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On the date

Saturday, September 30, 1995

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight

The flash of my Nikon catches a flash of plaid and knee-high socks as a girl in a slip dress checks her reflection in a window display of clunky monitors advertising the information superhighway. Nearby, a man tosses a newspaper onto a stack near a pile of Pogs; the front page shouts "Rabin Rebukes U.S. Jewish Groups on Lobbying" in bold, stark ink that contrasts against the neon blur of the city. I brush past a guy shouting "No soup for you!" to his buddy, his voice nearly drowned out by Mariah Carey’s "Fantasy" blaring from a passing Jeep. The air tastes like subway grit and expensive perfume, a perfect New York Saturday captured in grainy 35mm.

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Fantasy

Mariah Carey

#1 at the box office

Seven

$12,378,647

The must-have

Pogs

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

buzzkillmy badsweetwhatever

Grunge

flannellameposerslacker

Hip Hop

blingboo-yacrunkphattrippin'

Tech

cyberspaceinformation superhighwayspamweb

Catchphrases of 1995

  • To infinity and beyond!
  • No soup for you!

Tech Check

Windows 95, DVD Format, Java & eBay.

Style of 1995

Silhouette: Preppy and minimalist (Clueless)

Material: Plaid and satin

  • Slip dresses
  • Knee-high socks
  • Tiny backpacks

Cost of Living (1995)

Loaf of Bread

$0.79

Gallon of Gas

$1.15

Average Home

$133,900

New Car

$18,200

Time Elapsed

11,206 days ago

(30 years, 256 days)