Until Darkness : Riding Down Kingsley
I'm guessing it was 1995 or so. I clearly recall that we were still listening to cassette tapes in the car.
It was a seemingly forgettable rainy Saturday morning, when my brother and I awoke and were hit with the inspiration to hop onto the Parkway and head down to the towns where Springsteen was raised. We made it to Freehold, Asbury Park and a few others. As the rain picked up, we searched for the places in the songs, but the few points we marked to visit were either closed or gone: The Stone Pony, some guitar shop we imagined was once the home of Bruce's first Japanese guitar, a few boardwalk items mentioned on some early records. We really didn't see much, but we listened and searched. We made it through to The Wild, The Innocent, Darkness and Greetings. As we were about to head back to the Parkway, feeling somewhat deflated as we'd failed to immerse ourselves in Springsteen, on came "Something in the Night." We turned onto a stretch of road and right as Bruce sang, "Well, I'm riding down Kingsley," my brother pointed to the street sign.
It was a seemingly forgettable rainy Saturday morning, when my brother and I awoke and were hit with the inspiration to hop onto the Parkway and head down to the towns where Springsteen was raised. We made it to Freehold, Asbury Park and a few others. As the rain picked up, we searched for the places in the songs, but the few points we marked to visit were either closed or gone: The Stone Pony, some guitar shop we imagined was once the home of Bruce's first Japanese guitar, a few boardwalk items mentioned on some early records. We really didn't see much, but we listened and searched. We made it through to The Wild, The Innocent, Darkness and Greetings. As we were about to head back to the Parkway, feeling somewhat deflated as we'd failed to immerse ourselves in Springsteen, on came "Something in the Night." We turned onto a stretch of road and right as Bruce sang, "Well, I'm riding down Kingsley," my brother pointed to the street sign.
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