Legendary Woodstock Photos That Will Go Down In History

[packman]

Pixs and facts about Woodstock:







https://www.pastchronicles.com/fast-gallery/legendary-woodstock-photos-that-will-go-down-in-history/6


IMHO- We need some of those dirty hippies today

[walkingman]

1. Those were the days - today's world in nothing more than a shitshow.

[Shermann]

8. But but we have hologram tours and Vegas residencies today

...and lots of other cool stuff I can't think of right now.

[Elessar Zappa]

20. Those days weren't so great.

Black people were still in thrall to Jim Crow, women had much fewer rights, most gay people were in the closet, etc.

[walkingman]

25. You are exactly right on each of those issues and also Vietnam. My intent with my post

was to celebrate the youth movement, the great music, the challenging of the status quo and last but not least.....Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll. It was the best time of my life - probably because of my youth and at least in the crowd I hung with (which included blacks, women, and gays) we all seemed to have a common purpose. These days everything seems like gloom and doom.

Am I missing something?

[ananda]

29. Agree. Just looking at the pics, I never realized how white it was.

I do remember those days though.

The Civil Rights bill had passed, but other oppressed
groups still had a ways to go.

I think we got Roe in 73.

[USALiberal]

58. Really??? Nt

[walkingman]

59. How would you describe it?

[tinrobot]

67. Drafing young men to get killed in Vietnam?

Those were not the days, either.

It was also a shitshow back then, just a different shitshow with better music.

[albacore]

69. But our marijuana is better today. A LOT better.... nt

[walkingman]

70. I had gotten a college deferment and was working at the University Medical Records

on evening shift to pay for school (yep, it was affordable back then-68/72) and I had long hair. Got off at 11PM and went to gas station to get gas....cop was sitting at the gas station and he followed me as I left. Went about 3 miles in a area that was pretty desolate and he pulled me over. Told me to get out, slammed me up against the car and proceeded to beat me with his nightstick. Called the "patty wagon" threw me in and drove me around to the other side of town and then they pulled over and told me I had 2 choices - get out now, no charges (hell, I hadn't done anything) or go to jail. I said...let me out. I called a friend and he took me back to my car.
That is why we called the cops "pigs" back then. In today's world I don't think they would have gotten away with it but very common back then.

[Midnight Writer]

2. The hippies were right about everything. God bless them, every one.

[secondwind]

3. I was going to go that day, with a good friend...

but was convinced to stay home with my 5 month old. My husband had just come home from Vietnam 2 months prior, and was doing his last stint in New Jersey.

Yes, I was going to take her with me.

[FakeNoose]

4. Those dirty hippies are now 70 years old (or older)

I was 18 in 1969 when this happened, and I'm 70 now.

How many of us have lost our liberal ideals along the way? I don't know the answer to that, but I hope the number is low. My son is even more liberal than I am, and he's raising his son as a liberal also.

Woodstock was a turning point for many of us.

[PlanetBev]

13. You and me both, Noose

I’m turning 71 next month. I sorely miss those days and have never lost my liberal ideals.

[SergeStorms]

31. Yeah, we're all elder members of the tribe.

And we weren't supposed to trust anyone over 30, right?

Never did I think I'd live this long or witness the amazing events of history that have occurred during my lifetime. Some were downright mystical, and others so inhumane I questioned humankind's very presence on this earth.

But the wheel in the sky keeps on turning, as the Journey song goes, and I don't know where I'll be tomorrow. One thing for sure, I'm not going to waste one second of my time worrying about it.

Peace, dudes and dudettes.

[callous taoboy]

40. Both of my brothers will be 70 soon and are Trumpies

They were both long haired, acid eating, pot smoking freaks back in the day. I loved spending time with them (I'm 56). Now I don't recognize them, and they aren't fun anymore, at all.

[Drunken Irishman]

72. Lots of hippies in the QAnon Trump cult.

It's sad but I think the anti-authority mindset fueled a lot of their gravitation to that movement as QAnon thrives off the idea there's a larger authority governing that Trump talked about dismantling.

