/r/OldSchoolCool **History's cool kids, looking fantastic!** A pictorial and video celebration of history's coolest kids, everything from beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers. And everything in between. If you've found a photo, or a photo essay, of people from the past looking fantastic, here's the place to share it.
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Didn't change their wardrobe.
My favorite scene. 🤣
“What are you doing? gettin bad”!
Beat me to it.
Literally the only thing I remember about this movie.
"I was filming a movie earlier this year at the Arizona State Penitentiary. And it broke my heart, seeing all these beautiful black men, incarcerated...wasting the prime of their lives...and I talked to some of these beautiful brothers, and I learned....thank God we have penitentiaries! This one brother, he killed his whole family! And I said, 'Why did you kill your whole family?'
'They was home.'"
Richard Pryor standup
lol I feel bad laughing but this shit is funny. Maybe I should watch his standup!
Pryor tied for GOAT next to Carlin as far as older generations of comics. When Pryor started he was super clean and modeled his style after Cosby. Got some success and became disillusioned. Came back as what himself and became even bigger.
Inspired a whole generation of comics too. So did Carlin. I saw him once and he was great.
Eddie Murphy Raw was pretty good too
Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood and Buh-Weet Sings
Oh you definitely should
He's my favorite comedian, hands down. My friends and I used to do Pryor bits in Jr High and High School. Live and Smoking, Live on the Sunset Strip, and Here and Now are all classics of the genre.
I don't know I heard "That Ni**er's Crazy"
Which is the name of one of his stand up albums.
I hear he was pretty good
Guy was brilliant.
This post made me think. I bet your parents didn't expect to see this. But instead of taking a picture on their phone, one of your parents had to: find camera in bag - focus - take picture - go to photo store - deliver film - wait for it to be developed (don't know if this is the correct phrase) - pick up photographs.
And now you are sharing it globally on an app. Brilliant.
I was just thinking about this, too! Taking a picture back then wasn't nearly as easy as it is today. It was a process!
Today, you can take ten or twenty pictures of something and instantly pick out the best one. But back then, you could only take one or two or maybe three, and just hope that one of them turned out good when you eventually got it back from the Fotomat.
The local grocery store was cheaper and did have a pervy dude making duplicates of your pics!
Oh it gets better. Not only are you waiting for the photos, you dont really know how good they will even turn out. Some great moments have been blocked by a corner of the finger, smudged lens, etc.
Or by the store losing your negatives.
We will always have the memories disney world....
Or accidental exposure to light ruining the whole thing
Or leaving the lens cap on.
We have so many more shitty pictures these days because back then you had to decide, is this worth it. 😂
I once heard that every day a new record is set in the numbers of photos taken. Sounds like a myth as I type this, but who knows.
Tucson. Pronounced 2saun. Not tuckson like my MO public school history teacher tried to convince me.
Thank you. I was unsure if this was in Phoenix or Tucson.
I didn’t know that was filmed here, need to rewatch! We’ve got a bot in our town sub (r/tucson) that corrects misspellings, but what’s really kinda funny is that when the Spanish asked “where are we?” The natives replied, “S-cuk Son”, which meant “at the base of the black hill” in the Tohono O’ohdam language, but sound like “chukson”. Today, we call that hill Sentinal Peak and it’s got a big A on it for the U of A.
I can't place the location of the photo (movie was before my time), but it looks like downtown Tucson?
Yes, definitely- that tiled building is still there, but I don’t get down there enough to know what’s where or remember the names; going to cross post this, I’m sure someone can do better than that being either Broadway or Congress.
There is a bar scene in the movie "Stir Crazy," and that scene was filmed inside the "Whistle Stop" bar in Tucson. The Whistle Stop was a strip joint not far from the old Davis Monthan AFB main gate on Craycroft. (Davis Monthan has expanded and swallowed property north of the old main gate.)
