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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Well, I can answer that last one. It's coming up on fifty years.
Smelly hippies.
And how many tons of peaceful debris was left behind? Haven’t changed much. At the dermos office the other day a guy about my age (70) was wearing a T-shirt with a USMC logo on it and the words “The Only Woodstock I Remember From ‘69” and a depiction of two crossed M-14s. I told him I liked it. Even though they were in the process of being phased out.
I used to drive by a Dairy Farm every day and after a rainstorm there was plenty of smell to go around, not to mention the air polluting methane gas!
Parents and grandparents of today’s Snowflakes. Thanks a lot, potheads. That “tune in, turn on, blackout” mindset worked out well, didn’t it?
I assume you didn't click on Photo 18:
Very Poor Planning
Woodstock was not planned very well. The promoters originally stated there were only going to be 50,000. However, they knew at least 250,000 would most likely show. Ultimately 400,000 people showed up. There were 3 toilets for every 10,000 concert goers. People began arriving days earlier, so by Friday, the first day of the festival, Woodstock had run out of food. Organizers had to ask locals for food. Members of the Monticello Jewish Community Center started making sandwiches with 200 loaves of bread, 40 pounds of meat and two gallons of pickles. Food was also airlifted in from a nearby air force base.
Lots of ordinary college kids were there to hear the super bands of the time. Certainly not all “smelly hippies.” The country has scores of huge music festivals every year now, all going back to this grand daddy of them all.
Well, that’s a good point. They probably just crapped on the ground like the cows did.
Looks like a tornado came through behind them.
70, but close enough
Anti-War Hippies Needed The Military
Hippies who attended the concert were very anti-war. Revolutionary literature was even sold there. However, if it wasn’t for the military the concert may not have been able to survive. The U.S. Air Force airlifted food, medical teams, and performers to the event. Organizers were lucky the Stewart Air Force Base was nearby and personnel were willing to help.
Waaayy back when I was a Texas college student I had a roommate who was actually at Woodstock when he was a small child.
His parents were grad students at Syracuse and were into the folk music of the period.
All he remembered was the awful smell and the dirty hippie that dropped his pants and crapped on the ground next to him. And that he never wanted to go in the first place and missed Saturday cartoons.
He and his sister were at the medic area setup by the National Guard after that and they had priority to be evacuated.
Don’t forget, that long awful movie was the ‘best’ of the musical performances. There was a lot of silence and awful bands that no one ever heard of that filled those days that never made the film.
It truly was a disaster area like Katrina or Sandy despite the hype.
30 years ago I used to ride my motorcycle to work past the hog farm every day twice and what a stench!
my, all those skinny, dirty, greasy haired idiots in the mud sure are sexy....NOT!
Just as an aside about the M-14, yeah I am aware that they are still in inventory and in use in some theaters.
“Actor and country singer Roy Rogers was asked to close the show by singing his song “Happy Trails To You.” The King of Cowboys’ manger did not agree to the idea. Rogers later admitted “I would have been booed off stage by all those goddamn hippies.””
Haha!
Max Yasgur was a hog farmer so he probably didn't mind the stench.
I agree with your assessment. I went a festival 3 weeks after woodstock that was not as large but had most of the same bands and vibe. Lots of high school and college kids as well as hippies.
“And how many tons of peaceful debris was left behind?”
One estimate places it at 1400 tons.
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