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malcontented t1_j9bkspc wrote

I worked in a research lab in the 1980s and in the office they had stacks of Penthouses. Every time you looked at one you had to put $0.25 in a coffee can. When they had enough for a new mag someone would go out and buy one. Times certainly have changed

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Donut_Whole t1_j9c9qd7 wrote

I was fresh out of college at a pet food QA lab in the ‘90s and they had a calendar on the wall of a topless Pamela Anderson.

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BuyNo4013 t1_j9cozbr wrote

I inherited a locker in the Army which was tapestried with centerfolds. I was NOT allowed to take them off and was the only guy allowed to keep centerfolds “officially” and not need to take them down at any time - the others tried and every now and then they had to take them off. My locker was considered art.

When starting work, teams were working in either 4 or 5 shifts, 24/7, and women were not allowed by law to do night shifts in production. The team rooms had centerfolds, sexy post cards were sent from vacation and pinned for years to the pin-boards. Newspapers had a naked babe on the first page and on page three, later just on page three. And everything unmanly or team-averse was ogled and loudly condemned as first warning, called “gay” on second warning, while third warning could be up to physical confrontation.

There was no shop, wherever you went, changing tires, repairing electronics, where there was not at least a calendar with nude babes. Bosses had the Pirelli Calendar on the walls behind them, just above the pictures of wives and kids sometimes 😊.

Lady customers , lady employees were supposed to not take any offense. Sincerely so. It was inconceivable in the 1980s, after all what everybody had done in the 1970s to be offended by nude pics.

Ladies were in majority topless on the beach, mid 1980s mostly in thongs (thongs are back, but topless is as rare as in the early 1970s late 1960s). I had girlfriends, who did not even pack a top when going to vacation.

Unthinkable today.

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LukashCartoon t1_j9ea6yv wrote

You must be European. By the late 70s early 80s topless women were considered tasteless in places of business. Hell, it was rare that college dorms had any pin ups.

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muadib1974 t1_j9eat5y wrote

Not sure where in the U.S you grew up, but I grew up in California, and nudies and babe calendars were absolutely ubiquitous in repair shops and such, well into the eighties.

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LukashCartoon t1_j9ebjex wrote

Midwest. In the 70s they were plentiful, but by early 80s, Right Wing Christians and Left Wing Feminists had began discouraging it.

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FartAttack911 t1_j9gwbc7 wrote

Growing up in the early 90s, our local mechanic shops mostly still all had naked lady posters on full display hahaha

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AbbreviationsFun4560 t1_j9fatlq wrote

So, they told you that you worked in a research lab?Hate to break it to you but, you worked in an adult bookstore….now tell your mom the truth

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malcontented t1_j9ht6sk wrote

Ha. Yeh I suppose. The PI was a world famous genius but he was a bit of a perve too

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treknaut t1_j9bht3n wrote

Victoria Lynn Johnson, RIP

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Saltriverjohnny t1_jadk92d wrote

Good gracious, what issue of Penthouse had that poster in it?

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…for science, of course.

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captain_obvious_ly t1_j9bg5q9 wrote

The least they could do is give that poor woman some PPE, that bush is a major fire hazard.

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Woodrow268 OP t1_j9bghk5 wrote

I just showed my dad this comment, he is laughing so hard right now. Thanks for that!

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Myrtlized t1_j9cfo0v wrote

I had that poster on the wall in a welding shop in Paramount, California in 1978. The way the sun lights up her pubes is really remarkable.

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ElectricMan324 t1_j9ccs0a wrote

I worked in a very old manufacturing plant, and as an engineer sometimes had to cover for night supervisors when they were on vacation. This was in the mid to late 90s.

One night I had to find an electrician, and went into one of the remote locker rooms to find him.

The entire room - walls, lockers, door, and even the ceiling, were covered with centerfolds. Even the tables had them glued to it. I was both shocked and impressed at the amount of work that took.

Even then that was not okay, but I wasnt going to be the one to point it out (and get the union guys mad at me). The place went out of business and was torn down years ago.

Funny what we used to think as normal.

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boddah87 t1_j9bxl56 wrote

Stelco or Dofasco? My dad was a Stelco man but my uncles worked at Dofasco.

