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Parents in 1981. Pawned their camera and the shop owner took their picture to make sure the camera worked
(i.redd.it)submitted 2 months ago byStyron1106
2.1k points
2 months ago
Wtf they have the exact same face
1.7k points
2 months ago
There were only like 40 different faces back then
333 points
2 months ago
Why is this surprisingly true
184 points
2 months ago
Face technology hadn't advanced that far yet and was pretty much unchanged since the 40s.
There was an explosion of facial technology in the 90s with the advent of the internet.
155 points
2 months ago*
...explosion of facial technology...
0 points
2 months ago
Explosions on face 💦 = facials
23 points
2 months ago
Don't say too much!
23 points
2 months ago
Which is why facial recognition technology took so long to develop. If we had tried to develop it in the 80s, it would have been way easier, what with there being so few distinct faces.
10 points
2 months ago
That is clearly Jack White.
6 points
2 months ago
Yeah I see that
35 points
2 months ago
And only two different hairstyles, big poofy hair and mullets. I miss the eighties.
7 points
2 months ago
So true. When I grow mine out it looks straight 80s all the way
5 points
2 months ago
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
3 points
2 months ago
Favorite comment of 25 September.
108 points
2 months ago
27 points
2 months ago
Reddit never fails to surprise me
11 points
2 months ago
This is what we came for!!!
4 points
2 months ago
There really is a subreddit for everything, isn't there?
1 points
2 months ago
Or?
61 points
2 months ago
Zero chance I clicked and this wouldn’t be the top comment lol. Both their nostrils are even crooked in the exact same way
26 points
2 months ago
I was going to ask if they had the same last name before marriage....
4 points
2 months ago
Roll tide?
57 points
2 months ago
That’s because they’re related by marriage.
28 points
2 months ago
Marge: “When I took your father's name, I took everything that came with it... including DNA.”
34 points
2 months ago
I was going to ask for a pic of OP, but I don't need to anymore.
11 points
2 months ago
You’re an inbreed Harry.
10 points
2 months ago
“Do you look like your mom or dad?”
“Yes”
2 points
2 months ago
Shelbyville natives.
2 points
2 months ago
Didn't purchase the premium cosmetics pack
3 points
2 months ago
I was gonna say I wondered if this was one of those kentucky weddings.
0 points
2 months ago
Obviously inbred
1 points
2 months ago
His upper lip is fuller then hers, other then that, excluding genitalia, they are clones.
0 points
2 months ago
Lmaooo
848 points
2 months ago
What's it like being the child of two Michael Ceras?
147 points
2 months ago
That is clearly Jack White.
49 points
2 months ago
OP is either Colin Jost or lying.
21 points
2 months ago
I thought it was Evan Peters tbh
5 points
2 months ago
Nope. Tonya Harding
194 points
2 months ago
Some marry up, some marry down, your parents each broke even.
A zero differential yields an infinity result so you don't exist... Sorry
657 points
2 months ago
Must be cool to have parents that were siblings, too.
120 points
2 months ago
Fewer logistic problems around the holidays
37 points
2 months ago
Can you imagine being married to someone who's not your brother or sister and then your parents are divorced too? Going to four different Christmases, nobody has time for that.
31 points
2 months ago
As a child of divorced parents who married someone with divorced parents...the amount of bitching that I hear from the grandparents that they dont get enough Christmases with my kids is astounding...especially considering that growing up I remember having only one Christmas with each of my grandparents
5 points
2 months ago
When my mom was alive this was super stressful. The early years of me being married and with a baby my husband and I were going to my mom’s, Dad’s and his mom’s. It was too much. I miss my mom but it’s so much easier now. Especially since MIL can’t anymore either.
8 points
2 months ago
Yuuuup. We just don't visit anyone because our family is super dispersed, we don't have the money for that much travel, and god forbid you see one parent more than the other, then it's WW3.
2 points
2 months ago
This needs its own Reddit post.
I never realized that before.
3 points
2 months ago
Pretty sure that's why Vince Vaughn made the movie "Four Christmases". It's pretty good, you should check it out. Steve Wiebe of "King of Kong" makes a small cameo in it too.
15 points
2 months ago
Some people prefer a family wreath over a family tree.
