Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Woodstock is part of my family lore. My late uncle and aunt ran the Holiday Inn where most of the acts stayed. Years later, when I asked my uncle about his memories of Woodstock, he replied, "Jimmy, that was the best bar business I ever wrote. Those people drank like fish. I said, 'screw New York State' and kept the bar open day and night. They were flying in the acts with helio-copters on the front lawn." My uncle also said, "There was some rock group there called the Jefferson Airplane who said they wanted to run a tab. I didn't know them from Adam, so I asked for a credit reference. They said to call their contact at the Bank of America, so I called California and asked the guy if they were good for the tab. He started laughing and said, 'Whatever the tab, add three zeros--they won't know the difference!" At one point, Grace Slick was running around the Holiday Inn dining room with a fringe vest--and nothing underneath. My late grandmother Sadie was horrified, and tried to shove cloth napkins over the vest saying, 'Put something on, you'll catch pneumonia.'" That summer I was ten years old, and suffering through my first year of overnight camp. I came back with memories of horrible food and about ten thousand mosquito bites. As I recall I had a brownie Instamatic 44, which I used about once. Adulthood has been much, much better. Jim Shulman Wynnewood, PA -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of jon.stanton at comcast.net Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 6:53 PM To: lug at leica-users.org Subject: [Leica] Woodstock Was anyone there and have pictures? I was working at an all night Clark gas station on the southside of Chicago and gassed up at least a half dozen cars filled with kids headed to NY....they all offered to take me along...I declined. I was a regular at in Wrigley's Bleacher section at the time and playing trumpet in a small dance band while working through school. Most of the friends when they got back said they had had a good time. None of them took a camera. _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information