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Friday, December 1, 1989

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight

The flashbulbs of my Nikon catch a woman in a bad oversized blazer as she pauses beneath a glowing Broadway marquee, her silhouette glowing against the neon rain. The theater district is buzzing with talk of high ticket prices, but all I see is the way the streetlights smear across the wet pavement like liquid gold. I duck past a gas station where the sign reads $1.12, realizing I’ll have to skip lunch if I want enough fuel to drive out to the bridge for the city skyline shot. Up ahead, a kid huddled in a doorway is obsessed with a grey plastic Game Boy, the tiny screen flickering with a digital world that's far more chill than this biting December wind.

Memories from that day

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Blame It on the Rain

Milli Vanilli

The must-have

Game Boy

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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 1989

  • I'll have what she's having
  • Carpe Diem

Tech Check

World Wide Web (Proposal), Game Boy & GPS (Civilian).

Cost of Living (1985)

Loaf of Bread

$0.55

Gallon of Gas

$1.12

Average Home

$84,300

New Car

$12,650

Time Elapsed

13,336 days ago

(36 years, 196 days)