The 1969 Woodstock Music Festival still lives on inside our collective cultural minds and imaginations. Three days of some of the most legendary musical performances of all time (Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Santana), with all that peace and love, muddy rain, and expanses of people as far as the eye can see, has become almost like a cultural myth, everlasting and deeply rooted inside the psyche of the 1960s. We’ve collected some iconic photos and little-known facts about the famous music festival for you to enjoy, and we hope you do! It was pure fun to take this romp down memory lane, as the ’60s almost feel like it was yesterday. Rock on, brothers and sisters!
#1: Woodstock Wasn’t in Woodstock
There’s a town in upstate New York called Woodstock where many people erroneously believe the iconic music festival was held. Guess what? It wasn’t. The Woodstock Music Festival was actually held in Bethel, New York, about 40 miles away from the identically named but wrongly presumed location.
