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On the date

Monday, February 23, 1987

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Tactile

The cold morning light catches the coarse wool of an oversized blazer as a kid struts past, looking incredibly fly with his collar popped against the biting February wind. My fingers ache from the frigid metal of my Leica, but I can’t help but stop to watch a group of teenagers hunched over a sidewalk table, their hands trembling as they pull smooth wooden blocks from a precarious Jenga tower. The city feels electric today, humming with the grit of a Monday morning and the static of a nearby radio blasting Bon Jovi into the slushy street. I pass a newsstand where the bold letters of **INSIDE** stare back at me from the rack, the crisp paper crinkling under the vendor’s heavy, leather-gloved thumb.

Memories from that day

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Livin' on a Prayer

Bon Jovi

The must-have

Jenga

On This Day

  • Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

awesomebodaciouscheesychill

Valley Girl

as ifbarf me outgag me with a spoongrodytotally

Hip Hop

baddefdopeflyfreshword

Yuppie

greed is goodpower lunchnetworking

Catchphrases of 1987

  • Snap out of it!
  • Nobody puts Baby in a corner

Tech Check

PowerPoint, Perl & Prozac.

Cost of Living (1985)

Loaf of Bread

$0.55

Gallon of Gas

$1.12

Average Home

$84,300

New Car

$12,650

Time Elapsed

14,348 days ago

(39 years, 113 days)