Things you miss about summers...

[LonnieFisher]

What I miss about summer is being a kid...

[Mikey]

One thing I don't miss is only having one air conditioner in the living room and the rest of the house was a sauna on hot days.

[Bill]

Our annual trip to Ocean City, MD. Checking out all the new pinball and video game machines. The Haunted House on the pier. Skating the park on 3rd Street. Just hanging out with my dad and listening to the radio on the beach, trying to tune something on the shortwave band. Thrasher fries. Sandy, salty hair. Checking out all the new skateboards at Atlantic Skates and Sundancer. Claw machines.
My wife and I flew up a few weeks ago to spend the weekend at the beach with her family. Now that pinball is all but dead it's the only place to go to check out all the new machines, and as an added bonus, replays are insanely low, only old folks play pinball.

[Mikey]

Just thought of another one now that it's getting near the fourth ...

I miss shooting off fireworks on the fourth

Back in the day the local cops didn't care one bit

Sometimes they'd even stop at the house for a burger from the BBQ

Today, that would never happen

[ScottA]

Riding bikes with my friends. It always felt like we road 100 miles a day. Catching lightning bugs. Sunday cookouts at my Grandparents and going to the lake for the day.with my Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles and cousins.

[johnnystorm]

Nana's house on vacation, comic book runs to the drug store, collecting pop bottles for candy money, "box" hockey at the playground.

[Marvelmania]

The Ice Cream Man!!!!!!
Going to Tweetsie and Ghost Town theme parks!
Staying up late and then sleeping in the next day!
Biking and skateboarding all day long
Camping with friends
Football camp
Matinees specials every day! Usually for a buck or even a few soda bottle caps! Tarzan movies were KING!
Family trips to Myrtle Beach

[VintageMike]

All the extra trips. Trips to the Grandparents, more sleepovers at friends houses, etc.
Summer vacations with my Aunt's family and my cousins.
Similar to the "vacation" feeling a real, true break. The most time off I take all year is around Mego Meet, Wednesday through Friday of that week. A whopping three days in a row is as gets for me now. Sure there are still trips, mostly weekend getaways/events but I'm flying solo most of the time. Not the same as sharing the fun.

[Spawn67]

Our annual trip to Ocean City, MD. Checking out all the new pinball and video game machines. The Haunted House on the pier. Skating the park on 3rd Street. Just hanging out with my dad and listening to the radio on the beach, trying to tune something on the shortwave band. Thrasher fries. Sandy, salty hair. Checking out all the new skateboards at Atlantic Skates and Sundancer. Claw machines.
My wife and I flew up a few weeks ago to spend the weekend at the beach with her family. Now that pinball is all but dead it's the only place to go to check out all the new machines, and as an added bonus, replays are insanely low, only old folks play pinball.

I miss summers in Ocean City and I can relate to everything you said! I miss those rock shops on the boardwalk to. As a Metal/Punk collector there are shirts, buttons, and patches that I found on the boardwalk that I have NEVER seen anywhere in my 30 years of collecting. I discovered so much music growing up there. I went there every summer when i was a kid up til 2001. I live in florida now and there are many beaches but NONE have any meaning to me like Ocean City does! I miss Candy Kitchen to.
I got to spend I week there and 1 week in rehoboth beach in delaware with my grandparents.

[Bill]

I think there's not much interest in a boardwalk here in Florida because when people go to the beach, they go to the beach. Back in MD that water was 62 degrees and brown, the sand must have been 120 degrees and brown and the boardwalk is as much a part of going to the beach as the beach itself.
I went into Swirled World, the skateshop on the boardwalk and checked out some of the shirts, it's amazing that so many reprints of old shirts are still popular. They had a GG Allin shirt and the owner said that the kids are into him for some reason.
In my twenties, in the 90's, my friends worked at Chat St. when it was in the big house on Division. I would come down for a visit, weekend, entire week, whatever and end up working/hanging out at Chat St. Buying beer from the beerhole, that little walk in freezer with the walk up window, and drinking all day at the shop, and most of the night too. We'd stay open until whenever, sometimes 1 am just for the fun of it. I remember helping a few drunks pick out a shirt while I was wearing nothing other than a smoking jacket. I miss those summers too.

[LonnieFisher]

Riding bikes with my friends. It always felt like we road 100 miles a day. Catching lightning bugs. Sunday cookouts at my Grandparents and going to the lake for the day.with my Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles and cousins.

I've never even seen a lightning bug. We don't have them around here.

[Spawn67]

I think there's not much interest in a boardwalk here in Florida because when people go to the beach, they go to the beach. Back in MD that water was 62 degrees and brown, the sand must have been 120 degrees and brown and the boardwalk is as much a part of going to the beach as the beach itself.
I went into Swirled World, the skateshop on the boardwalk and checked out some of the shirts, it's amazing that so many reprints of old shirts are still popular. They had a GG Allin shirt and the owner said that the kids are into him for some reason.
In my twenties, in the 90's, my friends worked at Chat St. when it was in the big house on Division. I would come down for a visit, weekend, entire week, whatever and end up working/hanging out at Chat St. Buying beer from the beerhole, that little walk in freezer with the walk up window, and drinking all day at the shop, and most of the night too. We'd stay open until whenever, sometimes 1 am just for the fun of it. I remember helping a few drunks pick out a shirt while I was wearing nothing other than a smoking jacket. I miss those summers too.

I remember chat st! Do you remember a store called "believe in Magic" I think it was called. Got many a shirts there and most I still have . Got a Morbid Angel shirt there in 89 when "altars of Madness" came out. Got 250.00 for it on ebay a couple years ago.

[Bill]

Yeah, that was Trish and Leo's place. The summer I lived down there I ended up out in Ocean Pines and lived right around the corner from them. I lived with a coupla bikers that did tattoos and the portfolio of work was on the counter at Believe in Magic. I would ferry carloads of seniors from the shop to our place and even drew up some of the tattoos that summer. I think it was '91.
I wish I still had all my old punk/grunge shirts. I'm trying to collect them again, but they've jumped in price over the past two or three years.

[Spawn67]

Leo! I remember him! He seemed to know every band now matter how obscure they were. Last i saw him was in 2000 and I hadn't seen him in 3 years as soon as I walked in the door he knew my name and starting showing off all these bands shirts that he knew I liked. I asked him if he had any old Venom stuff ( Im a Venom collector) he goes in the back and brings out a Venom "possessed" poster that Ive never seen before! Is that store still around?

[megojim]

Getting up and just going . . . I could ride my bike any where and my mom didn't have to worry. We would play baseball all day, go swimming, ride down to the local 7/11 and buy a trading cup (baseball, heroes, whatever they had going) playing hide and seek at night. Watching Match Game when it was too hot out. Awesome days!