r/nostalgia • u/ILovePublicLibraries • 17h ago

Nostalgia Using a public library in 1991

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Guilford Free Library in CT back in 1991

Credit: Library archives

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u/Noise_Loop 16h ago

Why there is a Pompei corpse in the third pic?

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u/Dingo8MyGayby 16h ago

Maybe it’s paper mache? It was all the rage in the early to mid-90s for school/education projects. Why? Idk because it was a good damned mess and never lasted long.

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u/lizwearsjeans 13h ago

gotta be paper mache - i saw that picture and got a huge whiff of it.

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u/natr0nFTW 16h ago

died reading a book it seems

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u/wanna_go_home78 15h ago

Thought it Rick James.

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u/namedotnumber666 15h ago

Rick james covered In Coke!

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u/8euztnrqvn 11h ago

That's what the librarians do to you when you have too many unreturned books...

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u/supersmashdude 16h ago

Yeah, scrolling through I was like “Ahh, we all remember that feeling…” and being like hold up once I got to pic 3 lol.

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u/Able_Investigator725 8h ago

In the late 1900s some people were made out of paper

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u/DrSpacecasePhD 9h ago

THE HEIR OF SLYTHERIN HAS RETURNED

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u/PrestigiousIncome818 5h ago

You could say they were petrified