Fake bikes
02-12-19, 09:48 PM
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Fake bikes
Well, the bikes are real, but it's fake advertising.
So my wife and I are traveling and decided to have dinner in an Olive Garden restaurant. Below is a wallhanging picture that was next to our table. I think it’s supposed to make the viewer think it’s an old world (Italian) setting. I think it’s staged. Those bikes look as if they’ve never been ridden...not the bikes that old Italian guys would be tooling around the town on. I've been there and the old guys tool around on old bikes that are well-use, dirty, rusty, etc.
So my wife and I are traveling and decided to have dinner in an Olive Garden restaurant. Below is a wallhanging picture that was next to our table. I think it’s supposed to make the viewer think it’s an old world (Italian) setting. I think it’s staged. Those bikes look as if they’ve never been ridden...not the bikes that old Italian guys would be tooling around the town on. I've been there and the old guys tool around on old bikes that are well-use, dirty, rusty, etc.
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02-12-19, 11:11 PM
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02-13-19, 12:50 AM
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Restaurant chains can buy prints of royalty free vintage photographs for almost nothing. The frame cost more than the print.
Olive Garden is not in the business of bothering to stage scenes. And unless you're making a movie, there's not much of a business justification for doing so. It could get expensive really fast turning a set into a vintage look, photoshopping out the cell phone towers and hearing aids, procuring pristine vintage bikes and clothing, etc.
That picture is probably real.
Maybe they ride their beater all week and take the shiny one out on weekends to show off to their friends.
Olive Garden is not in the business of bothering to stage scenes. And unless you're making a movie, there's not much of a business justification for doing so. It could get expensive really fast turning a set into a vintage look, photoshopping out the cell phone towers and hearing aids, procuring pristine vintage bikes and clothing, etc.
That picture is probably real.
Maybe they ride their beater all week and take the shiny one out on weekends to show off to their friends.
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02-13-19, 01:45 AM
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As a person who lived in Copenhagen where the bike lived on a square similar to that piazza, that looks about right for a daily used outdoor living bicycle.
This is the square, that's a bike shop on the corner (had a free air line outside!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%...torv_19-21.jpg
Bike look about the same in both photos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%...rv_facades.jpg
That's actually my flat with the windows open in the red building.
So, I don't see what you're on about with the bikes in the first photo!
This is the square, that's a bike shop on the corner (had a free air line outside!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%...torv_19-21.jpg
Bike look about the same in both photos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%...rv_facades.jpg
That's actually my flat with the windows open in the red building.
So, I don't see what you're on about with the bikes in the first photo!
02-13-19, 05:39 AM
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Considering the plastic bag, it cannot be that old.
The real question is why the OP went to Olive Garden.
The real question is why the OP went to Olive Garden.
02-13-19, 06:33 AM
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As a person who lived in Copenhagen where the bike lived on a square similar to that piazza, that looks about right for a daily used outdoor living bicycle.
This is the square, that's a bike shop on the corner (had a free air line outside!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%...torv_19-21.jpg
Bike look about the same in both photos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%...rv_facades.jpg
That's actually my flat with the windows open in the red building.
So, I don't see what you're on about with the bikes in the first photo!
This is the square, that's a bike shop on the corner (had a free air line outside!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%...torv_19-21.jpg
Bike look about the same in both photos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%...rv_facades.jpg
That's actually my flat with the windows open in the red building.
So, I don't see what you're on about with the bikes in the first photo!
That's hilarious! Go figure-- older men who hang out in front of a bike shop have nicer than average bikes?
Still shocked that op didn't notice the plastic grocery bag before starting this silliness.
This thread is now about the ethics of sepia-toned 21st century photo prints hanging in chain restaurants. Society should come to a halt until we work this vital issue out.
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Sepia Tones
My older sister recently underwent cataract surgery, one eye at a time. After the first eye began to heal and she regained vision, she was struck by the to-be-fixed eye's color response and how everything appeared "sepia toned" (her words) from it. Weird, and a propos to the thread...
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I think it could be an FBI surveillance photo. These men are planning to whack the head waiter over at Chili's, their main competitor.
02-13-19, 06:53 AM
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Olive Garden is ****, I'd rather eat my fingers (or nothing to be honest.)
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02-13-19, 06:54 AM
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That's hilarious! Go figure-- older men who hang out in front of a bike shop have nicer than average bikes?
Still shocked that op didn't notice the plastic grocery bag before starting this silliness.
This thread is now about the ethics of sepia-toned 21st century photo prints hanging in chain restaurants. Society should come to a halt until we work this vital issue out.
Still shocked that op didn't notice the plastic grocery bag before starting this silliness.
This thread is now about the ethics of sepia-toned 21st century photo prints hanging in chain restaurants. Society should come to a halt until we work this vital issue out.
02-13-19, 07:00 AM
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Well, the bikes are real, but it's fake advertising.
So my wife and I are traveling and decided to have dinner in an Olive Garden restaurant. Below is a wallhanging picture that was next to our table. I think it’s supposed to make the viewer think it’s an old world (Italian) setting. I think it’s staged. Those bikes look as if they’ve never been ridden...not the bikes that old Italian guys would be tooling around the town on. I've been there and the old guys tool around on old bikes that are well-use, dirty, rusty, etc.
So my wife and I are traveling and decided to have dinner in an Olive Garden restaurant. Below is a wallhanging picture that was next to our table. I think it’s supposed to make the viewer think it’s an old world (Italian) setting. I think it’s staged. Those bikes look as if they’ve never been ridden...not the bikes that old Italian guys would be tooling around the town on. I've been there and the old guys tool around on old bikes that are well-use, dirty, rusty, etc.
Whether or not it is false advertising is not debatable as the photo is not advertising anything. Most certainly not Olive Garden.
02-13-19, 07:09 AM
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I think the bikes are real but the people are fake. They look like mannequins or space robots or something. 
02-13-19, 07:50 AM
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I guess it's the sepia-toned effect that lends an air of fakery. This photo was definitely not taken with a wet-plate view camera. But so what?
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I think we should actually make a fun game out of this absurd thread and figure out about when the picture was taken. I'm not knowledgeable about Italian street bikes like those pictured, but the clothes look like the 1980s to me, especially the cut of the suit and the style of the windbreaker. Also, the lights appear to be battery-powered incandescents, which I think would fit the era's technology.
Is the IG shifting a clue? In the U.S., any later than about 1983 or so, and I think the odds of 3 IG bikes meeting by chance would be almost nil, I don't know if they stayed common in Italy.
Also, the rear rack looks like 1980s or later to me--any earlier and I wouldn't expect to see black ones. Am I wrong about this?
Is the IG shifting a clue? In the U.S., any later than about 1983 or so, and I think the odds of 3 IG bikes meeting by chance would be almost nil, I don't know if they stayed common in Italy.
Also, the rear rack looks like 1980s or later to me--any earlier and I wouldn't expect to see black ones. Am I wrong about this?
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Italian mafia about to whack somebody. The thick glasses banker in the suit is just making sure they get the right dude.
