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asbury park convention hall
from bruce springsteen posted in music by corporate_sunshine
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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from bruce springsteen posted in music by corporate_sunshine
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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from sleepwalk with me posted in movies by corporate_sunshine
Comedian/playwright Mike Birbiglia recounts a particularly intense somnambulatory experience in his film Sleepwalk with Men, where he jumped through the second-story window of his hotel room at this La Quinta Inn in Walla Walla, WA.
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from woody guthrie posted in music by corporate_sunshine
This East Village bar has been around since somewhere between 1854-1865, and has been a vibrant part of the neighborhood since then.
Writers like Brendan Behan and Paul Blackburn were regulars here. E.E. Cummings described McSorley's as "the ale which never lets you grow old" as well as "snug and evil."
Other notable visitors include Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Boss Tweed.
Here is a picture of Woody Guthrie performing there in 1943.
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from dna posted in technology by corporate_sunshine
On February 28, 1953, Francis Crick, a researcher at Cambridge, walked into this popular campus watering hole. His announcement: Crick and James Watson had "discovered the secret of life."
Namely, the two had decoded the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA. Sixty years later, that discovery is still having massive ramifications.
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