Vintage Photographs Show How Students Celebrated Spring Break in Texas in the Late 1980s

Every year students across the country spend the week leading up to spring break by pulling all-nighters, cramming for midterms and fidgeting over their upcoming plans.

Then many ditch parkas for bikinis and energy drinks for beer bongs as they cut and run to warm, sunny beaches all along the U.S. coast.

Florida is credited for initiating this indulgent blowout in the 1920s, but Texas had its own hot spots along the coast in full swing by the late 1980s. About the time, MTV blew the phenomenon up with its classic annual feature “Spring Break.”

Students from colleges across the state and beyond are captured bikini-clad and sandy, cruising the beaches and chugging from beer bongs — the classic, unbridled carousing of spring break.

The gallery here is a look back, nearly 30 years ago, to parties from Matamoros to Port Aransas.

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30 Wonderful Photographs of Young Hawaiian Girls From the 1970s

There is no doubt that Hawaii is one of the most breathtaking places in the world, making it an extremely desirable tourist destination today.

The big boom really came when Hawaii gained statehood in 1959, and annual visitors jumped to 240,000. By 1970, they had swelled to over 1.7 million.

Photographer Nick DeWolf took some wonderful color photographs of young girls hanging out in Hawaii in 1973.

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Nostalgic Photos of American Teenage Girls at Texas Beaches During the 1980s

Whoever said “less is more” didn’t come of age in the 1980s. Girl, you know it’s true! ’80s fashion was all about color, size, and experimentation. We wore blue mascara and yellow eye shadow, we had hair to the skies and shoulder pads not far behind it, and the lines between men’s and women’s fashion blurred.

These amazing photographs below were taken by Grady McAllister at some Texas beaches during the 1980s.

“During that period, I was there nearly every weekend to practice my photography. I took the photos at East Beach, Stewart Beach, and The Hut Club, and the dates run from 1980 to 1988.”

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40 Cool Snaps That Defined the 1930s Beachwear Styles of Women

From pajamas and jumpsuits to shorts or even simple swimwears, here is a cool photo collection that show beachwear styles of women in the 1930s.

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Cool Pics That Capture a Beautiful Bikini Girl on the Beach in the 1980s

During the '80s, women's independence was only growing. Bikinis became popular and even more risqué and fashion forward; with patterns and designs that were seriously on-trend.

We easily saw young women in various bikini styles on the beaches in this period. These cool pics were found by Steven Martin that captured an unknown girl in bikini in the 1980s.

Vintage Beach Fashion: Cool Snaps of a Beautiful Girl in Swimsuit Posing on Baltic Sea in 1935

A cool photo set was found by apfelauge that shows a beautiful girl in swimsuit posing on the beach of the Baltic Sea in 1935.

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30 Candid Photographs of Marilyn Monroe in Black Swimsuit From the 1959 Movie "Some Like It Hot" Beach Scene

On Saturday, September 6, 1958, Marilyn Monroe and the 175-person company of Some Like It Hot arrived at the Hotel del Coronado to begin location shots, after filming in Hollywood the previous four weeks.

The movie, cowritten and directed by Billy Wilder, is about two musicians, played by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, who, to elude a gang of bootleggers, dress up in drag and join an all-girl band. Tony Curtis falls in love with the band’s lead singer, Sugar Kane Kowalczyk, played by Monroe. Wilder set the movie in 1929 Chicago, which was re-created at the Samuel Goldwyn Studios in Hollywood and at a resort hotel in Miami, Florida, for which the Hotel Del was the stand-in. The San Diego Union’s drama editor, Edwin Martin, noted in a puff piece that Monroe was “still beautiful and still shy.”

There were many problems with Marilyn Monroe, who lacked concentration and suffered from an addiction to pills. She could not memorize many of her lines and required 47 takes to get “It’s me, Sugar” correct, instead saying either “Sugar, it’s me” or “It’s Sugar, me”. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon made bets during the filming on how many takes she would need to get it right. Three days were scheduled for shooting the scene with Shell Jr. and Sugar at the beach, as Monroe had many complicated lines, but the scene was finished in only 20 minutes. Monroe’s acting coach Paula Strasberg and Monroe’s husband Arthur Miller both tried to influence the production, which Wilder and other crew members found annoying.

Billy Wilder spoke in 1959 about filming another movie with Monroe: “I have discussed this with my doctor and my psychiatrist and they tell me I’m too old and too rich to go through this again.” But Wilder also admitted: “My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?” He also stated that Monroe played her part wonderfully.

Some Like It Hot opened to largely positive reviews and is today considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.  In 2005, the British Film Institute included this film on its list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14.

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A Day at Mission Beach, California, August 1970

Mission Beach (the beach) is a long wide sandy beach in the Mission Beach area of San Diego. It is a laid-back neighborhood whose namesake sands attract surfers, sunbathers and volleyball players. A paved path curls around Mission Bay, a popular spot for water sports.

“I went down and spent a week with my cousin living in the Mission Bay beach community. After surfing with my beach air mat for a couple of days I took a break and just took pictures.”

These fascinating black and white photos Lance Nix took people at the Mission Bay beach on a day of August 1970.

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Wonderful Pics That Capture Everyday Life of Daytona Beach, Florida in the 1980s

Daytona Beach is a city in Volusia County, Florida, United States. It lies about 51 miles (82.1 km) northeast of Orlando, 86 miles (138.4 km) southeast of Jacksonville, and 242 miles (389.5 km) northwest of Miami. Daytona Beach is also a principal city of the Fun Coast region of Florida.

The city is historically known for its beach where the hard-packed sand allows motorized vehicles to drive on the beach in restricted areas. This hard-packed sand made Daytona Beach a mecca for motorsports, and the old Daytona Beach Road Course hosted races for over 50 years. This was replaced in 1959 by Daytona International Speedway.

Daytona Beach is also the headquarters for NASCAR.

These beautiful pictures from Angie Saycheez that captured everyday life of Daytona Beach, Florida in the 1980s.

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20 Fascinating Pics That Capture the Daytona Bike Week in 1980

For a brief period of time before the over-commercialized vendor spectacle its now become, Daytona Bike Week included a wide variety of spectator activities that revolved around racing - any way, anytime, anywhere.

The sand drags were tolerated by the community of Daytona Shores, while at the Cabbage Patch racing for pinks was a cat and mouse game between deputies and racers.

Matches were set up, then a group of bikers would take off in one direction as a decoy. The cops would follow, while the money race slipped off as a small group to a suitable stretch of pavement for the actual face off.

These fascinating photos from John Siebenthaler that show the Daytona Bike Week in March 1980.

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