Current events from the year 1988
- Rain Man wins Best Picture at the Academy Awards
- Top songs in 1988: Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car by Billy Ocean; Man In the Mirror by Michael Jackson; Anything for You by Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
- On Television in 1988: My Two Dads; Roseanne; The Hogan Family
- Cost of a loaf of bread: $0.61/loaf