1980s Kentuckiana Time Capsule 🔮 Classic Cars, Perms, & More!

justinparke (77)ASEAN Hive Community Founder in ASEAN HIVE COMMUNITY • 2 years ago

Greetings Hivers, I want to share with you all a place near my boyhood dome that is full of interesting things, and it hasn't changed since the 1980s.

It's Freezing 🥶

Most of my loyal readers know that I'm now separated from the family and in Indiana, USA, and I should add freezing cold to that. Apparently yesterday was the warmest in a long time, but I didn't notice, I can't even be outdoors for more than 10 minutes before I can't feel my fingers. I toughed through it long enough to visit some old highschool friends and catch up on old times.

To The Time Capsule 🚀...

I'm about to show you all some really cool old cars, but before we dig into that, I want to share with you a Kentuckiana legend that was posted on the wall at the time capsule. I'll smash the upvote button for anyone who can name this celebrity in the comments below. This guy used to do local car commercials before he was a big celebrity, but my Dad was a coal miner at the time, not a used car salesman like he is now, otherwise they might've worked together.

Here is another site on the wall that caught my eye. The most famous people to come from close to the area where I grew up are Larry Bird, Bill Monroe, Orville Redenbacher, Colonel Sanders, and the guy above who I will not name. Larry Bird has actually visited this place, but it was many years ago. The place I am referring to as a time capsule is a pole barn that belongs to the stepdad of one of my childhood friends.

A Few More Teasers First 🎰

We like to visit this barn because our my friend's stepdad stopped maintaining and updating this barn during the mid 1980s, and since then it has become a bit of a snapshot in time, from the carpet to the walls, posters, and just about anything you look at. I grew up in a house with brown carpet, brown couch, brown walls, brown everything just like this interior.

This barn has living quarters, but we both contemplated, and guess that is must be at least 20 to 30 years since anyone has slept a night on the above bed, which kind of gives the place a creepy feeling for some reason. The alarm clock caught my eye too, I miss the days of analog clocks and oil lamps.

Hey 80s Ladies 👀

The place is full of post of 80's sexy lady posters, half of them NSFW, but still tasteful, the most up-to-date one I could find was 1986. I can still remember when gigantic hair held firm with a half can of Aqua Net hairspray was very alluring. Sadly, most of these ladies were walking fire hazards.

The above shot caught my eye, the fish, the bikini poster, the framed Ferrari print. This was the epitome of Kentuckiana redneck rich in the 1980s. I can remember coming to this place in highschool and thinking there were probably only a handful of people in the USA richer than my friend's stepdad. Obviously I didn't see many things outside my farmtown until after highschool.

Redneck Treasures 🦕

The glass cases full of plastic dinosaurs and vintage sports posters had me feeling very nostalgic. Part of me wanted to watch a Betamax movie on the old TV, but the couch was probably so full of dust it would've been hardly fun.

When I was a kid I always my own slot-track racing set, little did I know my friend's stepdad was hiding an unopened box all these years.

There is a pool table at the place too, hardly level but still fun to waste an hour on. The pool table and cues haven't had any TLC since the 1980s, so you can imagine the condition of both.

Vroom Vroom 🏎️

Here are the shots that will be the highlight for most people, the car collection. I'm not big into muscle cars or super cars, so I can't comment a whole lot on the collection, I used to be more into weird obscure cars like Lada Nivas and Land Rovers. I can say these cars are hardly ever driven, and many have likely fallen into disrepair.

And by now I should mention I am a white guy posting about American stuff from the USA without my Khmer family, so there is absolutely no Southeast Asian element to this post, but the ASEAN Community is my home on Hive, so I hope you all will allow me to break my own rules from time to time.

I am most attracted to the old boats, cars whose length seems to defy physics. My stepdad once had a yellow car very similar to the one in the above photo.

This newer-ish car was some kind of special "Hot Wheels" edition, and I guess that was the reason for buying it and adding it to the collection.

This car is an Oldsmobile 440, a fast car for its time, but this is not the original paint. It is an impressive restoration though.

Not even sure what this car is in the above, looks a bit like an old Pontiac, but not 100% sure. Perhaps a muscle car enthusiast will correct me in the comments.

The GTO was a classic sportscar that existed on and off til' Pontiac shuttered in 2010. I really love the chrome on older cars, it's seemingly been replaced by plastic on most modern cars.

Most people have at least heard the name "Ferrari," and I can't say I can identify different models, I just know they are expensive and fast, and break down a lot. I didn't let that stop me from sitting inside though.

I made sure my friend took a few shots with his camera to prove I was actually there. I was beginning to think there was no good Hive content to share with you all, guess I was wrong.

The above shot shows some scale, the guy's car collection is pretty impressive, but the lighting is horrible and everything is crowded, so I didn't try to get artsy with my photos, and instead focused on trying to avoid glare.

Well, that's it for now folks. In other news, I just recently paid a successful bribe for a visa sponsorship to Cambodia, so I'm waiting to hear the results at the moment. Once I have it, I'll email it to the Cambodian Embassy in Washington DC and hope for the best. To be continued...