Posted on 06/18/2017 8:25:45 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
On August 15, 1969 more than 400,000 people flocked to a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, for “3 days of music and peace.” Woodstock became a cultural icon representing the spirit of many of the young generation at the time. Check out some pictures from the event to see how crazy it actually was!
Woodstock was originally supposed to take place in Wallkill, Orange County, New York. However, the town board quickly passed a bill stating you must have permit in order to host any event over 5,000. A permit was applied for but was denied because the plan for the portable toilets were called inadequate. A dairy farmer in New York heard about the concert and its planning issues and offered up his farm for the event. Good thing, because the event saw a lot more than 5,000 people.
As stated before a dairy farmer in Sullivan County, New York, had heard about this concert and its issues. He offered his farm land as a space for the concert. His name was Max Yasgur and he was paid $75,000 for all 3 days. He is quoted as saying “If we join them, we can turn those adversities that are the problems of America today into a hope for a brighter and more peaceful future…” When Yasgur died he received a full page obituary in Rolling Stone Magazine. 
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Someone must've been smoking something when they came up with that lineup.
In the summer of ‘69 I worked at three jobs to earn enough money to go back to college. I had friends knocking off to go to Woodstock. At the end of the summer before going back to school I went to the national convention of YAF in St. Louis. A fellow YAFer told me about going to Woodstock. Music was great. People were wonderful, and he smoked too much bad weed and would not do that again. Another girl from my neighborhood who went told me about the food and sanitation problems she found there. Hard to find a place to go or a bush to hide behind. She told me I would not have liked Woodstock. I never felt like I missed anything. The highlight of my summer was meeting William F. Buckley in St. Louis and touching the hem of his jacket as I stood behind him at a reception.
Why didn’t I go there?
A. I was gainfully employed.
B. I had zero interest in rolling around in the mud.
C. I didn’t like the kind of people who went there.
C. Much of the music was noise to me.
These peoples kids are now picking up where they left off.
You just take some heavy equipment and dig a big hole. Then you push all the garbage in. Then you cover up the hole. Problem solved. Surprised they don’t have archaeologists on the site. Like it’s a great battlefield or something. Stupid. A farce. And a disgrace.
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A sexaholic 17 year old at the time, but a Conservative now. Go figure.
Isn’t pretty every 17 year old male a sexaholic?
Their mentality never changed. They still think it’s the Summer of Love and the Age of Aquarius.
Good point. Perhaps he made an exception for hippies?
“I always liked the song Roy Rogers by Elton John.”
Me too. ;)
That's so funny. I heard "Should I Stay or Should I Go" yesterday. I remembered every word.
Ozark music fest. makes sense then.
Eagles est. in ‘73.
>>Sometimes when I’m listening to a song on YouTube I’ll read some comments. Invariably the kids are drooling...wishing they’d grown up with our music.
Check out Greta van Fleet. It’s a band, not a person. Some of the kids are making some darn good music reminiscent of our music.
I work with a lot of young people and I'm always amazed at the enduring popularity of classic rock. Kids today enjoying music made 25-30 years before they were born. Funny though, it isn't the Beatles or the Stones that are in their music collections. It's Creedence! I laugh. Almost every young person I know in the Navy listens to CCR.
Those five years roughly between 1967 and 1972, Boomers gave America, and the world, a legacy of music that will be remembered for generations.
If you ask them, 60 million Boomers claim to have attended Woodstock.
I was only 12 at the time so I definitely didn’t go and am glad I didn’t. I did however attend the punk/new wave woodstock in 1980 called Heatwave outside Toronto and it was a blast. B52s Talking Heads Pretenders Elvis Costello and others.
That would be perfectly understandable, of course.
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