The night Springsteen played the Barn at Rutgers

[Tango Two]

The College Avenue Gym held 2,600 for Rutgers University basketball games, but on Oct. 12, 1976 there was no telling how many students packed the Depression-era edifice known as “The Barn.”
As fun as it was watching the hoops team steamroll opponents on its way to a Final Four the previous winter, this was different. This was a favorite son playing his backyard one last time before superstardom took over, and everybody knew it.

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[Sir ScarletKnight]

If you go into Van Dyke Hall, there are currently posters hung that go through moments in Rutgers History. This is one of them.

"It’s hard to imagine now: Bruce Springsteen, a year after “Born to Run” exploded into the public consciousness, bringing the E Street Band before 3,000 people in a creaky college gym that reeked of chlorine (the building housed an adjacent swimming pool)."

Still does.

 

[Tango Two]