80s vintage photos

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David Scott was the person from the 1970’s/80’s community at Venice Beach, California that captured our young lives on film. He would walk that boardwalk with his beagle dog and take photos of all of us just being ourselves. His photos are snapshot of an era that can never be lived again. No one in these photos […]

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What did the 1980s look like? New-wavers and New Romantics existed alongside punk revivalists and the heavy metal kids in their sleeveless spiderweb-pattern t-shirts and black leather wristbands. The "scumbag look" was very popular with the middle-class suburban dudes. Cigarettes and cans of Coca-Cola are everywhere, as are the skateboards and the acid-washed jeans that sat low on the asses of the boys and above the navel on the girls. Beaches, camping, stadium concerts, skateboarding down…

The 1970s saw a time of rising self-expression through fashion, with form-fitting silhouettes at the top and loose at the bottom. ’70s style...

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Step back in time with these 1970s photos that say a lot about old trends, practices, and values from that decade we don't see today.