{"id":10115,"date":"2013-04-03T12:11:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T18:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/?p=10115"},"modified":"2013-04-03T12:11:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T18:11:33","slug":"recalling-ghosts-of-spring-break-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=10115","title":{"rendered":"Recalling Ghosts of Spring Break Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/recalling-ghosts-of-spring-break-past\/tom-anselm-pg-2-run-color-this-tgime\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10116\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10116 lazyload\" title=\"Tom Anselm pg 2 (run color this tgime)\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flovalleynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Tom-Anselm-pg-2-run-color-this-tgime--112x150.jpg?resize=112%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 112px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 112\/150;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A Boomer&#8217;s Journal<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Tom Anselm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first day of spring came and went a few weeks ago. And the earth didn&#8217;t get the message. Low temps and crazy snowfalls were the norm rather than warm sun and green sprouts. But luckily there were other signs that bespoke the season.<\/p>\n<p>Area schools took a breather for spring break, and March Madness, aka the NCAA Basketball Tournament, made it&#8217;s inevitable appearance.\u00a0 The former put most parents face to face with the quandary of child care.\u00a0 The latter reduced national productivity and caused untold anguish amongst the die-hard hoops fans as they saw their brackets crumble.\u00a0 I did my patriotic duty, basing my picks on the team rankings, and as of Easter morning, I was &#8220;totally busted.&#8221;\u00a0 Oh well, it&#8217;s still fun.<\/p>\n<p>Back to that phenomenon of Spring Break, with capital letters\u00a0this time. \u00a0The best I can figure, and with the\u00a0 help of\u00a0 my\u00a0 crack\u00a0research team of Wikepedia and Google, it&#8217;s origins can be traced to the celebrations of the good old Greeks and Romans as they ushered in the growing season by honoring Dionysius and Bacchus, the gods of wine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In more modern times, wine was joined by beer, vodka and any number of intoxicants imbibed in warmer climes like Florida and Texas and Mexico, to name a few.\u00a0 Our nation&#8217;s youth took to this in the \u201850s and \u201860s, and there seems to be no end to it.\u00a0 Hollywood made it the thing to do with their productions of &#8220;Where the Boys Are&#8221; and &#8220;Beach Blanket Bingo&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll never forget the sight of\u00a0 perfectly-coiffed former Mousketeer Annette Funicello as she tried to actually act opposite Frankie Avalon.\u00a0 She was awful, but sure looked good in her pink two-piece, that, by today&#8217;s standards resembled my grandma&#8217;s underwear (not that I ever saw that, but\u2026 well, you get the idea.)<\/p>\n<p>My only foray into Spring Break-dom was in 1968.\u00a0 Me and friend Mike from high school decided we&#8217;d be cool and head to Daytona Beach.\u00a0 We of course were taking the economy tour, which consisted of a bunch of snacks, sleeping bags and his green &#8217;64 VW Bug. Reservations?\u00a0 We don&#8217;t need no stinking reservations.\u00a0 Road trip, baby!\u00a0 Yeah, I can&#8217;t recall what my parents must have thought, but I am sure they knew what idiots we were.\u00a0 &#8220;Call us when you get there&#8221;, they said.<\/p>\n<p>Things were so different 45 years ago, with no email or cell phones.\u00a0 I did call when we got there, from a pay phone in an actual booth, reversing the charges, of course.\u00a0 Talk about old school.<\/p>\n<p>So, anyway, we&#8217;re sailing south, through Arkansas, pushing that Bug up to 70, downhill. We get halfway into Mississippi and have to go through this little town called Durant. One stop- light. We come to said light behind an 18-wheeler.\u00a0 He runs the light, which to us is totally hidden from sight. We run it as well, and SMACK, some guy in a big-fendered Ford Galaxy nails us in the left front fender.\u00a0 Lucky we weren&#8217;t T-boned.\u00a0 So here we are, two 19-year-old dorks in the heart of Dixie with a mangled front end and Sheriff Buford T. Cornpone staring into our window.\u00a0 He had the Smokey the Bear hat, big gut, the perfectly-stereotyped small town constable.<\/p>\n<p>Mike calls his dad from the police station, they talk, the sheriff talks, we hand over $50, which is over half our total travel budget.\u00a0 Assuring his dad we are okay and the car is drivable, off we go. We manage to tear off the fender, and with the tire waggling like an oval, we continue south, top speed a hot 50 now.\u00a0 Yeah, Beach or Bust\u2026 after we&#8217;d come dangerously close to the latter.<\/p>\n<p>It took us another 12 hours of drive\/sleep\/drive to get to the Atlantic coast and down to the Daytona.\u00a0 Our first night was spent at a lovely seaside resort, cozying up on a couple of lounge chairs by a garage, with an early-morning shower in swim trunks under an\u00a0 ice-cold nozzle by the lifeguard shack.\u00a0 Ah, luxury.<\/p>\n<p>After a day of wandering and sleeping in the sand, the always-resourceful Mike produced a quart of some indeterminate liquor, the end result of which I quickly became over-served.\u00a0 As we were talking to some girls, I leaned against what I thought was a wall but was in fact a sliding patio door, ending up about five feet to their left, and wondering where everyone had gone.<\/p>\n<p>It would have been hilarious if it weren&#8217;t just so dang stupid.\u00a0 Mike gently escorted me back to Motel VW, where I spent the night quietly and safely.\u00a0 The next day being Easter, and feeling like we&#8217;d risen from the dead, we grabbed some waffles which did not stay with us very long, and headed north.\u00a0 It was a very tedious and shaky return trip.\u00a0 Needless to say, Mike&#8217;s dad was not happy to see him pull up.<\/p>\n<p>That was our first, and last, Spring Break outing. 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