26 Signs You Grew Up In NYC In The ’90s
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26 Signs You Grew Up In NYC In The '90s
Leonora Epstein
1. Your field trips were here. Also, you laughed at the stupid tourists who paid the full ticket price. Real New Yorkers know it’s donation-based.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
2. You saw this everywhere. (But had no idea what it meant.)
Source: 12ozprophet.com
3. You hung out at the Chelsea Piers bowling alley because they served beer and their method of “checking IDs” was to inspect your credit card. Or library card. Any type of card, really.
Source: chelseapiers.com
6. And you needed one of these to ride it.
8. Nobody lived here. And you think it’s kinda weird that they do now.
Source: westsiderag.com
10. After school, you and your friends would try to get on “TRL.”
Image by Frank Micelotta / Getty Images
11. You got to experience the original FAO Shwarz. Not the sham it is today.
Source: mysteifflife.blogspot.com
12. St. Mark’s was a cool place to hang out. Now it’s totally cheesy. Actually it was cheesy back then too, but we just didn’t know it.
Source: kalantziscope
14. Cartoon Network supplied you and your friends with delivery weed.
Source: thesmokinggun.com
15. If you were too cool for school, you went to shows here.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
18. Eeyore’s bookstore was the best.
Source: New York Magazine / via: books.google.com
19. Did you also get your fake ID at some super-sketch men’s clothing store on Christopher Street?
Source: city-data.com
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joshuahalos 2 months agoWhat about Playland on 42nd Street! That HUGE shabby ass arcade that you were afraid to walk into without an adult present? LMAO!
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Michael A. 2 months agoThis was my whole life.
LOVE stores actually became the chain known as Ricky’s (owned by the son of the owner of LOVE)
Woolworths was gone by the 90s
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Peter Grace 3 months agoHoward Johnson’s in Times Square, “Copshot” billboards and Keith Haring doodles all over the joint.
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Peter Grace 3 months ago
Actually that was more 1987 than 1990, but to grow up in the 90’s you had to born in the 80’s so it still counts.
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Barbara G. 3 months agoSome of these pics are 70’s/80’s btw
Woolworth’s became Filenes Basement in the 90’s -
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Roz 3 months agoWho hung out at Chelsea Piers? Too expensive. It was Soho Billiards when they still allowed smoking all over it and that other pool spot on 12th street. I really miss Canal Co. Jeans. We only had that one token with the silver in the center and the trains stopped looking like that in the 80’s. You forgot to mention how San Gennaro’s feast in Little Italy was huge, it went all the way down to Worth Street and lasted two weeks and was actually awesome. I do miss Tower Records.
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