What happened in 1989?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Oh yeah, the quake. Had it happened 5 minutes earlier I would have been riding my bike.

I think you're thinking of the Whittier quake. You wouldn't have felt Loma Prieta, what most SoCalers think of as "the San Francisco quake, not the old one, the recent one."

1989 - Finished up my first year of junior high. Hated it, couldn't make friends, couldn't keep up in school. By 1990 I was contemplating suicide, which led me to switch schools and begin the chain of events that would lead me to meeting GD.

I really wanted a Batman T-shirt, even though only guys wore them. We saw Batman and Honey I Shrunk the Kids at the drive-in. I saw Back to the Future II the weekend it was released - I couldn't wait! We took my Dad to see Indy III on Father's Day, I believe. A lot of good movies were released that year.

I know I visited DL at some point before they opened Splash and was able to see most of it, almost finished, behind construction walls. Probably 1989.

The things you'll find on wikipedia! Ah, for the days when my family would read TV Guide as soon as we bought it so we could choose what movies we'd see that week on the networks. I didn't watch the Simpsons because my parents didn't like it - we only had the one TV, and primetime was their time. I used to watch it when I babysat.