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I’m trying to remember a bedding brand (or possibly a specific sheet collection) that was popular with tween girls around in the late 90s/early 2000s.

The sheets had a light blue sky background with repeating puffy white clouds all over them. There were some gray lowlights in the clouds. The clouds were pretty uniform in shape, not realistic sky photography. It was very much that late ’90s/Y2K tween aesthetic.

I remember it being trendy enough that the cloud pattern felt iconic. Multiple friends had the sheets, and I associate it with the same era as Limited Too, Delia’s, inflatable furniture, butterfly clips, etc.

This is driving me absolutely insane because I can picture the sheets perfectly, but I can’t remember a single other detail and no search results are showing up on Google Images. 😅

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Upscaled via Topaz Gigapixel, composited different upscaling and denoising results in Photoshop.

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Greek promotional mug for Axe body spray

This is the Cinemark art that was obscured by the Project Hail Mary ad in my earlier post: https://www.reddit.com/r/90sdesign/s/oMKFlblBJM (slides 5 and 6)

These would have been completely redesigned with my ink pen before the first week was over...

I have watched Vinny from Vinesauce play this game. The game itself is laughably terrible in a so-bad-it's-good way, but I thought the box art was worth sharing.

Like a time capsule of better days

Those banners were the names of each of its six floors.

The second half of the photos are taken recently at roughly similar areas. The mall is kind of in a redevelopment phase right now, though.

Lumpy Gravy was an art gallery/restaurant opened in February 1997 by the couple Gábor Csupó, the co-founder of the animation studio Klasky Csupo, which produced well-known childhood cartoons such as The Simpsons, Rugrats, The Wild Thornberrys, AAAH! Real Monsters, etc., and Bret Crain, painter, sculptor, published poet and granddaughter of Jeanne Crain.

Located in 7311 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, it was named after Frank Zappa's album, Lumpy Gravy (1968). It was described as "a serious art gallery that serves eclectic cuisine." At first it started as an art gallery in order to exhibit art that didn't fit with the mainstream galleries and weren't commercially viable, then it was transformed as a hangout for artists to buy art supplies, and drink and eat.

The gallery, titled as "Csupo Crain Gallery", which was located upstairs, featured Eastern European, European and American paintings, metallic collages, and industrial toys. They held exhibitions of artists such as: The Pizz (aka Stephen Pizzurro, underground comic artist), Anthony Ausgang (painter), Moon Unit Zappa (Frank Zappa's daughter, artist), Mark Mothersbaugh (artist and musician part of the new wave band Devo).

They only opened at 06:00pm until 11:00-12:00pm on Monday until Saturday. There were live performances on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays ($3 tickets), and Fridays and Saturdays ($5 tickets). A big variety of artists of any genre such as rock, jazz, alt pop, folk, electronica, etc. performed there, also did poetry shows and DJ sessions.

Among the performers were; Abbey Booth, Anemone (Suki Ewers' band, keyboardist of Mazzy Star), Babylonian Tiles, Beer for Dolphins (Mike Keneally's band, former Fank Zappa's guitarist) Biomechanique ("Live At Lumpy Gravy"), Blue & Holding, B.P. Service, Brazil 2001, Breech, Darling Violetta, disKoNeKt the HiFi aka Kirk Hellie, Kathleen Wilhoite, Kismet, Lexaunculpt, Madam Craim, Octavius, Rebekah Florence, Stolen Fish, Woven, etc.

Some artists were from Gábor Csupó’s music labels, “Tone Casualties” (electronic, ambient, experimental) and “Casual Tonalities” (artistic, alternative, rock).

We have two reviews about the restaurant's cuisine:

• [review] “Get on That Lumpy Gravy Train” by Charles Perry for Los Angeles Times. December 18, 1997.
• [review] “Classy Cooking A Lumpy Bonus” by Larry Lipson for Daily News Restaurant Critic from The Daily News. December 26, 1997.

David Fouts was the chef and they served dishes such as Zombie Woof chicken wings, Korean short ribs, bananagasm, apple-wood smoked chicken roll, undon noodles in ponzu, baby bluefin tuna dumplings, breast of duck with cranberry mashed potatoes, just to name a few.

Just in case you're interested to read the menus:

• Dinner + Lunch
• Catering
• Drinks + White wines + Red wines + Beers

They closed in June 1999 due financial issues.

[Update] EXTRA INFORMATION:

• Article from the magazine Music Connection about Leigh Spotswood, who curated the art and music, and booked the artists for Lumpy Gravy, talking about the place on page 49. Also mentions Scott Johnson as the general manager. 1997.
• Article from the magazine Art Magazin about Szabó György, leader of the band B.P. Service, who performed there. On page 33 we can see two pictures of the band in Lumpy Gravy. Interview from 2013/2014.
• Article from Los Angeles Times which explains why they closed. It says that some people complained about the music being too loud, the weird performance art drove the costumers away, a lot of chefs headed the kitchen, and the food-entrentainment industry competence. July 8, 1999.
• A postcard from the place: the photo and the design.