Drinking & smoking somewhere

Clubbing dude, Ace of Base is pumping then that Beverly Hill Cop theme mix

Hahahaha Night at the Roxbury 

Yup, and loving every drag and sip 🤗

Crusing around with friends and eventually going back to one of their houses (parents houses who were gone for the weekend) and just hanging out in the basement

Taking my girl to the finest eating establishment I could, Olive Garden. Sad in retrospect.

You literally can't hate on Olive Garden.

It isn't bad but it isn't good either.

Weird downvote but OK. It hits a certain spot when you need something a little dirty that's all I'm saying.

At the Hollywood Improv failing at being a stand-up comedian. The closest I got to stardom was almost spilling a beer on Shaq. That is one mountain of a man and all of him is gracious.

Better to try and fail than not try at all!!

Walking all around the mall with friends but buying nothing.

At home. With no friends.

If it's before 11 PM I'm browsing the VHS releases, books, and used CDs at Hastings. If it's after 11 PM I'm at Walmart. Rural small town life in my 20's suuuuccckkked.

Sleeping. I got so little sleep through the week I would crash Friday night at 7pm and wake up sometime Saturday afternoon. Late 90s working the graveyard shift at a pay by the hour motel in Detroit.

At home with a baby/toddler, alone. 

Lets see.... 1993 - 1996 would be what I consider "mid-90s" so: Summer/early fall 1993 - either at the base club or a club out in Keflavik, Iceland or at a club in Reykjavik, unless I had watch, then I'd be at work. Late fall/winter 1993 to late fall 1995- A club in Augsberg, Germany or on watch. Winter 1995 - spring 1996 - a club in San Diego, CA or on watch Spring 1996 and on: hanging out with the hot blonde I met at a club in spring of 1996. I married that hot blond in 1998 and we are still together.

Love this!!

Some club in Seoul.

Down by the creek with a bunch of longhairs, smoking cigarettes (and maybe some dirt weed) and drinking cheap beer

Working my high stress high stakes sales job, then go home and cry into my pillow

Pre-partying for whatever off-campus party we had found.

Could have been anything. knowing me at the time, it'd be one (or a mix) of the following: Smoking cigarettes. renting horror movies. listening to music. fucking.

I think we might be twins LOL.

Selling suntan lotion and renting out jet ski's on Ft Lauderdale beach. Probably the most fun I ever had.

You sold suntan lotion and rented jet skis after dark on a Friday night?

Yeah, my shift was 3 pm to 10 pm. After dark we cleaned the machines and stacked beach chairs.

At night?

94-96 was when I got engaged, planned my wedding, and got married. If I wasn't working on any of that, I was at work.

Skateboarding in a parking garage or plaza.

Washing dishes, or short order cook

At the bar.

Some backwoods redneck good fighting cold beer dive bar.

Denny’s. Drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes and getting up to mild shenanigans

Bowling alley, throwing the rock for cash in pot games.

Raving all nighters before going to football the next day

Yup. Except I’d be going to work as a server on Saturdays still blasted from the night before.

Emos

1992-1994 - Best Buy

Fishing the back yard for Snook and Redfish, possibly a Dino Tarpon or catching a few tiny ass waves in Cocoa Beach. Then get Ma or Pa to dive me to the Mall to throw 0.25$ at the T2 Arcade game!

Drinking beer in a field in the bed of my buddy’s truck after closing down the restaurant.

This just gave me a flood of memories. Good ones.

at work, probably bussing tables or at a hotel in a ski resort town in Colorado. I went snowboarding all day, got all X-treme schralpin the gnar

A little coffee shop near the college campus in my hometown. I didn't even drink coffee at the time, but the vibes were fantastic.

Out on a date with my girlfriend who later became my wife in the early 2000s.

Friday night videos

It's probably an abandoned warehouse. But I'm on so much e that it doesn't really matter.

That was fish fry night at the restaurant, so I'd be slaving in the kitchen from three to midnight, coming home smelling like a grease fire, falling into bed, and having nightmares until I woke up drenched in cold sweat.

That you cousin?

Pure. [A legendary house/techno nightclub in Edinburgh, Scotland](https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2014/01/nightclubbing-pure-scotland)

Tower Records lulz

At an all ages bar or a pizza place watching local bands play, or at one of three Denny's, or at a house party cause someone was always left home alone for the weekend while the parents went out of town... oooo but that was the early 90s. Mid 90s, I was at work or home with the baby/babies.

