Back to Jersey: Springsteen's ol' stomping grounds -- Asbury Park -- looked like that for decades thanks mostly to political corruption, and is finally coming around the past few years due to gentrification. You can still see it though, just a block from the boardwalk. Amazing how far it's come in just a few years, though. My dad's ol' neighborhood there, tho, is still pretty bad. (It's not Italian any more).