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'Where the Boys Are' Disproves Rising Seas Scare
NewsBusters ^ | October 24, 2014 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 10/24/2014 6:47:33 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

"Where the Boys Are" is both an entertaining 1960 movie as well as a catchy Connie Francis song which was the theme tune of the film. However, it now appears that "Where the Boys Are" is performing a great unintended public service. The opening credits of the movie has preserved for us an aerial view just where the ocean of 1960 was in relation to the sand and State Road A1A in Fort Lauderdale. Guess what? The beach is exactly as wide now as it was in 1960.

On Friday morning Brian Craig, co-host of the Steve Kane Show, the longest running radio program in South Florida mentioned that just by watching "Where the Boys Are" you can see the beach is just as wide now as 54 years ago. Your humble correspondent decided to verify this assertion and found this title credits aerial view of Fort Lauderdale Beach. Yup! The current ocean level is just about where it was when George Hamilton and Yvette Mimieux were working on their tans at the beach back then.

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KEYWORDS: risingseas
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I've always been a fan of this movie but with the discovery about that opening title credits aerial view of Fort Lauderdale Beach, I am now an even bigger fan. Great theme song too!
1 posted on 10/24/2014 6:47:33 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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Watch the old 70s film with Charleton Heston, “The Planet of the Apes” and look at the high water marks on the rocks surrounding Lake Powell. The enviros love to point these things out these days as bad news. Funny that they were there in the 70s.


2 posted on 10/24/2014 6:51:05 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Ebola and Enterovirus-D68. Proud members of Viruses Without Borders.)
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3 posted on 10/24/2014 6:56:07 PM PDT by RBStealth (--raised by wolves, disciplined and educated by nuns.)
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On Sunday, November 26, 1961, I was walking down a street in Bern, Switzerland when I was amazed to notice that Where the Boys Are was being shown in a local movie theater.
4 posted on 10/24/2014 6:57:47 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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I prefer to reference "Girl Happy." Because I was in "Girl Happy."
5 posted on 10/24/2014 7:01:28 PM PDT by clintonh8r ( BRILLIANT, WITTY (but incendiary)TAG LINE REMOVED BY MODERATORS.)
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Connie Francis, who sang the theme song of Where the Boys Are, later got political and recorded a campaign song for Richard Nixon in 1968.

Nixon's the One

6 posted on 10/24/2014 7:07:43 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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“Watch the old 70s film with Charleton Heston, “The Planet of the Apes” and look at the high water marks on the rocks surrounding Lake Powell”

Yeah, but did you see NYC?


7 posted on 10/24/2014 7:10:56 PM PDT by rey
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LOL! Yeah. Forgot about that scene.


8 posted on 10/24/2014 7:13:32 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Ebola and Enterovirus-D68. Proud members of Viruses Without Borders.)
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It was after Ebola hit!


9 posted on 10/24/2014 7:16:56 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: PJ-Comix

Well, yeah. But only because global warming is making the seabed sink.

/sarc


10 posted on 10/24/2014 7:35:27 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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I know for a fact that Rockaway Beach is exactly where it was 60 years ago, but it wasn’t 55 years ago, after Hurricane Donna. I remember water under the boardwalk for months afterwards. They just pumped water from the ocean back onto the beach.

It is hard make any judgment one way or the other about sea level based on one locality. Land rises and subsumes. Louisiana is sinking, and it has nothing to do with rising oceans, it’s due to sinking land.

Modern satellite geodesy probably gives us our first really reliable measurements of sea level, and yes it is rising, but no more quickly than at the beginning of the 20th Century.


11 posted on 10/24/2014 7:39:11 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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Connie Francis.

Of course the beach is the same size as it was. So’s my beach on long island. But they never ask me


12 posted on 10/24/2014 7:51:44 PM PDT by stanne
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Fort Lauderdale “Replenishes” its beaches every few years by pumping in sand from offshore.

Probably not the best example to use.


13 posted on 10/24/2014 7:51:46 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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“Where the Boys Are” is a guilty pleasure.


14 posted on 10/24/2014 7:52:25 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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Its the perfect example. Nature is CONSTANTLY changing. (I’m guessing they do the same on the beaches in CA).


15 posted on 10/24/2014 7:55:51 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: tcrlaf

And the sand that was pumped in from offshore came from where? I suspect the exact same amount pumped in from offshore came from onshore previously.


16 posted on 10/24/2014 8:04:48 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Put lipstick on a Communist and call it a Progressive, but it's still a Communist with lipstick.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Finally! A source of climate dara we can trust!


17 posted on 10/24/2014 8:20:11 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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I spent MANY days at that fabulous beach!! Especially on Spring Break in mid-60s!!! The Elbo Room!!


18 posted on 10/24/2014 8:21:31 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: tcrlaf

My backyard ends where salt water begins... water’s been in the same place for 30 years - higher with hurricanes and high tides but other than that... just the same.


19 posted on 10/24/2014 8:27:23 PM PDT by GOPJ (Obama would rather we die than offend West Africa. - freeper goldstategop (same for the CDC))
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Pumping the sand back is due to erosion, NOT rising sea level. If it was due to rising sea level, the sand would be piled over A1A.


20 posted on 10/24/2014 9:04:52 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Kim Jong Un last seen on a buffet line)
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