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Nice Starsky jumper on the left. We all had one, you know.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=gYHS... Shoeshine guy

When men were men - & seemingly from the pic there were no women

But then, half the time you see dudes patronizing the shine guys, it'll be like this guy in the pic: not wearing formal ANYTHING. Least of all, the shoes! If the shine guy gets those informal, worn-out boots shining like mirrors, it'll just look weird. So he's just gonna...sort of clean them.

I remember going there in the ‘90’s(?) and there were a group of college kids dressed up like punk rockers with the spiked hair, which was long gone by then and they had a sign, “photo with a punk. £1”. Hell’s yeah I got my picture taken. Wish I could find it.

I was in London for 6 months in late 1975. It was a very exciting place to be for a boy who grew up in Oxfordshire. It was very dirty with lots of homeless on the streets. The rock bands were amazing. The beer was utter pisswater.

Mens fashion really hasn't changed, has it? 😀😃😄😆😂

I think people forget just how chaotic public commercial spaces in city centers used to be in the 1970s and 1980s. Billboards everywhere, neon signs, cheap souvenir shops, street level clutter of newsstands and other pop-up businesses, etc. all covering the older architecture behind them.

But do you know what didn't happen back then? You didn't get shanked by muslims. Now come on and show off your mental gymnastics

Everyone smokie ciggies!

Haha. He does look like Andy and you’re right, he appears to be holding one. It looks like the guy on the left with the sweater probably has one in his right hand too. Okay, now I believe the photo is real. Ha

The things you see in some of these historic photos. I haven't seen somebody getting their shoes Shined in many years. Maybe it still happens in cities here and there. 🙄😆

Where are the women?

Austin Powers getting his shine on

Why is the dude from Portlandia getting his shoes shined?

This very good tweet Ivan, second potato is in mail.

I was stationed in the UK 79 - 81 , I remember this , punks were still a thing

Great shot

Yep! It was great in the late 80s, early 90s - who remembers “Bros, Mica Paris?” Omg!

Seeing Rocky 2 in the cinema as an 11 year old remains the greatest cinema experience of my life. I was a proper old flea pit with a huge seating balcony and the cheap seats down stairs. It was rammed with kids, a sell out. The final fight scene was like being at the fight, chanting rocky rocky

I was there last year. It was a completely different group of people

Strange. Where are the women, the youth?

If Rick Moranis and Fred Armisen had a love child

Is that Michael Gove having his shoes cleaned ?

Were women not allowed to be there?

10 years before I was born. Now will someone explain to me in what ways things have 'gotten better' since then? From where I'm sitting it looks as cool AF, and arsehole tech-bros and world leaders with learning disabilities were a thing of the distant future.

With a time-traveling Fred Armisen looking at the camera. Wild.

Apart from the shine, everyone in this image looks like a right tosser.

Man on the left was clearly a big fan of 'Starsky and Hutch'.

It looks like the place to be back in the day

I second that blimey!

Yeah but one day someone will ask you to pullover and you can say no it's a Pendleton cardigan actually. Legend status

That's not boring - that's correct I think!

That's not boring, that's awesome knowledge and I love it.

Man at C&A

I'm thinking those two are heading to a hotel for "lunch".

Not a phone in sight

They forgot to include a drunk soccer hooligan wearing full kit.