I think that has been one of the most successful things Trump has done - taken those who were liberal and turned them entirely against the ideology by attacking the system they've spent an entire lifetime railing against.

[FakeNoose]

73. Or maybe it's drug-induced dementia

Just sayin'

[Drunken Irishman]

74. Possible!

That one hippie who died from COVID a couple months ago who was from Illinois and would stand on top of an overpass spouting craziness got her start in 2016 as a Bernie supporter.

[edhopper]

5. We are Stardust

[dweller]

10. We are golden ...

✌🏻

and we had the cool clothes … not really into bells any longer, but I still own the shirts and Tees … and still buy the colorful patterned and floral shirts of the bygone days … I was telling my daughter recently how I get compliments on my shirts from random young women much to my surprise, I asked her
‘Don’t guys know how to dress anymore?’
She shook her head and sadly said ‘no dad’ 😕


✌🏻

[cojoel]

15. We are billion year old carbon

and we got to get ourselves back to the garden

[edhopper]

35. Yep

[BlackSkimmer]

6. I'd love to see what they look like today.

I have a vague memory of some magazine doing a “where are they now” retrospective, but no idea which mag or when.

[Traildogbob]

27. Keith Richards.

He probably looks better than many Woodstock attendees. Hit 70 in February. Hate when the first digit turns over. Got some pix from my 50 HS reunion last month. DAMN, who are those old farts. Did not go, most trump Jesus fans that are non Vaxers and no maskers.
Era of great music.and environmental warriors. A time when the government was also killing us. Seems like a pattern. I love hippies, they did no love me or my Navy hair cut or my service. Imagine if those hippie hating red necks had Trump leading them back the.

[jmbar2]

7. What has happened to us?

Everyone in these pics is of healthy weight. If you took pics of a similarly aged crowd today, most would be overweight.

Thanks for posting - good memories.

[MineralMan]

11. Not really. Here's a photo of a celebratory group of college kids

I'm not seeing what you describe...

[jmbar2]

16. OK, so check this out

Lollapalooza pics from 2021. Combination of corn fructose in all our food, plus sitting at computers?


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[ShazzieB]

30. Please knock off the fat shaming.

Bigotry is not a good look.

[edhopper]

36. Stop conflating "fat shaming"

with concern that there is an obesity epidemic in this country that is seriously impacting our healthcare.
And it is prevalent in children and teens.

By crying "fat shaming" every time someone talks about obesity, you shut off any discussion of a serious health problem.

[jmbar2]

49. Not shaming.

If anything, this shows that it's not an individual problem, but population wide, and worldwide.

When a whole population is gaining excessive weight, something is wrong. Either something in the food supply, hormones in food, lifestyle changes, or a combination. It is killing us.

I am directly affected. In order to counteract these influences, we are having to do things the folks in the past didn't - strenuous exercise programs, dieting, elimination of meat, dairy and sugar from diets, fasting, etc.

All good practices in moderation, but we weren't doing this when we were young, and we were slim without working on it.

Think of it as an experiment and we are the guinea pigs. We are having to exert a lot of effort to counteract some external forces in order to try to stay healthy. We didn't have to work this hard in the past. What has changed?

[Tree Lady]

57. I think it is because they add sugar to 85%

Of everything we eat, which causes inflammation and weight gain. Our government subsidizes sugar and other products like flour that turn into sugar in our bodies.

I was watching a video the other day, if the government subsidized healthy foods instead we would all be healthier and could afford it.

For me it's not about size but health. I stopped eating sugar products 34 days ago, it wasn't easy but my blood pressure was staying to high even with meds. In just a couple of weeks my blood pressure started going down.

I feel like we are all being slowly poisoned with sugar.

[jmbar2]

60. Congratulations

I've heard that cutting out sugar completely can be rough the first few days. You are a setting a good example.

We have a lot of diabetes in my family, so I try to stay away from it. But I love milk in my coffee - I think that's my main source of it. And come to think of it, I didn't drink coffee til my thirties, which is when I started gaining weight.

Thanks. You made me think this morning!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. People in a small self-selecting social crowd look similar? AMAZING.

