This gives off strong early 2010 vibes

[u/DesperateAsk7091]

[u/wrongsock_42]

Think the feel is based on when you went to elementary school. For me, 1979.

[u/JCD_007 → u/wrongsock_42]

Yes, and the architecture also evokes a certain time period. This style of building just says late 70s/early 80s to me even though that was well before I was born.

[u/Bureaucromancer → u/JCD_007]

Honestly? The style could go back as far as the late 60s and as the early 90s...

[u/MentatMike → u/Bureaucromancer]

Yeah and I think we could also say the style has nothing to do with 2010 lol

[u/Quark1010 → u/MentatMike]

To make it 2010s style slap some constuction scaffolding to half the walls and slap 20 layers of posters to a pin-up wall.

[u/Actual-Package-3164 → u/Bureaucromancer]

Great idea for coffee-table book: Public School Architecture & Interior Design. You’d have a multi-generational audience of potential buyers (assuming folks still have coffee tables).

[u/jimmy9800 → u/Bureaucromancer]

This looks like both my elementary school and high school, built in 1973 and 1994 respectively.

[u/Old_Instrument_Guy → u/Bureaucromancer]

Yes, it's 1960s or early 70s. I went to grade school in buildings like these starting around 1970 both in Ohio and in Florida. The one in Ohio has since been demolished.

[u/pearljamman010 → u/Bureaucromancer]

Yup. I went to elementary school in the 90s - first one in a midwest state that was built in the 60s and just had upkeep done to it. Second one, again in the 90s in a different state was built in the 20s and updated once between then and when I graduated in 2000. A brick building with lots of flat walls & ceilings, sidewalks, some overhanging roofs, lots of grass and an old-ass playground. Maybe some colored doors, posters and pictures in windows (that might pop-out instead of slide up), a few window A/C units, a gym that might be taller and different shaped than the actual school, etc.

It was probably just an established style that was simple to maintain, update, and functional. At least it's not the bland gray brick prison looking buildings I see lately, or some painted cinder-blocks that are chipping.

[u/MarkedByNyx → u/JCD_007]

yeah, i was in HS in 2010 and this definitely does not give me a 2010 vibe, more like late 70s

[u/KoolAidManOfPiss → u/JCD_007]

Looks exactly like my high school that was built in the 50's. It honestly might be it, it was originally a "California" style school with all unconnected buildings. Problem was it was built in Northern Michigan so during the school year the courtyards were either covered in snow or a swamp like pictured above.

[u/HaplessPenguin → u/JCD_007]

Probably 1950s build.

[u/Nielsenm1 → u/wrongsock_42]

I thought for a second it was my elementary school and I went in the late 90’s

[u/ElectronicClothes285 → u/Nielsenm1]

same. but tbf my elementary was built in like 1960. my uncles, my mom, and I went to the same schools 🥲

[u/fadetoblack237 → u/ElectronicClothes285]

This architecture style is still being uses in some towns that haven't upgraded and rebuilt their older schools.

I was in elementary school in the early 00s and had this same kind of building.

[u/ElectronicClothes285 → u/fadetoblack237]

yeah the main school district within city limits finally began really upgrading / rebuilding in the last decade

[u/ConsciousInsurance67 → u/wrongsock_42]

I wanted to ask why specifically OP says 2010 bcause to me it's like 90's or 80's but your explanation makes sense.

[u/Mello_Hello → u/ConsciousInsurance67]

If I can give some insight, I would’ve been in elementary around that time myself, and I also got the same “nostalgic elementary school” vibe from it. I think it’s just a pretty timeless feeling, and OP is likely also early 20s or so

[u/Typical-Salt-7050 → u/ConsciousInsurance67]

maybe OP was in primary or secondary school in 2010. for me this gives me 2013 nostalgia bc it looks exactly like my middle school and i was in middle school then.

[u/thejack473 → u/wrongsock_42]

i can tell how old you are based on when you say this image is from, if you say today you are currently in school. if you say the future you are yet to go to school.

[u/Flomo420 → u/wrongsock_42]

Lol ya was gonna say more a 70s or 80s vibe

[u/BadAtBaduk1 → u/wrongsock_42]

Looks like a school from any period really.

[u/KitsuneFaroe → u/wrongsock_42]

Top reply and is incredibly spot on. I wonder why it evokes such "elementary school era" vibes for SO many people. What's the correlation.

[u/peach_xanax → u/KitsuneFaroe]

probably bc it's a picture of an elementary school...? and that's a really common design for them

[u/Howtothinkofaname → u/KitsuneFaroe]

Because a lot of elementary schools look like that, so naturally that’s the feeling it evokes. Don’t think there’s much more to it than that.

