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"Icebox Gallery & Framing is now about half way through it's 37th year. This fact feels amazing to me.
Here is a partial list of events that took place in 1988"
In January, 1988 Ronald Reagan had a year left in his second term. Floppy disks were needed for your early personal computers.
The musician Adele was born. The Netherlands became the second country to join the internet. Table tennis became an Olympic sport.
Stephen Hawking released “A Brief History of Time”. Photoshop shipped its first software. The first Worlds AIDS day was held.
Big movies opened like “Die Hard, Crocodile Dude 2, The Land Before Time, and Beetlejuice.
A NASA climate scientist James Hansen used the words “global Warming” in testimony to the US Congress, bringing it to public Attention.
In the US CDs out sold vinyl records for the first time. The TV show “48 Hours” began. Andre the Giant beat Hulk Hogan in a prime time match.
The USSR performed a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Sight in northeast Kazakhstan. The Winter Olympic Games opened in Calgary, Canada.
The USA performed a nuclear test in Nevada. First known combat in El Salvador by military advisers. Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch sold the NY Post for $37.6 million.
Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert confesses his sins to his congregation. Bruce Springsteen's new album was “Tunnel of Love.” Album of the year was “Graceland” By Paul Simon.
Iran said Iraq used poison gas. The USSR and the US did more nuclear tests. Federal smoking bands on domestic flights of 2 hours or less.
Someone stole the grave marker bust of Jim Morrison. France tested a bomb. The Soviet Union began pulling 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.
G.W. Bush makes a campaign promise to support reparations for WW2 Japanese-American internees. (Promise broken in 1989)
George Harrison put out his single “This is Love” The USA and USSR keep testing nukes and sending stuff into space.
The Supreme Court made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women and minorities. Manager Billy Martin leaves the Yanks.
Mike Tyson keeps knocking fighters out. Carl Ripken Jr. played his 1000 consecutive MBL game. Radio station WYHY offers $1 to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive.
Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit, but does not follow through. Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer.
Highest temp in San Francisco was 103 F. The last Playboy club closed in Lansing, Michigan. Rush Limbaugh begins his national radio show.
Rioting in NYC Tompkins Park. Temp hits 88 F in NYC on 8/8/88. Al-Qaeda was formed in Pakistan.
Movie “Last Temptation of Christ” is released. IBM introduced software for artificial intelligence. USA, France and USSR keep testing nukes. Israel launches first secret satellite.
Mike Tyson smashes his car into a tree and later a TV camera in front of his home. US space shuttle STS-26 launched. UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace Prize.
IBM announces shipping its 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer. Mike Tyson wrecks furniture in his mansion during a domestic dispute.
Minnesota Twins total 3,030,672 in attendance at the HHH Metrodome was the first club to break 3 million.
Shroud of Turin is shown by carbon dating to be a fake from the Middle Ages. “ Roseanne” begins on TV and the Traveling Wilbur’s release first album.
Pot Bellied Pigs were popular. Picasso’s “Acrobat & Harlequin” sells for $38.46 million. Nelson Mandela is transferred Victor Vestor Prison in Capetown.
Arafat met with American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden. Visual artist Chuck Close suffers a spinal artery collapse leaving him paralyzed from the neck down.
Mikhail Gorbachev was cheered by Wall Street crowds when he arrived in NYC. Yasser Arafat addressed the UN. Lori Davis sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks.
A terrorist bomb destroys Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland killing 259 people on board and 11 on the ground. USSR tests more nukes.
So much has happened since 1988.
I hope you enjoyed the list. Below I have made a selection of images made in the original space.
ICEBOX is a true underground gallery even when we rose to the fourth floor of the Northrup King Building begining in 2003.
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