2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI remember the 1990s well.
My friends and I had to wrap newspapers around our feet to walk 10 miles to buy the latest Smashing Pumpkins album.
We then huddled around to watch Seinfeld while we slurped our soup kitchen meal.
Why did you think they called it Grunge, people? You think people really wanted to wear raggy clothes and dirty hair?
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)underpants
(182,279 posts)You could get a gallon of gas and beer. $10 shit were talking tall boys AND cigarettes.
But usually, yes, it was the huddling
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)I could buy a pack of cigarettes for 25 cents by faking "a note from my mom."
I had to watch The Mickey Mouse Club on a 6-inch black and white TV screen. And it took 3 or 4 minutes for the set to "warm up" after turning it on.
I had to walk to school, two miles through the snow, and it was uphill. Both ways.
THEM was the latest thing in high-tech sci-fi special effects.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,698 posts)They gave me a 10-pound rib roast AND $15!!! Unbelieveable, isn't it?