Punk Rock Scrapbook

January 11, 2012 11:03 PM

Punk Rock Scrapbook: Photos taken in Santa Cruz and San Francisco in 1978-1988
posted by beshtya (12 comments total)

1978-88, I think you'll find.
posted by Sys Rq at 11:51 PM on January 11, 2012

I like to think that J Neo Marvin used Comic Sans intentionally to piss people off.
posted by louche mustachio at 12:55 AM on January 12, 2012 [3 favorites]

Mod note: fixed the date
posted by taz (staff) at 1:05 AM on January 12, 2012

I remember Tony and Chip from Rank and File in Austin! Check out Amanda Ruth!
posted by jabo at 1:14 AM on January 12, 2012

this seems great!
posted by nadawi at 1:29 AM on January 12, 2012

Whenever I see pictures of 70's/80's punks, I'm always struck by how un"punk" they all seem to look. It's almost as if they don't care about fitting into something. There's a word for that but it escapes me at the moment.
posted by Betty_effn_White at 1:54 AM on January 12, 2012 [13 favorites]

Nice, takes me back. You can almost smell the Aqua Net. No Germs photos though, which is a bit of a bummer.
posted by tr33hggr at 6:57 AM on January 12, 2012

I recently discovered this photostream of '80s punks from Ottawa. Even though I'm a bit younger than these kids, it is the closest I have ever been to the traditional definition of nostalgia (i.e., "the painful homecoming").
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 8:19 AM on January 12, 2012

Where's Hopey and Maggie?
posted by jfwlucy at 9:15 AM on January 12, 2012 [3 favorites]

This website takes me back to 1996. Probably built using HoTMetaL
posted by humboldt32 at 10:09 AM on January 12, 2012

Ah the Mabuhay, how I miss it. How I miss walking about 5 blocks from my parking space to the club past the tittie bars. How I miss wondering what would happen to all that grass over the bar if someone's cigarette ever got flung up there.
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 10:58 AM on January 12, 2012

This is all great, but I'm always a sucker for photos of the Minutemen especially when the commentary confirms my feelings, "It's been said before by better writers than me, but there was something fundamentally human about this band: even at their most 'musicianly', they never seemed self-indulgent, because their welcoming, down-to-earth yet challenging nature always showed through."
posted by radiomayonnaise at 3:12 PM on January 12, 2012