Here's Bruce doing a rehearsal performance for the public and ABC television for the Seeger sessions tour on 4/25/06.

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Built between 1928 and 1930, the Asbury Park Convention Hall is a 3,600 seat theater that has had many rock and roll performances throughout the years.

On June 30, 1956, a concert by Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers ended early when a fistfight turned into a riot where three people were stabbed. The mayor threatened a city-wide ban on rock and roll (kinda like Footloose) that never materialized.

Led Zeppelin played Convention Hall the evening of August 16, 1969, after their manager, Peter Grant, rejected an invitation to Woodstock.

Bruce Springsteen has rehearsed for many tours here (Reunion, Rising, Vote for Change, Seeger Sessions, Magic and Working on a Dream tours) and often gives rehearsal performances to the public.

The sign on the top of Convention Hall now reads "Greetings from Asbury Park", in reference to Springsteen's 1973 debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.

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Springsteen wrote "Born to Run," "Thunder Road" and "Backstreets" while living at this house on the Jersey coast from 1974-75.

Source: "Born to Run" 30th anniversary DVD documentary from 2005.

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The Boss was "Born to Run" here (ouch) on September 23, 1949. At the time, it was called Monmouth Memorial Hospital.

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The Boss transferred from St. Rose of Lima School to Freehold High School when he entered the ninth grade.

Springsteen graduated in 1967, but skipped his own graduation. Old teachers described him as, "a loner, who wanted nothing more than to play his guitar."

In 2006, he was inducted into the Freehold High School Hall of Fame.

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