Pastel Paradise: South Florida before the big boom.

To tourists just passing through on vacation, South Florida was — going back to the 1920s, and today still is — a paradise of palm trees, chaise lounges, and endless beaches. To those who lived and partied there in the 1980s, it was home to, improbably, some of the best punk rock you never heard. Leslie Wimmer and Ted Gottfried had tongues in cheek but had it right when in 1982 they gave their era-defining compilation LP of Florida-born original bands (and the first release on their Fort Lauderdale–based Open Records label) the title The Land That Time Forgot. We all joked about it then, because it was the truth and what could we do about it anyway: Florida in general and South Florida in particular were located for all intents and purposes at the end of the world,  <a href="https://medium.com/@joey_seeman/pastel-paradise-sfl-before-the-big-boom-93b48dc37c77">Click Here</a>