For as long as it has been around, Florida has been the place to go for letting your hair down, throwing on a bathing suit, and getting after it on the beach.
For as long as it has been around, Florida has been the place to go for letting your hair down, throwing on a bathing suit, and getting after it on the beach. There's a reason it's been the spring break capital of the world for as long as springs have had breaks.
So if you want to relive your Florida glory days, whenever those days were, you should check out these 22 pics showing what life looked like in vintage Florida.
1
A Woman in Sarasota Florida
“She was Florida state champion in trick water-skiing.”
2
Spring Break
Florida in the 1980s.
3
Couple on the Beach
Palm Beach Florida in the 1920s.
4
A Girl and Her Muscle Car
Florida in the ‘70s.
5
Stocking Up
Spring Break in Florida, 1980s.
6
University of Florida Coeds
With mascot Albert in the 1960s.
7
Daytona Beach
Florida, 1904.
8
Girls at a Festival
Coral Springs, Florida, 1983.
9
Surface-To-Air Missiles on the Beaches of Florida
The peak of the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 27th, 1962.
10
A Couple in the Florida Keys
Spring of 1974.
11
Thumbing a Lift
Florida, 1976.
12
Puritan
Preaching to spring breakers about modesty, 1980s.
13
Burt Reynolds and a Girl at the Beach
Florida in 1955.
14
A Couple With Their Catches
Fishing in Lantana, Florida.
15
A Diving Contest
Palm Beach, Florida, 1959.
16
David Isom
Braking the color line in a segregated pool in Florida at 19 years old. June 8, 1958. This resulted in officials closing the facility.
17
John F. Kennedy Holding a snake in Palm Beach
Florida, 1936.
18
Belly Flop
Spring Break, 1981.
19
Odd Poses
A pool in Florida, 1957.
20
Tampa Florida
At night in 1961.
21
Four Dudes
Shark fishing off the coast of Florida, 1970.
