They Saw the ‘Future of Rock and Roll’ at LBI’s Le Garage in 1974

It was June 21, 1974, a Friday night, and Le Garage Discotheque Au Go-Go in Spray Beach was opening its doors for the summer as a nightclub.

The building had once been a garage used for storing equipment in the 1950s and early ’60s. By the late ’60s, it had been transformed into a local teen club and, in 1974, into the go-go nightclub that would become part of LBI music lore.

That night, the Boulevard was buzzing. People came from everywhere, including by boat from the mainland, docking at the Spray Beach Yacht Club.