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The name of the band may be Classic Spotlight, but these musicians play everything from Elvis Presley to Miley Cyrus. Tom Griffith of Haymarket, who is the band’s manager, keyboardist
92-year-old Jack McBride, lead architect with Douglas Bennett Design, has donated his architectural drawings from the Olympia Brewing Company 1961 lobby remodel to the Schmidt House.
Did Led Zeppelin play at the Wheaton Youth Center on January 20, 1969? (Photo: Jeff Krulik) A few months back we posted about the legendary double bill of The Who and Led Zeppelin at Merriweather Post on May 25, 1969. There's ample documentary evidence about that epic performance — posters, newspaper articles, photos, ticket stubs. But did you know Led Zeppelin's first live show in the DC area may have been at the Wheaton Youth Center — a nondescript multi-purpose room and gym in a Maryland suburb on January 20, 1969? It was also the night of Richard Nixon's Inauguration. And the weathe...