50 Years Ago: "Little Known" First Rock Performer at Broome Arena
It has been a half century since several thousand people filled the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena in downtown Binghamton for the venue's first rock concert.
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[VIDEO] The Summer Of ’73 – 600,000 People Descend On Watkins Glen
What no one expected, and to the horror of the Watkins Glen community, this show had about 200,000 more attendees than the famous Woodstock festival.