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When Route 537 Turned Into a Parking Lot: Remembering Great Adventure’s Golden Era of Concerts

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Anyone who grew up in New Jersey during a certain stretch of the late 1970s and early 1980s probably has some version of this story tucked away, a memory of piling into a car headed for Six Flags Great Adventure, only to find...

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When Route 537 Turned Into a Parking Lot: Remembering Great Adventure’s Golden Era of Concerts

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