I grew up in Fort Lauderdale.
At best, the city tolerated Spring Breakers. Every couple of years there would be a push to “end” Spring Break and they would crack down on drinking in public, capacity caps at local drinking establishments, public indecency, stuff like that.
It would get quiet for a while and then, slowly, the students would come back.
My friends who still live there say it is much more...urban than it used to be. A lot more violent as well.
I saw The Police on one of their first American tours at Summer’s on the Beach when I was 16. I was not impressed at the time. They had so few songs in their playlist they played some of them multiple times.
I learned much of the female anatomy from wet t-shirt contests held at the various bars. I learned that the Elbo Room, while famous, was boring. I learned to stay away from The Poop Deck.
I’m glad I got the Spring Break experience of the 1970’s and 1980’s. I don’t think they can have such a thing in today’s world any more.
I live in a college town and they shutdown the unofficial Saint Patricks Day celebration some 20 years ago. Saint Patricks day falls during spring break, so the bar owners came up with unofficial Saint Patrick day to make some money. Over the years the conduct got worse. Students were blowing off classes in large numbers and lots of students getting hammered before noon. There would be a student or 2 fall off a balcony or sent to the hospital with alcohol poisoning.