Throwback Thursday: The Year I Was Born

Welcome to the Throwback Thursday link up!

What is Throwback Thursday?

Throwback Thursdays will be a day for you to link up anything from your past. It can be old pictures, old songs, old TV shows, old movies, your childhood crush, what was popular, your favorites, older fashion. Anything goes! Throwback Thursdays will be the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. 

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Rules:

In this link up, we simply ask that you visit your host and guest host. If you like what you see, we'd love to have you follow along. It will also make it easier for you to participate every time if you follow your host.

We also ask that you link back to Just a Small Town Girl in your TT post.

 

Meet our guest host:

I am very excited to have Allie from Tales of a Twenty Something guest hosting Throwback Thursday for the month of February.  Allie is a fellow North Carolinian. She hosts some great link ups herself like Pits and Peaks and Weekly What? The Weekly What? is one of my favorite because you recap your blog week. She's also a great blog to sponsor because she truly cares about helping you grow your blog. You won't regret following along.

Throwback:

This upcoming Monday is kind of an important day. It's my "Golden Birthday." I will turn 25 on the 25th. So, I thought I'd share some things that happened the year I was born.

In 1988:

Ronald Reagan was president.

Gas was $0.91

A movie ticket was $3.50.

Rain Man was the top grossing film.

Other popular movies of the year include: Coming to America, Twins, Die Hard, and Beetlejuice.

Some top songs in 1988 were "Faith" by George Michael, "The Way You Make Me Feel" and "Man in the Mirror" by Michael Jackson, "So Emotional" and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" by Whitney Houston, "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns and Roses, "Bad Medicine" by Bon Jovi, and "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison.

Popluar TV shows were The Cosby Show, Cheers, Growing Pains, The Golden Girls, and Murder She Wrote. 

Notre Dame won the National Championship in football.

Washington Redskins defeated the Denver Broncos for Super Bowl XXII.

Ping Pong became an Olympic sport.

Doppler radar was invented.

Scattergories was the years most popular toy.

There were several famous people born in 1988 including: Emma Stone, Julianne Hough, Rupert Grint, Rihanna, Adele, Haley Joel Osment, and Michael Cera.

Now that you know when my birthday is, I'd love to know yours as well so that I can help you celebrate. This might be with a shout out on social media, an email, a birthday card, or free advertisement. Just fill out the Google Doc below. 

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