[Hoyt]

19. Definitely at trump rallies. They need a portable defibrillator every 30 feet.

[Cetacea]

61. Sress-induced higher cortisol levels; sugar etc

Despite the turmoil of those times, life was far less stressful. People were happier and the middle class was strong Then Reagan happened (and no, it wasn't counter-culture types who voted for him).
Reagan in, Lennon out was the end of the dream.

[MineralMan]

9. We still have them. They're in their 70s now.

I'm one of them. Where did you think they went?

[Hortensis]

26. Lol, reminds me that every generation discovers our music

but somehow thinks they invented it.

[MineralMan]

37. Yah, well the Stones are playing in Minneapolis this weekend.

They're about my age.

It's interesting that young folks can't get that we old white-haired geezers were the very same people who were at Woodstock. As a famous epitaph says,

"As you are now, so I once was. As I am you soon will be."

It's laughable, really.

[Hortensis]

45. Just reading a post about some Sunrise Movement hunger strikers.

Each generation also always thinks they're the first to be aware of issues.

And none more than those prone to extremism. Lol, just read a Sunrise tweet about how they've worked themselves to exhaustion and are finally so close to achieving their goals. Now they have to force (lifelong environmental warrior) Biden to act.

Oh, well. I love this OP. That's a wonderful blast from the past. I so wanted to be there, and still do.

[MineralMan]

46. It's amazing how each generation thinks they have invented

everything anew. Over time, though, they learn better, especially once their children and grandchildren think old people know nothing.

[Hortensis]

47. Lol. And "old people" more often than not respond by turning

conversation back to them, because they love them and love hearing about them, grab the moment quick before they change all over again.

[Another Jackalope]

55. Same here - 71 in December.

Never made it to Woodstock, but everything else - drugs, sex and rock and roll - piled up in heaping helpings. Visited the Haight, thumbed through Europe, lived a commune in Toronto, had an open marriage, a short career in photography and then 20 years writing networking firmware.

So what the hell happened? Well, time marched on. I did my last acid in 1983, switched my musical tastes to string quartets, and spent my last 15 work years as a project manager for the Canadian Federal Government. WTF??? At least I'm still a socialist...

It's little wonder that my favourite song is Jackson Browne's "Before the Deluge."

[mentalsolstice]

12. The couple wrapped in the quilt

I’ve seen them interviewed a couple of times in the present day. Still together after all these years.

[ret5hd]

14. The Dirty Fuckin' Hippies Were Right:

[WhiskeyGrinder]

18. .

IMHO- We need some of those dirty hippies today

They broke for Reagan in both 1980 and 1984.

[The Magistrate]

22. Hard To Say

People tend to overestimate what proportion of young people in those days were 'hippies'. We did by no means predominate, we just got all the publicity, plus a lot of poseurs and weekenders.

Though Reagan got a good proportion, too great a proportion, of people born between, say 1946 and 1960, that hardly implicates people who were solidly enmeshing in the 'counter-culture'.

Just as an aside, what the 'Baby Boom' has resolved into is ridiculous. I have nothing in common generationally with people who weren't old enough for pre-school when I was getting laid with some practiced frequency, though this idioticly expanded category would claim we are almost interchangeable. There was a 'boom' in births directly after the war ended, for obvious reasons as men were demobilized and got to go home. That was an identifiable cohort, with about a four to six year span. People born during it had a much different experience than people born much past 1950, even.

[MineralMan]

38. No, they didn't, actually.

There are plenty of us here on DU who have never voted for any Republican in our lives. Some of us are in our 70s and 80s now. You are mistaken. Yes, some people voted for Reagan, but some young people today voted for Trump, too. So it goes.

[NNadir]

42. The poster is not speaking about the old folks on DU, but rather the bulk of our generation.

Overall, the Baby Boomer generation has been a blight on history.

[brooklynite]

21. Some of those hippies made a killing on Wall Street in the 80s.....

[twodogsbarking]

23. Fish Cheer everyone.

[Boomerproud]

34. Give me an F. Give me a U...

8th grade. Catholic school. Teacher put on Woodstock album and left the room. 35 14 yr olds picked up the ball and ran with it. Sr. Mildred in the next room has heart attack. Fun days.