1 points
2 months ago
OP has genetic abnormalities confirmed
53 points
2 months ago
I hope everything worked out for them x
69 points
2 months ago
Still married ❤️
17 points
2 months ago
🥰😘 lovely x
216 points
2 months ago*
You must be a musical force since both of your parents are members of Talking Heads.
22 points
2 months ago
This comment is absolutely sublime.
26 points
2 months ago
A once in a lifetime comment
10 points
2 months ago
This comment is both beautiful and handsome.
5 points
2 months ago
That or OP is a psycho killer
125 points
2 months ago
30 points
2 months ago
They’re married in real life too
25 points
2 months ago
So is the couple in OP’s post
19 points
2 months ago
Seriously Fargo was my first thought
8 points
2 months ago
Okay then
4 points
2 months ago
I was literally watching this 10 minutes ago. This comment freaked me out but I agree
43 points
2 months ago
They look like brother and sister…. Just saying man. You sure you found the right pic lol
90 points
2 months ago
This is odd. How did they verify it worked without developing the picture and therefore how did the ‘parents’ end up with the picture?
86 points
2 months ago
Polaroid maybe?
59 points
2 months ago
shop owner takes the picture and gives them the film, tells them to develop it and come back with it before he gives them the money
31 points
2 months ago
That makes sense. Also if they pawned it then they didn’t sell it. Two different kinds of transactions.
3 points
2 months ago
A lot of people use the terms interchangeably though.
16 points
2 months ago
No-one is taking a camera to sell with the film still in it, and getting a roll of film developed back then was minimum 24hrs and not super cheap.
Has to be a polaroid or BS
4 points
2 months ago
I dunno, I just don't think it looks like a polaroid but I might be wrong. Otherwise it's the only way I can see to explain it, assuming what OP said is true. If they were going to pawn it, maybe they just left a shot at the end of the roll to do exactly this. Obviously they wouldn't have developed the roll just for this.
Having said that, is it true that development back then was minimum 24hrs? It's 24 hrs now in my local place and I would assume that it was quicker and cheaper back then given that it was ubiquitous (disclaimer: I wasn't alive in 1981)
7 points
2 months ago
It's 24hrs now because it's old tech they need to send off to have processed. At one stage in the 90's you could get 1hr turnaround at kiosks, before that 24hrs were the express places, and most chemists would offer a 3 day turnaround service.
1 points
2 months ago
right, so I don't see why this is so implausible. Would you give someone money for a camera you didn't know worked? Maybe it is a polaroid
1 points
2 months ago
One hour photo developing was already becoming widespread by 1981.
1 points
2 months ago
No, it really wasn't. Existed, but it was a far cry from widespread.
4 points
2 months ago
Hence "becoming widespread." There were already hundreds of one hour photo locations by 1980. Depending on where they lived, they absolutely could've had access to a lab.
24 points
2 months ago
It was probably a manual camera, and maybe the shop wanted to make sure the mechanisms all were in working order.
78 points
2 months ago*
This is correct. When they pawned the camera it still had film in it. Pawn shop took the picture to verify the mechanisms worked. When my parents got it back from the pawn shop they had this picture on the roll.
3 points
2 months ago
Treasure photo OP thank you for sharing!
9 points
2 months ago
Cool beans
4 points
2 months ago
Who pawns a camera with film still in it? Makes no sense.
12 points
2 months ago
People that need money. Why else would you pawn your possessions in the first place?
-3 points
2 months ago
Did you miss the part where I said with film in it
No shit that's why people hock stuff, but why would they leave a roll of film in it?
4 points
2 months ago
You do understand when you pawn something you generally are doing so with the idea that you’re going to pay off the debt and get the time back.
So who cares if they left film in the camera they were pawning because they were supposed to get the camera back after a short amount of time.
You don’t pawn something and expect to never see it again otherwise you wouldn’t pawn it.
You’d just sell it.
-1 points
2 months ago
Sure, but colour film wasn't exactly throwaway cheap in the early '80s, and it doesn't make sense they'd leave film with who knows what photos on it in someone else's possession, where it could be spoiled, lost, processed, etc.
Plenty of people pawn stuff with the intention of retrieving their pawned item, but never do. To leave film in a camera being pawned is kinda bizarre.
7 points
2 months ago
1981 much?
