Friday, March 09, 2012

The way we were...Daytona Beach Spring Break, 1962

Fifty years ago, in April 1962, NBC News discovered something called Spring Break in Daytona Beach.

Anchorman Chet Huntley reported that college students drank a lot beer while dancing the Twist, the Mashed Potato and the Hully Gully.

Brian Williams notes that some of the kids in the video are now pushing 70!

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