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Article: Orbiting Planet Woodstock // Fest's 25th Anniversary Spotlights New York Sites
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 24, 1994
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SAUGERTIES, N.Y. You can still buy a ticket to the 1969 Woodstock
Music and Art Fair at a couple of downtown Saugerties shops - but the
price has risen just a bit in 25 years. Framed behind glass in one
store window, an $8 one-day ticket to that legendary "Aquarian
exposition" sells for a cool $49.95. Think of it as nostalgia
markup.
And figure it's still a lot cheaper than the $135 ticket price
for Woodstock '94, the 25th-anniversary spinoff - cynics would say
"ripoff" - of the generation-defining original. The 1969
counterculture festival promised "three days of peace and music" -
and delivered a mind-blowing communal romp for 500,0000 flower
children, few of whom had bothered to ...