[u/notworldauthor → u/KitsuneFaroe]

In addition to the architecture, the washed out colors resemble my early memories

[u/SP_Ranallo → u/wrongsock_42]

The first thing I thought of was YOU CAN’T DO THAT ON TELEVISION’s opening credits. It’s got that late 70’s fuzz.

[u/YT-Deliveries → u/wrongsock_42]

Yeah very much 1960s-1970s-core.

[u/BlackJackal613]

Ok...I SWEAR this was the backside of my old Middle School, but there's too much grass and water. But its trippin me out how similar it is...

[u/PhoenixPaladin → u/BlackJackal613]

All middle schools look like this it seems. It’s the elementary and high schools that get all the funding for new buildings

[u/peach_xanax → u/PhoenixPaladin]

My middle school was in a historic building from the 1900s, it actually used to be the town high school and my great-grandma and my grandparents went to high school there. It's a fairly big building for being a relatively small school in a small town, and the architecture is pretty neat, it has big Roman columns framing the doors. I think it's considered a historical landmark or something. Definitely a bit cooler than going to school in a square building haha

[u/TheDeviousLemon → u/BlackJackal613]

Same.

[u/georgeyellow → u/BlackJackal613]

same.

[u/YeetusMyDiabeetus → u/BlackJackal613]

It is identical to the old alternative high school I grew up next to. Same brick, windows, and even the blue colored panels are identical. I would swear it was except that pathway doesn’t exist at the one I know

[u/celerypizza]

Twin Peaks

[u/mr_negi → u/celerypizza]

The scene in the pilot where the girl screams outside the classroom

[u/Duel_Option → u/celerypizza]

IT IS HAPPENING…AGAIN

[u/oversteppe → u/Duel_Option]

See, I’ve already gone places…. I just wanna stay where I am

[u/[deleted] → u/celerypizza]

I grew up where Twin Peaks was filmed, and our schools kind of looked like this,  but weirdly it doesn't give me any nostalgic feelings.

That doesn't mean it can't give a Twin Peaks vibe ofc.

[u/DweebInFlames → u/[deleted]]

It's mostly the palette that gives it that look, the purple + warm hues. Very reminiscent of S1/2

[u/_phantastik_ → u/celerypizza]

There it is

[u/DweebInFlames → u/celerypizza]

Lauraaaa

[u/JCD_007]

I’d say more like 1980.

[u/GameHat → u/JCD_007]

Yes, this is like every elementary school ever, ca. 1980s. Source: guy who was born 1981.

[u/insufficient_nvram → u/GameHat]

Looks like my elementary school in 1983.

[u/facedownbootyuphold → u/insufficient_nvram]

Schools built from the 50s-80s looked like this. Mid-century design. They were built during the decades America was growing fast so they became ubiquitous. All the high schools in my region looked something similar to this as well.

[u/jakewakalake → u/facedownbootyuphold]

So true, that architecture had a unique vibe you just don’t see anymore.

[u/Cheezeball25 → u/JCD_007]

Sounds like OP went to school in the 2010s, but it was built in the 1980s

[u/ShittyBollox → u/JCD_007]

Yeah. My school In 1986 was exactly like this.

[u/SanestExile → u/JCD_007]

I'd say more like no year in particular. It's a generic building. How do you guys come up with this?

[u/Howtothinkofaname → u/SanestExile]

It’s a generic building but it’s still clearly of a time period. They weren’t building stuff like this in Victorian times.

[u/SodaCanBob → u/JCD_007]

Yeah, I was born in 90 but this reminds me of any generic Midwest school that's 10 years behind the rest of the world. Probably has a few teachers that taught your parents, the textbooks are old, and the class sizes are relatively small.

[u/peach_xanax → u/SodaCanBob]

I'm two years older than you and grew up in the Midwest, and yup, this is spot on haha.

[u/roadtrip-ne → u/JCD_007]

1978

[u/OnyxPhoenix → u/JCD_007]

There was definitely a processing defect of some early digital cameras that resulted in this pink sky effect.

So this reminds me of those times which was around 2005 I think

[u/geoffsykes]

Is this the high school from Twin Peaks?

[u/Hour_Type_5506]

More like 1968

[u/-Ukiyo_]

I went to elementary school in the mid 90s in a small town and this reminds me of that

[u/Duel_Option]

Who killed Laura Palmer?

[u/SensitivePlantsUnite]

I keep scrolling back for the sky

[u/toolsoftheincomptnt]

1995 at the latest

[u/BaileyJay-Z]

More February 24th, 1989

[u/Papichurch]

1998 Elementary School Vibes.

[u/garlicbreadmemesplz]

It looks 90s because of Twin Peaks aesthetic but could be old as 60s.

