Is this how College Partying was like in the 80s? - Spring Break (1983) Discussion

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[–] lilant 17 years ago

I will never know.

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Oh, yeah, baby...it was. I remember my trip to Ft Lauderdale (one of the last good years before the old farts turned into a dead zone), it was pretty much like this. The old fogies, plus the change in drinking laws (21 to drink beer instead of 18) pretty much killed Spring Break for Flordia. That's why most Spring Breakers head to Mexico now...18 yrs old to drink, and lightly enforced.

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[–] InstaGator 17 years ago

Yes, this is more or less how it was.
And I am sorry, but you did miss out. The 80's were a simpler time, and hedonism often ruled.

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[–] premont 17 years ago

I knew a guy in college a lot like OT - could get a lot of chicks, loved to party. I was more like the 2 nerds Nelson and Adam, lol.

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[–] Carly_fan 17 years ago

I think the girls are hotter now, but it was easier to get laid back then.

the only thing to worry about was VD and spring break movies were a guaranteed tit-fest, not like they are today.

yeah, todays kids sure are missing out on a lot of everything. It's almost like living in the 50s again - it's all about material things and money. Back then you could have fun, get wasted, get laid, without having to spend a lot of cash doing it.

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[–] rino7789 17 years ago

Back then, girls looked more natural, and not made up like they are today. I miss the 80's!

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[–] RobBase086-1 14 years ago

I was a teenager in the 80's and wished I could have partied and have some fun back then.

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[–] jwilharm 17 years ago

Yes - college students did party like that back in the 80s. Most universities still had awesome Greek systems, thus the great partying. Now, most universities have clamped down on fraternities, thus making hard core partying not what it once was. My fraternity had beer on tap almost every day. Miss those days!

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[–] premont 17 years ago

It used to be pretty hard core in the dorms too. Once Friday afternoon came around there would be music blaring full volume and it would stay that way all night. Saturday's too. I don't know what it's like these days.

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[–] dave4248185 17 years ago

No RJ, this is NOT what it was like back then. Great movie and a lot of fun too. But realistic? NOPE!! Trust me, you missed nothing.

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[–] dbldnii 17 years ago

Yes it was great times. topless keg-stands and anal chugs were the best. I encourage all of todays youth to carry on the tradition.

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[–] rino7789 17 years ago

Actually it was far more realistic than not. I knew plenty of guys in the 80's who came back from Spring Break with wild stories.

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[–] thegoldengunn 17 years ago

I was in my late teens when the movie was filmed and i grew up in Ft Lauderdale..I spent most days at the beach.. The strip ruled in Ft Lauderdale used to take u a half tank of gas to make one trip up the strip..But now u can clear the whole strip in 10 mins..They redirected traffic to go behind most of the hotels..So it pretty much sucks..But the clubs were hopping and so were most of the women..I would say its an accurate portrayel of the way the spring break scene was in the 80s in ft lauderdale..

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[–] RobBase086-1 17 years ago

I was born in 1972 and remember quite well how the 80's were even though I started to become a teenager by 1985. I wished that I was born like a few years earlier so that I could have enjoyed the 80's like that.

I am now 35 years old. The whole thing of it is that today it has gotten to be too Politically Correct in todays society that is why you do not see half of the things that we could in the 70's or 80's.

I remember back in the day when a PG movie showed some womens breasts. Then in 1984 they created PG-13 that would show less nudity and more swearing in the movies than before. The movies today really are not as good as the original movies from the 80's I hate to say it.

It has been a long time since I have seen this movie. I remember watching it on USA UP ALL NIGHT on The USA Network on the weekends. Boy those were the days when they showed some great movies you know!

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[–] michelle-moran 15 years ago

It actually was just like this. I grew up in Ft. Lauderdale in the 80's and it was just like this. Actually, maybe it was wilder. So, yeah, you missed out.

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[–] ATG6 (3000) 3 years ago

yeah, Florida spring break was wild.
Typical Saturday at a typical college in the 80's, not so much.

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[–] woofagooba 14 years ago

You didn't get out much. Seriously.

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[–] hereminton 15 years ago

I really couldn't say, even though I attended college from 1986-1989, just a few years after this movie was out. I never partied, and was usually a loner. But I do remember my spring breaks very well, and it was 22 years ago today, on Friday, March 6, 1987, that I went home and began the one during my freshman year in college (it was one day after I turned 19). I stayed at home for most of it, though did go to Columbia, SC the last two days (with my grandmother and her friend, and stayed at her sister-in-law's house, to attend a funeral-hardly a spring break trip), didn't go anywhere near Fort Lauderdale.

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[–] regularfellow 15 years ago

I like this.

I haven't any stories to share, but I would love to read more.

Sordid details please. :)

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[–] keith66-1 15 years ago

Seriously I would give anything to have been a teenager in the 50's, 60's, 70's, or 80's. All of those decades were so cool and fascinating to me. The music, movies and pop culture. 2001-2009 were my highschool/college years and these times are way more faceless than any decade ever.

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[–] saint-21 15 years ago

its too much technolgy. money. matriel things.. girls were cooler back then.. plus no body piercing and tattoos...

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[–] sirtj228 14 years ago

A much more simple and laid back time....

today kids try to hard and are much less mature....

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[–] kkirves 14 years ago

Yes this is just like the way it was. I went to 5 Spring breaks in the 1980's, including the one when this was shot(1982)..If you look right behind Perry Lang in the Scene at The Button when they are drinking the beer bong, I am just behind and to the left of him...The guys in this movie were great and had a lot of fun filming it. I was also at SUMMERS when they filmed the belly flop scene and the Button for the W-T shirt Scene....Great times

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[–] skidrowmofo-1 14 years ago

I did the Lauderdale spring break once in '84. One of the best weeks of my life. It truly was a different time back then, it was very unapologetic. I spent most of my time at the New Wave bar, man it was all about sex and beer. I made some great friends that I still have to this day. Brodie from the Bronx rest in peace my friend, you're not missing much.

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[–] burvegas-1 13 years ago

I was born in the wrong gerneration too. Being born in 1976, I was way behind my times. Once the 90's came along the American culture went into the toilet. I blame rap music and white kids being reverse racist.

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[–] gerard-21 13 years ago

Yes, this is how you rocked as a older adolescent/young adult in the 80s, pre-Aids. But sadly, this was torwards the end of a free-love, party movement that had begun about 15 years ealier in the late 60s. Like I alluded to in my 1st sentence, once knowledge of Aids became widespread, the game changed and things quickly got lame. Drinking was thought of a a right of passage, I went to a Jesuit University and the priests used to throw a welcoming party for incoming freshmen where the beer flowed like Niagra Falls! Now, college-age binge drinking is villified as some sort of gateway drug that would lead you to having unprotected sex.

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[–] miked272001 11 years ago

I can't really commemt on if partying was like this in the 1980's because I didn't really party in the 1980's, nor was I in Florida much in the 1980's.

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