{"id":12385,"date":"2016-09-21T10:30:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T15:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=12385"},"modified":"2016-09-21T10:32:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T15:32:05","slug":"disco-demolition-headed-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/09\/21\/disco-demolition-headed-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Disco Demolition headed for museum"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dave<\/a>

<\/a> Dave Hoekstra, Steve Dahl and Paul Natkin<\/p><\/div>\n

Thirty-seven years after Disco Demolition<\/a> rocked old Comiskey Park and the music world, it\u2019s becoming a museum piece.<\/p>\n

Based on the recently published oral and pictorial history Disco Demolition: The Night Disco Died,<\/em> <\/a>photographs and artifacts from the infamous event will be displayed at the Elmhurst History Museum, <\/a>starting in June 2017.<\/p>\n

Steve Dahl, Dave Hoekstra and Paul Natkin, the creative team behind the book, announced the exhibit at a book signing Tuesday night in La Grange.<\/p>\n

After the exhibit\u2019s initial four-month run in Elmhurst, it \u201cmay travel a bit\u201d to other venues, Hoekstra said.<\/p>\n

\"Steve<\/a>

Steve Dahl<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s not the first time Elmhurst History Museum has spotlighted Disco Demolition. In 2013 it presented a mini-exhibit, featuring some of Natkin\u2019s photos and a few of Dahl\u2019s artifacts and memorabilia, including the signature army helmet he wore that evening. Then as now, Lance Tawzer served as curator.<\/p>\n

Before a crowd of more than 50,000 at old Comiskey Park on July 12, 1979, Dahl, then a 24-year-old morning host at WLUP FM 97.9, <\/a>exploded a box of disco records between games at a White Sox double-header. Pandemonium ensued when rowdy fans stormed the field, forcing the White Sox to forfeit their second game and making worldwide headlines.<\/p>\n

Dahl now hosts afternoons on Cumulus Media news\/talk WLS AM 890<\/a>\u00a0and podcasts daily at dahl.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thirty-seven years after Disco Demolition rocked old Comiskey Park and the music world, it\u2019s becoming a museum piece. Based on the recently published oral and pictorial history Disco Demolition: The Night Disco Died, photographs and artifacts from the infamous event will be displayed at the Elmhurst History Museum, starting in June 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12385"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12392,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385\/revisions\/12392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}