I want to say a lot of the pictures are of the Smith Haven Mall on Long Island. The food court pics probably aren't because there was a massive Calder sculpture there at the time and I don't see that in the background at all. The kids wearing Kings Park jackets lead me to think I'm right about it being Smith Haven, though. The only other mall on the north shore in that part of Suffolk county is the Walt Whitman mall and, while King's Park is midway between the two, Smith Haven had a Sears at the time and Walt Whitman didn't.
For the record: I worked at the Smith Haven mall in the 1990-1991 time frame. I had a part time job at Lechter's, though it didn't last because the local buses weren't reliable enough and I was fired (from that store) for being late too many times. (I continued working for the MD store for several years in between semesters.)
Okay, actually my hair probably was that big. It's pretty much that big now, mainly because it's naturally curly.
I did not, however, use hairspray on it.
Not all the pictures make me think they're from Smith Haven. Mostly it's the ones with the two tone brown floor. The white/grey floor ones don't look familiar and the 2-story ones don't either.
I attempted to have that hair. Perm toasted my extra-fine, straight, waist-length hair so badly (but left it limp and almost straight) that I soon cut it short for the first time ever, and discovered I actually much prefer having short hair.
(For my first 'yes, cut it ALL off, no REALLY' haircut reference, I think I used a picture of the brand-new-at-the-time Wilson Phillips debut album.)
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And all the smokers!
My sister's hair looks remarkably the same now as it did then. Heh.
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And am I projecting/imagining, or were people clearly thinner back then?
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I think people were somewhat thinner, but the average weight of the population had started increasing by then.
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For the record: I worked at the Smith Haven mall in the 1990-1991 time frame. I had a part time job at Lechter's, though it didn't last because the local buses weren't reliable enough and I was fired (from that store) for being late too many times. (I continued working for the MD store for several years in between semesters.)
My hair, however, was nowhere near that big. ;-p
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I had hair almost that big! I did NOT have the mall bangs, however!
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I did not, however, use hairspray on it.
Not all the pictures make me think they're from Smith Haven. Mostly it's the ones with the two tone brown floor. The white/grey floor ones don't look familiar and the 2-story ones don't either.
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I attempted to have that hair. Perm toasted my extra-fine, straight, waist-length hair so badly (but left it limp and almost straight) that I soon cut it short for the first time ever, and discovered I actually much prefer having short hair.
(For my first 'yes, cut it ALL off, no REALLY' haircut reference, I think I used a picture of the brand-new-at-the-time Wilson Phillips debut album.)
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Oh Lord, I guess 1990 was more than 20 years ago ... .