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Oklahoma principal memorializes students lost in tornado - Fri, May 24, 2013As Spring Break gets underway for teens and 20-somethings across the country, Rock Center takes a look back at anchor Chet Huntley's report on Spring Break 1962. Let us know if you recognize anyone in this report. We'd like to hear from you. Contact us: rockcenter@nbcuni.com
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This is awesome. "Drank beer prodigiously."
To all you students at that time AWESOME,I love the commercials especially the automobile "RAMBLER"
thinking of my friends! spring break
Watched this on t.v. tonight......one of the first Spring breaks from Daytona....take a look on how it started....1962....rally cool for those who remember these times
Spring break 1962.....
Too funny!
While so much has changed in the last 50 years, "Spring Break" is not one of them, and it makes me very happy to see that! The general thoughts about life and growing up really hasn't changed much either. The state of our future life and the future of the world in general is scary. Sometimes we just want to drink and dance it away...
For someone like myself a late baby boomer [born 1962}okay Im old,I find these time pieces just amazing!Growing up during the mid 70s in Toronto I think my generation were the forgotten ones a gray time period you could call it,but it still was a great time to grow up..Zep,Black Sabbath,Guess Who etc,all this great music still sells and not just us old farts buying it,we must of done something right during are drunknnn daze.. nbc lets see more of this stuff
I felt the same way! I was born in 1961 and thought this was fantastic! I really loved that my parent's are in this age group and it was great to look back at their time.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Did everyone notice how much clothing they all had on!!!!!!!!!!!!! Doing the twist, drinking beer is far cry from what goes on today!!
NBC is way out in left field when it comes to political correctness and leftist revisionist history. It was Easter vacation, not spring break. And it remained Easter vacation well into the 80's until the left decided what we should call our holidays and vacations.
If NBC can't report the truth about the past, how can they be trusted reporting the news of today ?
who cares what its called. not everyone celebrates Easter that week and spring break isn't always during Easter so no it wouldn't be Easter vacation anyway...
I am in that age group and we said Spring Break. As mentioned in the movie, "Where the Boys Are." Don't try to put a religious argument on doing the twist, mashed potato, frug, and drinking beer. College kids...even the ones who are now in their 70's said, "Spring Break." And, yes, I know it usually occurred over Easter vacation, but the party time activities were called spring break. It was a break because it came before returning to school for final exams and graduations which would be held in May.
Summer vacation at home on the shore of Long Branch and the twist was song by Chubby Checker and remember Brian things changed for college summer break changed in 1964. We had President that inspired a generation and that change is seen today. American Bandstand was what was happening and music ruled and brought all kids together. To name a few we had Alan Freed, Frankie Vallie/Four seasons and of course Bruce wasn't big yet and you might remember Melanie Safka from Long Branch NJ. Those were the good old days when life was just going to the beach after school.
How did the reporter know back in the early 60's that one day Daytona Beach would run out MTV and the spring breakers, with all that money coming into the city. Which pretty much ban "Spring Break" in Daytona. To date I do believe that was the city's biggest downfall. Guess that's why the motels and hotels had to sell out to become condo's and time sharing resorts.
My parents owned a motel in Ft. Lauderdale in the '70's one block from the beach. The craziness that went on with streakers, and wet t-shirt contests was only the beginning of the Spring Break craziness that evolved to diving in the pools from the second floor balconies and bikinis made of three feathers and two stings. I was little, but I remember the '60's in Florida during Easter Vacation. It was GREAT! Dressing for dinner, ladies with their hair done... So awesome to see this clip from a different time. I loved how the newscaster thought the next generation was horrid. The same generation that thinks the kids of today are horrid. The more things change the more they seem the same, eh?
Brian Williams keeps referring to Chet Huntley as "NBC Nightly News Anchor, Chet Huntley".
If my memory serves me very correctly, NBC Nightly News was started on August 1, 1970...the day AFTER Chet Huntley retired from The Huntley/Brinkley Report on July 31, 1970 complete with Beethoven's music. I was only 8 years old but watched Chet Huntley's swan song that evening. I was born in 1962 while all this Spring Break partying was going on.
So if NBC Nightly News wasn't around and didn't start until AFTER Chet Huntley retired, how could Chet Huntley possibly be an NBC Nightly News Anchor? Wouldn't he be The Huntley/Brinkley Report News Anchor?
I was just trying to correct the record.
Great stuff. Two years prior was the movie "Where the boys are". This B&W video takes you to the real thing. Rock on!
