Chapter 1: What is the origin of Spring Break in America?
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Chapter 2: How did the Great Miami Hurricane influence Spring Break?
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Hey, and welcome to The Short Stuff. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and everybody else is present in spirit, and this is Step You Should Know Short Stuff. Where the boys are. Is that the song? I think so. Oh. I always think of that Book of Love song. I want to be where the boys are.
The Book of Love. Wait, you say yours. I want to hear it.
I want to be where the boys are, but I'm not allowed to.
You've not heard that song? I didn't know Lou Reed sang a song like that.
Do I sound like Lou Reed?
I'll take that.
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Chapter 3: What role did the College Coaches Swim Forum play in Spring Break's popularity?
You kind of speak singing, which is Lou Reed's deal.
Yeah, I do speak sing. I can't put my all into it.
Hey man, a lot of people have made great careers out of speak singing. No shame.
That's right. All right. I might take you up on that and become a speak singer.
That's right. I mean, that's the gateway to being a white male rapper. So just be careful.
Okay. I will be careful. If you see me with like three lines cut into my side, the side of my hair, maybe take me out for some drinks and give me some to talking to.
I've done that accidentally.
Oh, I have too. Well, Yumi did it accidentally to me, but I'm talking intentional.
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Chapter 4: How did the movie 'Where the Boys Are' impact Spring Break culture?
Okay. Yeah.
All right. So we're talking spring break. That's why you sang. Can you sing it again, please? Where the boys are. That was lovely. That is actually, they think, where spring break, the American institution of going to warm places in the spring, usually from northern universities and getting plastered for a week, came from. A book called, what's it called, Chuck?
Where the boys are.
Not bad, but okay.
No, speak singing.
You got to say where the boys are.
Okay. I just want to be in your group.
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Chapter 5: What was the significance of Freaknik in Atlanta's Spring Break history?
Oh, yeah, we could do that. We could do a speak singing barbershop duo. Not even a quartet.
Yeah, that's such a great bad idea.
Oh, we can also add the slide whistle you got me too as like an extra thing.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's our only instrument as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah. So where the boys are.
All right. So you mentioned where the boys are a bunch and that that was sort of the big launching point for spring break. But we got to back up a little bit to some sort of ground laying, I guess.
People since the 19th century, apparently American college students, even way back in the 1800s, would take little weekend breaks during the spring to like hot springs and maybe even to the coast to kind of get themselves right. And in the 20th century, early in the 20th century, the road trip was born and woman colleges, you know, woman only colleges were born.
And you pair those things together and you're going to get girls going to see boys.
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Chapter 6: How did changes in laws affect Spring Break celebrations in Florida?
And so all of a sudden, members of the opposite sex were really hanging out with each other a lot more.
Yeah. This is when Biff met Muffy.
Yeah.
That's right. And then people started drinking a lot more like kind of out in public. Like if you went to the military at 18, like it was OK to, you know, go to a dive bar and get drunk. But that was kind of frowned upon in college. But starting, you know, around the early 1920s or so, college kids started drinking.
Yeah, that whole jazz age, I'm guessing, right? Probably. So there was an act of nature, a force of nature that also plays into this pretty prominently, the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926 that said, try again, Miami, and wipe Miami clean. And so the city had to rebuild into the version we know today. But as a part of this,
The nearby city of Fort Lauderdale was like, we need to get people back here. So we're going to do the thing that cities have always done and still continue to do to attract tourists.
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Chapter 7: What are the alternative Spring Break activities offered by universities?
And that is build an Olympic sized swimming pool.
Yeah, I think it was more of a novelty at the time because that was certainly the first one in Florida in 1928. And not too long after, like five or six years later, there was a swimming coach from Colgate University in upstate New York where it's very cold. He said, hey, guys, it's very cold and there aren't a lot of indoor training pools here. So let's go down to Florida.
They built this whiz-bang new pool in Fort Lauderdale. They went down there. They trained in the spring. And by 1938, the College Coaches Swim Forum was formed, and word had gotten around that it was like a good place to go train, which accidentally coincided with the opening of sort of a younger person's bar called the Elbow Room.
Yeah, and the Seabreeze Hotel. It sounds like my kind of place, man.
Chapter 8: How has Spring Break evolved in recent years?
A hotel bar, love those.
Same.
I don't even drink anymore, and I still love a good hotel bar. They're great. So, yeah, these college athletes, these swim teams now had a place to be, Florida, and a place to party, the elbow room. And it's just starting to kind of get back that, like, hey, there's this really fun thing that the swim teams are doing. Other swim teams kind of took part in this, too.
And this idea kind of spread beyond swim teams, college swim teams, to just college students who started to come down to Fort Lauderdale in droves.
Yeah.
They're like, I like to drink. I like to flirt. I like to be in the sun.
I like a farmer's tan.
That's right. So maybe that's a great place to take a break. And we'll be right back with Where the Boys Are.
Where the Boys Are.
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