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Woodstock Photos From 1969, History Books Won’t Show You
Greeningz ^ | January 2, 2017 | Samantha Burd,

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!

Peace Out Wallkill, Hello Bethel

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.


Dairy Farmer Turned Hero

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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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: dentsuaegis; michaellang; newyork; woodstock; woodstock50
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To: trisham

see my #120


121 posted on 06/18/2017 5:07:29 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: SamAdams76
The Clash, Rick James, Jimmy Buffett, Bob Marley, The Grateful Dead, the B-52s, Aretha Franklin and The Beach Boys in concert:

Someone must've been smoking something when they came up with that lineup.

122 posted on 06/18/2017 5:47:16 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ( Mr. Comey, did you engage in or know of ANY OTHER leaks?)
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To: COBOL2Java

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.


123 posted on 06/18/2017 5:50:41 PM PDT by RightSpirit (Theophilus in Babylon)
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To: COBOL2Java

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.


124 posted on 06/18/2017 5:55:24 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: JimSEA

These peoples kids are now picking up where they left off.


125 posted on 06/18/2017 6:00:20 PM PDT by Herman Ball (2)
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To: Moonman62

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.


126 posted on 06/18/2017 6:13:28 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: COBOL2Java
On the bright side, we got through the thread without anybody mentioning Altamont.

(oops)

127 posted on 06/18/2017 6:21:30 PM PDT by HandyDandy ("I reckon so. I guess we all died a little in that damn war.")
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To: Sirius Lee

A sexaholic 17 year old at the time, but a Conservative now. Go figure.


Isn’t pretty every 17 year old male a sexaholic?


128 posted on 06/18/2017 6:45:56 PM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: Texas Eagle

Their mentality never changed. They still think it’s the Summer of Love and the Age of Aquarius.


129 posted on 06/18/2017 6:54:40 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Mr. Lucky

Good point. Perhaps he made an exception for hippies?


130 posted on 06/18/2017 7:30:09 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: xp38

“I always liked the song Roy Rogers by Elton John.”

Me too. ;)


131 posted on 06/18/2017 7:31:43 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: SamAdams76
What about The Clash? Only band that mattered.

That's so funny. I heard "Should I Stay or Should I Go" yesterday. I remembered every word.

132 posted on 06/19/2017 3:00:14 AM PDT by submarinerswife (Allahu FUBAR)
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To: KC Burke

Ozark music fest. makes sense then.

Eagles est. in ‘73.


133 posted on 06/19/2017 3:01:51 AM PDT by submarinerswife (Allahu FUBAR)
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To: SE Mom

>>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.


134 posted on 06/19/2017 3:19:28 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SE Mom
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.

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.

135 posted on 06/19/2017 3:39:22 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: napscoordinator
I am surprised the number was only 400K. That seems so small considering how huge the story has become. I would have thought multi-millions.

If you ask them, 60 million Boomers claim to have attended Woodstock.

136 posted on 06/19/2017 3:40:27 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

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.


137 posted on 06/19/2017 4:11:23 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Carthego delenda est

That would be perfectly understandable, of course.


138 posted on 06/19/2017 4:55:21 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: xp38
I wanted to go to Heatwave, but spent all my cash to go see The Who for the very first time at Toronto's CNE Stadium the month before. And talk about heatwave.

I traveled from Syracuse to Toronto with some friends in the back of a panel van with no seats, no back windows, and of course no air conditioning. There was an old style round cooler filled with water, and I would lean my face over the open top just to get some relief from the heat.

I didn't experience any issues at the show itself, unlike lots of other fans. It helped to be up in the stands and not on the field. We missed openers J. Geils Band and Jean-Luc Ponty, but got there in time for Heart. My friends were going elsewhere in Canada after the show, so I spent the night sleeping on a park bench near the bus station, and took the first bus back to Syracuse once it opened in the morning. Ah, to be young again!
139 posted on 06/23/2017 7:01:19 AM PDT by drjimmy
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