Help me curate a 90s summer

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t people have phones in the 90s?

Cell phones? Very few people. I got my first cell phone in 2000, but my boyfriend and I shared it, lol.

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sun in for you hair!

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Ok. I will wear pantyhose to the office, and then mid decade take my baby to playgroup. And wonder why my $35,000 salary just doesn’t go very far.

I DO miss the time before smart phones. As for the rest of it the nostalgia is strong because people miss being young. I was already working/married/new mom by then. Now the 70s was a time! Lol

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Murray’s gear from head to toe, cruising on the boat, clambakes on the beach with giant fires, Napa chards and Champagne for low prices and none of the Hampton types polluting the island with their poseur ways. Ah, my sweet romantic teenage nights!

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Anonymous wrote:Inspired by the nostalgia of the JFK Jr Love Story series, I’m wondering what it would take to adopt a 1990s vibe for the summer (or maybe the spring).

What would it take to attempt to recapture that simpler time?

Silence my cell phone

No internet outside of the house, and only for specific tasks (no mindless scrolling)

Going out more with friends. Just for fun. No big plans.

Going dancing. (I’m probably too old to go clubbing, but I’d love to be out after dark listening to music with friends.)

I won’t smoke, but every time I see Carolyn light up it takes me back to having a cigarette towards the tail end of a drunken night when everyone is standing outside of the bar/club/party trying to decide where to go next. Sigh.

Simple clothes and makeup. Not fussing with my hair.

What else?

most people did not smoke in the 1990’s.

I guess you weren’t in college in the early 90s. People still smoked…especially when out drinking.

Anyone fellow Terps remember how smoky Planet X was? Or walking outside of Tracks on college night?

Anyway, I haven’t had a cigarette since the early/mid 90s and even then I wasn’t a regular smoker.

But people still smoked…especially young drunk people.

PP said “most people”. Some people smoked.

But it’s gross and most did not.

You just weren’t part of that scene I guess.

Singles and Reality Bites (among other films about young people during that time) had a lot of smoking.

And I guess you didn’t date tortured souls like some of us. Sigh.

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I'm bringing my mix tape full of songs by Selena

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Anonymous wrote:Murray’s gear from head to toe, cruising on the boat, clambakes on the beach with giant fires, Napa chards and Champagne for low prices and none of the Hampton types polluting the island with their poseur ways. Ah, my sweet romantic teenage nights!

I was in my 20s in the 90s and this is all Greek to me except the Billy Joel quote.

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Anonymous wrote:Inspired by the nostalgia of the JFK Jr Love Story series, I’m wondering what it would take to adopt a 1990s vibe for the summer (or maybe the spring).

What would it take to attempt to recapture that simpler time?

Silence my cell phone

No internet outside of the house, and only for specific tasks (no mindless scrolling)

Going out more with friends. Just for fun. No big plans.

Going dancing. (I’m probably too old to go clubbing, but I’d love to be out after dark listening to music with friends.)

I won’t smoke, but every time I see Carolyn light up it takes me back to having a cigarette towards the tail end of a drunken night when everyone is standing outside of the bar/club/party trying to decide where to go next. Sigh.

Simple clothes and makeup. Not fussing with my hair.

What else?

most people did not smoke in the 1990’s.

I guess you weren’t in college in the early 90s. People still smoked…especially when out drinking.

Anyone fellow Terps remember how smoky Planet X was? Or walking outside of Tracks on college night?

Anyway, I haven’t had a cigarette since the early/mid 90s and even then I wasn’t a regular smoker.

But people still smoked…especially young drunk people.

PP said “most people”. Some people smoked.

But it’s gross and most did not.

You just weren’t part of that scene I guess.

Singles and Reality Bites (among other films about young people during that time) had a lot of smoking.

And I guess you didn’t date tortured souls like some of us. Sigh.

I’m in the “I never smoked” and “smoking is gross” camp but if we want to be real, if I was out at a bar at midnight and I had had more than six drinks, I was probably bumming a cigatettte off someone if it was available. I think even for non smokers it was super common at bars if you were drinking and out super late. I would say over the course of my entire life it was something between 20 and 100 cigarettes. Hard to count since I was wasted. I’ve never purchased a cigarette.

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Anonymous wrote:That feeling of nostalgia and simpler times is really just because you didn't have a job. So chasing it is tough because the reason we all remember back so fondly is that we had no responsibilities. Of course life was good.

Ha! Speak for yourself. I had a job and responsibilities. What I remember was how many places in DC were sketchy and dangerous even during the daytime.

True. I went on a quest in mid 1990s to visit all the Smithsonian’s and ventured into anacostia for the one there. It was pretty rough then.

I remember when the MCI center was built (now Capitol One Arena). Chinese people actually lived in Chinatown back then.

I do not remember Chinese people living there. They mostly lived in the suburbs. I do remember all the really sketchy p&rn stores and peep shows with crack addicts slumped on the sidewalks outside and really low rent hookers. That was one of the most depressing areas I’ve ever been in, and I also lived in NYC and New Haven in tje early 90s, each of which also had their own share of issues.
We should all take a minute and thank the Clinton administration for somehow saving our urban areas. By the end of his administration they were somehow a million times better.

Chinese people started leaving Chinatown after the 68 riots, but there were still many there before the MCI Center opened. There were Chinese grocery stores, shops, restaurants, etc.

I remember the Chinese restaurants and the signs in Chinese but having previously lived in Ny and SF, I remember thinking it weird that I never saw Chinese people in DC chinatown or heads anyone speaking Chinese. I started coming to DC in 1991 and my brothers office was near Chinatown so I was often walking around there but moved here in 1994.

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Does anyone still have their palm pilot?

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone still have their palm pilot?

Yes!!!

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I just cleaned my basement and pulled out my “Glasnost” t shirt. You can’t get more 90s that futile optimism over the end of the Soviet Union!

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We used to go to the movies every week, especially in summer to enjoy the air conditioning (because our crappy group houses didn’t have it!) I also remember getting kicked out of the theater once for smoking! Yes, there was still a lot of smoking.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok. I will wear pantyhose to the office, and then mid decade take my baby to playgroup. And wonder why my $35,000 salary just doesn’t go very far.

I DO miss the time before smart phones. As for the rest of it the nostalgia is strong because people miss being young. I was already working/married/new mom by then. Now the 70s was a time! Lol

Omg. It’s really hard to believe that I started my legal career wearing skirt suits and pantyhose everyday. How far we’ve come.

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Anonymous wrote:We used to go to the movies every week, especially in summer to enjoy the air conditioning (because our crappy group houses didn’t have it!) I also remember getting kicked out of the theater once for smoking! Yes, there was still a lot of smoking.

If you went to the theater in Union Station you’d never get kicked out. That place was the best place to watch a movie if you wanted to be with a rowdy crowd.