The painting below was done by someone connected with the movie and given to Hank Triano, the owner. It was hung on the wall to the left of the stage, and this picture taken by myself in 1983 when I worked there as a night manager.
The Triano name may be familiar to older Tucson residents. There were two brothers, Gary & Dennis. Dennis took over the Whistle Stop just before the old man died, and Dennis was who I worked for during that time. In 1996, Gary Triano was killed by a pipe bomb that exploded in his Cadillac at a golf club.
I remember there was a USPS commercial when I was in high school where an old man was sending "Two tutus to his granddaughters in Tucson" and the postal employee says, "Too cute."
I’m from the Gulf Coast and always learned it as 2saun… what in the monstrosity is tuckson, lol.
He was as backwoods as it got. My guess is he heard it on a western and thought that was how it was pronounced or something. Really no idea. But he argued with me about it... Damn, he was irritating..
I could understand why. 2saun(perfectly spelled to pronounce) just rolllls of the tongue.
Chuckshon. Spring at the foot of the black hill.
Very cool!
This is definitely old school cool! Need to watch this movie again too.
This would have been just a few weeks or months before Pryor famously set himself on fire while he was freebasing cocaine.
"You know some I found out? When you're on fire and running down the street, people will get out of your way. Except for one old drunk, right, he's going 'hey buddy, can I get a light?'"
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This saddens me to hear, but thank you for the reply.
Oh man.. blast from the past.
With him, MJ and the Reagans the 80's were on fire.
Okay, now, the MJ thing I get, but was there another fire incident involving Ron and Nancy Reagan?
Their policies burning down the country. War on drugs etc..
Huh. Okay.
This is so cool. Thank you
That's right, we bad!
What a great film
as a child one night on the way home Toys-T-Us my family came across a set filming a scene for The Blues Brothers but the stars weren't on set at the time.
My wife and I along with my family visited Chicago years ago and the movie What Women Want was filming. We were walking on State St by Marshall Fields as they were filming a street scene. We didn't make the cut but about an hour later I literally bumped into Mel Gibson as he came running out of Eddie Bauer on N Michigan to get in a huge black SUV. Way smaller than I thought.
Coincidentally earlier that day I found myself in a brief conversation with Roger Ebert at The Art Institute as we were all enjoying the the miniatures. I knew it was him but I just smiled and nodded but didn't make any kind of scene. I honestly think he was appreciative.
Awesome. I’m glad you posted.
Thank you! I've been meaning to post them for a long time; I just never got around to it until today. 🙂
That's so cool! Pryor to that, nothing could have been any wilder!
Very cool. Some friends and I were on a cross country trip and stumbled upon an episode of Starsky and Hutch being filmed at the Circus Circus casino in Las Vegas in 1976.
Skip! Skiiiiiip!
Fuzzy wuzzy was a woman? Wrong movie...
Wha!Wha! Wha!
I never knew it could snow in Arizona.
One of my favorite films. Saw it in the theater when it came out.
“No Shit.”
I heard Pryor snuck drugs to prisoners while filming Stir Crazy in Arizona. Also, he was apparently difficult to work with because of his own massive drug (coke) problem at that time.
I don’t remember much of that movie but when Richard zips up his pants a after that women says she has VD still makes me laugh
That's from Critical Condition, excellent movie.
Have never seen SC but thought "See No Evil, Hear No Evil" was such a cute movie.
I was in a Casino in Atlantic City where a scene from a little known movie called "Sour Grapes" was being filmed. It was release in 1998 and it stars Steven Weber. I never bothered to see the film as it was a total flop. Roger Ebert said of the film, "I can't easily remember a film I've enjoyed less." With that said, It's really strange seeing actors go into character and come out of it.
Written and directed by Larry David!
So cool!
My parents loved that movie and so did I. It was one of the first movies we taped from TV and I watched it countless times.
Bet they were just as funny off film.
Very funny guys!
Oh wow. Those two, were pure comedic genius.. absolutely hilarious...