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Spring Break: Totally Rad Photos from the '80s
weather.com ^ | n/a | Camille Mann

Posted on 07/04/2014 10:12:23 AM PDT by FlJoePa

Some great photos.



TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History
KEYWORDS: fl; springbreak
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To: Rebelbase
The 70's had the best music of any decade. All one has to do is listen to the Dazed and Confused soundtrack for proof.

I'd say the 80's had better spring breaks though!

21 posted on 07/04/2014 10:56:46 AM PDT by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: FreedomPoster

I bet the author of the article converted the color photos just to be artsy.


22 posted on 07/04/2014 10:57:41 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: FlJoePa

A Fort Lauderdale police officer yells at college students after disobeying his order to not ride bikes in the middle of A1A, March 2, 1985, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Robert Mayer/SF Sun Sentinel/Polaris)

Today, they'd have gotten tazed, beaten and arrested.

23 posted on 07/04/2014 10:58:03 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

and their dog shot


24 posted on 07/04/2014 10:58:29 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Taliban, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: FlJoePa

I feel like such a chump. All those spring breaks I had a job and paid taxes.

Stupidly I still work spring breaks and pay taxes. I’ve never received a single thank you card from a welfare dependent.


25 posted on 07/04/2014 11:03:38 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: truth_seeker

I beg to disagree there. I’ll always be an ‘80s music fan.

As for the fashion, it was better than a lot of what passes for style today. We females who were in our 20s back then didn’t look like slobs with masculinized short hair, flip flops, and loads of tattoos. We wore short skirts, figure-flattering clothing, and spike heels. We looked like females, and we loved it.


26 posted on 07/04/2014 11:04:31 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: FlJoePa

The 80’s was a foolish attempt to replace guitars with keyboards/synthesizers and call it Rock.


27 posted on 07/04/2014 11:08:55 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: minnesota_bound
I like color photos better. It brings out the flag....


28 posted on 07/04/2014 11:12:29 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Joe 6-pack

The main difference was people were nostalgic for the 50’s and 60’s then.


29 posted on 07/04/2014 11:18:28 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
music was way better in the 80s than that 70s crap that passed for music.

I totally agree. I look at the 70's as the Dark Ages of music and the 80's as the Renaissance.

30 posted on 07/04/2014 11:48:04 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: FlJoePa
No Pajama Boy....

Not one millenial testing on their GD smartphone...........

31 posted on 07/04/2014 11:48:35 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: VanDeKoik
Many of whom actually buy superhero under wear, spend all day playing video games, argue over comic book characters

Lifeless, spiritless, soulless. We all seen too many kids who are dead in the eyes.

They are told from early on that America is hell on earth and eventually they come to make it so, for themselves and often others.

32 posted on 07/04/2014 12:12:20 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: AlaskaErik

people who like 70s music like it because the only way it can possibly sound any good at all is you’re high on pot or acid. I was a little kid then and just about all 70s music actually made me afraid/uncomfortable when I heard it. Not church music, not 50s music, not classical music. I played classical music.

later 60s/70s music was drug/hippie music. 80s music was characterized largely by being upbeat, happy, optimistic music. One genre however I don’t like was metal/satanic.


33 posted on 07/04/2014 12:22:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: FlJoePa

Are they all such poor quality Black and Whites?


34 posted on 07/04/2014 12:22:23 PM PDT by Revel
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To: minnesota_bound

women hug at the waist. men hug at the shoulders.

next time watch how barrycades does it.


35 posted on 07/04/2014 12:23:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: CatherineofAragon
We looked like females,

Yes, you did.

and we loved it.

And so did we.

36 posted on 07/04/2014 12:34:52 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: upchuck

No fake boobs.


37 posted on 07/04/2014 12:45:44 PM PDT by safeasthebanks ("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
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To: safeasthebanks

Hadn’t thought of that. Certainly more true then than now.


38 posted on 07/04/2014 1:01:38 PM PDT by upchuck (Everyday, Joe Wilson becomes more correct!)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Speaking of which, have you seen the Delta ‘80s “get ready for your flight” video? Was your hair like the pair of girls in that? You’ll know the two I mean, and it’s a funny video. I should have thought to add this earlier.

http://youtu.be/eduNjwNvcH4


39 posted on 07/04/2014 2:39:48 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Revel

I think they’re converted color pics, which is a big fail. Still cool to see the scenes, but they’re neither as sharp as a good B&W nor as interesting as color.


40 posted on 07/04/2014 2:41:46 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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