June 14, 1971 was the last day at the Depot, with music by house band Big Island. Mike Anthony at the Strib said the crowd may have been even bigger than at opening night, ironic since the reason for closing was pitifully small attendance. Hundred Flowers described the very last day this way:

For a year and a half the Depot crowd, a curious collection of “now” people, freaks, and in-betweeners, never really got together on anything. But, on closing night, June 14th, all the madness of rock-inspired frenzy broke out. On that night over a thousand people crammed into the place for the last wine and beer night.

The Depot management had not bothered to turn on the air conditioning or provide bar girls, so what developed was a chaotic human furnace. Add to this situation the tight, low-down, weasel-ripping music of Big Island and you have something quite close to heaven.

The band slammed into two of their own tunes “Four Days Screamin’” and “Let’s Get Reamed” and when the band stopped the people kept the beat going by clapping and shouting “more!” And that’s just what they got. Everyone moving and sweating as one body to “Jailhouse Rock” or another Big Island song “Mosquito Guts Against the Wall.” About this time the house lights were turned up and everyone was asked to leave (the cops were supposedly coming), but, of course no one left. Everyone was really ripped and all that was important was more raw face-kicking rock. “So the joint ke’p rockin’ .. all night long.”

The June 26 – July 11, 1971 issue of the Insider announced the closing of the Depot. The photo below was described as “a potential patron avoiding the ‘capitalist ripoff’ $3.50 admission plummeted 2 1/2 stories from the roof.”