The Beatles came to New Zealand in 1964 a fortnight before the Whangarei Tennis and Squash Club opened three new squash courts at clubrooms built in Tarewa Rd for 13,742 ($27,484).
More 1960s music was played in the building last weekend when the squash club celebrated its 50th anniversary.
The club's immediate past president and reunion chairman, Alan Bee, said the golden jubilee drew only about 30 people so festivities had been scaled back.
"It was more like an informal club night. A few of the boys put a band together, we ate finger food and enjoyed the occasion," he said.
The "boys" - Malcolm Edwards on guitar, Bondi Cotton vocals and others on drums and saxophone - played tunes which would have been on the radio when the squash club was formed a half-century ago with the late Ted Eliott (Whangarei Mayor 1977-83) as president and Arthur Jones as secretary.