Any of you been to Woodstock 69?

I would have "borrowed" a car just for that event.

 

I was 18 yo on that weekend and wanted to go but just couldn't afford to do it. Looking back the 1960's and early 70's were a entirely different world.

 

Ahh, Olongapo and Kowloon . Just the mention puts a faint smile on my face that no one who's never been there can begin to understand.

 

There is a nice memorial on that site and a museum.

 

I remember the information and pictures coming out of the area as a child during that event. It was essentially a mudhole when they expected like 10,000 and got 100,000 instead.

Piped up why are those two laying down? Silence in heaven for half a hour in that house. The ranting started around dinnertime.

 

Yawn, remember it well, I didn't go but my uncle was one of the promoters from Atlantic assigned to work with Lang and others in production of it. It wasn't a big deal then until Atlantic and other companies decided to hype it up, make it into a legend where everyone who is someone today was at Woodstock.

The good thing that came out of it for me was the posters and promo albums that I got in the mail from my uncle, some of them were signed - I don't remember who signed them and they've been "preserved" in storage for the past 30 years.

It was then and is now a capitalist's wet dream, the money they made off of the "stinky hippies" was amazing, utterly amazing.

 

I can understand.....Lol

 

Kowloon was off limits when I was there; you know how that goes. Any place that's off limits is where the good times are.
"Hey, Chief, gimme an off limits list."

 

I own a condo in Beijing and it's just as wild now as it was back then in Hong Kong and Kowloon. Nothings really changed as far as night life. Prices aren't much different either.
1 USD is worth about 7 RMB, so a dollar goes a long way still.

 

@Jimmy Hoffa & @Broke Down 69 - In China just bought a can of Budweiser for .59 cents and a can of Tsingtao (Chinese beer) for .51 cents. See, cheap, good liberty. Betel nut is still cheap; package of 10 chews for about $2.00, nothing like a chew of betel nut and a cold beer and a hot.......while "Dancing With The Green Fairy." Bet that brings back the memories.