<p>Stayed on campus and caught up on the reading.</p>
<p>Not the 70’s but in the 80’s I always went home. I only went to school about an hour and a half away. I don’t remember spring break being a big event although some kids went to Palm Springs.</p>
<p>Miami Beach
Key West
Vail/Aspen
Baja California</p>
<p>All via car pool.(4 guys split costs and driving straight thru)
Great time everytime for under $300 each</p>
<p>I went once (1979). Four in a Chevette … tons of girls sharing an efficiency a couple miles off the beach in Ft. Lauderdale. We hit happy hours for cheap drinks & free food. Sunscreen was not as good as it is today, and I burn easily - spent lots of time in the shade of a pool bar at some beach hotel. It was pretty fun, I guess, but I didn’t feel any need to ever go back.</p>
<p>One of my friends made a similar trip the following year but ran out of money. We didn’t have credit cards in those days! She entered a wet t shirt contest to get money (she won).</p>
<p>Home
Treasure Cay, Bahamas
Ft. Meyers Beach
NYC</p>
<p>'79 to '84 Breaks I visited Daytona Beach. Just N of that was Brewmaster’s a restuarant/bar serving steaks and nice meals. With the meal came all the draft beer free. We ate very slowly. Big Daddy’s and The Famous Hole were really popular bars. I still love the smell of Hawaiian Tropic.</p>
<p>And, once we came across a strip bar that had a big sign that said “No Colors”.
My friend asked, “Does that mean they don’t allow blacks?” Even to this day we laugh when we think of his misunderstanding.</p>
<p>O.K. I give up. What does “No Colors” mean?</p>
<p>I’m guessing gang colors …</p>
<p>OT–we went to a cafe recommended by a local when we were on a neighbor island to do a health clinic. There was a BIG sign that said, “No hoodies, no shades.” We left that place promptly & found another–not interested in possibly being around a robbery, plus one of our staff members WAS wearing a hoodie & we were all wearing dark glasses–it was bright morning!</p>
<p>That, no colors, would mean no motorcycle gang vests.</p>
<p>1977 Ft. Lauderdale, freshman year. A once in a lifetime experience. Other spring breaks were happily spent at home.</p>
<p>Myrtle Beach,South Carolina</p>
<p>Mostly at home, but senior year I went backpacking on the AT. Got snowed in.</p>
<p>Exactly. “Colors” referred to any emblem, or identifying article of clothing of any gang. Motorcycle gangs mostly, in that setting. No one was permitted in with a shirt or jacket, or any clothing display that would identify any club. It had nothing to do in any way with anyone’s ancestry.</p>
<p>Thanks for explaining to this naive midwesterner. I have heard this term, but it’s been in recent years.</p>
<p>From IL. Junior year, took the City of New Orleans to the city of New Orleans. Senior year, went to Boston to visit (now) DH. We went out to the Cape one day; does that count as going to the beach?</p>
<p>South Padre Island - some years, a bunch of us rented one or two condos and one summer we camped at the public campground. That was when I found out for sure that I am NOT a camper!</p>
<p>I went to college in Virginia but I was from Florida and lived just a couple of miles from Ft. Lauderdale (still do, for that matter!) so I would go home for spring break but would bring friends/roommates home with me. They didn’t have to spend any money on a hotel but we could spend our days on the beach and our nights in the clubs with the crowds. It was great!</p>
<p>Once, senior year in 1979, Ft. Lauderdale from Penn State. Took the first driving shift in an old, old, old broken-down station wagon that shimmied the whole way. I drove from UP to North Carolina, part of the way in the snow. Had almost no money, the weather was cold and we had palmetto bugs all over in our hotel room. Yuck.</p>
<p>My sophomore year I drove to Laguna Beach, CA with a friend and spent time on the beach and went scuba diving. I don’t remember doing anything the other three years.</p>
<p>We slept at night on the floor in his uncle’s house. Laguna Beach was full of hippies and surfers and seemed very exciting and exotic to me. I didn’t meet any girls or go to any parties. But I did get suburned and I bought a green tie-dyed t-shirt that I kept for years afterward.</p>