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Cost of Living – 1969Average income (1 person) was....... $ 6,500.00
A new house cost approx............... $ 40,000.00
A gallon of gas cost....................................$ .30
A Fillmore concert poster........................ $ 1.25
A new car cost approx...................... $ 2,000.00
A gallon of milk cost................................ $ 1.10
A loaf of bread cost................................... $ .20
A concert ticket to the greatest concert of all time sold for $6.00 per day in advance.
*No money, not much anyway, was received that day "at the door". Two weeks before the festival, after months of work, they were informed by the town fathers they couldn't have the festival at the original site. So they had 2 weeks to do an impossible job, getting another site ready. The fences weren't even up. And the utter chaos was not expected. Three times the amount of people! So early on the first day, they got on the loud speakers and told the kids that were swarming in that it was a FREE concert. It took the promoter 10 years to pay off debts incurred that weekend, but he did it!
In 2009 this would cost $140.00 each day, or $420.00 for the 3 day event
Woodstock was put on by Michael Lang (center)
Joan Baez The Band Blood, Sweat & Tears The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Canned Heat Joe Cocker Country Joe McDonald and The Fish Creedence Clearwater Revival Crosby, Stills, & Nash The Grateful Dead Arlo Guthrie Tim Hardin The Keef Hartley Band Richie Havens Jimi Hendrix Incredible String Band *Iron Butterfly Jefferson Airplane Janis Joplin
Melanie Mountain Quill Santana John Sebastian Sha-Na-Na Ravi Shankar Sly & The Family Stone Bert Sommer Sweetwater Ten Years After The Who Johnny Winter #Neil Young # Neil Young performed a few songs with Crosby, Stills, & Nash and later joined their group.* Iron Butterfly was scheduled, but didn't perform because they got stuck at the airport and couldn't make it to the site.
Performers at Woodstock in August 1969
SETTING UP THE STAGE
HIWAY 17B
500,000 PEOPLE
Max
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Owner of the
Farm where
Woodstock
Was held
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVALB
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stood on the stage of the original Woodstock concert on the morning of the 2nd day and announced...." What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000!" He was at Woodstock as a member of an entertainment/ activist commune known as the Hog Farm, who took on the task of feeding the concert attendees.
1969
1999
CROSBY, STILLS, NASH AND YOUNGSU
ITE
: JU
DY B
LUE
EYES
JOE COCKERWITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS
THE WHOPINBALL WIZARD
JIMI HENDRIX
PURPLE
HAZE
BATH HOUSE
SANTANA
SOULSACRIFICE
COUNTRY JOE McDONALD
FEEL LIKE I’MFIXIN TO DIE RAG
MEMORIAL TO WOODSTOCK – BETHEL, NY