Title: 1990s: The Good Decade - HISTORY
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1990s: The Good Decade
The man who gave the world "Generation X" looks back at the oft-maligned 1990s.
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Updated: Apr 23, 2019
Original: Mar 17, 2017
1990s: The Good Decade
The man who gave the world "Generation X" looks back at the oft-maligned 1990s. Author: Douglas Coupland
On August 11, 1992, I was in suburban Minneapolis for the opening of the Mall of America, the largest shopping mall on Earth. I was on a book tour and in the early afternoon I spent 60 minutes with the local AM radio station host, seated in chairs on a small plywood platform smelling of popcorn and apples, and where every 62 seconds a roller-coaster car shaped like the head of Snoopy roared just above our stand at 547 miles per hour. It’s amazing how quickly that sort of regularized intrusion becomes invisible. The entire set up was very old-school middle America in the most charming kind of way — all that was missing was a 4-H poultry competition or a barber shop quartet singing “The Michigan Rag.”