You can go to the beach any day of the week.
This happens one time a year,
so Damon Barone and his friends
from San Diego State have joined
the nearly 10,000 others who've
converged on Palm Springs for
this most rowdy rite of spring.
Like at night time, this one,
this one guy friend of mine goes.
I've used every line there
is and they have all worked.
You know I'm going bye,
you know that's what mostly it is
is guys come up here to pick up on
girls or girls come to pick up I just
came just to see what it was like
to live up to the reputation, yeah?
More so everyone's just all over everybody.
It's weird I've never been
to a place like this.
Everyone says it's like Fort
Lauderdale and California.
There isn't an ocean inside
at this Fort Lauderdale West.
Only snow capped mountains in the distance,
but you won't get any complaints here.
Temperatures in the mid 90s keep things
sizzling and as long as there's a pool
close by and a cold drink on hand,
you won't have any trouble
convincing this crowd.
They've found paradise for the Under 25 set,
and if you just driven 27 hours
from rainy Seattle, this is heaven.
We don't even have a place to stay,
we just roll up to the pool and.
No hotel, no problem. We
just slept in our car in the
back of my truck. What do you do
to cool off swimming in a pool?
Spray you with squirt guns and
throw water balloons at you.
We go rage your pool somewhere. Yeah,
and if you're on the $5 a day plan the sink
at the park makes for a compact bathtub.
You soon learn that next to a bathing suit.
All you need is a squirt bottle. Hello.
It's a meat market. Everybody checks out.
Service scoping at the pool. Check him out.
week of the year for Palm Springs.
When no vacancy signs are almost
as common as sunburn, noses.
But even with all the paying customers,
spring break, isn't it time
the locals look forward to?
It's all we can do to just
keep it at an even keel.
Keep it to where things
don't get out of hand. Palm
Springs triples the number of officers
on the streets during spring break.
The biggest problems are underage
drinking and people throwing water.
And beer at passing cars after a long day
trying to keep order along the main drag.
Even the most tolerant officer can
get a little hot under the collar.
The next one that I find on the
street corner after about 5 minutes
from right now goes to jail.
Starting right now.
Wanna challenge me?
The biggest problem for motel
operators is keeping out gatecrashers
for the first time this year.
Some motels are issuing different colored
wristbands every day for guests, only.
From a security standpoint,
spring break is a real challenge.
It means full rooms.
It means a lot of damage.
And trying to keep the damage
down as minimal
as possible so that the profits
are still there. I hate it.
Well, you've got to know vacancy.
Sign out there in business would be good.
Well everything's booked up.
They booked it up like a month ahead.
There's very rarely a vacancy.
Just try to find an empty chair by the pool.
Joe Vincent did, and he's getting
a kick out of the poolside parade
and it was so long ago that I
was this age that I don't know
what we did on Easter vacation.
But these kids have a ball,
so that's good as long as they don't
destroy everything, but they didn't.
I can't wish myself 50 years back.
You know there's no way I'll be 75
in August so I love to watch them.
I've got jealous at all.
But it's baseball that brings Joe
and many other sports fans to
Palm Springs this time of year.
The Desert resort hosts the California
Angels during their exhibition season.
You can't beat the ticket price,
$4 tops, and the games are sold out.
For dinner right now,
restaurants are doing
a booming business too.
Some even have their own security
people to keep things semi sane
out along Palm Canyon Blvd.
That's another story.
Even after the sun goes down,
Palm Springs is still a hot spot.
So as you're cruising down the Boulevard,
the point isn't to be hot.
You want to be cool.
It's the nightly ritual.
It's also cheap entertainment,
and by midnight cruisers have the
Boulevard at a standstill all the better
to check out who's passing through.
It's like 7 days
of rampant immaturity.
It's a crazy week alright.
Lucky for everybody,
it only comes around once a year.
Palm Springs needs 51
weeks just to recuperate.