Favorite Childhood Summertime Memories

[soleft]

Mine are

Running through the sprinkler
Godzilla week on the 4:30 movie
Frozen milkyways at the beach
Winning the Little League Softball Championship
Family vacations to North Carolina
Calling friends to find out what teachers they got
Going to see Jaws for the first time



Post yours

[jackster]

1. pinball machines at the marina!

[Shell Beau]

2. Going to my brother's baseball games

My dance recitals
Swimming lessons
Going to the pool
Playing on the slip-n-slide
Playing outside later since it doesn't get dark til later
Friends spending the night on week nights
Summer family vacations
Etc, etc, etc, etc.

[Patiod]

3. The boardwalk at the Jersey shore

Riding my bike to the swim club

Playing games after dark with the other kids in the neighborhood(flashlight tag)

Laying on the sofa reading all day

[Aristus]

4. Mine:

Sleeping in.
Going swimming at the public pool. We always went after my Mom's soaps were over, so when we heard the closing theme of "The Doctors", we knew it was time! :-)
Playing outside all day and getting a great 'kid' tan.
Walking over to the quiet, empty school and gloating that it was over for three whole months.
Laying out under the trees and enjoying the sound of the rustling wind through the leaves.
Daytime TV gameshows that you missed when you were in school.
Vacations to Disneyland and to visit grandparents.
Going on bike excursions with my brother and my best friend. We all had '70's Cool' Schwinn street bikes with the banana seat and the contoured rubber finger grips.
Hearing rock and roll blasting out of car and open house windows. We couldn't listen to rock at home (My parents are good liberals, but not very funky) so we enjoyed it where we could.
Daylong Nerf football games played with the zeal and passion of NFL Super Bowlers.

[soleft]

7. the sound of the rustling wind through the leaves.

My favorite sound

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

5. Mine are

Swimming at the city pools (Detroit)
Dairy Queen sundaes in the evening
Playing baseball all damn day long at the schoolyard. That's what Mom always said. I think she was right!
Backyard campouts
Hot dogs/hamgurgers cooked on a grill
Fresh sweet corn
:)

[KurtNYC]

6. Some

Playing 500 on Carr's lot
Swimming in pools, lakes and the ocean
Taking my rabbits to the County Fair and getting a blue ribbon for Ben
Y-camp
Playing kick the can until it was way too dark

[Rising Phoenix]

8. my family's pool was like the community pool

filled with kids all day long, and I had the "cool parents" and I thought my older brothers friends were so cute

[WCGreen]

9. Learning about sex from the baby sitter.....

Visual aides and all.....

No wonder I'm such a perve......

[lpbk2713]

10. Catching fireflies and putting them in a mayo jar.

Then I put them on my dresser and watched them before I went to sleep.

[Strawman]

11. Mine

Pick up baseball games
Riding bikes with my friends all the way from my house on the east side of Detroit to Lake St. Clair
Going to my Aunt's cottage on Lake Huron in Port Sanilac with my family
Playing horse (basketball) against my dad
Going to games at the old Tiger Stadium and getting a hot dog

[ernstbass]

12. Here are some of mine

climbing the mimosa tree
looking for four leaf clovers
spending every waking hour at the pool
riding bikes all over my small town
playing with my colllie, Prince
going barefoot
going for ice cream with my dad
riding paddleboats with my grandmother

[maveric]

13. Renting a cottage at Salisbury Beach MA every summer.

The best days of my life. Ma and Dad would get 3 weeks off every summer. Two of those weeks we'd rent a cottage at the beach. I'd get up early and walk down to the "Center" a midway-like area, that had rides, games, food stands... and wait till Tripoli Pizza opened at 10:30 AM, where I'd get me a slice for 25 cents. My brother and I would walk the beack early in the morning and find some cool things that washed up. We found a lobster pot with 3 lobsters in it once, sand dollars, a sand shark in a tidal pool, a ships bell and once a $10.00 bill floating in the surf.
At night the "Center" was a jumping place. Cool and scary rides, huge arcades and every great and greasy food known to mankind. Oh, and Skeeball! My whole family spent a whole day playing skeeball once. We won a shitload of tickets and redeemed them for a set of folding TV tables.
Oh to only have a way-back machine!