It is time for spring break 2012 in America. What a difference 51 years makes.
The movie shown above was played on the TCM movie channel a few days ago. The guy doing the introduction to the film referred to it as "Girls Gone Mild".
The movie opened in December of 1960 had one big effect in 1961. Thousands more American college students made their way to Ft.Lauderdale for spring break 1961.
And the Ft.Lauderdale police did everything they could to discourage the students from ever coming back.
Ft. Lauderdale had had enough of spring break.
http://www.springbreak.com/Spring_Break_History/Spring_Break_History_5.htm
The link above gives a good history of spring break in Lauderdale.
Reading around on the web I see spring break is returning to Ft. Lauderdale. I guess the city misses the money. Maybe the riotous days are over and this is a richer mellower crowd.
http://www.elboroom.com/video/video/show?id=4305586%3AVideo%3A13801
Below is a link that mentions the 1961 spring break in Fort Lauderdale. And a photo from that year.
http://www.springbreakftlauderdale.com/
It is nice to know the Elbo Room is still around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbo_Room