[twodogsbarking]

48. That's the spirit.

[Raven]

24. Mud everywhere. I was there...we were dirty hippies alright! :-)

[ET Awful]

28. There's some incorrect info in that article. . .

They say Sly and the Family Stone weren't in the movie/documentary. That is incorrect, their performance of 'Dance to the Music' and 'I Want to Take You Higher' were great moments in the film. If they wanted to list big name/notable acts that performed but weren't in the film, I'd go with the Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Edgar Winter.

[90-percent]

43. Sly's group was racially and sexually integrated.

and their music was so good. audio wallpaper for my 1967-71 memories.


67 7th grade light my fire, penny lane, and so many i don't have the energy to look up.

the draft and the student demonstrations were serious stuff. the establishment was scared to death of a revolution. and it was a common subject back then.

nixon abolished the draft in 1972, when i turned 18. i was deeply grateful and had a lot of empathy for those that went. i remember my social studies teacher announced our high school lost its first graduate in viet nam.

-90% jimmy

[paleotn]

32. Know someone who drove up from NC to Woodstock

She and some friends. She’s now about as conservative as someone can get. A real Trumper. Go figure.

[lastlib]

33. Ah, yes--the 1969 festival attended by five hundred thousand people.....

That's four million in 2021 people........

(I did the math so you wouldn't have to..... )

But, man, I miss the SPIRIT of those days!

[SergeStorms]

52. I miss the lack of responsibility.

We were in the prime of our youth. No mortgages, no children (most of us), no debt of any kind, free to take off and go to a music festival at the drop of a hat....... yeah, we were FREE!

Then adulthood happened.

[ProfessorGAC]

39. Huh?

Others, for example, Sly and the Family Stone, were not included in the film’s final cut and are quickly forgotten or thought not to be there.

I have never seen a version of the film that didn't include "Want To Take You Higher". And I first saw it in the early 70s.
I know there's a director's cut that put some acts in that weren't in the original, but Sly was in the doc.
Aside from that, it was a fun article & the pix are terrific.

[NNadir]

41. I have a rather jaundiced view of the whole thing, mostly because I am of that generation.

It was a moment defining the "Baby Boom" generation, which to my mind, is not a good thing.

[Boomerproud]

51. Defined by the media and Tom Brokaw.

There were plenty of Peace Corp volunteers (who get jeered at) and those on the front lines of civil rights. I'm tired of the Dancin' Hippie Girl being the symbol. Lazy storytelling.

[NNadir]

53. There were also plenty of people who voted for Reagan and Bush; consumed like there was no...

...tomorrow, cheered for wars after they no longer faced the draft, were more concerned with tax cuts than the future, were racist, and in one case, turned out to be Donald Trump.

In many ways, Donald Trump is as much an avatar the Baby Boom generation, a self absorbed narcissist with no ethics, racist, sexist poorly educated and of limited intelligence.

I'm so sick of hearing about the Peace Corp and about Civil Rights as if they were "Baby Boomer" accomplishments. They weren't. Baby Boomers were largely in elementary school in the Early 1960's, and the Peace Corp was an artifact largely by 1975, well before that in fact. The Freedom Riders were born in the 1930's and some died while we were still watching Hoody Doody on black and white TVs. In the entire history of that agency, 250,000 people worked in it. I don't know anyone who did so.

Baby Boomers are the generation that worshipped the SUV, invented and commercialized fracking dangerous natural gas, and irrationally spread hatred of nuclear power, GMO's and vaccines that their parents used to save their stupid asses from Polio. That's us.

In October of 1975, the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide was 325.6 ppm, roughly 100 ppm higher than preindustrial times, accumulated by every generation. In 2021 it's currently 413.9 ppm. That's us.

I have never cared for Tom Brokaw's definition of anything, from "greatest generation" to whatever it is he said about our generation. The fact is that he thrived in our generation, perhaps because he's so shallow.

History will not forgive my generations dominated by Baby Boomers, nor should it. I saw it with our self congratulatory blinders off.

