Favorite Childhood Memory
 

Does anyone out there have a favorite or memorable childhood memory they would like to share?

One of my favorites (I have so many!) was the summer of '88. Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me" was the #1 song and was played on MTV like every hour on the hour. In Kentucky that summer there was also a terrible drought.

Every summer for some reason as was tradition, all the kids in the neighborhood would get togehter for a round of "war." It was always girls against the boys. This particular summer I was the leader of the girls, and our "base" was our screened in back porch complete with a tv, fans, access to food from the house, good for lookouts, etc. So we're in our base watching MTV waiting for things to get started and "Pour Some Sugar On Me" comes on. So ofcourse we are standing around the TV singing along. This made the boys mad because we were singing in our "base" and not coming out. They then decided to scare us out by setting off left over bottle rockets from 4th of July. Well sure enough it did scare us out, but one bottle rocket that was set off from the neighbor's yard, didnt take off, this catching the dry grass on fire. So ofcourse everyone was in a panic. Everyone was stomping, even had a garden hose or two trying to put it out. While the fire did reach the neighbor's garage, the house didnt catch on fire, but the backyard was a TOTAL loss. My mom called the fire dept. and they came out to make sure it was out and wouldnt reignite. The boy responsible for setting off the bottle rockets was then no where to be found. He was later found however 30 minutes later, running away from home, and from that summer on, "war" was no longer allowed to be played in the old neighborhood. But needless to say each time I hear the song"Pour Some Sugar On Me" I think of that day :)

Sorry for it being a long posting!

Wow, this is such a great thread! Thanks for coming up with it, TP24!

My earliest good memory is of being about three years old when we lived in Miami while my dad finished up college at UM. Every Saturday we would go to the beach for a few hours and then stop at Burger King on the way home. We were beyond broke, so I know my parents had to juggle the budget so we could do that and to this day I get a warm, fuzzy when I smell Burger King burgers. Gads; that's sappy! lol

Playing "flashlight tag" with the neighborhood kids when I was about 6 or 7. Back in the days when you could let your kids run around the neighborhood after dark and know they weren't going to disappear on you.

My dad taking me to Carnegie Museum, this huge, imposing, stone building near the Pitt campus. He and I used to wander around there for hours and I particularly loved the dinosaur exhibit. There was (still is) an intact T-Rex skeleton and no matter how many times I saw it I would still be startled when I entered the gallery and there it was!

Getting up on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons. My mom would make me up a little bed on the sofa and let me eat my breakfast there while I watched the TV.

Thinking of these things, I'll be in a good mood all day! :)

I remember the days of flashlight tag, we called it "spotlight" though but same principle :) Fun times :)

I also remember on 4th of July everyone going from driveway to driveway to watch everyone elses fireworks,and then all going together(most of the parents in my neighborhood were employed by the same company if they werent doctors, or lawyers) to watch the big fireworks display downtown :)

My favorite childhood day was when I was an extra for a movie filming in NYC (I was a model when I was a child) and it was the most major thing for me ever at that age... and then went to my 1st Yankees game after my part ended.

I have too many other great memories...

Every time my family and I went to the beach, my dad would take my sister and me on long long walks to look for seashells... it was a tradition.

One of my biggest crushes was in 3rd grade... my friend and I both liked him, and he chose me! In my high school yearbook, he wrote, "Remember when I liked you in 3rd grade?"-- thought that was really sweet.

We used to have this HUGE couch--it was long and had a high back, so my sister and I would walk along the back and try to balance, and we'd build forts in the couch and cover it with all of these blankets.

We used to play outside alot with the 11 other kids (around my age) on my block, playing manhunt and other group games into the nightime.

Any of my softball games when I was a kid.

It's not my favorite childhood memory but its a funny one. In second grade we went to North Carolina to see family and my cousin who was in the same grade as I took us to her school to introduce us to her teacher. Well my dad has a "beer" belly (although he dont drink) and she told her teacher that "my uncle swolled a watermellon." I think that was one of the funniest memories I have.

My grandparent's house! We'd go in the summer and spend a week there without my parents. It was always so much fun - better than camp!

My grandparent's lived in a town of 721 people, so everyone knew us. We'd go swimming at the swim pool for HOURS on end. In the evenings grandpa would pop popcorn (old style) and we'd sit around and watch television.

During the days we'd swing on this swing my grandpa made...that we lovingly called the Monkey Swing. I'd spend hours on that thing and just enjoy the peace and quiet.

Then when we got board we'd ride bicycles, play back gammond, and hide-and-seek. If the time of year was right, we'd even help grandma pod peas and pick out a watermellon for desert that night :) My favorite was to walk through the garden and pick home-grown strawberries and raspberries off the bushes and eat em without worrying about washing them off. Then we'd play in the corn :)

My grandparent's house was rebuilt and origionally belonged to my great grandmother. I was semi-heart broken when they sold it to move. It has so much history and good memories with it. I haven't been back since I was 16 :(

One of my favorite memories as a child was the time we had a huge snow storm and all the kids in my neighborhood got together and made an enormous igloo. All I remember was that the igloo was big enough to fit about 8 of us, and after we were done we sat inside of it drinking hot chocolate. Oh to be young again...