[u/nah-soup]

I can smell this picture

[u/myMadMind]

Has a Twin Peaks filter on it

[u/brodydwight]

My elementary school looked like this

[u/FalseFennel3664]

this looks like my elementary school I went to in SW Michigan

[u/bluetortuga → u/FalseFennel3664]

I was going to say that it looks like elementary school in the 80’s in Michigan to me!

[u/Extras → u/bluetortuga]

Same here, 90s Pennsylvania. It's funny that this is a shared rust belt lived experience

[u/houseWithoutSpoons]

1960s or even before .this is way older than 15 years ago my friend. This place looked just like this in the 80s when i went to school..and probably in the late 60s when my mom went there

[u/indoguju416]

Early 2010? Tf lol this screams 70s-80s

[u/sg490]

high school class of 08

this reminds me of senior year, dig

[u/Brent_Fox]

I felt this image.

[u/cjs81268]

I went to an elementary school that looked like that in Connecticut in the 70s.

[u/autumngirl11 → u/cjs81268]

Looks like my relatives elementary school in Norwalk

[u/DowntownOutside296]

No it doesn't

[u/NickleVick]

I went to school in the 90s in a building just like that. Was this picture taken in Connecticut?

[u/parke415]

You mean early ‘70s vibes, right?

[u/_biggerthanthesound_]

Def late 60’s early 70’s.

[u/EggsAndTaters]

Nah. Def not 2010’s. 70’s/80’s. Maybe early 90’s.

[u/LiminalSapien]

Shows building from early 80's

Gives of strong early 2010 vibes

Fucking wut?

[u/seagull486]

Wait what the hell this looks just like my school from k-8th grade

[u/According_Rice_1822]

Try another 10-20 years back maybe! Or today in some places 😂

[u/Upstairs_Mine3653]

I feel more 80s, early 90s. Nothing about this makes me think 2010

[u/Professional_Dr_77]

Early 90s school entrance

[u/hannahcat420]

This feels older to me, like 1997.

[u/MissCher21]

Dream about my elementary and middle school often. Had bricks and windows like this

[u/Money-Adeptness8627]

Elementary school memories.. :<

[u/Overthemoon65]

Gives dreams of primary school vibes where friends from high school are in.

[u/Few-Emergency5971]

Oh shit, the old smoke spot for the 1980s high-school. We had a couple of those, but by the time I got to high-school it was a big no no. But still a nice spot to sit and relax outside

[u/SectionFinancial2876]

It's my first day at school, 1982, and I'm about to feel the most alone and afraid I've ever felt in my short life.

[u/16Shells]

this looks like a transition spot in THPS that you’d ollie over, roof to roof

[u/isurvived_sorryeric]

Looks like my old school

[u/bloobityblu]

I was like, 1980s for real.

[u/WizardSleeves31]

Okayyyy, I was skeptical about all the "seen this place in your dreams" memes...but I have seen this in a dream.

It was a combination school and airport,

[u/Temporary_Valuable64]

Nah building too old for that era

[u/Joelafman]

I can smell this image

[u/General-Pickle5165]

1987 vibes

[u/FrogsAlligators111]

Looks a lot older than 2010.

[u/SojuSeed]

For a split second I thought I was looking at the walk from the band and choir room to the middle school lockers of Cuba, Missouri’s old middle school. Was built back in the 70s I think. Freaked me out for a second.

[u/ExpressAssist0819]

This hits early 1990s for me hard.

[u/bobshallprevail]

Naw late 90s early 2000s

[u/Lxneleszxn]

I would even say 2000's

[u/LinknPRO]

I cant feel the early 2010 feeling because i was only 4 years old then :/ but its a great pic

[u/No-Equipment-9865]

This looks like a scene from a Wes Anderson movie

[u/ChimeraGreen]

I think I went two versions of this School, in two different parts of the country.

[u/King_Leviathan17]

That kinda looks like my old high school

[u/elishash]

It feels like 2000's where I missed those days despite it's nit perfect even with a tint of nostalgia...

[u/DejaEntendoMePls]

2010 was my last year in primary school and this reminds me of that so much

[u/4FriedChickens_Coke]

Looks like that was built in the 70s

[u/drewtreedrums]

Some 90s shoegaze band album art right here

[u/eti_erik]

This looks like every elementary school building that my country built in the 1970s. I thought this was mine for a second.

[u/Dog_Baseball]

Looks like this place was built in the 1960s or 1970s

[u/CampaignSure4532]

1995 here

[u/BnRSF415]

2010 vibes.... How old are you????

