Back in the 80’s when Riff Raff would have been the name of a New Wave band, and the Tropicana Girls still wore crocheted bikinis, photographer Keith McManus took his camera and followed the tequila driven youth of the USA to Daytona Beach.
In his new book Rites Of Passage you’ll find he documented the chaos every year between 1982-1993, and you can check out a tonne of Keith’s 80’s Daytona images, right here, after the jump!
Wow! What a flashback! I am in the generation of this photo journal; my God… the hair back then! The guys look like GUYS! Beefy, fully of swagger and not afraid to wear a Speedo or short shorts. I remember a lot of that time… interesting, there was a lot of pot and booze and also a sense of innocence and self sufficiency.
Thanks for the memories!