Vintage Minneapolis Mugshots or Current Minneapolis Hipsters?

[geardaddy]

http://www.citypages.com/news/vintage-minneapolis-mugshots-or-current-minneapolis-hipsters-7656538

People revisit the past for all sorts of reasons — to make a connection with their heritage, understand the evolution of pop culture, or simply get a glimpse of what life was like for the generations that came before them.


But other times they’re just bored and on the Internet.

Last week pop culture blog Dangerous Minds posted a cool collection of Minneapolis mugshots from the late 1960s and early ‘70s. Some of the arrestees in the photos, culled from Vintage Everyday and These Americans, were surprisingly stylin’ given their incarceration. Their crimes are unknown. But based on appearances, they could fit right in with modern hipster society.

All in good fun, we pulled 13 of our favorite throwback-y mugshots and speculated what variety of Minneapolis hipster caricature each would be in 2015.

Style is definitely cyclical.


2015 hipster alter ego: Says he only drinks “craft,” but last weekend got wasted off High Life and peed behind a dumpster at the 331 Club.

2015 hipster alter ego: Plays bass and sings in a twee-pop band about to be huge on the basement scene.

2015 hipster alter ego: Entry-level copywriter who fronts a Joy Division cover band yet to play its first show.

The rest at link.

[cloudbase]

1. That wasn't High Life,

it was Grain Belt.

Don't ask me how I know.

[geardaddy]

4. Ha!

Grain Belt isn't quite as hipster though. I don't know why, but it isn't.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. Sometimes, I'm just too hip to drink craft beer

When the yuppie posers start drinking craft beer, there's nothing hipper than Miller High Life or Blatz, followed by pissing behind a dumpster in the alley.

Nihilist Hip. It's new. And affordable.

[vanlassie]

3. I thought the hipsters liked Pabst Blue Ribbon.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5399109

[geardaddy]

5. Yeah, but they drink it ironically.

[vanlassie]

6. Oh right.

[hibbing]

7. Joy Division cover band...haha

Funny stuff, thanks for posting.

Peace

[malthaussen]

8. I'm still flinching over being "vintage."

I expected mugshots from a rather earlier period than my own youth.

-- Mal

[geardaddy]

9. It is all relative, isn't it?

I suppose the hipsters of today would look at my youth (70s, 80s) with similar eyes.

[malthaussen]

10. There's an old saying that "elderly" is ten years before you were born...

... so by Hipster measure, I'd guess we're both pretty ancient.

-- Mal

[geardaddy]

11. Haha!

Indeed!