This originally aired on April 27, 1962 on "CHET HUNTLEY REPORTING" {Bill Hanrahan, announcer}, a weekly half-hour that aired on Friday nights at 10:30pm(et), following "THE BELL TELEPHONE HOUR" (or, on alternate weeks, "THE DINAH SHORE SHOW") during the first half of '62. In those days, public affairs programming was common in prime-time [in fact, Chet was opposite CBS' own weekly news documentary, "EYEWITNESS", sponsored by Firestone Tire & Rubber, and narrated by Walter Cronkite; they got better ratings]. Earlier in the evening, Huntley was co-anchor of "THE TEXACO HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT" (named for its sole sponsor back then) with David Brinkley, airing for a quarter-hour at 6:45pm(et)- in some areas, it aired at 7:15pm(et). When Huntley retired in July 1970, the title was indeed altered to "NBC NIGHTLY NEWS", with Brinkley joined by John Chancellor and Frank McGee as co-anchors.
That means I was 3 weeks old when this aired. My son is 19 and a freshman in college in Atlanta and I'm happy to say he's home this week for Spring Break, in the living room as we speak playing X Box!
Here's Chet Huntley's retirement swan song where he says that NBC Nightly News begins tomorrow after he leaves. I watched this as a child. Apparently Brian Williams didn't ever watch it.
Note Chet's comments around 10 seconds into the video.
Here's the YOUTUBE ADDRESS>>>
Would love to see more stories like this on life from years ago. It's amazing how much things have changed.
More corrections for the story. It wasn't WWII in full force - it was the Vietnam War. Color TV shows were just becoming popular but you had to buy a color TV to watch them. Those young folks in the news clip were the beginning of the Baby Boomers and we're now in our mid to late sixties. In California we wern't doing the twist as much as we were following the Beach Boys. The British influence (Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc) were also sweeping the Nation.
I have been so excited with this documentary, my ex husband happened to be one of the students..he is David Getter and is wearing the Oswego T-shirt..imagine how I feel about this..Thank you for showing this wonderful piece.
More corrections for the story: It wasn't WWII in full force - it was the Vietnam War. Color TV was just becoming popular. Most of the people in that news clip are now in their mid to late 60's and in California, most were following the Beach Boys and the "Surfin" craze.
This is amazing. Not only the was the program interesting, but the commercials as well. In those days, only one or two products would sponsor the show. How things have changed.
That was so very intersting. I hope you put more of these old news reports up for us to watch. It was interesting to watch how things have changed and how they haven't really change too.
The girls were sure thinner back in the day. Check out the beach on spring break now, looks like a pod of Orca beaching after a sonar drive-by. Man, I am surprised they make bathing suits that big, perhaps the tent-maker from the Circus helped out..... Jenny Craig, where are ya when we need ya girl.. suuuueeeee..
The "GOOD OLE DAYS" were truly those . Very little if any Political Correctness ( The words themselves want to make me Puke ) And we had a President who didn't have Diarrhea of the Mouth ! He was a True Hero of the Times. ( PT-109 ) The Cuban Crisis with no backing down. No bowing down to Foreign leaders and certainly no Apologees to ANYONE about what America did. Although he did carry the Kennedy Gene for screwing around with other women. I was visiting in Germany at age 16 having the time of my life ! I was a Drummer in a Rock band in Munich while the Beatles played in Hamburg !
Fondly remember the trip to Fort Lauderdale for about 5 days in 1961 -- the year AFTER the riots. Five guys jammed into a small Chevy for that non-stop trip from N'Eastern Pa. What great fun and memories. Came back alive to worry about the draft and heading to Vietnam. We survived --- most of us ---and became productive citizens. Maybe not the "Greatest Generation" ---- but not far from it !!!!!!
LOVED the Rambler commercial! I learned to drive in a '57 Rambler station wagon, with "3 on a tree" shift!! That thing ran for more than 25 years, having criss-crossed the US east to west at least 6 times, and north to south about the same amount, until it was "retired" as a "run around" car for my granny. I'd love to find that car......talk about building them bullet proof!
I truly enjoyed watching this! It was like a moment in time, and I loved hearing from those people. I wonder where their life has led them thus far, and how their story played out if they are no longer living. Times have definitely changed, but the aspects of being human and having those kinds of experiences will never change, and that's what makes life such an incredible journey. What a reminder to savor our youth, and celebrate youthfulness.