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.
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.
This exactly
Not me.
Left was definitely the case for most Taco Bells:
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
Nostalgia!!!
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
I remember a lot more of those stick-on glow in the dark plastic stars, if nothing else.
How dare you take a picture of my grandparents house! Have some respect for the dead.
It is funny how the 80s/90s were portrayed in media. Crazy colors and styles. The reality is everything was brown and was purchased/furnished in the 70s.
Big differences between fashion aesthetic and average Joe's home decor. There was certainly a bit more subtlety to it than what media boild it down to.
So people think the '90s looked like the '80s, but they actually looked like the early '70s?
Weird.
People think the 90's looked like the mall, but really they looked like Meemaw's house.
And yet somehow in my memory, the mall looked like the mall, and my grandma's house looked like my grandma's house.
My recollection of the 90s is that we definitely had more than one place, so different places looked different...kinda like now.
But maybe this is a rose colored glasses situation.
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The left image only existed in the form of an arcade, and it wouldn't have been so brightly lit.
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.
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
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.
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Yup! The picture on the right is exactly how all of my friend's parents houses looked. The picture on the left reminds me more of public spaces in the 80's. In the 90's everything was grunged out after grunge took off.
Yeah early 90s had a lot of the “big hair” and clothes we call 80s as well. Decades have a about a 5-year lag time, give or take
but even then, maybe like an arcade in the back of a mini putt that was going out of business in three weeks.
Where did you get that picture of my childhood dining room?
Are you my brother?
And everything smelled like cigarette smoke.
The one on the right is what my grandma's dining room still looks like. Exact chairs and all.
The 90s only looked like that on film sets and at rich people's homes.
this jpeg looks like it's been making the rounds since the 90s
What people thought: California
What actually: Ohio
Why was that dinning room table fucking everywhere back in the day!!! That looks like my grandma's house in the 90s. Wth.
Who tf thinks the 90's looked like the 1st picture... I WISH the 99's looked like that!
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!
looks more like the 80s
OP, were you a creeper secretly living in my house?!
Depends on where you were. The mall, outside, just about anywhere you went beyond your school and hime, lots of neon.
My parents still have those chairs
Oh then my house is still in 90s
the '90s* looked like
I had those
Same with the 70s same with 60s etc...
Left one is solid 80s
I mean, that really depends on what age you were back then.