[u/Little_Nectarine_210]

Every uk school looks like this

[u/GlazedPannis]

This gives off strong mid 90s vibes

[u/thefractalcosmos]

This reminds me of my old elementary school

[u/Paddy_Tanninger]

Looks like it could be a level in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

[u/onyx_ic]

Shit, that looks like my elementary and high school.

[u/Eveready116]

That’s literally my high school… Paramus HS in Bergen County, NJ. Graduated 2006.

That’s the center courtyard right off the cafeteria/ commons area. I recognize the moss pattern on the right wall.

I took this exact photo and others in black and white for photography class.

The classroom with the moss wall was the photography class room and I think we are looking at the outside wall of the dark room.

The classroom where those windows are was some class that was teaching family life? Forget what it was called. (Where you do diaper changes with the fake baby/ sewing/ cooking.)

Outside of view, moving down to the left was Art 2/honors class room.

They updated the school right after I graduated so I’m not sure if this courtyard is same, but there’s no doubt in my mind this is Paramus High.

[u/Skeet-Shooter]

This is the exact layout of my old elementary school. This is the back entrance where we would go back inside the building after recess. It’s either my elementary school in this photo or this layout was used in several schools

[u/Lazyman310]

This feels like a courtyard that was right outside of a science classroom I had in the 8th grade in the Midwest US, like, frighteningly so lmao

[u/UnderHammer]

Is this Fairview Elementary?

[u/pokemike1]

90s vibe to me

[u/S1lentA0]

Yeah, for me more like 1990, when my schoolbuilding actually looked some like that.

[u/dazzerc007]

My school in the 80’s, but built 60’s. NOT 2010’s 😳

[u/SeasonPrestigious384]

This is literally what it looked like when I was in second grade coming in from recess and going back to class

[u/Datvash]

1996 for me. Had a school I went to that looked just like this.

[u/urethra_franklin_1_]

This reminds me of middle school in 2005

[u/Ok-Pride-3534]

Shoot man it takes me further back than that.

[u/Black_Harbour_TTRPG]

It gives off strong early 2010 vibes because Western culture stagnated around the late 90s

This is classic late 70s/early 80s. The fact that you get 2010 vibes from it is because filmmakers of your generation used my generation's childhood instead of their own as their primary cultural reference point.

[u/whepsayrgn → u/Black_Harbour_TTRPG]

Nope, this thread made me realize a lot of people had their school buildings updated within the past 50 years.

But it’s fun that you’re gatekeeping curtain walls for “your” childhood because “culture stagnated”. And by fun I mean what are you talking about?

[u/Black_Harbour_TTRPG → u/whepsayrgn]

Retrospective (which is not the same as tradition) is a natural part of any complex culture. When a culture reaches a certain critical mass of retrospective vs. novelty, that culture is stagnant. Can this be accurately quantified? Probably not, but I'd say it happened in the West sometime around the late 90s.

a lot of people had their school buildings updated within the past 50 years.

No idea what you're trying to say with this.

Someone posting an opinion that you disagree with on Reddit is not gatekeeping), that makes you sound hysterical. Have a better day.

[u/Masterkid1230 → u/Black_Harbour_TTRPG]

I think this is just a massively biased comment, really. You only recognise things you know in your environment, and see them remain the same leading you to a false conclusion that everything has stagnated. While refusing to acknowledge everything that is different.

The influence of things like the internet, smartphones and general digitalisation has changed so many aspects of our lives starting from the early 00's (for better and worse) that it seems absurd to claim Western culture has been stagnant during the 20 years of most change we have seen in centuries.

However, some things do go through stagnant periods. Like popular media, or architecture. Western architecture was pretty stagnant really from the 50's to the 90's with minor trends but structural similarities. And right now we're going through a massive dearth of innovation in mainstream media, which is full of remakes, known franchises, and zero interest in new stories.

But when you exaggerate these completely normal trends to universal absolutes with zero nuance, it's closer to downright lying and perhaps even malicious manipulating than to any semblance of a reasonable discussion.

[u/Hatweed → u/Black_Harbour_TTRPG]

Schools that looked like this were built in the early-mid 60s. I have access to photos of my high school from when it was built in 1963 and it is identical.

[u/turtletaint911]

Out of curiosity, where is this? It looks a lot like the schools I went to, but I wouldn't be surprised if every public school in the country looks nearly identical

[u/Qnamod → u/turtletaint911]

Did a bunch of digging and couldn't find it but this is the original poster https://www.reddit.com/u/dfhjgksdjkgjsdhjksld/s/mzWRGmEc68

[u/turtletaint911 → u/Qnamod]

Thanks!

