Comments on: Flashback Friday: A teen in her environs

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:05:29 +0000

Ha, this is amazing! It is the most perfect time capsule of 1990… it captures so much in one photograph! I’m jealous: never had my own “kids” line, nor my own answering machine. Guess it was made up for later when I got my own email address? (PS – the sneaks are awesome!!)

By: Whitney

Whitney — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:21:05 +0000

Sodapop and Ponyboy? You should have!

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:04:43 +0000

I remember the poster, although I didn’t have it.

No phone line in my room. No phone in my room at all. but we had a cordless and it would go into my room.

My sister tells me I planned to name my kids Sodapop and Ponyboy.. and no, I did not.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:31:57 +0000

I did actually use the boy name I loved in high school: Gabriel. He’s a soccer player, Gabriel Omar Batistuta. Go look him up, I’ll wait….

I DID NOT, however, use the girl’s names I was in love with: Aranxta and Michelle. I was a big fan of Aranxta Sanchez Vicario and am still the world’s biggest Michelle Akers fan. I did insist that I would use Michelle until I heard the name Meike (MY-kah), which I immediately fell in love with. At the time I looked online (pre-Google) I was informed that it was the Dutch form of Michelle, so it was actually perfect. Turns out, it’s German for Mary but I still used it because I wanted to name my daughter after my grandmother Maria Teresa, but it turns Maria Sanchez into something a little more unique: Meike Sanchez!

By: Jess

Jess — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:01:58 +0000

I was always so jealous of my friend who had her own phone line with her sister, I was lucky to get my own phone to keep in my room! My brother and I would always come up with crazy answering machine messages. One was me saying ‘hi, you’re reached the joneses, our parents can’t come to the phone right now, they’re a little TIED UP at the moment’ and my brother would cover his mouth and muffle yelling. I smile just remembering my dads reaction, he was so pissed

By: Alissa

Alissa — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 22:20:32 +0000

Didn’t we all have that poster? I think I was one of the only kids our age in California who didn’t sleep on a futon. I’m jealous just looking at it!

By: Lesley

Lesley — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:11:55 +0000

hahaha. 1) we had a kids phone line too. which had this super long cord so we could bring he phone from room to room since the only phone jack was in the hallway. 2) I noticed your scrunchy right away! I tried making them to but mom’s sewing machine didn’t work so good. and 3) I rocked wrestling shoes as well. but I was a manager of our wretling team. was this a trend for others? I never knew. 4) And yes it was 1990 based on the cool date stamp on the photo. good guess