Journaling helps me support myself. I let everything out when I write, but I’m also very loving and compassionate towards myself. I realized how soothing journalling can be when one day I just kept writing, “it’s ok, you’re going to be ok”. It was exactly what I needed to hear. Benefits of Journaling
• Journaling has helped me through some of the hardest times of my life
• Journaling has increased my gratitude
• Journaling is free
• Journaling is flexible - I can do it anywhere
The 90s
Fashion was combat boots, flannel shirts, and heart shaped choker necklaces and you didn’t have to match back then. Doc Martens back then we’re really over priced and for sale at stores like the Wild Pair. Malls were very busy in the 90s and the economy was pretty good. The 90s also had a festival called Lollapolozza similar to Woodstock but more bands played. The grunge movement was going on thanks to Kurt Cobain. I loved listening to House of pain, Hole, Juliana Hatfield, The Lemonheads, 7 year Bih, and Matthew Sweet. Don’t forget Cindy Crawford.
The 90s were trying to re-create the hippy culture I think. If you watched the movie Higher Learning with Tyra banks and jay fergesen that’s exactly how the 90s were! Everyone was preaching the message to love one another and making their own clothes and thrift shopping.
There weren’t a lot of garage sales in the 90s. We had festivals and flea markets. The garage sale was an over load in the 80s.
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1991-1992 : Long Beach California
penny loafers from Payless shoe store with School uniform
Kids made fun of Barney the dinosaur and Nickelodeon had the best Cartoons and tv shows
1993-1994
3rd grade and 4th grade
boys haircut in school “bowl cut” with blonde highlights
Surfer clothing was popular in Long Beach
dye their hair
used bookstores and used cD/cassette stores
Were everwhere in Long Beach,
Crown bookstore on pine ave, don’t forget Acres of Books was a famous bookstore that operated during the 90s. It was a treasure trove for book lovers, housing thousands of books covering various genres and subjects. Many people in Long Beach and beyond remember Acres of Books fondly and were saddened when it closed its doors in 2008.
Cafeteria food was so good square pizza and chocolate milk
pizza and Power Rangers for Halloween
Tape and record room downtown where R bar is where I’d go peruse records and funny magazines while my mom would be getting her jewelry worked on next door before it became Chase.
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1995
pocahontas was the most popular movie.
Blockbuster video store on bellflower Blvd
Video arcades and sow ling alleys wee
MTV music awards and Grammy awards were actually fun to watch back in 1945
Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves,
Forrest Gump jokes wer popular
In chass
Oj Simpson on tv all day we couldn’t watch our favorite cartoons because of this
Video of a bowl cut 90s kids hair style school
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You bet all the kids in Long Beach went to blockbuster video on bellflower blvd
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in 1994 , Long Beach California coffee shops were popular and Marty Cox and Louise Montgomery in Long Beach, California, It’s A Grind was built to be reminiscent of a lived-in home, with the goal that everyone who visited for a freshly brewed coffee felt comfortable enough to stay a while. In 2014, It’s A Grind was acquired by Retail Food Group – USA and has since opened several new locations, currently with 20 units in operation, and further expansion on the horizon.
“We are proud to celebrate the fact that we’ve been rockin’ the local pour since ‘94 and, since the ‘90s is arguably one of the best decades for pop culture
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I got a chance to interview 90s iconic actor Michael Ray Bower from the 1991 tv show Salute Your Shorts in 2022 for this book.
1. Where was the location salute your shorts tv show was filmed? North Hollywood and the Griffith Park Boys club in Los Angeles
2. What is your favorite 90s movie? Wayne’s world and Matrix
3. Do you remember 90s grunge rock and what’s your opinion on it ? Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tool, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden went to Lollapolooza festival. I wore Doc Martens.
4. What’s your favorite restaurant in Los Angeles? Mr Chow and El Torito.
5. How do you feel about the gas prices going up in 2022? I hope everyone can get a electric car. Gas Prices affect everybody. It’s a scary time.
6. Any chance of DVD release of salute your shorts? Conspiracy rumors they don’t have the official masters. 26 episode s not enough demands. Michael Ray Bower of Salute your Shorts.
I was blessed to do a interview with Crash Test Dummies Interview with Crash Test Dummies: Hi I'm a huge fan of your band can you tell me what kind of drums you played in your song mmm mmm mmm the exact drum brand ( a lot of 90s rock groups used this drum brand too) thank you so much .
Drummer : Pearl masters
Reading and writing zines has been described by various zinesters as therapeutic, healing, and helping to process certain issues and connect to others for support. Clearly zines can be used as tools for self-care as there are plenty of zines being published about mental health, specifically in the last decade
Brian says, and i was age 16 and 17 when i saw all this happening. all the way up until 1997 maybe? the things that i remember is, u would go to a local show and to get into the show, you would pay the $5 door cover and there would be 'zine's that people would just hand out to you to read. (or take home) thing is, i never read them or received one. i did however see posters up in business windows or flyers advertising all over the downtown area for 2 weeks prior to the show. so you would know the dates when certain bands played, etc. I actually wish i could have kept some of the flyers that bands made up etc. because i used to collect them but have since tossed them out sadly then internet came in and ruined those things etc.i actually miss that time in my life. things seemed simple and no one expected much out of you,
Reasons I hate California in 2024, s. But in the last bunch of years I’ve felt really disconnected from zine culture. Cancel culture and “social justice” orthodoxy have stripped zines of their raw vulnerability and messy imperfection.
Video inside crown book store in 1992
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Another thing kids loved in the 90s is watch Sneak Prevue. We had no computers or social media so we got bored and laughed at this channel, here’s a video examples check it out
Sneak Prevue premiered in 1991 as a service for promoting pay-per-view services, providing viewers with a listing and showcase of the events and movies that were showing in the next 30 minutes to the next week. Like the Prevue Channel, Sneak Prevue was provided to cable and satellite companies for its customers. In 1999, when the Prevue Channel transformed in to the TV Guide Channel, Sneak Prevue remained under its respective name, and continued in its current format
The thing about Gen X being in our 40s and 50s now is that we were never supposed to get “old.” Like, we’re the cool, aloof grunge generation of young tech geniuses. Most of the giants that everyone uses every day—Google, Amazon, YouTube—came from Gen X. Our generation is both “Friends” and “The Office.” We are, like, relevant, dammit.

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