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Party Like It’s 1988 with Our Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Playlist – Rhode Island Monthly
Moreover a limiteless provide of Del’s, sunscreen and lengthy days spent at Scarborough, the one factor you completely want for an Ocean State summer season is a killer playlist.
To assist have fun Rhode Island Month-to-month’s thirty-fifth 12 months, we went all the best way again in our scorching tub time machine to June 1988 to spherical up the most well liked songs.
Mile-high hair? We’ve obtained it!
Acid-washed denims? Received these, too!
Neon scrunchies, aspect ponytails and a heavy dose of hair bands? Examine, test and test.
Consider it as our present to you — a digital mixtape that may carry you again to the great previous days of shoulder pads, Rocky Level, Ed DiPrete, Filene’s, Carolyn Fox and Ann & Hope.
Our first subject hit the newsstands in Might 1988. Discover any acquainted faces? We profiled the three native TV networks — Channel 10 (WJAR), Channel 12 (WPRI) and Channel 6 (WLNE) — and put their 6 o’clock anchors on the quilt.
Rhode Island’s 6 o’clock newscasters in Might 1988. From backside left: Doug White, Ann Conway, Walter Cryan, Cathy Ray, Janice Glynn and Dave Layman.
Republican Ed DiPrete was governor, Ronald Reagan was within the Oval Workplace, after which Windfall Mayor Joseph R. Paolino Jr. introduced in Might 1988 that work would quickly start to uncover the Woonasquatucket, Windfall and Moshassuck rivers. Does anybody know no matter occurred to that concept?
So hold checking in with us this 12 months for extra throwbacks, enjoyable, trend traits and perhaps much more music from Rhode Island Month-to-month’s inaugural 12 months.
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