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08-08-2011, 07:42 AM
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I had a gig in San Francisco yesterday & stopped at the Park/Beach Chalet on Great Highway (along the ocean). The Beach Chalet was built in 1925 and has numerous mosaics & murals adorning the walls. It's walking into a little bit of SF history.
Well I decided to snap a photo of one of the murals... 
What was the original artist trying to convey in this mural?
I just feel a little dirty that my mind went to the gutter when I noticed this. And the mural was also right by the enterance to the bathrooms. |
08-08-2011, 07:46 AM
| | | | It doesn't help that we see another hand between the girls that makes it look like one is performing a hand-job.
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08-08-2011, 07:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Tejas | | | Man, the guy obviously has a bag of candy or popcorn or something and you have to turn it into something perverted? |
08-08-2011, 08:06 AM
| | | | And why are the girls' dresses so short anyway?
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08-08-2011, 08:07 AM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | I am equal parts bothered by A: The fact that in our current society we tend to *go there*(NOT dogging you, BassGuppy- I am w/you on the initial impression, believe me)& B: That CREEPY image. The old guy's eyes, the positions of all 3 characters...
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08-08-2011, 08:07 AM
|  | Bassish | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: USA, CA, Sacramento Metro area | | | It looks like he's handing out candy or something. But the way it's set up looks like it's meant to make you think it's perverted. It's like some kind of weird visual double entendre meant to say, "Hey, get you mind out of the gutter!"
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08-08-2011, 08:11 AM
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08-08-2011, 08:26 AM
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08-08-2011, 08:27 AM
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Originally Posted by iammr2 Man, the guy obviously has a bag of candy or popcorn or something and you have to turn it into something perverted? | Agreed. |
08-08-2011, 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by bassteban I am equal parts bothered by A: The fact that in our current society we tend to *go there*(NOT dogging you, BassGuppy- I am w/you on the initial impression, believe me)& B: That CREEPY image. The old guy's eyes, the positions of all 3 characters... | Ditto
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08-08-2011, 08:30 AM
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08-08-2011, 08:31 AM
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08-08-2011, 08:32 AM
| | | | Was it offensive in the time the mural was originally painted? |
08-08-2011, 08:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Louis // St. Charles, MO | | | The woman leaving the restroom is probably thinking there's something perverted going on not necessarily related to the mural but more the dude taking pics outside the restrooms...
JK! - I agree... that mural is a little creepy.
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08-08-2011, 08:34 AM
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08-08-2011, 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by tZer The woman leaving the restroom is probably thinking there's something perverted going on not necessarily related to the mural but more the dude taking pics outside the restrooms...
JK! - I agree... that mural is a little creepy. | Yeah, the timing on that couldn't have been better.
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08-08-2011, 08:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Dalian, Liaoning | | | In 1925, I have to believe it would be interpreted much differently than from today's oversexualized society.
It would be seen then as a man about to give his children some candy.
And look into the background,...a man folding a boat sail.
In today's world, that might look to many as a man wrapping his murdered girlfriend before discarding her.
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08-08-2011, 08:57 AM
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Originally Posted by john_martin_sai In 1925, I have to believe it would be interpreted much differently than from today's oversexualized society.
It would be seen then as a man about to give his children some candy.
And look into the background,...a man folding a boat sail.
In today's world, that might look to many as a man wrapping his murdered girlfriend before discarding her. | Agreed. Different eras, different sensibilties. For example the word "gay" had an entirely different connotation in 1925 than it does now. Thinking of that picture as perverted is merely a product of this era's oversexualised attitudes.
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08-08-2011, 09:00 AM
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Originally Posted by C.Linton Agreed. Different eras, different sensibilties. For example the word "gay" had an entirely different connotation in 1925 than it does now. Thinking of that picture as perverted is merely a product of this era's oversexualised attitudes. | I'd dare say that most of Europe is more sexually open than the US, and I'd venture a guess that many of them wouldn't of had these perverted thoughts.
Though I may be wrong. |
08-08-2011, 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by tZer The woman leaving the restroom is probably thinking there's something perverted going on not necessarily related to the mural but more the dude taking pics outside the restrooms...
JK! - I agree... that mural is a little creepy. |
Trust me. Taking a photo near the women's restroom isn't that big a deal in SF. We have nude parades here. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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