THE NIGHT DISCO EXPLODED: If you’ve got any gray matter left after Thanksgiving and Black Friday, check out tonight’s premiere of the new episode of the Travel Channel’s Mysteries at the Museum (9:00 p.m. EST and PST; 8.00 p.m. CST). One of the segments, entitled “The Night Disco Exploded,” focuses its attention on, you guessed it, “Disco Demolition Night.” We’ll be watching it for the first time tonight with you, so we have absolutely no idea how this segment turned out. Part of it, including the interview with Dan Epstein, was shot at the Arcadia Public Library earlier this year while the Baseball Reliquary was presenting an exhibition. The segment’s key artifacts are two 45 rpm records that were torched as part of the “Disco Demolition Night” pyrotechnics, and that are in the collection of the Baseball Reliquary. We’ll let Dan Epstein get you in the right frame of mind for tonight’s show with this blog post of three years ago. Dan also links to some priceless video footage taken during the revelry, with Jimmy Piersall and sportswriter Bill Gleason providing color commentary. A dismayed Piersall calls it “one of the saddest sights I’ve ever seen at a ballpark in my life. This garbage of demolishing a record has turned into a fiasco. . . We’ve got the greatest country in the world, but you know what? We have become followers, so many people insecure, don’t know what to do with themselves and how to have a good time. They follow someone who’s a jerk.” He adds that he’d much rather go swimming than running around on a baseball diamond. Bill Gleason chimes in with this classic observation: “There are a lot of happy kids out there. I don’t mean happy in the modern sense, but pleasant kids enjoying themselves, showing off a little bit.”
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 20:41:26 +0000
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