Did anyone here actually go to Woodstock, 40 years ago?

[Archae]

And what can you remember about being there? :smoke:

[graywarrior]

1. I was on the way in a psychedelic van with 3 other slackers

We dropped acid and drank tequilla with the worm. I don't know where we ended up but I know it wasn't Woodstock. First thing I remember coming back into consciousness was being in Woburn, MA a week later. Why? Who knows. I think there was a drug dealer we knew there.

[knowbody0]

10. oh, that was you?

good times! looking back, it seems like a very long and exciting dream.

[mainegreen]

11. Acid and tequilla do not mix.

I saw a very dark and angry god when I did that.

Not fun at all.

[graywarrior]

13. I have no memory of it

Well, bits and pieces of fractured light...that's about it. I'm damn lucky to be alive and sober today.

[Kali]

2. not me but I saw it at the drive in with my parents

in the old ford station wagon when it hit the circuit. I was about 10.

[MrScorpio]

3. I was seven and living near Downtown Detroit

I was having a lot of fun with that

[mix]

4. not me

but someone i worked with just this last month did, oddly enough

[latebloomer]

5. I was 17

My boyfriend and I got there despite incredible traffic. The mud was everywhere, but the feeling of love and unity was indescribable (and, yes, much of it drug-induced.) We had no camping gear and couldn't sleep in the mud so we went back to Jersey and slept in a motel, after calling Mom and telling her the roads were all blocked and there was no way to get home.

The only music we heard was John Sebastian.

[Bluzmann57]

6. No but strange thing here

The girl across the street, who sometimes babysat me, went along with her friend from our small town. They wanted to take me, as a mascot I guess. My mom said "NO!" an 11 year old child is not traveling 2000 miles with a couple of teenaged hippie chicks for a Rock music and a sex and drug orgy. My mom was and is a smart lady. But it sure would have been neat to go.
Incidentally, both of those women are now deceased, one from an overdose of heroin, one from a car wreck. Not sure of any deep meaning, just seems weird.

[wain]

7. This would make a great doctoral thesis

on how life turned out for attendees

[Wapsie B]

8. No, but the Wadena festival was held not far from where I grew up.

I was about 13 at the time. No way I was getting there though, even if I knew anyone who was going.

[RushIsRot]

9. I was there. Mostly what I remember was the long, long walk from

where we parked on the highway. It had been raining and most of the throng trudging along the road carried umbrellas. There was a private family who lived by the road selling cheese sandwiches -- just bread and cheese, but they were good after the long walk. There was another little store that was packed to the roof with soft drinks. I have no idea how far I walked, but after a time, I gave up and started back to the car. There were a few cars allowed on the road beside which we were walking and I caught a ride on the trunk of one of them. I was lucky I didn't fall off.

After resting at the car for a while, I started the trek all over again. I walked for what seemed like hours and finally made it to the stage area. A chain link fence had been trampled down so all could enter -- tickets or not. All the vendors were sold out. I got to hear the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band for a short time and it was getting late so I started back to the car again.

The whole gang swilled some San Gria and then we slept on the hood of the car for the night and went back to NJ the next day. I was so sore from all that exercise that I could hardly walk for days and driving my little stick-shift VW was almost impossible.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

12. My pals from college went there,

but nobody remembers much of anything. Chris is sure he got laid a lot (he probably did - blond surfer boy, tall, adorable), The Rodent dropped acid and fell asleep for a couple of days, and Gelfand got freaked by all the people, got the hell out of there, talked himself into a ride with some of the promoters who were heading back to NYC, and split.

I was in the middle of six-week-long honeymoon, in Los Angeles for a while. We got there the day before the Sharon Tate murders, and left just as Woodstock ended.................

[RagAss]

14. If everyone who said they did actually went....

It would have matched the population of France !

[kwassa]

15. here I am at Woodstock

and if you can remember,you weren't there.

It was hot, humid, little available food, over-flowing portable toilets, but it was fun in a bizarre way. Watched concerts in the pouring rain in the middle of the night.

I am in the guy in the big black hat and black glasses, and look completely different now. I was 17. As seen in Life Magazine.

here is the link:

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=woodstock+music+art+fair+source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwoodstock%2Bmusic%2Bart%2Bfair%2Bsource:life%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26start%3D54&imgurl=62c5600149542cd9