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On the date

Tuesday, January 30, 1990

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight

Steam rises from the sewer grates, blurring the neon glow of the theater marquee where the lines for *Driving Miss Daisy* are already stretching around the corner. I frame a shot of a kid in scuffed Doc Martens leaning against a brick wall, his unkempt flannel shirt hanging heavy over thermal long-sleeves while he fumbles with a newspaper headline about the crumbling Kremlin. The city feels cold and cluttered tonight, a grayscale mess of ripped denim and heavy boots under the flickering streetlamps. I step back into the shadows to swap my film, muttering a quick "my bad" as I nearly collide with a girl in a velvet choker who looks as desolate and Home Alone as the abandoned storefronts behind her.

Memories from that day

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

How Am I Supposed to Live Without You

Michael Bolton

The must-have

Super Nintendo (SNES)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

buzzkillmy badsweetwhatever

Grunge

flannellameposerslacker

Hip Hop

blingboo-yacrunkphattrippin'

Tech

cyberspaceinformation superhighwayspamweb

Catchphrases of 1990

  • Cowabunga!
  • Home Alone

Tech Check

Hubble Telescope, Photoshop 1.0 & HTML.

Style of 1990

Silhouette: Unkempt and layered (Grunge)

Material: Flannel and thermal knit

  • Doc Martens
  • Ripped jeans
  • Chokers

Cost of Living (1990)

Loaf of Bread

$0.70

Gallon of Gas

$1.16

Average Home

$123,000

New Car

$16,950

Time Elapsed

13,275 days ago

(36 years, 135 days)