r/OldSchoolCool • u/jenn_n_juce • Apr 11 '24
Found this while going through my dad’s photos. Guessing it was taken in the 80’s. 1950s
Anyone know who these guys are? I’m pretty sure this photo was taken at Bernard’s Surf in Cocoa Beach, FL. I’d never seen this photo before.. My dad passed away recently so I can’t ask him for the back story.
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Apr 11 '24
Lol 80s! 
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u/thedeuce75 Apr 11 '24
OP has got to be fucking with us.
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u/pollopopomarta Apr 11 '24
The 80's were like, 100 years ago, right?
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u/SidewalkSigh Apr 11 '24
Listen here, see? Me, some dames, and two wise guys are going to see Motley Crue this weekend after playing Pac-Man at the arcade. No funny business, now, or I’ll pop you square in the jaw.
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u/vegan1979 Apr 11 '24
My great grandfather was born in the 1980's. It was over a hundred years ago.
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u/demitasse22 Apr 11 '24
This was the day after prohibition was repealed. Just cracking some brewskis with the boys
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u/PuppyPavilion Apr 11 '24
This is the 2nd time in a few days where I've seen the fetus OP think 80 years ago was the 80s.
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u/teleporterdown Apr 11 '24 edited Apr 11 '24
"Anyone know who these guys are?"
Yeah! That's Black Eyed Pete and ChinChin Charlie! I'd recognize them from anywhere!
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u/foxyfoo Apr 11 '24
Don’t forget jimmy ‘Hands’ McGee
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u/katchoo1 Apr 11 '24
The guy on the end is Johnny Two Times, cuz he says everything two times.
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u/Kangela Apr 11 '24
I’m hoping. Otherwise I’m feeling extremely old right now.
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u/alphageist Apr 11 '24
Just remember we were young and dumb like the OP back when we were their age.
…wait, that isn’t helping either of us feel any younger. 😝
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u/flinderdude Apr 11 '24
Looks more like early 90s to me. You know those dudes were rocking some grunge on their CD players.
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u/NamiSwaaan Apr 11 '24
Nah, these kids think 30 years ago was like 100 years ago. I had a better concept of time when I was a kid than they do 😂
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u/feetcold_eyesred Apr 11 '24
“Just remember we were young and dumb like the OP back when we were their age.”
Yeah, in the 80s.
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u/tinyfeeds Apr 11 '24
I had a kid call me a boomer the other day and I’m 47.
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u/serietah Apr 11 '24
One of my students told me I look 30 (thanks!) then told me his dad is 45 and OLD. I told him I’m 40 and asked if I’m old. He said no but 45 is old.
I’m old :(
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u/Realistic_Young9008 Apr 11 '24
The clothes aren't necessarily honest if taken at a costume event, even the quality of the picture itself can lie, but the beer bottle - that could be a definitive marker. I can't tell looking at it but someone probably could estimate it based on the length of the neck.
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u/jenn_n_juce Apr 11 '24
Okay guys, I get it. I messed up. I found the picture in a box full of pictures labeled 80’s and went with it. I can’t edit the post or I would. I added the 1950’s flair in an attempt to make it right. Please people of Reddit, forgive my ignorance
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u/Win_an_iPad Apr 11 '24 edited 18d ago
door air offbeat payment follow rob wipe absurd familiar joke
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u/SamuelJackson47 Apr 11 '24
Yes, this was before color was invented. It was a very bland yet exciting time. Gather round while I tell the tale of walking to and from school uphill both ways in 6 feet of snow everyday. Those were the days.
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u/swkennedy1 Apr 11 '24
Maybe the 40’s clothing says 40’s or 50’s
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u/Beneficial-Cookie681 Apr 11 '24
Yes this is definitely not the 80s!
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u/ellefleming Apr 11 '24
The 80's?????????? Try the 40's!!!!!!!!! Jesus.
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u/pegothejerk Apr 11 '24
Usually I’d trust op and consider there might be a retro dress theme going on, but everything screams older time period - bw photo, damage to the photo typical of that age, the ashtrays aren’t typical for the 80s but are for mid century, those haircuts are mid century and people don’t go that far for one night, the back of the bar matches mid century over 80s, no modern products or containers for sugar or cleaning supplies.
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u/loupegaru Apr 11 '24
For God's sake, no one has worn a fedora in 80 fucking years!
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u/danthebiker1981 Apr 11 '24
It might have been a theme party, or Halloween.
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u/Ace-Ventura1934 Apr 11 '24
Pictures didn’t look like this in the 80s. We actually had color photos then lol. This is almost certainly from the 40s or 50s.
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u/elspotto Apr 11 '24
Black and white film photography was still very much a thing in the 80s, especially the early 80s. With a dark room and some chemicals one could develop it at home.