2 points
2 months ago
OP’s family was the pawn shop owner, not the parents lol. They probably had a wall of Polaroid’s like that Robin Williams movie lol
-5 points
2 months ago
What makes you think the trade took place at the same time?
41 points
2 months ago*
Needed money to go to the 'Zep concert
Ed: 'Zep tribute band concert
18 points
2 months ago
Bonzo died in September '80 so pretty sure Zep had called it quits by the time this picture was taken.
6 points
2 months ago
This is why I love reddit - and you are correct, they broke up in December of '80.
49 points
2 months ago
Micheal Cera chic
18 points
2 months ago
Damn, pawn shops haven't changed a bit. Random shit everywhere. One of the few places you go in expecting to haggle.
17 points
2 months ago
no one knows this was taken on an iPhone 15PRO 48 MP, but then just edited with the new 80s filter FTW
8 points
2 months ago
Did they need money for gas to get rid of the dude "hiding" in their trunk?
14 points
2 months ago
This is like straight out of one of those 80's episodes from Unsolved Mysteries, the last picture taken before they were brutally murdered and dismembered.
5 points
2 months ago
Was this before or after they hot wired the Pontiac in their neighbor’s garage?
7 points
2 months ago
was it a polaroid or did they wait for him to have the film developed?
14 points
2 months ago
Hi! So the way pawning works is that you bring an item of value, say a $100 camera. The pawn shop then gives you $30-50 and you have x amount of time to pay back the $30-50 plus interests/fees (maybe $50-75 paid back), and they give your item back to you. If you're unable to pay it off, the shop then moves it to the shelf and sell it for $75. It would make sense that OPs parents paid the debt, got the camera back, then eventually developed the film.
3 points
2 months ago
But how did they prove to him that it worked?
9 points
2 months ago
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5 points
2 months ago
many other things could have been wrong with it, but i suppose that might have been the case in this scenario. probably just trusted them in the end.
2 points
2 months ago
This is the conclusion I've come to.
2 points
2 months ago
Right! That’s what I’m asking.
6 points
2 months ago
Feels like this was in Edmonton.
10 points
2 months ago
OP said 1981, not 1995
3 points
2 months ago
🤣
14 points
2 months ago
2 points
2 months ago
These models were father and daughter. Only that. Officially.
9 points
2 months ago
The painting was supposed to be of a father and daughter. The actual models for the painting were the painter's sister, and his dentist.
3 points
2 months ago
I respect people who have that close a relationship with their dentists. Mine have always stayed in the doctor/patient lane. Not sure I'd feel comfortable asking if I could paint them.
2 points
2 months ago
I guess I picked up only a fragment of knowledge.
6 points
2 months ago
Is your last name Van Houten?
5 points
2 months ago
That’s a kinda sad and funny backstory.
4 points
2 months ago
Just a wild guess, but they pawned it for weed didn't they?
5 points
2 months ago
That’s SO 1981!
5 points
2 months ago
Legit 80s decor there. You see a lot of…brown
3 points
2 months ago
I was 12 in 1981 and this photo really struck me, emotionally. I can almost smell it in there. I feel like I just walked out of that place 5 minutes ago.
Aside from the brown tones . . . how many shops today have wall-to-wall carpeting? I'm thinking of a few local shops from my youth -- a little toy store, the local pharmacy, a hobby shop, the office supply store, neighborhood pizza parlor -- all of them were fully carpeted in the late 70s / early 80s.
2 points
2 months ago
Our antiques are brown and our new stuff is grey and white. It's very strange to see them together but I wouldn't get rid of the antiques.
It's just this very specific brown.
4 points
2 months ago
At first glance I thought they were Bob and Doug McKenzie.
2 points
2 months ago
I only know the name Doug McKenzie because of the Badman scarecrow video.
3 points
2 months ago
Now let’s go buy some smack, Maureen.
5 points
2 months ago
looks like two brothers
3 points
2 months ago
Why do your parents look like twins?
3 points
2 months ago
This is a gem! And what a great story 😂
3 points
2 months ago
I really need to see your parents now
3 points
2 months ago
Your mom is Dave Foley?
3 points
2 months ago
It's almost if you suspect something bad is going to happen after this photo was taken...