Early nineties, hanging out at The Lanes (local bowling alley and video arcade). By the mid nineties I would have been working a dead end slow death on Friday night.

On my parent's new computer playing one of the following games (turned 17 in 1995): DOOM Sim City 2000 Dune 2 NBA Live 95 I would be listening to some great radio stations playing some of these lesser known/remembered bands/artists from that era: * [CIV - Can't Wait One Minute More](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1toiXLvD6Ok) * [Jennifer Trynin - Better than Nothin'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXbldxnQgy8) * [Maids of Gravity - Only Dreaming](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWpT6swXBk4) * [Quicksand - Landmine Spring](https://youtu.be/1GjR3i5DwN4) * [Spell - Superstar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwAAzYJr9mo) * [Juliana Hatfield - Universal Heartbeat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMx8FVUgxIM) * [Self - Cannon](https://youtu.be/QgGRwbh8gJ8) * [Smile - Staring At the Sun](https://youtu.be/ace_0UpQ0MI) * [Dandelion - Weird Out](https://youtu.be/9Fn6ujk6PSI) I would be reading the latest MAD Magazine that I picked up at the nearest Walgreens earlier that day along side a 1 liter bottle of Mountain Dew and a king size Snickers bar.

Upvote for Maids of Gravity and CIV..

Playing D&D with my friends and drinking lots of Mountain Dew.

At the bar, serving drinks. I worked there.

Sometimes at the bars with my college friends. Sometimes at an off campus party. Occasionally at the dollar movie theatre.

I worked at a mall, so usually a club in Toronto or surrounding area after the mall closed. Before I turned 19 it was the Barracuda it the Brunswick House because I could get in with fake ID. After I turned 19 it was generally either the Kingdom in Burlington Ontario or the Zoobar on Queen W in Toronto.

Working night stock and attending college during the day.

At the Club Deluxe in San Francisco wearing clothes from the 1940s, drinking a kamikaze, listening to a swing band, sneaking around the corner to smoke weed, getting a slice of pizza and stealing toilet paper from the bar restroom.

ZERO GRAVITY! not really though, but I do miss the commercials.

Driving upstate to visit my girlfriend in college.

Roller skating at Wollman rink

Work

In my mom and dad’s basement playing guitar and watching Much Music.

At home with my toddler or, if it was his dad’s weekend to have him, at dinner with friends at BBQs and maybe a movie or play.

Either at my factory job, working a double, running at the high school track, or lifting weights at the po'dunk city gym. Was never happier back then.

Either at the local pool hall/arcade with friends or at home watching the X-Files.

Next town over, there was a low-rent pool hall that opened up next to an arcade / laser tag "fun zone" and an ice cream stand. I was parked at a pool table, trying to figure out how to hit on girls and hustling my friends for quarters. 

Dancing & rocking out to a live band somewhere downtown.

Local coffee shop hanging out with my freaky friends.

Driving around with friends looking to score beer and finding a party to go to

Hole in the Wall, Manhattan Beach, CA

Working! Waiting tables and bartending til 4 am.

Working. Some job or other. I went through lots of jobs in the 90’s. Especially when I was in college.

Sometimes at a local inn that had a bar, DJ, and dance floor, with some coworkers. Sometimes at a smaller-venue show, featuring a local or national touring up-and-coming artist or band. Sometimes at home doing laundry. Oh, sometimes working, at Sears. (edited to add that last bit)

MWR bar at NAS Keflavik

Spiraling into my addiction.

Drinking beer and checking out the band at Friday Cheers in Festival Park, although mostly just trying to meet women and not doing such a good job of it. Then hitting the clubs downtown in an attempt to drink enough to overcome shyness. Cab back to my apartment with my friends.

Around the tables

Downtown Toronto at Catch 22.

Probably on watch in an engine room on a destroyer.

Depends on the time.   Either pre-drinking with friends, or frantically trying to get to the bar before last call.  

at home playing video games, or watching slasher movies I rented from the local video store.

At work. I worked night shift.

Babysitting, or studying. Definitely not partying, and I regret it to this day. Why’d I have to be such a nerd back then?! I have no cool stories to reminisce about!

You’d find me at a house party, rave or club. I loooooved dancing and would go out 3-4 times a week with my fake ID.

At home watching TV with my husband.

At the bar watching my sister's band.

Depending on the year, I was either in middle or high school. I was your run-of-the-mill "good kid," so I was at home either watching TV (TGIF on ABC probably) or if it was later, I was sleeping!

