Spring Break in the 80's (a treat for the elders)

Do you have anything for 20 years earlier? This is boring.

Kids were so much thinner in the 1980s...today there is no shortage of skin on display but today’s spring breakers are carrying at least 20+ pounds of fat. Or, “curves” as they tell themselves.

Why are there always buzz kills like the one in OP’s photo?

Hot! I love the chick with the sign. I would have been her.

It's irritating that they de-colorized these just to make them appear "vintage."

In 1982, I drove 800 miles to Daytona Beach for spring break with two fraternity brothers. Camel cigarettes reps were there offering free rides on an actual camel as well as beach towels and other prizes. Good times.

That site has some great vintage photo sets. One of my favorite is of moms in their 70's kitchens.

Definitely thinner back then. Seems cellulite wasn't invented til the early aughts.

I went to college in the early '70s but I don't really remember Spring Break as being a big deal. I know it existed --- I mean "Where the Boys Are" and "Palm Springs Weekend" were from a decade earlier -- but on my campus (a state university with over 10,000 students) I don't think it was that popular.

They look older back then than the youth of today.

R9, Spring break was just not that into you or you were a geek. No offense.

R10 I always think that when I look back at my old college photos from the 80's. Why do you think that is?

It's just so....het

R13 I mean, that's still the case with Florida spring breaks :(

I think the only reason they look older in the photos is because they're wearing hairstyles that we associate with older people now.

Also people smoked more back then and also were outdoors more often (usually without sunscreen). Both of which is bad can be bad for the skin.

YOU ARE GOING TO HELL!!!🤣🤣🤣

r3 you probably don't even double on your masks and condoms. repent!

r16 don't forget the grid

The 80s really had no strong visual style at all...I guess the women had big frizzy hair.

r19 blasphemer

r19

My friends and I were given free tickets to “Foxxy Boxing” and it was so exploitative and gross it made me cry. My str8 friends found it repulsive as well. I hated to see these nice women being abused by a mob of drunken frat boys. We finally found a Goth bar where we fit in better.

Men had no muscles back then.

R23 tell that to Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Anyway I hate the "cut" look. I like a man who looks fit without looking vain.

'Twas such a white time. Ahhh, all our future leaders of society....

My favorite detail is the Mr. Pibb can on the hood of a car. I was always drinking Mr. Pibb, it was my pop of choice.

Was Mr. Pibb just a southeast regional favorite? I don't remember seeing it much in the midwest.

R20

YOU BETTA RUN!

YOU BETTA HIDE!

I remember when that was one of about 20 videous MTV had and we all got sooooo fucking sick of it.

I do wonder if Spring Break is any fun anymore. Everyone is so sensitive about what constitutes consent and assault and respect, none of those things tend to go with Spring Break.

LOL only on DL does someone frame fun at spring break as "if you can't rape anymore, what do you *do* on spring break?!"

I went to Fort Lauderdale with fraternity brothers in the 1980s for Spring Break. It was wild.

[quote]Definitely thinner back then. Seems cellulite wasn't invented til the early aughts.

Cellulite got invented around the same time high-fructose corn syrup started being added en masse to all food items.

[quote] I do wonder if Spring Break is any fun anymore. Everyone is so sensitive about what constitutes consent and assault and respect, none of those things tend to go with Spring Break.

There was a time when everyone understood the game of getting drunk to get laid. If people the next day regretted having sex, they could just blame the alcohol and move on. If women got pregnant, they had an abortion. Now, as with many other things, it’s someone else’s fault and responsibility.

Perms for the ladies, feathered hair for the guys!

[quote]LOL only on DL does someone frame fun at spring break as "if you can't rape anymore, what do you *do* on spring break?!"

🤣🤣😁

I was the one who posted that and realized how ridiculous it sounded, but at the same time Spring Break, or at least in the 90s spring break, was a free for all of drunken hooking up. That was kind of the goal. Drink lots, fuck now, get names later - if at all. If some one got railed by the Delta Chi pledge class at the Panama City Days Inn, no one went to jail.

[quote] If some one got railed by the Delta Chi pledge class at the Panama City Days Inn, no one went to jail.

Yoo hoo! Over here *waves kerchief* I'm available!

If you had drunken sex with someone and then the next morning when you had sobered up you regretted it (usually because the guy was someone you would never have been attracted to if you had been sober) you just shrugged it off like "well, that's life" and moved on. Maybe tonight you'll hook up with someone much better!

And not one guy with shaved pubes among them.

I remember driving to Sanibel with a few fraternity brothers for Spring Break. We had rented a huge beachfront condo, and spent our days getting stoned, sitting on the beach, and playing tennis. We messed around with some high school girls from St. Louis, who were also there on break. I remember I was supposed to be reading “Tom Jones”, which just turned yellow on the dashboard. Such good times.

When did the 1980s become vintage?

The 1940’s was vintage in the 80’s. The 80’s was 40 long years years ago.

The 1980s are long ago AF, bro.

Even kids today recognize the 1980s as a magical era that’s still relevant. It’s so different than how we viewed the 1940s or 1930s. I think most of us living then didn’t realize how important it was going to be.

[quote]Even kids today recognize the 1980s as a magical era that’s still relevant. It’s so different than how we viewed the 1940s or 1930s. I think most of us living then didn’t realize how important it was going to be.

The 80s are viewed today with the same nostalgia as the 50s were in the 80s.

The nostalgia for the 50s was in the 70s, and it was only reflected in a modern retelling of the 50s like Happy Days and Grease and derivatives from that and not an appreciation of the actual cultural output of the decade.

Once creatives reach their yuppie years they start to long for the hazy nostalgia of their youth (usually one they were barely old enough to remember). It happened in the early 80's with the 50's, in the mid-late 90's with the 70's, in the mid-late aughts with the late 70's/early 80's, and now with the late 80's/early 90's with the millenials.

I was around and miserable. Had a blast kn the 1990s.

Nobody wants to go back to the Reagan Years.

So some of you guys that went say it was a blast but give zero details. Did any of you hookup with other guys, watch crazy sex, what did you do on these trips to make them awesome?

All of these people are old enough to be grandparents now.

I like the loincloth in the tenth picture!

I was born in 1976.

I spent the '80s being afraid of HIV, gay-bashing and getting thrown out of my parents' house.

I spent the '90s being afraid of HIV and gay-bashing.

I spent the '00s being afraid of HIV.

I don't understand the concept of nostalgia.

So in 30 years you never heard about the ancient device called a condom? r52 must also be very fem to have all these worries.

r52 I'm the same age as you and I sucked and fucked my way through the 90s and 00s before I settled down. I had a blast. You should've used condoms and stopped being so uptight.

"Even kids today recognize the 1980s as a magical era that’s still relevant."

Dementia is sad, isn't it?

Nostalgia is a liar.