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...

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...