this jpeg looks like it’s been making the rounds since the 90s
If you lived in Pennsylvania in the 90’s it looked like the right side of the photo, if you lived in Miami Beach in the 90’s it looked like the left
The first picture is what the mall looked like lol
Pretty spot on for the skate rink in my town, if the carpet was black with neon blobs and squiggles.
The skating rink here was built before I was born. I think it was from the 70s or maybe even the late 60s. The decore was mostly maroon and brown carpeting and wood paneling on the walls. At some point they updated the concession area so it looked more like the restaurant from Saved By The Bell though lol! I think they completely renovated it in the early 2000s and it’s an ice skating rink now
Whenever people think they know what a specific decade was like that they didn’t live through, they think all the furniture was brand new and just bought from a catalogue. In reality you have a style mix of at least 2+ decades at any point in time.
My house has stuff from like 8 different decades in it right now lol
You maybe should put great great great grandpa in the ground by now, he’s starting to smell.
Nah, they have stuff that’ll be the style in future generations, they’re a trend setter.
Bring back coffin coffee tables
Don’t call g. g. g. grandpa “stuff”!
You’re pretty much stuck at whatever style was cool when you’re 20-30ish. So your parents are probably stuck at around the time you were born.
Yep. People underestimate how much money you can save by just… not buying new furniture. Thrift shops and hand me downs from elderly family members downsizing make up the overwhelming majority of the furniture in my house.
Do I sometimes wish I could have a different style? Sure. Do I want it bad enough to spend hundreds of dollars on it? No.
The only exceptions is stuff you rest on. Chairs, couches, beds. Don’t skimp on those or your body will hate you even more than usual.
I literally found my furniture in an alley for my first apartment.
Do I want it bad enough to spend hundreds of dollars on it? No.
You’re off by at least one order of magnitude. I went to a furniture shop recently and shit’s expensive, yo.
Depends on what you want. Massive & quality or cheap plywood and holds until you move it.
This exactly
Wood paneling everywhere. Rooms, cars, everywhere.
And not even the good wood paneling, it was the grain-printed stained plywood shit that everyone used in the late 70s/early 80s.
Left was definitely the case for most Taco Bells:
Nostalgia!!!
I wish corporate companies would go back to these styles. The bench’s and stools bring back so many memories. T-Bell in my area had plants up on that ledge up top
There was a McDonald’s in a nice part of town that had a big ass fish tank in it too
I want more Taco Bell pics from the different decades, this is fun
Late 80’s:
Mid 00’s:
Demolition Man:
Late-90s, early-2000s McDonald’s was peak.
Dollar menu. Pokemon toys. Some has N64 play areas.
Demolition Man was excellent
We only have 8 years to go until Taco Bell has won the franchise wars and all restaurants become Taco Bell!
60s is where it’s at.
They should bring back that little mascot.
People would accuse them of racism if they did that today.
and they should.
the entire menu, and company history is cultural appropriation. They literally ripped off a mexican family restaurant
I don’t think that 80s pic is right. The prices and drink fountain, plus the signage all feels too modern. Maybe the chairs are left over, but I’d like to see a pic from the 80s. I can only find 90s when searching online.
All I needed to see was the Baja Blast on the menu to know that that picture isn’t from the 80’s. (Others have also mentioned the cars visible which is also a giveaway,
Newer pic, definitely. They just hadn’t updated the interior. Best I could find quickly. Here’s one from 82, but clearly a custom rather than corporate level consistent interior:
Now that looks 80s!
I’m pretty sure the breakfast menu is really recent. This article seems to back me up on that thought
Edit: oh, yeah. Look at the cars on the left side of the 80s pic lol
Where did you get that picture of my childhood dining room?
Are you my brother?
OP, were you a creeper secretly living in my house?!
The one on the right is what my grandma’s dining room still looks like. Exact chairs and all.
The 90s are to now as the 60s were to the 90s.
Explains all the retro 90s comebacks
Fuck you. 60s are still 30-40 years ago damnit!
Yes grampa I know, now can you eat you pudding cup
I want a go-gurt, damnit!
I love pudding cups! Oh shit, I am olde!
I remember a lot more of those stick-on glow in the dark plastic stars, if nothing else.
… My kid frowns upon your heresy.
How did those fall out of style
Parents stopped buying them, so kids had to find other ways to mess with the world.
Oh man, you reminded me of LED magnetic throwies, just little homemade LEDs with a watch battery and a magnet. Throw em wherever they’ll stick, they’re like $.50 to make. Seems like the 00s version, if a little less ubiquitous
Hey, my kids both have them. I put them up as the night sky when they were born, so all the constellations are more or less in the right place.
Another industry millennials killed
And we should have known better
We just wanted to bring a little light into this dark world with pretty glowing stickers, if anyone killed it, it was these damn boomers and their rock and roll music.
Everywhere. Living room, bathrooms, heck even McDonald’s booths. Those little barely glowing stars were all over.
The left image only existed in the form of an arcade, and it wouldn’t have been so brightly lit.
I’m glad someone pointed this out. Left is 90’s arcades, bowling allies, skating rinks, and a few malls. The right is at home.
The set of MTV’s Remote Control
The left image existed in the home of wealthy people, or their kids’, living in trendy, high end, neighborhoods. The black and white minimalism, and the Memphis School style, was out there. It was in Manhattan penthouses, and LA hills mansions.
That’s what grandma’s house looked like in the 90’s. Exact same way it looked in the 50’s when she and grandpa first moved in!
What people thought: California
What actually: Ohio
the '90s* looked like