White people over the age of 65 are the demographic most notable in support of the far right wing. That's us.

[Cetacea]

62. Carter wouold have won if not for the hostage situation

The first stolen election. They were released as Reagan was being sworn in, just to rub it in.

[NNadir]

63. So what? Is that an excuse for our generation, "coulda, woulda, shoulda?"

If we were an ethical generation it wouldn't have been close.

I personally knew several draft evaders who were my contemporaries who voted for Reagan because of tax cuts.

They are assholes, like the bulk of the Baby Boomer generation of which I am a member.

[Cetacea]

76. The so-called Gretatest Generation voted for Reagan

And an awful lot of so-called democrats, especially in '84.

[hunter]

71. I knew too many hippies who were simply pot smoking tie-dye Republicans...

... their women (not wives, because marriage wasn't hip) kept at home, barefoot at pregnant, taking care of the children, serving granola for breakfast instead of bacon and eggs while the man of the house was out saving the world.

When the Reagan Revolution came they simply changed costumes.

To be fair, many Baby Boomer Republicans were never hippies, but they were active participants in the sexual revolution that birth control and antibiotics made possible, and probably took more drugs than hippies. But this was all behind closed doors. And these are some of the dirty secrets -- abusive sexual relationships and closeted drug abuse -- that hold the modern Republican Party together.

The fiercest, most progressive people of those turbulent times couldn't always be identified by their costumes. Many of them were not white, not straight, and very conservative in all the ethics that matter, drawn from many cultural traditions; ethics such as honesty, loving and respecting one's neighbor, self discipline and education, and a deep appreciation for the natural environment.

My parents were a mess of contradictions -- Volkswagen van driving artists with conservative day jobs, radical peace protesting pacifists with friends in the military, people with very conservative religious views about sex and marriage who would talk very openly and honestly about sex and sexuality. It's for the last reason some neighborhood kids were banned from our house. It was a place where my mom might take a naive kid who was headed for trouble and talk about such things as birth control, abusive relationships, and homosexuality. My parents were very pro birth control, anti abusive relationships, and very protective of homosexual family, friends, coworkers, and acquaintances.

Overall, I think anti-intellectualism is the great failure of the United States.

One thing I can thank my parents for is their intellectualism. They had no tolerance for intellectual laziness or thoughtless behavior, especially the kind that harms other people.

An intellectually lazy person like Trump is anathema to them.

Anti-intellectualism can be manifested on the so-called Left or Right; on the long-haired hippie side or the crew-cut polished shoes conservative side. The anti-vaccination crowd is a perfect example of this.

[malaise]

44. Beauty, simplicity and

sheer joy!
Rec

[Stuart G]

50. They are still around....right here at Democratic Underground..., WE ARE THEM!!!!

......... .... ..We are them..!!!!!!

We protest in different ways....like sending money to candidates....Yes...LOTS OF MONEY!!!!

[SergeStorms]

54. Unless...

you want to attend a protest with your walker, or wheelchair, hauling an oxygen tank, and be a half mile behind everyone else.

Yep, that's my peer group now. 😉

But like old Pete Seger used to sing......

"How do I know my youth is all spent
My get up and go just got up and went
But yet I can smile and put on a grin
When I think of the places my get-up has been".

It's the memories that keep us young. Let the young people do the protesting now. We did our share when we were called. And like you said, Stuart, now we send the money 💰, and they can always use the money.

[MichaelSoE]

56. I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together

[Patton French]

64. I love this! (n/t)

[BannonsLiver]

65. Many of them turned into Reaganite yuppie sellouts

I’m not as enamored with the boomers of that era as some here are.

[packman]

66. Nostalgia and yearning for a long ago time in a dream

Mistakes made, but promises still being kept and hoped for better times in the spirit of greener days. Don't be harsh, man- chill out.

[BannonsLiver]

68. The music was great.

Never bought into the romanticizing of the era. But perhaps those who lived through it find some value in the nostalgia. These people were my parents so that’s the angle I’ve always seen the 60’s through.

[misanthrope]

75. Nostalgia is a liar

It's not to be believed.