In 1988, I remember 20 years ago I was in daycare. We lived in an apartment. When we lived in an apartment we got to go swimming all the time during the Summer 1988. The Olympics were in Seoul during the Summer that year. During Christmas that year my grandmother took me and my brother to ride the pink pig at the Rich's in Downtown Atlanta.

This June, we had the hottest day ever...and I was down with the flu.

Despite being 104 Degrees, I was in blankets.

At this time I would have been 6 days shy of turning a year old...so - Waddling around with my sippy cup in hand, chasing the dog, taking a nap, making a sticky mess, laughing at the funny faces daddy/mommy made, playing in my little baby pool etc. I miss those easy days ;) :lol:

The summer of 88 was very hot and dry. Our lawn was burned up and it was 90+ degrees for days.(In Michigan) After 2 months we finally got rain in Mid August. We also had some very bad T-Storms.
Also during that summer my brother in law who is a retired policeman got shot in the chest while on duty. It was serious but he survived.

Yes, I remember that 104 degree day in 1988!! My dad piled my siblings and I into our old 1974 Opel, we got ice cream at the Dairy Queen drive-thru near our house (which is still there!) and then we drove to my aunt and uncle's house. My poor aunt was in the middle stages of pregnancy at the time and that was one of the hottest, dryest summers of recent history. She was utterly uncomfortable and miserable. I can't believe that my cousin will turn 20 in November!! :eek: :lol:

I also remember our family drove to Canada for about a week in August 1988, and once that vacation was over, it was almost time for school again. I started third grade that year, and I also needed to get glasses before the year was out since I was having trouble reading the chalkboard/overhead projectors.

Ahh, this time in 1988...I was a year old, chasing our cat around...ahhh memories! ;)

Along with 1997, the summer of 1988 was the best of my life. As both Penny Lane and Monika point out, it was very, very hot in the midwest that summer. Opening the door each morning was like opening the oven door....it was that hot! I remember that we had a hail storm in May that caused damage to our car, and then it didn't rain again until September.

Me and the other kids who lived on my court went to the pool quite a bit during the summer of 1988. Next to staying in an airconditioned house, it was really the best way to keep cool. We also went to see a couple of movies like Big, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Great Outdoors.

However, the highlight of the summer of 1988 was August when I went to visit my grandparents in Arizona. They bought me a ticket to come out and see them for my 12th birthday. Just imagine, it was my first time on an airplane and I was flying by myself...very scary! :eek: Even though Arizona is traditionally a hotter state temperature wise that Illinois, since they have lower humidity than our's, the weather was actually nicer there. My grandparents took me to all over Arizona and California! It was such a great time.

In late August I began the sixth grade.

1988? Don't ask me. :lol: I turned 3 that summer. It was also really hot up here- my parents say it never went below 90 degrees, not even at night. I'm sure I spent a lot of time at home or at the community center swimming pool that summer. I do, however, remember seeing "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" when it was in theaters that summer. :)

Um...being conceived? lmao

I was two, I don't really remember anything.

I was 7 and in the 1st grade and hating every minute of it.

But if you are talking about the summertime, I was either swimming or out playing with someone and having fun.

The place where I used to work would shut down the last week of June & the first week of July for repairs, so I would have been on vacation back then. The place I work now only shuts down on Christmas day. lol!

Spent most of my time in the pool. It was a hot summer in the Northeast too. Infact, I remember rolling blackouts being issued for the first part of August because of the heat.

The pool was the place to be that summer. :)

i was not even a fetus yet. and i wouldn't be for another 3 years.

In my mom's stomach

On September 10, 1988, The Facts Of Life and Solid Gold ended their original
television runs.

That August we moved into a new house. It was really hot and humid...perfect moving weather. >_< That night we went to Burger King for dinner, and while we were waiting at a stop light, there was this huge wall cloud sitting off to the east. Great weather for a first night at a new place. That was my first experience with wall clouds.

We lived in that house for the next 16 years. Part of me misses it.

I went into third grade that August as well.

That August we moved into a new house. It was really hot and humid...perfect moving weather. >_< That night we went to Burger King for dinner, and while we were waiting at a stop light, there was this huge wall cloud sitting off to the east. Great weather for a first night at a new place. That was my first experience with wall clouds.

We lived in that house for the next 16 years. Part of me misses it.

I went into third grade that August as well.

I actually went to sixth grade with a girl who had moved only the summer before (which was '88) and they moved on a day where it was over 100 degrees. :eek:

I actually went to sixth grade with a girl who had moved only the summer before (which was '88) and they moved on a day where it was over 100 degrees. :eek:
Yuck! I mean, it was nice it wasn't raining, but oppressive heat sucks.

