<p>where did you spring break in the 70’s???</p>
<p>Panama City, Florida 1975,1977,1979</p>
<p>Fort Lauderdale, Florida 1974,1976,1978
(home of the tini-wini-bikini contest)</p>
<p>At my parental home. The whole wild-week-on-the-beach thing was considered to be for the privileged class. I’d heard of Ft. Lauderdale, but understood that was pretty much for the Ivies and the Seven Sisters, not us public university folk.</p>
<p>i was public university with a few hundred $$s in my pocket. sleeping on the beach was free. lol i am from the south so the drive was possible.</p>
<p>I can’t remember what we did from spring break when I was in college in the 70s. From 79-82, we went wherever my then-BF would plan; it was generally camping and costs were very minimal. We always had a wonderful time and saw lovely things and places. It worked out quite nicely most of the time.</p>
<p>At home, working.</p>
<p>frosh = home</p>
<p>soph = home</p>
<p>junior = florida coast … 3 guys in van with $100 each for the whole week including travel … lots of stories I can not repeat on this forum … great trip.</p>
<p>senior = interviewing for summer jobs</p>
<p>immediate masters = interviewing for real jobs</p>
<p>1977-home
1978-Branson, MO Everything was closed. Weather was cold.
1979-Daytona Beach Hated it. Cheap dirty hotels. Kids drinking 24/7. Not the type of kids I enjoyed meeting.
1980-Denver, CO Toured several business with my univ. sponsored business club. Most enjoyable trip.</p>
<p>LasMa - I agree. Us regular kids did not spring break. There was no $$$ for frivolities. I spent all of mine at school, working.</p>
<p>My oldest two worked as well. They didn’t seem interested anyway.</p>
<h1>3 - worked very hard and went on a cruise this year. Her money.</h1>
<h1>4 - drove her 12 year old car to Daytona with her roomie. The roomie’s g-rents winter there and they are staying with them. They will also visit my dad for a day. Her money.</h1>
<p>Like others said, spring break was for the kids with money. I honestly didn’t know anyone one who did this. More than just the money, it’s a different mindset, too, I think.</p>
<p>My kids mostly came home, though I believe D (who had a two week spring break), spent one week of it a couple times hiking part of the AT with a school group which cost close to nothing.</p>
<p>Warm locale “Spring break” wasn’t really as common as it is now in our area in the seventies. Definitely didn’t happen with high schoolers. Families did head west and go skiing, though in high school. In college mid-seventies, there were always some kids that piled into someone’s car and headed for Florida but not in the droves of today. </p>
<p>So for me…spring 75 - went home, spring break 76 - was in Boston on internship, spring break 77 - was in Europe getting ready to head back to US after foreign study and spring break 78 went south with roommate.</p>
<p>I never heard of the concept from 65 to 70. It was another time and place. I went home for the week to see my family. I also worked on campus; one time I was in a demonstration to end the war.</p>
<p>Another regular kid here who just went home and worked at my summer job, when it was available. Something else I don’t remember from college in the 70s is having a Fall Break. It was a surprise to us to learn that our oldest d needed to find somewhere to go for 4 days every October because her dorm closed. </p>
<p>“Where the Boys Are” was released in 1960. So some college kids today had grandparents who went on Spring Break.</p>
<p>I vacationed at home with the parentals. I had a job at a family friend’s shop any time I was in town and by spring break time my incidental funds were low enough that a week working was not totally unwelcome. I also spent some time on my front porch in a little protected nook with a reflector, trying to go back to school with some color on my face and to not be too pale as compared to the “going to Florida” crowd.</p>
<p>I only knew a couple of people who went on independent trips. Those that traveled went down to see grandparents in Florida or skiing with family in New England.</p>
<p>“79” High School Senior (what were my parents thinking?) : drove from OH to FL with 3 friends.
“80 and 81” : drove to FL with friends again. One trip we stayed in a cheap hotel, one trip we slept in a campground without a tent or camper.
All these trips were paid for by myself with $$ from summer jobs and babysitting. I remember them each costing about $300.</p>
<p>At home or in my sad little apartment. I didn’t know anyone who had enough money to travel during spring break.</p>
<p>“Porchville”…that would be my family’s porch. Spring break trips were a frill I could not fund on my own…and neither could my parents. You know…I survived.</p>
<p>Freshman and sophomore spring breaks were spent at home looking for summer jobs (or at least putting on the show of looking) and studying/writing term papers.
Junior year spring break at a luxury resort in Hawaii. It was our honeymoon…and our wedding gift from DH’s parents.
Different world then…</p>
<p>Instead of working 30 hours a week as a produce clerk, I worked 48 hours. It would be strawberry season. A constant toil of putting cellophane on top of those little green baskets.</p>
<p>I went home. So did everybody else – at least among the students I knew. We weren’t made of money, and neither were our parents.</p>
<p>My kids did the same, except for my son, during senior year, who spent Spring Break visiting graduate schools that had accepted him.</p>
<p>Only one student I know went on spring break- all the way to Palm Springs from Los Angeles. She just hung out with her parents and a friend there. It just was not the thing. One year I went and visited a friend in San Francisco while I was on break, but she was still in classes.</p>