known that Steve Perry, Steven Tyler and Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off formed a supergroup. No, I'm pretty sure that center one is Owen Wilson. Or possibly Luke.

By: stormpooper

stormpooper — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 05:59:57 -0800

I'm guessing this shoot was a precursor for this.

By: kinnakeet

kinnakeet — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:13:27 -0800

I was looking at these thinking "Wow, that would make a great album cover!" "Oh yeah, album cover." "That one too--looks just like an album cover..." only not of a really big band, more like a second-tier band. In the 70s. When we actually had album covers. Otherwise I was all "how come I never had this much fun with my drunk friends when I was young?"

By: Pruitt-Igoe

Pruitt-Igoe — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:01:27 -0800

Amazing to me that a strip club would have a large sign hand-painted just for 3 days' worth of shows.

By: BinGregory

BinGregory — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:50:38 -0800

Hand-painted signs in Detroit: Writing on the Wall from Detroitblogger John

By: Pruitt-Igoe

Pruitt-Igoe — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:58:25 -0800

BinGregory: That blog is fantastic. I've been slowly working my way back through the archives.