Opening the vault and taking a look at photos from the 90s
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A grandfather offers his grandson his first drink. (just a pose for the camera.) I laugh at this photo now, and I believe it sums up the 90s nicely, it’s unlikely in todays serious world you could get away with an image like that, you’d be cancelled.
![Matt stands next to a taxi, the taxi is from the 90s and has a red hood, the branding of the car reads 'Newcastle Taxis.' Matt has his arm against the passenger door of the car, a driver in a blue shirt can be seen inside, although we can't see his face.](https://matthew.media/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/scan0008-1024x696.jpg)
In the early days of my life, our family didn’t own a car, so getting me to pre-school meant a ride with Newcastle Taxis.
The pre-school was a specialty school for the visually impaired and deaf, which formally went under the name of ‘Royal Institute for blind and deaf,’ but have recently undergone a rebrand and operate under the name of ‘Nextsense,’
My grandfather would take me for a trip up to the shops at Charlestown, and was both amazed that all the cabbies knew me by name as a little boy.
I have forwarded this picture to 13Cabs via an email enquiry and tagged them in this tweet, but have not heard back from them yet.