When and where was the last time a photographer captured Disco Demolition Night?”
They were such bad boys then, Steve Dahl and Garry Meier. But they were not the baddest boys in the Comiskey Park crowd on the night of July 12, 1979, when they hosted Disco Demolition Night, an occasion that ranks in Chicago annals somewhere between the Great Fire of 1871 and the most recent invasion of alewives. Dahl and Meier were WLUP radio disc jockeys who concocted the promotional event as a means for people to express their distaste for disco music and its scene. They never expected 80,000 people to show up; 50,000 inside the park, the rest trying to get in. All of them, it seemed, grew rowdier by the beer-soaked minute during the scheduled twi-night doubleheader between the White Sox and Detroit Tigers. Diane Alexander White, a 24-year-old commercial photographer then living and working in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, had gone out of curiosity. Being a young photographer, she brought her camera. She arrived with a friend, paid the admission (98 cents and a disco record) and s
