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fromLos Angeles Times
32 years ago'60s Heartthrob Gets New Beat
Bobby Vinton sells his $20 million Malibu ranch and relocates to Branson, Missouri to open a 2,000-seat theater, ending decades of touring.
The American vacation was once defined not by the beaches of Florida or the peaks of Colorado, but by the lake. Families escaped to calm waters for canoeing, hiking, and long afternoons spent idling on the shore. Today, vacations are harder to pin down. Some travelers look abroad to Europe, others to the Caribbean or the Canadian Rockies. Yet there's a reason lakeside getaways became the country's first great escape: they're simple, restorative, and far easier on the wallet than an overseas flight.