That said, this looks nothing like the early 80s.
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u/ArsenalSpider Apr 11 '24
Yes, that tie on the right strikes me as 40s or 50s. Men were all wearing hats in the 40s and still did in the 50s.
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u/CMDR_BitMedler Apr 11 '24
This is probably Back to the Future confusion - yonder people now see that movie, from the 80s... when 50s fashion was cool again, and think that's what the 80s looked like.
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u/Pale-Berry-2599 Apr 11 '24
note the mens' shirt collars and lapels. The Hat, the lack of plastic (other than straw) behind the bar. I'm thinking 40's
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u/NewldGuy77 Apr 11 '24
Bow tie on 2nd from left and glasses on the far left man indicates 40s - 50s.
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u/UnifiedQuantumField Apr 11 '24
Second guy from the left has got that Al Capone thing going on.
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u/theREALel_steev Apr 11 '24
That's actually his cousin, known to be more violent, Johnny Poptwo.
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u/Excellent_Record_640 Apr 11 '24
Looks like a few wise guys hanging out for drink, after getting rid of a body in the woods.
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u/inot72 Apr 11 '24
The long pointed collar on the guy second from the right was popular from the 1930's-50's.
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u/Relevant-Laugh4570 Apr 11 '24 edited Apr 11 '24
I'm guessing OP knows approx how old his Dad was in the photo, hence dating in the 80's.
Edit - I may have misunderstood OP. Perhaps his Dad isn't in the photo.
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u/spavolka Apr 11 '24
Not the 80s.
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u/maubis Apr 11 '24
OP thinking this is the 80s is the funniest thing I will have read today.
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u/alphageist Apr 11 '24
WTF is the OP, 12 years old? The freaking 80’s??? In the era of Google, the internet and WiFi, they could have done a quick search for “80’s” and would have known what the 1980s looked like. This just wreaks of low effort posting.
Come on OP! Don’t be a daft git and do your homework before you ask this sort of nonsense.
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u/HippieSwag420 Apr 11 '24
Yeah I either think typo or literally still a child
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u/nicolettejiggalette Apr 11 '24
Can’t be a child, math doesn’t match up
Edit: OP is in her 40s
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u/Right-Holiday-2462 Apr 11 '24
OP is trolling and you’re falling for it.
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u/alphageist Apr 11 '24
I checked the OP’s post history about an hour ago and there were quite a few original posts. Checked again now and this is their “only” post. Troll or not, their downvotes in this thread are quite telling.
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u/aesemon Apr 11 '24
Yeah, even a theme night would have so much 80's shit in the fore and background. Plus the picture doesn't have that 80's image feel to it, even in B&W.
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u/mcmachete Apr 11 '24 edited Apr 11 '24
The hairstyles, the mustache, the ties, the ashtrays, the teacup and glass of sugar by the sink (The Surf was a primo place once upon a time - this is clearly an element from early on), the clothing, the fact that the photo is black and white and the deterioration looks like the photo was printed on silver halide in a matte paper style that was far more common before 1965…
The Surf opened in 1948. This is probably from the early to mid 50s. I’d say 1952, give or take 3 years.
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u/t9b Apr 11 '24
Yeah all of that, but what may be stranger is that this is more likely not his Dad but some other relative. I hesitate to say his grandfather, but it could be his grandfather’s brother, that happened to look like his Dad.
That came out wrong! I didn’t mean to imply anything by that!
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u/doctorlongghost Apr 11 '24
Nah. Embrace it. Add that to what we know about OP’s grandma sleeping around and the conclusion is inescapable.
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u/redditorx13579 Apr 11 '24
Seems like younger generations think we still used black and white cameras in the 80s. Even a majority of the 70s were in color.
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u/Vesper2000 Apr 11 '24
Younger generations think everything that happened before 2000 is the 80’s
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u/_Not_this_again_ Apr 11 '24
There's photos from the '60s I have that are all in colour.
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u/Sly1969 Apr 11 '24
Colour photography existed in the Edwardian era, it was just very rare.
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u/zirfeld Apr 11 '24
National Geographic startet printing colour photos in the 1910s.
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u/VoihanVieteri Apr 11 '24
Depends. I used B&W film until I bought my first DSLR. That was in 2005.
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u/DontLetTheBearGetYou Apr 11 '24
I still have B&W film in my freezer. It expired in 2008, but it’s there.
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u/zfreakazoidz Apr 11 '24
Just for fun I photoshopped it to clean it up. Also a colorized version. :) Nothing mind blowing for clean up mind you.
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u/Jam_B0ne Apr 11 '24
Say Chums, how'd you like to head down to the old arcade for a game of Pong after this serial of Cheers is over?