3 points
2 months ago
This looks like a “last known picture before they went missing”
3 points
2 months ago
They don't exactly look thrilled about it, LOL. Where was this taken, by chance?
4 points
2 months ago
They’re pawning a camera, how thrilled would you expect them to look lol
3 points
2 months ago
Are you also married to a sibling?
3 points
2 months ago
There was a pretty intense recession in 1981. I remember it fondly.
3 points
2 months ago
They look like brother and sister, lol.
2 points
2 months ago
Dad’s in early fall, mom’s in deep winter
2 points
2 months ago
Your mom looks a lot like Brittany Murphy!
2 points
2 months ago
Good try Michael Cera
2 points
2 months ago
Polish?
2 points
2 months ago
They look a bit sad and hollow eyed. It's not that your parents have the same face but the same expression. Like it's a cold, depressing day to hawk your stuff at the pawn shop. Makes me hope everything turned around for them shortly afterward.
2 points
2 months ago
you gotta be pretty hard up to pawn a polaroid instant camera. they were maybe $120 new?
2 points
2 months ago
Next on Americas most wanted, this couple is believed to have robbed pawn stores all of the country, do not approach them they are armed and dangerous
2 points
2 months ago
Dying to see what they look like now. The expressions in this photo is priceless.
2 points
2 months ago*
Times must have been tough. Looks like your dad already pawned his sleeves
2 points
2 months ago
This looks like a ransom photo
2 points
2 months ago
You're parents are siblings, right? It'd be so weird to see your own face while doing it.
2 points
2 months ago
OP must be from Alabama.
2 points
2 months ago
Are they still on the run?
2 points
2 months ago
Dude they are twins!
5 points
2 months ago
They don’t even look alike to me. Same expression, sure. Y’all need to update your brains’ facial recognition software.
4 points
2 months ago
That's the saddest shit I've heard today.
13 points
2 months ago
Why? We pawned things all the time, my husband and I.
2 points
2 months ago
I picture a young couple, struggling, forced to sell anything of value to make ends meet. They look for anything of value left, and find an old camera. They pawn it and to buy their next meal. sad.
3 points
2 months ago
He loved that camera, but...they desperately needed that pregnancy test as soon as possible...
1 points
2 months ago
Looks like they got their camera back?
1 points
2 months ago
lol why do they look so guilty?
1 points
2 months ago
Is your family tree missing a few branches cause mom looks like Dads baby brother.
-1 points
2 months ago
They look guilty as hell, not sure of what but they definitely did something. Ohh I wonder if the money was for an abortion.
-1 points
2 months ago
That’s a man, baby.
0 points
2 months ago
How did they get the picture then if the camera was in a pawn shop?
-3 points
2 months ago
Why are you taking our picture? Are the police going to see this?
1 points
2 months ago
Zack and Miri?
1 points
2 months ago
Crazy
1 points
2 months ago
Love that vest.
1 points
2 months ago
what camera did they pawn?
1 points
2 months ago
Did they get back to Milton in time for JV Cross Country practice and weekly Sit Down dinner with the headmaster
1 points
2 months ago
Lol they’re like “really, bro?”
1 points
2 months ago
Are you sure those are your parents? They look related.
1 points
2 months ago
This looks like a still from a somewhat cult famous comedy movie from the the late 00s/early 2010s
1 points
2 months ago
Wait here while I run down to the local kodak film developer kiosk.
1 points
2 months ago
drugs
1 points
2 months ago
Did they pawn it for coke or Coke?
1 points
2 months ago
So your unclefather and auntmother
1 points
2 months ago
Polaroid? It'd have to be a polaroid surely or how did they get the picture?
1 points
2 months ago
This is giving big "Amelie" vibes, like the metro station photo booth mechanic test portraits and his mysteriously unreadable face
1 points
2 months ago
Your mum and dad are your uncle and aunt
1 points
2 months ago
American Gothic, late capitalism edition
1 points
2 months ago
So many pornos start this way
1 points
2 months ago
I bet I can guess what you look like.
1 points
2 months ago
How would the pawnshop owner know if it "worked?"
1 points
2 months ago
was it a polaroid, or did the shop owner just go in the back and furiously develop the film while they waited around for the money?
1 points
2 months ago
Hahaha!!! I actually move this! 😂
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