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Article: Springsteen's Asbury Park poised to reclaim its status as a major music venue.(Travel)
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- July 14, 2002
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ASBURY PARK, N.J. - It was December. Outside, the weather was cold and dank. The resort skyline, tattered and bleak. Residential streets had a haunted look, locked in the grip of a bankrupt builder. Inside Convention Hall, Bruce Springsteen sang a eulogy for the city that made him famous with his first record album cover, "Greetings From Asbury Park." The song was "My City of Ruins."
Eighteen months later, after a City Hall election, the arrival of a new developer financed by Wall Street, efforts of Springsteen fans to save the architectural icons of his songs - not to mention the pending release of the Boss's first studio album in ...
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