Thursday, May 27, 2010
Woodstock?
Woodstock was a three day event that was held in Bethel NY from August 15 -18 in 1969. It took place on Max Yasgur's dairy farm. Four young men were planning on only 50,ooo people attending which they thought this would be enough for them to raise enough money for a music studio and a retreat for musicians. The ticket prices were 7 $ for one day, 13 $ for two days and 18$ for all three days. There were going to be 32 artist performing such as Jimi Hendrix and Grateful Dead and The Who. There estimate of 50 thousand people was a little to little, before they knew it there were 200,000 people coming. So they had to get more food and restrooms. Two days before the concert, 50 thousand people showed up and were camping out. There were not enough tickets made so this meant one of the best concerts of all time was going to free to watch. People heard this and dropped what they were doing and headed toward new york. People were coming as far as California to watch. They estimated 1 million people tried to go to woodstock but the cops had to turn thousands of cars around and kick people out. In the end they lost a lot of money, they were over 1 million dollars in debt and had 70 law suits to deal with.
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