Springsteen Artifacts
New Jersey’s Monmouth University is now home to The Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music. According to their website, it “serves as the official archival repository for Bruce Springsteen’s written works, photographs, periodicals, and artifacts.” Care to check it out? There are more than 35,000 pieces there. But apparently, you have to make an appointment.
Robert Santelli, Bruce Springsteen, and Monmouth University President Paul Brown. Source: 1057thehawk.com
Speaking of artifacts, someone may have paid a heck of a lot of money for Springsteen’s screen door. Local legend has it that a fan bought the screen door of a house at 68 South Street in Freehold, New Jersey. That house was once lived in by Bruce. The fan bought the screen door in the early ’80s, thinking it was the door mentioned in “Thunder Road.”