1. This was what you carried all your school supplies in.
2. Meanwhile, your teachers probably lugged their things around in one of these.
3. To this day, you still remember how this jingle goes:
4. And there was only one place your parents would ever get coffee from.
5. There’s a very good chance you wore a pair of these when it was warm...
6. ...and when it got cold, you wore something more like this.
7. Meanwhile your wardrobe contained several things from here.
8. You actually looked forward to going furniture shopping here...
...because it really meant you got to see a 4D movie.
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"Furniture shopping" was so much fun!
9. There was only one store that carried the music and movies you actually wanted...
10. ...and everyone who worked there was just the coolest.
11. Going back to school was usually quite picturesque...
12. ...until it was wintertime, of course.
13. And when there was A LOT of snow you anxiously awaited a school closure.
14. But if you didn't get that snow day, then your jeans ended up looking like this.
15. You couldn't wait to run up the "soundstair" at the Museum of Science.
The worst though was when you couldn't get it all to yourself.
16. Or listen to hometown hero Leonard Nimoy's voice in the Omnimax theater.
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“Who put the bomp?”
17. This was your preferred place to grab a sandwich.
18. And you always looked forward to building your own sundae here.
19. When Good Will Hunting came out, you were like "Hey! I know that place!"
20. When MTV shot The Real World in Boston, all your adolescent '90s dreams came true.
21. And finally, you remember what it was like to grow up with a lot of pride for all your shitty pro sports teams.
