Once upon a time there was a
sleepy oceanside town in South
Florida that came to life for only
two weeks every springtime. Then
a midwestern English professor
wrote a cheeky novel based on his
observations of college guys and
girls on Spring Break 1959 as they
chased each other across the surf
and sand in search of that perfect
someone.
When the novel Where the Boys Are
was released in early 1960 and the
movie version debuted at the end
of that year, it put Fort Lauderdale
on the lips and to-do lists of millions
of North American college
students and other fun-seekers for
much of the next three decades.
The city dubbed ÒThe Venice of
AmericaÓ welcomed everyone and
the party still hasnÕt stopped!