dminor 

I think I was getting ready to race my second 100-mile hare & hound motorcycle desert race.

sail

If I'd had a clue I would have gone. But I didn't have a clue and instead was running 100 miles a week getting ready for my high school senior cross country season.

trackhub

I was busy, realizing that pretty girls in short skirts were very pleasing to look at.

kris7047th

I was at a local college hang out/bar in Bowling Green, Ohio when a guy I knew ran in euphorically "I just got back from Woodstock .... like wOw .. but the MUD was knee deep" He really didn't care about the mud .. everyone was too stoned to care about the weather and the mud from what he said.

curbtender

Not there, but did get stuck in traffic at the Altamont. They could have used some bikes. People were parking on 580 in Livermore and walking.

Zinger

Probably for the best considering how that one went. The documentary "Gimme Shelter" is up somewhere on YouTube, btw.

miss kenton

I was too young to go to Woodstock and was probably home burning strawberry incense, listening to Crosby,Stills,and Nash, braiding patchouli oil-rubbed rawhide strips into belts, while sneak-reading "Valley of the Dolls". Or, I could have been dousing myself with Yardley's "Oh De London!" and applying eye make-up ala Twiggy.

JanMM

This is the first time that I have ever shared that I was at Woodstock! (Not true.)
I was at the Newport Folk Festival when Dylan plugged in. (Not true.)
I did, however, actually see Blue Oyster Cult at the Sherwood Club in Indy along with a relatively small number of other young people in 1972. (Just after their eponymously-named album was released.) (True)

Barrettscv 

I was not at Woodstock. However, I did enjoy Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Beach Boys and Jesse Colin Young on one fine summer day at the Milwaukee baseball stadium in 1974. I also saw Led Zeppelin in Chicago in 1973 and Traffic in 1970 or '71. I also saw Emmy Lou Harris in 1976 at the Park West, a small club in Chicago in 1978. Dizzy Gillespie in a chapel within Marian University Fond du Lac Wisconsin in 1976. Tom Waits at a small theater in Minneapolis in 1981. Ricky Lee Jones in 1985. Weather Report at the Park West in 1986. Dire Straits in 1985 in Chicago. The Grateful Dead at the International Amphitheater in Chicago in 1974.

jalbri

I was not at Woodstock. One year after discharge from the Marines, I was working for the railroad 3 to 11 pm and trying to save for college. Too busy for frivolities, especially involving mud.

Dudelsack 

Anyway, all the hot nekkid hippie chicks are saggy old ladies these days. Sorry to spoil the image nasty PM from the mods in 3...2...1...

jon c. 

his version was PERFECT for the times.

It remains to me the most perfect version of that song. It should be enshrined as the official version. (Which would eliminate it being sung by all those folks who can't hit the notes.)

jedde

Building wooden shipping crates for towmotor parts bound for SE Asia and being stoked about transferring to Kent State in a coupla weeks...

miss kenton

But remarkably, the men of that era look exactly the same - with their taut, lean but muscular bodies, unlined faces, and heads crowned in luxurious locks of shining hair.

Dan Burkhart 

Yup, that's me. Well, except for the taut, lean body, and the unlined face, and, er, um, the luxurious locks are long gone. Other than that....

Artkansas 

I was 15, in Southern California, and finishing up the best summer of my life.

Girls, motorcycles, guitars, camping trips, hiking in the mountains, seeing Hair at the Aquarius, watching the Moon landing, listening to KPPC and much more.

eja_ bottecchia

Glad to know that you have seen my most recent pictures.

eja_ bottecchia

One of my kids graduated from BGSU...that bar/hangout is still there.

kris7047th

You mean *Howards* ? lol .. It was a local red neck bar of which sorority girls were banned from going into. If caught, they were expelled from their sorority. There was one bar tender who coulld play harmonica like nobody's business. That was around the late 60's early 70's. I was a Towny, graduated HS 1969.

ro-monster

I was barely 14 at the time, and my musical tastes ran more to Vivaldi and Telemann, although I did listen to some popular music too. I'm not sure whether I knew about Woodstock before I saw the movie. I remember being profoundly grateful that I didn't have to experience it first-hand.

eja_ bottecchia

Howards is a great dive bar--cheap beer and decent music. I went there a few times while visiting my son at BG. A couple of times I was confused for a BGSU prof. I like BG, it is a pretty nice small town. The Call of the Canyon cafe has great pie. Only time I was close to experiencing a tornado was in one of my trips there. Being from So. Cal. I had no idea what the blaring alarm was all about...

I have a cycling jersey from Cycle Werks, the local bike shop.

Dudelsack 

Scootman

I actually grew up in Woodstock, well just a couple of miles outside of it. Was there till I was 18 and joined the Army. Unfortunately I was only 10 so I didn't have a clue as to what was happening.

kris7047th

I bought my first Schwinn 10 speed from Bob's Bikes (That name could be wrong ..) The owner was a part time cop back in the 60's/70's.
My brother stayed/lived there for several years, but moved from BG about eight years ago. I haven't been back in several years, residing in Mich since the late 70's. BG has had a lot of wealth since the turn of the century. My grandmother was born there 1895, beginning with her grandparents settling there. Her uncle married into money and later owned the Froney Mercantile Store, built a beautiful home at 324 W. Wooster 1904. It was deeded to my grandmother when there were no more heirs and she sold it 1971. It has been sadly allowed to run down with the current owner since then.

Dudelsack 

A begrudging recognition that the Woodstockers emerged victorious. They preached free love, and now we have shack-ups, hook-ups, friendship with priveledges, Valtrex, Guardasil, and universal hepatitis B vaccination.

Oh, almost forgot: