If you've ever seen the movie La Bamba then, on top of the insurmountable tragedy, you witnessed a recreation of an all-star performance at Brooklyn's Paramount Theater. Built in 1928, the theater held 4,124 seats, showing movies and hosting concerts. It closed in 1962, just a few years after Ritchie Valens performed there in 1958. Valens's performance was part of the legendary Alan Freed '50s rock 'n' roll Jubilees, which would (according to The Day The Music Died) be "all-day affairs," with performers delivering the same set of songs several times throughout the day. Fun fact: The Chirping Crickets (led by Buddy Holly) even shot their album cover on the rooftop of the Paramount, "using the natural blue sky as a backdrop."
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If Madison Square Garden Moved Away...
The fate of the Moynihan Station in the James Farley post office building remains up in the air and it's unclear whether Madison Square Garden will also relocate to the Farley building. If MSG moves, plans say the old MSG would be razed and a new train tracks would be put on top. The Municipal Arts Society's New Penn Station campaign shares a plan from students (at Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture's Historic Preservation Program) offering a different idea.
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