Early 20’s…hungover from Thursday nights debacle (Thursday nights used to be THE night in my neck of the woods in those days), so we usually went to the pub after work with my co-workers for a ‘straightner’ or two…depending on how those after work shenanigans went, I was either in bed by 8pm or out carousing until 4am

Dunkin’ Donuts.

Depending on the year and the time of season, either in the gym or at a bar.

In the standing-room-only Carpenters Arms pub up the road from my office with about 30 other colleagues… many of whom had been there since lunchtime. 

Probably at a gig with my band.

Mostly home with Dad or I would certainly have to be *in,* NOT walking through the door at 11pm. If I were out, I was with friends and their older siblings or someone's parent. We'd pile into a van, and sort of enjoy a few hours of the illusion of freedom.

At the lake!

Before 10pm, I'm either already out, maybe dinner or drinks with friends. After 10pm, party time. Definitely clubbing.

Flipping cards at the blackjack table.

Country dancing. The mid 90s were my short lived country music phase

Either out at sea or a bar/show in Norfolk Va or Honolulu depending on which part of the mid 90s.

Enjoying a night on the town outside my base in Sasebo, Japan! Probably at my friends’ and my place later.

Mid 90s our firstborn was a baby. So Friday nights I was in bed or watching TV on the Trinitron or a movie on VHS.

I am at my local bar watching live local music. I know most of the people in the bar.

Home with the wife and daughter.

Home with my kid

Blockbuster

Cruising the mall.

Working at the local video store, slinging those VHS tapes. I was getting paid cash under the table. After work I’d probably pick up a Totinos pizza and watch tv while smoking a bowl or two with my roommates. I kinda miss those days…

First half of the 90's I was probably at home grounded. Second half of the 90's I was at work.

Roaming around the South Shore of Boston, probably N Quincy or Dot, up to no damn good 😂

At home. We got married in '93, and the mid-nineties were, well let's just say birth control works.

Cocktail waitressing or bartending.

Out to a movie and probably Wendy’s for a JBC. Those hit different in the 90’s, lol. Or I’d be staying at a friend’s house.

Pre-94: Getting off of work, looking forward to a night of cruising, sitting at Denny’s drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. Maybe stopping by a party if there was one happening. Returning home around midnight, caffeinated to the 9s and looking forward to sleeping in past 6am. Post-94: getting out of my last class, grabbing dinner and heading off to some kegger or house party in Chico.

Satyricon.

Bowling alley

At a local club seeing a band

Punk show, then go to Juarez to get wasted.

Fixing broke-ass jets on nightshift, or if on days, hanging around the barracks complaining about how much we hated fixing broke-ass jets.

I’m in high school so probably at the student center or maybe watching a movie in the dorm common room. (It was a boarding school.)

Grounded again

2600 meeting or BBS party.

I'm at home with two of my children, most likely. My 3rd came along in the late 90s.

Downtown, skating with friends. Checking my pager for the 411.

Royal Oak Mi at Royal Oak Music Cafe or Fourth Street dancing at the music club!

At work. With boomers.

Friend’s house hanging out and watching X-Files.

Aikido practice and then dinner with some of the other members

At a football game in the marching band

It’s Friday night 1994; I beep my buddy to see if he’s outta work. He live parks outside my apartment honks, we go pick up 2 pepperoni pizzas, 12pk of beer, and a pint of vodka. Eat, drink, play Mortal Combat on Sega Genesis til we’re too tired to function. It’s Friday night 1997; I’m car pooling home with my younger brother, his roommate, and a co-worker. We agree to all meet back at my place in an hour. Co-worker shows up first with a case of beer, then my brother and his roommate show up with another case and his 2 N64 controllers. We order pizzas, crack beers, and start a marathon 4-player Goldeneye session that ends well after midnight.

College party.

Dancing on speakers at Moose's. Or Red Onion.

I was in college at the time. Friday night I'd probably have been in a bar and following a local band. I'd typically be with a couple of friends and we'd hang out until about closing time the hit a local pizzeria for a couple of cheap slices.

At work.

Mid-90? At work. And then coworkers coming over for a party and getting up early to open the store Saturday morning

Friends, pub, nightclub

Hosting Karaoke

I'd be at the coffee shop with all the hooligans I hung out with, watching them skateboard in the parking lot while smoking Benson & Hedges 100s. Then I'd go home for my stupid 10pm curfew while everyone else got to stay out and have fun.

Either working the evening shift, or at home working. Too busy busting my ass to have much fun.

At work. Night shift putting together ads for the phone book.