[u/Yellowtelephone1]

This is what my high school looked like.

[u/Eaton2288]

Me and my friends used to ride our bikes around the neighborhood and find dumb stuff to get into. We ended up climbing our local elementary school at 9pm on a summers night, and the outside of the school looked identical to this photo.

[u/Ancient_Bug9750]

You’ve got your dead malls, now you’ve got your dead schools. No zombies, just getting a front row seat at a socioeconomic shift. Interesting times.

[u/RedKing36]

I-- do you know where this is from?

It looks exactly like my school did.

[u/leshpar]

This reminds me of my high school except the sidewalk was covered most of the way between buildings.

[u/dblack1107]

I don’t get 2010 vibe in a million years but yeah sure ok. More like 90s

[u/Level-Emu2753]

2002

[u/MissLionEyes]

2002 at the latest

[u/Royal_IDunno]

More like early 2000s.

[u/Kenshirosan]

Literally looks like the courtyard of my school growing up that has a path to the cafeteria from the HS wing.

[u/405freeway]

I've never seen Gummo but this image is what I assume it feels like.

[u/bloodlines17]

i’d say mid 90s-early 2000s.

[u/BlancoMuerte]

Shit looks like my old middle school

[u/FUCKTHlSSHIT]

Looks just like my old summer school

[u/MaxxPegasus]

This looks like my school back in the late 90s early 2000s

[u/__WanderLust_]

Have we all been to this building? It's kind of uncanny that I immediately recognized it.

[u/Euphoric-Stop-483]

Looks like the Infant School I went to in the UK in 1981 that was built in the 1960s

[u/DandyBebop]

CMC Missoula?

[u/One-Earth9294]

Reminds me of the scene in the school in Children of Men a bit.

But yeah this is great.

[u/AboutToSnap]

Bruh that’s 1996

[u/c0q0]

I know this place

[u/A-KindOfMagic]

Gives me late 90s vibe :(

[u/Top-Cat8608]

This doesnt even make any sense…

[u/BretShitmanFart69]

Why do I feel like Ive been here in a dream

[u/Stock-Blackberry4652]

Lol this building is from the 1950s

[u/Cheap-Roll5760]

Holy shit I thought that was my school for a second lol

[u/wandering_ravens]

Literally looks like my elementary school

[u/Count_Verdunkeln]

Feels like a Polaroid from a crime scene

[u/Average_Scaper]

1960's to 2019 school vibes*

[u/fish_bulbb]

definitely not 2010, that’s crazy

[u/One_Percentage_644]

This looks exactly like my elementary school

[u/OperationSad986]

This looks eerily familiar to the school I went to. Rohanen junior high. It’s a shelter type thing now.

[u/More_Ad_9154]

Looks like a scene in 28 days later

[u/Invulnerablility]

Looks like the digital communications building at my old high school.

[u/BlaineMundane]

woah woah, ok... this looks just line Lindon Elementary in Utah. Same path, same grass, same trees... I'm sure there are hundreds that use this layout though.

[u/Filmguy313]

Mid 90s elementary school for me

[u/JonathanApostropheS]

Bro this is giving me 1996-2000 vibes.

[u/yesdork]

That's exactly like the old call of duty map where there's a courtyard in the middle of the building complex, and a car garage on the opposite side of this part of the building, and then some swimming pool in the back. I'm not going to bother to try to find the name for that particular map but I'm telling you this is a call of duty map come to life!

[u/Aggravating_Fox2035]

2010? More like 1990

[u/macjaf]

Yes

[u/MadOrange64]

Silent Hill 2 vibes

[u/RevSomethingOrOther]

Nah, more like early 2000s.

[u/Willem_VanDerDecken]

It strang to say "early 2010", it's just a few years ago.

Wait.

[u/untilIgetBanned]

Man I thought this was my old highschool

[u/blundr31]

Oh no that's way earlier than 2010....more like the summer of 1970

[u/Adakra111]

This whole comment section is under the influence of SCP - 2316 Everyone has a feint nostalgic memory of a school year but can't be exact .

[u/TheSilentTitan]

Why do we all have schools that look the same lmao.

[u/Iamdickburns]

This looks like Intermediate East in Toms River from the 90s.

[u/frank1934]

1976 for me, and I would be wearing my Spirit of 76 shirt

[u/Ronriv7]

It gives me David tenant dr who vibes. Like some alien is gonna pop out of the side of one of those walls

[u/Party-Meeting-6266]

wtf is this my high school? Looks exactly the same

[u/WildWastedYouth]

this gives 2001-2003 for me