leevitalone1
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
It was 44 yrs ago already! I was 18 and in the Army in Germany when I heard about it. When I came home I saw the whole country had changed. It was all because of Woodstock. Man I'm getting up there!
I was 16 and two of my friends and I wanted to go in my (well, actually my dad's) 1950 Ford pickup but higher powers put the kibosh to that idea
The Tate/LaBianca murders had already occured and that was the first sign to America that the so-called peace and love hippie movement was anything but as evil had infiltrated it in just a few short years.
The second event to that end was Altamont which had yet to occur.
The country had indeed changed but not all for the good.
Oh, and more to the subject, I have always loved the original 3 record soundtrack of Woodstock and I bought it at a Red Owl grocery store in my hometown. Almost every kind of retail establishment sold records in those days.
Doug
I also didn't go to Viet Nam. My "lottery" number was 61, I believe, so I was guaranteed to be drafted which I was. I went up for my draft physical in 1972 and was ready to accept my fate. I got on the scale and the guy says, "You're two pounds underweight" and I thought they wouldn't care about that.
When I got to the final consultation with a doctor, he said the same thing only with an added phrase, "You're two pounds underweight and, therefore, inelligible for military service." It really was hard to believe.
Anyway, as it turns out, in other times, they may have ignored the two pound shortcoming but, unbeknownst to us, they were already scaling down the efforts in 'Nam so they only took the "perfect" candidates. I had a friend, born on the same day as me, accepted and he did go over. He has hated me ever since.
Doug
I actually had 2 3 day tickets and was going to take my girl friend up there (about 4 hours from me), but her mother would have no part of it! Remember, this was 1969.
Anyway, 1 of those tickets remain, and it's not one of the fakes in the Woodstock Blu-Ray, although it's pretty close. Anyway, the next year was supposed to be another "Woodstock" right here in Connecticut, at Powder Ridge. Lots of us went to that (sort of), but it never came off. All it did was make a mess of the Lyman Orchards in Middlebury. In the end, there was really nothing to go to there.
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