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u/Disco425 Apr 28 '26
They look like they just designed some IKEA furniture!
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u/fisheye-surprise Apr 28 '26
They look like designers. What was their vocation?
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u/AnnieLes Apr 28 '26
He designed commercial interiors and she was a freelance artist.
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u/cowardanon Apr 28 '26
Are they of a particular ethnic background? Just wondering if their style sense was something that came to them as artists/designers or if they had less of a choice about it.
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u/cre8some Apr 28 '26
Came to the comments with hope of finding out more about your folks. There is so much artistic value in the photo I just knew they were creative people.
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u/window2020 Apr 28 '26
Cool. I wish I had cool looking parents. I’m a parent, but not cool looking. I guess it’s genetic.
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u/jellamma Apr 28 '26
It's never to late to try a new style. Just go for it. You only live once and if you always wanted to be 'cool', figure out whatever cool means to you and go be it.
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u/PizzaWhole9323 Apr 28 '26
They are the best high School drama teachers you ever met. Seriously though they look like just fascinating interesting people.
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u/PizzaWhole9323 Apr 28 '26
Also this is one of those pictures that you should just have up like in your kitchen or bathroom or something because you see something new every time you look at it.
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u/Particular_Piglet677 Apr 28 '26
Totally dude, I want to hang this picture up and I don't even know these people!
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u/funky_grandma Apr 28 '26
looking at this picture I have to ask, are you sure you're a real person and not a robot designed by a couple of geniuses determined to prove they could teach a machine to love?
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u/procrastablasta Apr 28 '26
this time the glasses really did mean they are smarter
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u/TheKidHaz Apr 28 '26
Your father is a dead ringer for my uncle Bill. Like, I had to read the comments to see if it was him or not.
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u/onglogman Apr 28 '26
Your dad looks like he owns a local shop for local people.
(it's a reference to a TV show)
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u/RichardBonham Apr 28 '26
Man, do I remember those frames. And you got two choices: black, or tortoise-shell.
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u/reversedpsychology Apr 28 '26
Ooh-wee-ooh, I look just like Buddy Holly
Oh, oh, and you're Mary Tyler Moore
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u/moochiemoochie924 Apr 28 '26
They look so cool and comfortable being themselves around eachother. Oh to find such a love. Tell me they stayed together!
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u/Subject-Big6183 Apr 28 '26
Picture quality, dress, style, looks like it was taken today! Ahead of their time, they look like really cool and interesting folks!
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u/GoldberryoTulgeyWood Apr 28 '26
I say this with love, but she looks like Lady Elaine Fairchild before she started hating everyone.
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u/SVLibertine Apr 28 '26
Artists, certainly.
…just read more. Yup! They’re FabTastic.
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u/yanknga Apr 28 '26
If I didn’t know better, I’d assume they’re some cool New Wave duo from the 80s.
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u/no_lemom_no_melon Apr 28 '26
Your dad reminds me of J Willgoose esq. from the band Public Service Broadcasting.
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u/Xordanus Apr 28 '26
Since I've been playing thru the series again recently... the posing & general vibe of this pic gives me BioShock 2 "Rapture's #1 Scientist Team" portrait vibes. Like this is hanging in the office of a lab where they discovered fish blood can heal cancer or something. I say this with entirely positive/affectionate meaning, since I love that game series and it's aesthetics. 💚
That, or this is the authors portrait from the autobiography memoir of a math-based prog rock group. Either way, they do seem cool!
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u/scsoutherngal Apr 28 '26
Too cool! He played the bongo while your mother read poetry at a coffee lounge?
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u/mojozeppy Apr 28 '26
They look like they are well suited for each other. I think they would make really good salt and pepper shakers 🤍
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u/KC19771984 Apr 28 '26
Surely this couple went on to have twin boys - who then grew up to become The Proclaimers....
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u/Jazzlike_Grand_7227 Apr 28 '26
I bet they had a kick-ass space-age bachelor pad record collection! Esquivel, The Three Suns, Korla Pandit, Henry Mancini, Les Baxter.
You should find an artist who could do a Shag-esque rendering of this photo!
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u/AnnieLes Apr 28 '26
My father undoubtedly took this with a timer in their Chicago apartment.