It was a decade when Auld Reekie welcomed its first ever multiplex cinema, a host of new out-of-town shopping centres and several major redevelopments – including the multi-million pound transformation of Murrayfield Stadium into an all-seated arena.
Scroll through our photo gallery for a nostalgic trip back to Edinburgh in the 1990s – and please let us know your own memories of the decade in the comments section before you go.
9. Menzies
Now internationally recognised for their aviation wing, John Menzies was much better known in the 1990s as a booksellers and media vendor. The angled glass frontage of the huge flagship store on Princes Street is burned deep into the memories of locals who lived and shopped through the decade. Photo: SUSAN BURRELL
10. Christmas lights in Princes Street
Central Edinburgh was not short of tinsel and fairy lights back in the day as this picture of Princes Streets Christmas decorations illustrates. Photo: UNKNOWN
11. A&E
An ambulance parked outside the Accident and Emergency department of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in 1990, when the hospital was still located at Lauriston Place on the fringes of the Old Town. Photo: Crauford Tait
12. St Andrew Square Bus Station
Edinburgh's bus station in the 1990s was a drab and dreary affair in part thanks to a huge, concrete-clad office development that towered above it. Photo: Alistair Linford