I believe the first picture to be the oldest of the two based on the size of my CD collection. This image was taken sometime during my senior year of high school as the caricature drawing in the frame is from the junior trip to D.C. and the pictures stuck around the frame's border are of friends that I met during the summer of 1993. My best guess is that it was taken sometime late in the summer of 1993 or near the start of the 1993-1994 school year.
Interesting things you'll find in this picture if you look closely...
- At least four pictures of a young Anna Nicole Smith.
- My prized Nerf baskeball hoop in the last stages of its existence.
- A drawing of Torn Flesh lead man, Greg Hudson -- just to the left of the closet door.
- A newspaper article about Jennifer Capriati -- top left corner of the photo.
- Spike Lee as Mars Blackman -- near bottom right of the closet.
- The early stages of my CD collection -- only two or three dozen at this time.
- A small speaker on top of the Nintendo that I don't think was connected to anything.
- Plastic Cubs helmet I got at Dairy Queen several years earlier.
- A foil McDonald's ash tray -- to the right of the Nerf hoop.
- A bag from Hard Rock Cafe.
- Various celebrities -- Ice Cube, Boomer Esiason, The Monkees, Michael Jordan

In this picture, you might notice...
- Full soda cans including a Cherry Coke can from the summer of 1989.
- Charles Barkley USA Basketball cup from McDonalds.
- A CD collection that has almost doubled in size since the previous picture.
- Brady Anderson baseball cards inside framed 1993 tennis team picture.
- John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
- Cindy Crawford....Jerry Rice...Bart Simpson...Charles Barkely.
- The number from a race I didn't run in.

My room wasn't always as "decorative." I can't say it was always clean but it was certainly tidier in my younger years. Still, there are plenty of gems to take note of in the 1986 picture below. A sharp eye will see...
- My name cross-stiched on a small piece of fabric.
- A St. Louis Cardinals pocket schedule.
- An NFL bed spread set (matching curtains not pictured).
- A red comb used to ensure proper feathering of my hair.
- A index card box used to catalog whatever I was cataloging at that time (probably baseball cards).
- An orange plastic straight-edge from my Crayola art kit.
- Plastic Goofy light switch cover.
- The early stages of my music collection.
- A record player/stereo I got from a garage sale two doors down.
- Bumper stickers from local radio and TV stations.
- Calendar from local bank -- what better verification of the year this picture was taken than a calendar on the wall?!?

4 comments:
I also spied some of my favorite Marvel Super Hero stickers on the peg board...
http://www.brandedinthe80s.com/index.php?post_id=212475
Nice, Shawn! Very cool to see that sheet of stickers up close again!
Tim,
This was a very cool thing to see. I was overjoyed to find a photo of my childhood bedroom recently and I studied it.
I bet you are glad to have those photos!
Here is my childhood bedroom wall, BTW:
http://behindthejunk.blogspot.com/2008/09/my-old-bedroom-wall-part-1.html
http://behindthejunk.blogspot.com/2008/09/my-old-bedroom-wall-part-2.html
Very cool, Guy...
It's amazing that we're able to do what we've done in identifying even the smallest clippings on our walls after all these years.
Like I always say, I can't tell you much that I learned in college, but I can remember every last detail from my childhood...
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