The Zep played here

washingtonpost.com, Wheaton
A Faithful Few Swear They Saw Led Zeppelin's Local Gig. Still, 40 Years Is a Long Time.
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Attendees at a Wheaton Community Center reunion for the 1969 Led Zeppelin concert held there -- we think -- dig through boxes of memorabilia.


(By Dominic Bracco Ii)


Led Zeppelin (here circa 1971) is said to have played in Wheaton in 1969. Art Wray, top, was among those commemorating the event Saturday. (By Neil Zlozower)



Some stories sound preposterous, if delightfully so -- like the one about the night Led Zeppelin played the Wheaton Youth Center.

Robert Plant doing a whole lotta lovin' on Georgia Avenue? Jimmy Page climbing a stairway to suburbia?

No ticket stubs, posters, pictures or news clippings of the gig are known to exist. Yet some people passionately insist they saw the performance. Zeppelin-in-Wheaton is Washington's own rock-and-roll Loch Ness Monster. Could it possibly be real?