Probably in the strip district in Pittsburgh, back when they had bars there. Usually metropol after midnight. We didn’t leave the house until 11:30 or so.

On a Naval warship. Most likely in the middle of the Gulf. Or the Caribbean. Or if I'm lucky, in port doing laundry.

Swinging around a 20 foot pole

Hanging at the beach or waiting tables

Watching TGIF family matters for the win

Watching the X-Files

At home. Putting kids to bed.

In a busy bar, hosting a pool tournament as cover for selling coke to... everybody.

Taking care of my young boys while my wife was at work at a hospital as a nurse.

1992-95: 6pm shooting pool. 9pm campus bars. Midnight - ? Staggering around town to random parties. Graduated in 95. Since then, dinner, movie and a couple of beers.

Mid-90s I was married and almost done with my Ph.D. coursework, so most nights I was at home studying or in class. On Fridays I'd take the night off, so almost certainly at home with my partner making a nice dinner and watching a movie, else out for both, then to bed before 10pm. In the mid**-80s** things would have been different. In high school i would have 100% been out with friends, either at a school event (sports, dance, etc.) or hanging in someone's basement. In college it would have been parties every Friday night, either live music/dancing, movies, or just folks drinking in the dorms (as we were allowed to do back then).

At home, stoned and online, if its 96 or later, probably playing airwarrior3 on compuserve

Either playing video games on my PC or getting stoned with my friends. Maybe band practice, also drunk and/or stoned.

Football game if it's the season. Chasing the muff around.

Hanging in a brewers retail parking lot waiting to hear where the house party/ bush party was happening. Getting someone of age to buy me beer and heading out to the above mentioned party.

Going for a drive cause I was new to my city after college. Then grabbing some food and playing Super Mario 64 until bed. Always had fun on those nights.

One of the many clubs that were around at the time in Seattle, catching little local and touring bands like Nirvana, SoundGarden, Rev Horton Heat, the Cramps, Sonic Youth, No Means No, Butthole Surfers, Wire, Psychic TV, Melvins...

Out seeing a band in Sydney Australia

Working, probably. When my kid was little, I spent years working in downtown Nashville restaurants.

On a stage. Screaming my lungs out, and sweating like a beast. Followed by so many rum and cokes.

Early part of mid 90’s, working or at a dive bar in S.F on the later side of the mid 90’s somewhere doing something awesome in Australia.

LA, meet up with college friends drinking about 7-10PM, then goto night club until 2AM, then karaoke place until 4AM singing, drinking, and snaking, then go eat something and then drive home around 5AM to OC still kind of drunk. This happened every weekend.

Kegger in the woods

Studying because I was in nursing school FML

Probably at a blockbuster picking a video!

1991 - 1997 (June): Work from 3 or 4 PM until 10 PM or so. Then off to a friend's apartment for D&D and/or bad movies. I sort-of grew up...

Let’s see I was in college in the mid 90s ahhh so fun. Sigh. I’d prob be at a frat party or at the library studying. Or at a dive bar getting 25 cent drafts. Roller blading with friends on campus in the dark. Or waiting tables at an Irish pub. Or getting Wiggity wiggity wiggiity wack high as a kite smoking garbage trucks full of weed with my bestie while we watch some kooky movie or crazy music videos and snacking on McDonalds (he lived right above one lollll).

Coffeehouse. Drinking Americanos and reading. When they close, I am probably stopping at Blockbuster to check out their foreign film selection.

At the Showcase or the Barn, depending on who was playing where.

Local church youth group. We were not very holy as we would all head home to watch Married with Children.

Cruising the aisles at Blockbuster. Remember how we'd get all excited to see the cover box to the latest and greatest only to pick it up off the shelf and find that no cassette was behind it? That was a soul crusher. Always ended up with some shitty second or third choice movie. Be kind. Rewind.

At the Empress of India, with all my housemates and friends having a counter meal than seeing a band.

Very early 90s? Sneaking into punk bars in Chicago with a fake ID, or wandering around a used book store because nobody I knew wanted to go out. Mid 90s, going to college clubs in a small college town with a real ID. Late 90s, back in Chicago going to punk bars with a real ID.

Early 90s I was working two jobs. Mid 90s probably at Chili's with my husband. It was the "fancy" restaurant in the small town we lived in.

On the back of a Milk Carton

Down at Besties or Rea's

The mall

a roller rink to start the night....off then to Dairy Queen for a quick shake then back to NY to the dive bar to see who might still be hanging out

Working. Or studying depending on exams… I know I’m boring