1980s summers

[Anonymous]

What were your summers like in the 80s if you were a kid/teen? Fun? Boring? Both? I was a kid on the 80s and keep hearing about how boring they were. My summers in the 90s as a teen weren't even boring. So what was it like for you? Was I just lucky?

[Anonymous]

Rode our bikes all over town including to Blockbuster to sneak Rated R movies, TP'd peoples houses, prank calls, etc. Not boring to us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rode our bikes all over town including to Blockbuster to sneak Rated R movies, TP'd peoples houses, prank calls, etc. Not boring to us.

This. Lots of pool times plus flashlight tag, kick the can, spud, catching lightning bugs.

[Anonymous]

Working as a camp counselor starting at 15. Summer before that was a CIT and took a typing class. Was still on a summer swim team. Rode my bike all over. Very fun.

[Anonymous]

Really boring. I lived way out in the country and had a SAHM. Other than weekly library trips, there wasn't anything to do. I read a lot.

[Anonymous]

Boring as hell. My parents both worked and stopped summer childcare as early as they could. I was trapped at home unless a friend’s SAHM took pity on me. I watched a lot of bad daytime television and soaps.

[Anonymous]

Lots of hanging out at the neighborhood pool, long bike rides, watching TV, reading. I could bike to the library but my mom also usually went once a week or so. Go to the mall if Mom could drive us. Started working part time as a mother's helper when I was 14 in 84. At 16 had a job at a fast food place.

[Anonymous]

I was mostly home alone watching tv while waiting for a tv show that I actually liked to come on. Sometimes if I was lucky I got to go to the lake.

[Anonymous]

I had a part time job every summer in high school, practiced with the marching band 2 night a week and went to band camp, went to the ton pool, played mini golf or roller skated, met other kids at the mall or parking lots at night, read a lot, drove to the lake or festivals in other parts of the region.

[Anonymous]

We drank every day and got stone from age 14-16, then I got a job at Jerry’s sub shop and got drunk and stoned after work.

The beer distributor would give us free beer.

We would drink at the canal and at houses where parents were at “the club” all day or in Europe or generally not home

Then we went to college at 17/18.

[Anonymous]

Summers in the 80s were fantastic. Not boring at all. Time with friends and biking and playing outside. In high school, worked during the day and hung out with friends in the evening. Great times.

[Anonymous]

Day Camp from kindergarten to 4th grade. Then one month of sleepaway camp from 5th grade on. The rest of the summer we would see grandparents and take small road trips.

[Anonymous]

I liked reading and going to the pool so that was fun. Every year we got to pick a few activities offered through parks and rec to do and I remember trying tennis, drama, pottery, and sewing. That was fun. Once I got to high school I would get a job in the summer and so would most other kids.

That said, I was always very ready for school to start by the end of the summer. I liked being able to spend my entire days in a building with all my friends, instead of having to figure out ways to meet up outside school. I also really loved my extra-curriculars, and genuinely enjoyed a lot of my classes. Summer was a nice break but I remember feeling like it went on too long.

[Anonymous]

Listened to Thriller on repeat on my boombox. Sat around on the patio enjoying talking to friends. 3 weeks minimum at our summer house each year because I had a SAHM. Don't have a summer house now because working people don't get enough vacation to use it properly in proportion to the expense of ownership. The whole neighborhood of cottages had worked on the premise of SAHMs living there the whole summer. Since the 1870s.

[Anonymous]

Never boring. Ever. Swimming in a swimming hole near my house, riding bikes everywhere, camping out in the front yard, sleepovers. It was the best of times.