that kind of created a flight out of asbury park, which was once this booming resort.renegades. they created this rock scene, this music scene. when the stone pony opens in 1974 and it was trying to figure out what it was, was it a disco club, rock club, top 40 club, those guys made it something different. they walked in and said give us your worst night, we'll take the door, you take the bar, which is a great deal for bar owners but we're going to play what we want. that started this moving. and, you know, as the town dragged down, the pony still did okay, but eventually the town dragged it down too far. in 1991 it closed and yet opened within six months because people knew this was too important. this has to go on. it became the home of alternative rock and punk and jam. then when it closed in '98, drag the down by more struggles, people weren't sure it was going to reopen. dominick santana, from jersey city, another bar owner, he saw tourists come and taking pictures, bruce springsteen fans, and he knew it still had magic and reopened it and it would become the rena