{"id":5716,"date":"2021-03-18T09:15:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/?p=5716"},"modified":"2025-03-18T07:22:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:22:27","slug":"spring-break-california-1950s-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/spring-break-california-1950s-style\/","title":{"rendered":"California Spring Break, 1950s Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By Anita Garner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My brother, Leslie Ray, and I were the new kids in school all our lives.\u00a0 We&#8217;d enroll, stay a short while,\u00a0 then hit the road to tour the gospel circuit with our parents, sending homework back in the mail.\u00a0 At every new school, I&#8217;d stand in front of the class while the teacher introduced Nita Faye Jones, just moved here from&#8230;fill in the blank.<\/p>\n<p>In California, 1957\u00a0 I was new again but this time shouldn&#8217;t be as hard since Leslie Ray had been there a year already, living with Gramma K because he and Mother couldn&#8217;t occupy the same house without eruptions. Similar dispositions, Daddy said.<\/p>\n<p>Mother signed a record contract and we headed out west. This time it wasn\u2019t just a new school.\u00a0 This time the language was also unfamiliar.\u00a0 Nobody else drawled.\u00a0 The clothes were different.\u00a0 Even tougher to understand was California culture, where teens seemed to have so much control.\u00a0 No yessum and yessir.\u00a0 These kids were in possession\u00a0 of more than just spending money. They were confident.\u00a0 By the time I arrived, Leslie, who was already tall and good looking to start with, had shed his Southern accent, was a big man on campus and evidently expert at assimilation.<\/p>\n<p>Observe the ritual of Senior Spring Break, 1957.\u00a0 The talk in the halls among seniors was, &#8220;Are you going to Bal?&#8221;\u00a0 That would be\u00a0 Balboa Island (also Newport)\u00a0 where groups of seniors piled into rented houses for a full week of drinking and tanning all day, partying all night, and capped it off at the end of the week by bleaching their hair blonde to prove, on returning to class, that they&#8217;d really been to Bal.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie Ray and I were\u00a0 both redheads with fair skin.\u00a0 Not meant for tanning.\u00a0 Not safe on California beaches.\u00a0 In the Deep South, tanning wasn&#8217;t done on purpose. It happened because of work.\u00a0 We saw tans in churches and in the crowds at revivals and Singings, hard-working tans with shirt-sleeve marks.<\/p>\n<p>Tanning for a redhead happens only through a lengthy process, if at all, and often involves a couple of trips to the ER on the way.\u00a0 Both of us had over-sunned more than once and paid the price. It must have taken Leslie a long time to build up that color a little bit at a time, but he did it. The very thing we&#8217;d avoided in the South was his Southern California Senior Spring Break badge of honor. Of course he bleached his hair.\u00a0 He had to prove he was at Bal.<\/p>\n<p>I was invited over to Balboa just for the day if I could find someone with a driver&#8217;s license and a car to get me there.\u00a0 I lied to my parents about where I was going.\u00a0 Leslie&#8217;s friends treated me like a mascot as long as I didn&#8217;t cramp their style or tell stories later.\u00a0 For my day at Bal, I didn&#8217;t even pack what we then called suntan lotion.\u00a0 I packed a hat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/LESLIE-RAY-SPRING-BREAK-AT-BALBOA-1957-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5725\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/LESLIE-RAY-SPRING-BREAK-AT-BALBOA-1957-scaled.jpg?resize=248%2C331&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/LESLIE-RAY-SPRING-BREAK-AT-BALBOA-1957-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/LESLIE-RAY-SPRING-BREAK-AT-BALBOA-1957-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/LESLIE-RAY-SPRING-BREAK-AT-BALBOA-1957-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/LESLIE-RAY-SPRING-BREAK-AT-BALBOA-1957-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/LESLIE-RAY-SPRING-BREAK-AT-BALBOA-1957-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/LESLIE-RAY-SPRING-BREAK-AT-BALBOA-1957-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C1600&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/LESLIE-RAY-SPRING-BREAK-AT-BALBOA-1957-scaled.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 85vw, 248px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ANITA-SPRING-BREAK-AT-BALBOA-1957-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5726\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ANITA-SPRING-BREAK-AT-BALBOA-1957-scaled.jpg?resize=274%2C365&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ANITA-SPRING-BREAK-AT-BALBOA-1957-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ANITA-SPRING-BREAK-AT-BALBOA-1957-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ANITA-SPRING-BREAK-AT-BALBOA-1957-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ANITA-SPRING-BREAK-AT-BALBOA-1957-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ANITA-SPRING-BREAK-AT-BALBOA-1957-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ANITA-SPRING-BREAK-AT-BALBOA-1957-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C1600&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ANITA-SPRING-BREAK-AT-BALBOA-1957-scaled.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 85vw, 274px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Leslie Ray and Nita Faye Jones.\u00a0 Senior Spring Break, 1957<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>******<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/anita.garner.9\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5506\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/facebook.jpeg?resize=65%2C65&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anita Garner My brother, Leslie Ray, and I were the new kids in school all our lives.\u00a0 We&#8217;d enroll, stay a short while,\u00a0 then hit the road to tour the gospel circuit with our parents, sending homework back in the mail.\u00a0 At every new school, I&#8217;d stand in front of the class while the &hellip; 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