Tip of the glass and best wishes to 40 yrs! ...Woodstock

[G_j]

What A Long Strange Trip It's Been!

to all who were there, in body or spirit.

:toast: :party: :toast:

[2Design]

1. wish I had been there n/t

[Deja Q]

3. Overrated and the CD has higher definition to the audio quality...

[G_j]

5. not another drive by?

nt

[KoKo]

2. Woodstock to me was a traffic jam going to Mid-Hudson Valley NY for weekend to

visit relatives.

I did have a friend who went for the weekend. My great hippie friend, Ricki...who was big Dylan fan lived in the East Village in NYC in an apartment...rent controlled where she washed the dishes in the bathtub and the cover to the tub was her kitchen counter/cutting board. It was a huge apartment, though. Cheap.

I lived in the West Village in a small aparment for three times the rent...and washed my dishes in the bathtub, too. But, my apartment had a great "Fifth Avenue Address" and was on the fith floor of a brownstone owned by two lawyers where their families inhabited the other floors.

My apartment was like that one in the old movie "Barefoot in the Park" with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda as a newly weds....where folks who made it to the Fifth floor arrived short of a heart attack. But it was a better address than Ricki's in the East Village. Had the skylight, too. :D

God Love her...I wonder where she is now. We lost touch but she introduced me to Dylan and tried to get me into other things which I didn't get into. I got into the Dylan, though...and was as much a radical as she was...but I just didn't know it yet...

Thanks for the post.

[G_j]

4. thank you KoKo

I didn't live in the city, but I visited a lot.
Your descriptions are wonderful, really reminds me of visiting with friends back then.
Though, I guess people still wash their dishes in the bathtub, that is a salient memory. The Village was quite a lively place, but it was already getting more dangerous and plagued with hard drugs and such.

I missed the traffic jams at Woodstock, because I went early. I had gone to the Newport Jazz Festival (they included rock bands for the first time} earlier that summer, guess we got got a clue from that.


Just thought I'd post a simple birthday thread.

[KoKo]

8. What's amazing is that I never felt afraid living in the Village.

I lived in West Village which was very safe then for a kid who grew up in the South and was cautious. I used to walk over to Riki's apartment at night and the neighborhood then was mostly Polish immigrants. They used to do it up big for Easter in the stores with the sugar coated eggs with scenes inside.

But, you're correct...that the hard drugs did start to move in but by that time I had moved on. It was a time in transition and after John Lindsey (that wonderful mayor and the World's Fair which brought so many new people in from other countries)were gone, then there was Woodstock and the Vietnam War heating up...and the CHANGE.... IT DID COME. I do remember Woodstock as the beginning of that change.

:hi:

[G_j]

9. that's cool

ahem.. nostalgia aside.. It's fun to remember, I really loved NYC in those days. Regardless of what I said about the village, I loved the village, Washington Sq. on down. :hi:

[annabanana]

6. Cheers my old friend. .

You might have crashed on the mattress in our living room.. or me on yours, once upon a time.

[G_j]

7. isn't it a blessing

to have seen so many faces in a positive light?

So many people, such a big family?

The antithesis,

what is hated today.?

[G_j]

10. ==

[RadiationTherapy]

11. Great photos; thanks for sharing them.

Looks like a hell of a fun time.