[Vince Ferrer]

A screen shot of Ft. Lauderdale beach from the 1960 movie Where the Boys Are:

Ft. Lauderdale beach in 2014:

Fort Lauderdale Sea Level Identical To 55 Years Ago

[Wally_Kalbacken]

But of course the beaches have been replenished by dredging and deposition of sand from offshore, many times since the 60's, so that comparison isn't an significant as you think. But thanks for the reference to Where the Boys Are, which, OBTW, has an entirely different meaning in Fort Lauderdale today. It is a major gay enclave.

As to the plot of historic sea levels extending back thorough tens of thousands of years of prior climates - in my climatology studies as an undergrad I was impressed to learn that at the peak of the Wisconsin Era, roughly 18,000 years ago, the shoreline of present day New Jersey was several hundred mites east of where it its today, and Florida was connected by dry land to the Bahamas. I'm not sure anyone as there to appreciate this at the time, but the idea of global water being drawn down in terms of ocean level and concentrated in the enormous sheets of glacial ice extending down across all of Canada and covering much of the northern tier of what is the continental United States today, is a pretty profound one. But the folks who want politicize science today, and cram AGW down our throats, are just not capable of grasping that.