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On the date

Saturday, April 14, 1990

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sound

The rhythmic stomp of heavy Doc Martens against the wet pavement competes with Tommy Page’s voice drifting from a shop radio, a clean pop sound that cuts through the gritty April drizzle. I frame a shot of a skater in ripped jeans and a layered flannel shirt who just yelled "Cowabunga!" at a passing bus—that raw, unkempt silhouette is sweet against the gray brick. I swing by the corner market and dig out **$0.70** for a loaf of bread, feeling the weight of the silver in my palm as a jet engine roars somewhere above the clouds. Everything feels like it’s shifting, from the pixelated chatter about new tech to the dirty, thermal-knit textures of the street.

Memories from that day

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

I'll Be Your Everything

Tommy Page

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

13,201 days ago

(36 years, 61 days)