I was 3 so I remember.....absolutely nothing. I hear it was hot, so we probably went to Lake Michigan a few times but I couldn't tell ya for sure.

thinking about the vacation I took to california that September.

i was 8 years old

Wow...all this talk about the hot summer of '88 brings back memories. I remember my family lived in a HUGE three story house (it took a lot of room for my parents, my grandma, and all 5 of us kids.) The house did not have air conditioning. My dad went to a thirft store and bought this great big used air conditioner. He put it in the family room and it cooled that room and the kitchen only. Then he blocked off the rest of the house and all 8 of us lived in those two rooms all summer. LOL! It was crazy. We didn't have cable and only had 3 or 4 channels on the TV (which my dad controlled anyway once he was home from work.) My brother got his license that summer and used to take us to the new mall on the outskirts of town to get us out of my mom's hair for a while. We went to the movies there and saw The Great Outdoors. (That mall is right in the middle of the city now. Not out in the boonies like it was in '88.) I remember he smashed the station wagon into a pole in the parking lot and then my parents wouldn't let him take the car again forever!

Looking back on it...we really had a lot of fun back then. I was 12 years old, getting ready to go into the 7th grade.

Wow...all this talk about the hot summer of '88 brings back memories. I remember my family lived in a HUGE three story house (it took a lot of room for my parents, my grandma, and all 5 of us kids.) The house did not have air conditioning. My dad went to a thirft store and bought this great big used air conditioner. He put it in the family room and it cooled that room and the kitchen only. Then he blocked off the rest of the house and all 8 of us lived in those two rooms all summer. LOL! It was crazy. We didn't have cable and only had 3 or 4 channels on the TV (which my dad controlled anyway once he was home from work.) My brother got his license that summer and used to take us to the new mall on the outskirts of town to get us out of my mom's hair for a while. We went to the movies there and saw The Great Outdoors. (That mall is right in the middle of the city now. Not out in the boonies like it was in '88.) I remember he smashed the station wagon into a pole in the parking lot and then my parents wouldn't let him take the car again forever!

Looking back on it...we really had a lot of fun back then. I was 12 years old, getting ready to go into the 7th grade.


Do you come form the same part of Kansas as Sue Ann? If so, the aircondition was probably to cool off the cow. :lol: ;)

Wow, only 3 to 4 channels! :eek:

i was only a year old in 1988 and so i don't remember a thing. lol.

Do you come form the same part of Kansas as Sue Ann? If so, the aircondition was probably to cool off the cow. :lol: ;)


Very funny...actually it always irritated me on FOL when they would make Sue Ann sound like some kind hillbilly farmer and she'd say she was from Kansas City. Have you ever been to Kansas City? There is not a cow in sight:)!

And no, I'm not from Kansas City. Kansas City is a lot bigger than the place I live (although I'm not out in the country or living in a tiny little town or anything.)

Very funny...actually it always irritated me on FOL when they would make Sue Ann sound like some kind hillbilly farmer and she'd say she was from Kansas City. Have you ever been to Kansas City? There is not a cow in sight:)!

And no, I'm not from Kansas City. Kansas City is a lot bigger than the place I live (although I'm not out in the country or living in a tiny little town or anything.)

I've actually never been to Kansas. Actually, I think it was just Blair that made Sue Ann sound like a hillbilly farmer. :lol:

err.....about to be conceived i suppose.

I remember I was in first grade and we moved into our newly remolded house. This was the year I almost got lost. We went on a vacation to Denver Colorado to visit some of our cousins. We stayed in a hotel while we were there and we going up the stairs to the floor where our room was and my brother and I ended up racing to our room and he went to fast I lost him and I went a couple floors to high and I realized this wasn't the right floor. There were tons of people coming out of the door to the stairs I hid behind the door till one of the workers came and got me and took me back to my room. I got back to our room and I was like I am never racing my brother again. That's about all I really remember from that year.

Born on July 24th! :D

I started 1st grade that year. I turned 7 years old on December 11th that year. Along time ago, me and my brother stayed with grandmother and she took us out to chinese close to my apartment a year before I moved into my first new house.

Very funny...actually it always irritated me on FOL when they would make Sue Ann sound like some kind hillbilly farmer and she'd say she was from Kansas City. Have you ever been to Kansas City? There is not a cow in sight:)!

And no, I'm not from Kansas City. Kansas City is a lot bigger than the place I live (although I'm not out in the country or living in a tiny little town or anything.)

Oh how annoying. Anyone that thinks that KC is some farm town is a total idiot. The last cow you see is somewhere north of Liberty, which is a ways north of KC proper. Then you don't see farms for MILES.

Lets see...

In summer of 88 I had just finished my Freshman year at college. I was spending the summer doing theater in Lincroft NJ with Phoenix productions. We did three shows - Jesus Christ Superstar, Fantastics And Camelot.

I also worked in a sporting goods store, but I probably spent more time at the theater.

That was a fun Summer.

stuck in a job I HATED!!!!:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

I was 3 so I dont know

exactly 20 years ago? taking care of a 7 mos. old.