What people thought: California
What actually: Ohio
The first picture is what the mall looked like lol
Pretty spot on for the skate rink in my town, if the carpet was black with neon blobs and squiggles.
The skating rink here was built before I was born. I think it was from the 70s or maybe even the late 60s. The decore was mostly maroon and brown carpeting and wood paneling on the walls. At some point they updated the concession area so it looked more like the restaurant from Saved By The Bell though lol! I think they completely renovated it in the early 2000s and it’s an ice skating rink now
If you lived in Pennsylvania in the 90’s it looked like the right side of the photo, if you lived in Miami Beach in the 90’s it looked like the left
Wood paneling everywhere. Rooms, cars, everywhere.
And not even the good wood paneling, it was the grain-printed stained plywood shit that everyone used in the late 70s/early 80s.
I mean, that really depends on what age you were back then.
So people think the '90s looked like the '80s, but they actually looked like the early '70s?
Weird.
People think the 90’s looked like the mall, but really they looked like Meemaw’s house.
And yet somehow in my memory, the mall looked like the mall, and my grandma’s house looked like my grandma’s house.
My recollection of the 90s is that we definitely had more than one place, so different places looked different…kinda like now.
But maybe this is a rose colored glasses situation.
That’s what grandma’s house looked like in the 90’s. Exact same way it looked in the 50’s when she and grandpa first moved in!
I remember a lot more of those stick-on glow in the dark plastic stars, if nothing else.
… My kid frowns upon your heresy.
Everywhere. Living room, bathrooms, heck even McDonald’s booths. Those little barely glowing stars were all over.
How did those fall out of style
Parents stopped buying them, so kids had to find other ways to mess with the world.
Another industry millennials killed
And we should have known better
We just wanted to bring a little light into this dark world with pretty glowing stickers, if anyone killed it, it was these damn boomers and their rock and roll music.
Oh man, you reminded me of LED magnetic throwies, just little homemade LEDs with a watch battery and a magnet. Throw em wherever they’ll stick, they’re like $.50 to make. Seems like the 00s version, if a little less ubiquitous
Hey, my kids both have them. I put them up as the night sky when they were born, so all the constellations are more or less in the right place.
Left one is solid 80s
Depends on where you were. The mall, outside, just about anywhere you went beyond your school and hime, lots of neon.
Yup! The picture on the right is exactly how all of my friend’s parents houses looked. The picture on the left reminds me more of public spaces in the 80’s. In the 90’s everything was grunged out after grunge took off.
Yeah early 90s had a lot of the “big hair” and clothes we call 80s as well. Decades have a about a 5-year lag time, give or take
but even then, maybe like an arcade in the back of a mini put that was going out of business in three weeks.
The left image only existed in the form of an arcade, and it wouldn’t have been so brightly lit.
I’m glad someone pointed this out. Left is 90’s arcades, bowling allies, skating rinks, and a few malls. The right is at home.
The set of MTV’s Remote Control
The left image existed in the home of wealthy people, or their kids’, living in trendy, high end, neighborhoods. The black and white minimalism, and the Memphis School style, was out there. It was in Manhattan penthouses, and LA hills mansions.
the '90s* looked like
Whenever people think they know what a specific decade was like that they didn’t live through, they think all the furniture was brand new and just bought from a catalogue. In reality you have a style mix of at least 2+ decades at any point in time.
This exactly
You’re pretty much stuck at whatever style was cool when you’re 20-30ish. So your parents are probably stuck at around the time you were born.
Yep. People underestimate how much money you can save by just… not buying new furniture. Thrift shops and hand me downs from elderly family members downsizing make up the overwhelming majority of the furniture in my house.
Do I sometimes wish I could have a different style? Sure. Do I want it bad enough to spend hundreds of dollars on it? No.
The only exceptions is stuff you rest on. Chairs, couches, beds. Don’t skimp on those or your body will hate you even more than usual.
Do I want it bad enough to spend hundreds of dollars on it? No.
You’re off by at least one order of magnitude. I went to a furniture shop recently and shit’s expensive, yo.
Depends on what you want. Massive & quality or cheap plywood and holds a year.
I literally found my furniture in an alley for my first apartment.
My house has stuff from like 8 different decades in it right now lol
You maybe should put great great great grandpa in the ground by now, he’s starting to smell.
Don’t call g-g-g-grandpa “stuff”!
Nah, they have stuff that’ll be the style in future generations, they’re a trend setter.
Bring back coffin coffee tables
“Well uh, I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet. Heh”
Where did you get that picture of my childhood dining room?
Are you my brother?
