The color of the 80s **, revealing the youth of the fathers, is a rare sight!
Forty years ago, in the '80s, there was a wealthy American tourist named Bill Hocker who was alone with two Nikon F-class professional SLR cameras to take photos in major cities in China.
His ** gives us a glimpse into the life and youth of our fathers in that era. At that time, cameras had become popular, and many foreign tourists had come to China.
Let's enjoy the youth of our parents in the 80s through the lens of Bill Hocker.
In the past 80s, most ordinary families did not live in excellent conditions, they lived in crowded courtyard houses, and there were no high-rise buildings to live in. There is also not much furniture, and the homework can only be done on oranges.
Despite being in the 80s, the beautiful girls' clothes look quite rustic. They are dressed in navy blue or army green, with cloth shoes and a straw hat on their heads.
In the 80s, small fresh supermarkets were not yet popular, and people had to travel long distances to the farmers' market to buy ingredients, especially vegetables, meat, fruits, etc. However, the purchase process is relatively inconvenient due to poor hygiene.
In the 80s, smart scales did not yet appear, and people commonly used a mechanical scale that could measure weight and height at the same time. However, this ancient device has now been phased out in favor of more advanced smart scales.
In the 80s, most ordinary homes relied on honeycomb coal for cooking and boiling water. It wasn't until much later that modern cooking equipment such as gas, liquefied gas, and induction cooktops gradually became popular.
In the countryside of the eighties, life seemed like an idyll. After the rice is harvested, the parents will pick it up to dry it in the drying field, and the children will also come to help, and the scene of helping is full of laughter and harmony.
Although there were already Santana and Jetta cars in the 80s, private cars were still very rare in big cities like Shanghai and Beijing. In contrast, the 28-inch bikes of the Phoenix, Permanent, Flying Pigeon and Seagull are the first choice for most families.
In the southern China market in the 80s of the last century, it was common to see some elderly people carrying bamboo baskets, which were filled with all kinds of living animals, such as chickens, ducks, geese, piglets, dogs, and so on.
The elderly of that era were very healthy, and even when they were older, they were still able to carry heavy burdens.
In the 80s of the last century, there was a mantra that spread widely, and that was"Thirty acres of land with a cow, and the wife and children are hot on the kang"。You can see the stove and hot kang head in this **, at that time, air conditioning and heating were not popular in the north, and it was this hot kang head that was used for heating.
In this bustling 80's city streets, people come and go. You may find that your father and mother are in the **. And those pallet trucks are the tools used by sanitation companies to transport domestic sewage.
In the past, in the city and countryside, people could occasionally be seen wearing patched clothes. The economic situation of that era was not affluent, so patched clothes were considered normal, and no one would cast a mocking glance at the person wearing it.
The people of that time were simple and authentic.
The youthful memories of my father's generation, the most beautiful acceleration in the 80s, sitting in the back seat of my father's bicycle, being put in a raincoat on a rainy day, although it is not very convenient, but the years of that era, the cars and horses are very slow, and there is only enough to love one person in a lifetime.
These precious old ** were taken in China by American tourists in the 80s, recording the youth of their parents, which makes people feel intimate and nostalgic. Time flies, forty years have passed in a blink of an eye, and our parents are already old, we should honor them while they are still there, so that their old age will be happier and more satisfying.