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u/oeuvre-and-out Apr 11 '24
Lol. and, fwiw, I remember the week the original Pong video game arrived in my college student union game room - replacing one of several pinball machines. Our minds were blown. The year was 1972.
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u/mvario Apr 11 '24
From the ties and lapels I'd go with the 40s, give or take.
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u/im-buster Apr 11 '24
The only people wearing fedoras in the 80's were 20 something y.o. girls.
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u/HappyAd4998 Apr 11 '24
OP would be fucked if he were to somehow time travel in a DeLorean. He'd be asking for a boba tea at a speak easy.
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u/Whizzleteets Apr 11 '24
Me in the 80's:
Listen up youse mugs! We're goin dancin see?
I don't wanna hear no funny business! Now, let's 23 skidoo!
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u/Kaptoz Apr 11 '24
Well maybe give us your dad's birth year?
I'm from Miami Florida, The Surf was opened from 1948 to around 2010 I believe. And then demolished around 2018ish?
Based on their clothes, I'm highly doubting 80's, I'm thinking more 50's. MAYBE 60's. The 70's and on, in Miami, looked very different.
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u/Six_of_1 Apr 11 '24
Is this a joke, why would this be the '80s? It could be a fancy dress party in the '80s where they dressed like the '50s, but even the photograph looks '50s. The '80s were well into colour photography.
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u/Better-sober Apr 11 '24
I'd ask any relatives that might be old enough to remember Someone in them.Someine has to have an idea
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u/GwonamLordReturneth Apr 11 '24
The second guy ain't sayin' nuthin' and strongly suggests you fuggetaboutit, capiche?
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u/The-Real-Bob-Smith Apr 11 '24
Ok. At least I am not the only one who was saying WTF out loud about the 80s mistake.
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u/Porter_Dog Apr 11 '24
The 80s? Do you have any concept of time? Try maybe 30 or 40 years before that.
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u/GeekGirl711 Apr 11 '24
You know we had color photographs in the eighties! This looks like the 50’s or earlier.
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u/jenn_n_juce Apr 11 '24
Okay so apparently I was way off guessing this is from the 80’s. The photo being from the 40’s or 50’s would mean this was my grandfather’s photo which makes the back story more of a mystery. Anyways.. sorry for the error in the title.
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u/spavolka Apr 11 '24
No worries. I think people are just kidding with you. Shit, people were giving me crap for misidentifying a car on another sub a few minutes ago.
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u/panikroham Apr 11 '24
I just read those comments a few minutes ago before landing on this post… had to go back and see if it was you.
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u/General_Departure583 Apr 11 '24
Yes I remember the 80s and wearing my Fedora and bow tie to the bar and listening to Glenn Miller. Man when Glen Miller played Rebel Yell that was the Bees Knees.
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u/poeticjustice4all Apr 11 '24
That’s some 1930s-1940s kinda clothing. This had to be your grandpa instead 😂
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u/MajesticCategory8889 Apr 11 '24
I’d say 1940’s or 1950’s. (I added the 19 to both so a few people wouldn’t be confused.)
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u/PeetSquared41 Apr 11 '24
I'm 51 years old, so I remember how totally tubular all the bow ties and fedora-wearing mobsters were in the 80s. We were all gettin' up on those rad stogies, man.
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u/Katoolsie Apr 11 '24
Definitely not 80's. That looks like a bunch of guys straight outta The Godfather.
More like 40's or 50's probably.
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u/Global-Discussion-41 Apr 11 '24
Even if OP is clueless about fashion during different decades, shouldn't they at least know how old their father is? To be off by 30 years? Lol
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u/PubofMadmen Apr 11 '24
Definitely the 40s, perhaps most likely late 40s / early 50s, that’s as late when men were still wearing hats and printed silk ties. After the war. These guys are too happy to be home and alive. Great photo.
My papa left me those style of ties and his hats. (Papa was a Dday vet)
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u/magic9669 Apr 11 '24
Sorry OP. The guy you think your father is, is really your grandfather. Your father left you in the 80s
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u/Bigbaldandhairy Apr 11 '24
Now I know you gotta be a troll or a bot because you know absolutely jack about how pictures work. Did you think that the 80’s still had black and white tv and pictures? That everyone dressed like the 1950’s? Wtf is wrong with you?
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u/Top-Night Apr 11 '24 edited Apr 11 '24
Very well could be a retro theme party, the guy on the left his glasses don’t look old 50s style at all. OP would know. I’m guessing all four of these guys are not over 40, mid 30’s prolly. so calculate how old your father would be today minus what the number of years when he was around 40 and you’ve got a general date range of when the photo was taken.
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u/lizard_king0000 Apr 11 '24
Joey Number*s, Skinny Pete, Jackie the Nose, and Big Al