Editing Spring break (section)

=====Fort Lauderdale, Florida=====
[[Fort Lauderdale]]'s reputation as a spring break destination for college students started when the [[Colgate University]] men's swim team arrived to practice there over Christmas break in 1934.<ref>{{cite news |last= Marsh |first= Bill |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/weekinreview/19marsh.html |title= The innocent birth of the spring bacchanal |work= [[The New York Times]] |date= March 19, 2006}}</ref> Attracting approximately 20,000 college students in the 1950s, spring break was still known as 'Spring vacation' and was a relatively low key affair. This began to change when [[Glendon Swarthout]]'s novel, ''Where the Boys Are'' was published in 1960, effectively ushering in modern spring break.<ref>{{cite book|last=Laurie|first=John|title=Spring Break: The Economic, Socio-Cultural and Public Governance Effects of College Students on Spring break Host Locations|year=2008|isbn=9781109023091|page=12}}</ref> Swarthout's 1960 novel was quickly made into a movie of the same title later that year, ''[[Where the Boys Are]]'', in which college girls met boys while on spring break there. The number of visiting college students immediately jumped to over 50,000.<ref name="sfhm">{{Cite news |url=http://historymiamiarchives.org/pdfs/sfh-1991-1.pdf |title=Where the boys were |last=George |first=Paul S. |date=1991 |work=South Florida History Magazine |access-date=November 16, 2017 |publisher=Historical Association of Southern Florida |issue=1 |pages=5–8 |via=[[HistoryMiami]] |archive-date=July 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702041609/http://historymiamiarchives.org/pdfs/sfh-1991-1.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> By the early 1980s, Fort Lauderdale was attracting between 250,000 and 350,000 college students per year during spring break. Residents of the Fort Lauderdale area became so upset at the damage done by college students that the local government passed laws restricting parties in 1985. At the same time, the [[National Minimum Drinking Age Act]] was enacted in the United States, requiring that Florida raise the minimum drinking age from 18 to 21 and inspiring many underage college vacationers to travel to other competing locations in the United States for spring break. By 1989, the number of college students traveling to Fort Lauderdale fell to 20,000, a far cry from the 350,000 who went four years prior.<ref name="sfhm" /><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Bohn|first=Lauren|title=A brief history of spring break|url=http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1888317,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090331062345/http://www.time.com//time//nation//article//0,8599,1888317,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 31, 2009|magazine= [[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=October 3, 2012|date=March 30, 2009}}</ref>