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Interesting_Act1286 t1_j9cidpg wrote

We had centerfolds taped to the inside lid of our lock box at work in the 90's. Hired a female apprentice, they were gone in a week. Then she got her own outhouse, with a lock.

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Chad_Hooper t1_j9dt9y0 wrote

I managed to follow my dad into a couple of gas station’s garages in the’70s. They all had calendars of topless girls on the wall.

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PolishYinzer t1_j9e87wc wrote

Ahh back when men weren't confused about their gender good times

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dpdxguy t1_j9c899u wrote

Reminds me of the mid-70s high school job I had at a friend's dad's tire recap factory. There was a Playboy centerfold prominently displayed in the bathroom. Never happen today

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IcedTman t1_j9deo7e wrote

The good ole days

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mycatsnameisjanet t1_j9dyiyx wrote

I seem to be alone in saying that does NOT look like a bush.

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Bobbi1234561 t1_j9eemkv wrote

I would have never thought "bush" until reading the comments. It definitely looks thick to me, but not like a thick "bush". I guess people know who the model is and that's how they know what it actually is. I thought the pin-up was just someone everyone could enjoy looking at, no matter your inclinations.

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maddhatter783 t1_j9d0uha wrote

Doesn't she know the windows wide open

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bearbutts11 t1_j9cqt2t wrote

It's so weird to have pictures of naked women on your wall.

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AudieHolland t1_j9ct10y wrote

You're allowed to have posters of naked dudes if you prefer.

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zooterlooter t1_j9eovlg wrote

It's super weird to be uncomfortable about naked humans.

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bearbutts11 t1_j9fgq79 wrote

I'm not? I just think it's weird to have them plastered on your walls but to each their own.

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zooterlooter t1_j9fvsf9 wrote

When you work around filthy men and filthy machines in a filthy part of town all day you need some beauty to remind you why you are even alive.

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FartAttack911 t1_j9gwvfx wrote

Not really. I’m personally comfortable seeing naked people but it’s totally ok for others to be uncomfortable with that. Come on now.

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zooterlooter t1_j9hlcni wrote

People need to get over it. They watch violence happen all the time and do it willingly, they pay money for it, they vote for mass murderers who drop bombs on children and weddings. They murder animals to feast their fat faces.

Then get scared of boobies.

That's psychotic, straight up serial killer psychosis.

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FartAttack911 t1_j9imgwj wrote

Ok yeah, that hypocrisy I for sure understand, especially since I’m from the US and that’s our bread and butter here. But again, some people are just not wanting to experience any of that blood n guts stuff either hahaha

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g_mac_93 t1_j9djl3d wrote

A bird in the hand is worth two in the…

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nicarox t1_j9dl9qj wrote

Damn is that a bush????? Good lord

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macsquoosh t1_j9dwtz5 wrote

Aaah , those awesome workshop pictures ...

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krink68 t1_j9e28f7 wrote

My mechanic had a stack of porno mags next to his tool box up until the early 2000’s

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tsukahara10 t1_j9elk40 wrote

This reminds me of my time as a submariner. Over the life of the boat, various members of the crew had cut out pictures of topless/nude women from magazines and glued them underneath equipment label plates in Maneuvering. It was a pretty well kept secret until the CO found out people were also drawing dicks in hidden places all over the boat. He made us remove and scrub everything inappropriate from the boat. So sad to remove so much collected history go away. The future crew will never know the record for highest reactor power achieved without the RO getting disqualified.

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BigLebowski0324 t1_j9ex23n wrote

Is that a picture of your mom on the wall behind them? J/k 😉😂

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gil_beard t1_j9fdkh5 wrote

I in the mid 90s my dad's friend had playboy centerfolds hanging up all over his garage. My dad would take me over there while they worked on cars and I would just sit and stare at the pretty women.

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MrMitchWeaver t1_j9fvayn wrote

Guy in the middle is a fucking corpse. Are they weekend-at-bernie-ing him?

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anaheimangels40 t1_j9hs5ig wrote

BACK WHEN IT WAS OKAY TO HAVE POSTERS OR PINUPS OF NAKED WOMEN IN PUBLIC VIEW AND NO ONE CARED… TODAY THEY WOULD CRY…

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3lsap099 t1_j9ghzbu wrote

That’s back when men were men and women were women, nice pic

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