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2016 Postmortem

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts) Mon Oct 3, 2016, 04:41 PM Oct 2016

I remember the 1990s well.

My friends and I had to wrap newspapers around our feet to walk 10 miles to buy the latest Smashing Pumpkins album.

We then huddled around to watch Seinfeld while we slurped our soup kitchen meal.

Why did you think they called it Grunge, people? You think people really wanted to wear raggy clothes and dirty hair?

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I remember the 1990s well. (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2016 OP

No soup for you! alcibiades_mystery Oct 2016 #1

Yes. If you could scrape together $5 underpants Oct 2016 #2

But do you remember the 50s? Binkie The Clown Oct 2016 #3

The grocery store paid me to take their food!! greatauntoftriplets Oct 2016 #4

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)

1. No soup for you!

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Mon Oct 3, 2016, 04:45 PM

Oct 2016

underpants

(182,809 posts)

2. Yes. If you could scrape together $5

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Mon Oct 3, 2016, 04:46 PM

Oct 2016

You could get a gallon of gas and beer. $10 shit were talking tall boys AND cigarettes.

But usually, yes, it was the huddling

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)

3. But do you remember the 50s?

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Mon Oct 3, 2016, 05:59 PM

Oct 2016

I could buy a pack of cigarettes for 25 cents by faking "a note from my mom."
I had to watch The Mickey Mouse Club on a 6-inch black and white TV screen. And it took 3 or 4 minutes for the set to "warm up" after turning it on.
I had to walk to school, two miles through the snow, and it was uphill. Both ways.
THEM was the latest thing in high-tech sci-fi special effects.

greatauntoftriplets

(175,735 posts)

4. The grocery store paid me to take their food!!

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Mon Oct 3, 2016, 06:02 PM

Oct 2016

They gave me a 10-pound rib roast AND $15!!! Unbelieveable, isn't it?

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