The Big Fat Mine Field Thread of 90s Nostalgia

[Volpone]

This is a bit of a tangent. And I'm drinking for the first time in 39 days, so who knows where it will go but... You know what the problem is? I'll tell you what the problem is: You can't step in the same river twice. Because it isn't the same river and you aren't the same person.

I joke about going to a mall on Black Friday to see what a mall was like on a regular day in the 1990s, but you can't. Because there's no Suncoast Pictures anymore. There's a lot of boarded up storefronts. It isn't the same. You could have a million-zillion dollars and you couldn't buy a circuit switched landline for your house because they don't sell them anymore. Back in 2021 I was looking into it and the truth was, even if you could buy it, really, on the back-end, they were feeding it into a VOIP switch. It you want to do away with Google Maps I hope you did your buying years ago, because good luck on stopping into a gas station for street maps of the town you live in. Fond memories of a Rand McNally Road Atlas of the United States and whatever Avis maps and actual city maps were useful, hidden under a floormat (with a Yellow Pages stuffed under the "shotgun" seat).

 

[Volpone]

GRAFFITI! What do you do when you're sitting on the shitter? Fuck off on your phone. No! It's the '90s. You probably don't have a phone. So your write upon the stall's walls:
Here I sit, all broken-hearted, a came to shit but only farted.
Some come to sit and think, others come to shit and stink, still others come to write on walls and roll their shit in little balls. Those who read what they have writ eat those little balls of shit.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

This is a bit of a tangent. And I'm drinking for the first time in 39 days, so who knows where it will go but... You know what the problem is? I'll tell you what the problem is: You can't step in the same river twice. Because it isn't the same river and you aren't the same person.

I joke about going to a mall on Black Friday to see what a mall was like on a regular day in the 1990s, but you can't. Because there's no Suncoast Pictures anymore. There's a lot of boarded up storefronts. It isn't the same. You could have a million-zillion dollars and you couldn't buy a circuit switched landline for your house because they don't sell them anymore. Back in 2021 I was looking into it and the truth was, even if you could buy it, really, on the back-end, they were feeding it into a VOIP switch. It you want to do away with Google Maps I hope you did your buying years ago, because good luck on stopping into a gas station for street maps of the town you live in. Fond memories of a Rand McNally Road Atlas of the United States and whatever Avis maps and actual city maps were useful, hidden under a floormat (with a Yellow Pages stuffed under the "shotgun" seat).

This year, I've become obsessed with a YouTube page that takes camera tours of malls, attractions, annual fairs and flea markets all over the Northest to see if they are still thriving, or near dead. I don't travel much anymore, so it's a way to revisit places from my past...